Middle Ages Week 15

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Presentation: Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp."

Diagram Week 15 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write two paragraphs. In paragraph one, summarize Mali’s wealth and Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage. Pick 6-8 interesting facts from the reading and write a key word outline first. In paragraph two, brainstorm, do a keyword outline, and write about where you would go (and what you would pack and how you would travel) if you had unlimited wealth (like Mansa Musa).  Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

Science - Mapmaking can look beautiful! Al-Idrisi, cartographer.
History - Mansa Musa’s wealth in today’s standard
Art - Russian churches. Watch this!
Math - trigonometry & reciprocal identities. Henry, you’ll like this video!
Philosophy - Seven Sacraments. Again. And a great discussion on the earliest Universities.

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 15 sentences:
1. King Jayavarman II gave the Khmer an empire after they gave him authority.
2. Since Al-Khwārizmī left us his math book, we can teach students Algebra.
3. The Tiwanaku people built themselves a monument near Lake Titicaca.
4. Ce Acatl founded the Toltec Empire while he lived in Yucatan.
5. While Vladimir ruled Kiev, he gave his country Christianity.
6. Because Leif Ericsson was an explorer, he sailed to North America.
7. After Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he caravanned through Egypt, spent gold freely, and spread Islam.
8. Anaxagoras gave us an understanding of rainbows because he discovered the reflection of light.
9. Since Theodorus of Cyrene researched square roots, he showed us irrational numbers.
10. If Neo-Babylonia had protected its allies, they might not have yielded Persia their kingdoms.

***Challenge***

11. Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, caravanned through Egypt, and because he spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while he spread Islam.
12. Cartographers gather source data and then design and draw a map to document it.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 12/14 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 1/8/18:

Science - Mapmaking can look beautiful! Al-Idrisi, cartographer.
History - Mansa Musa’s wealth in today’s standard
Art - Russian churches. Watch this!
Math - trigonometry & reciprocal identities. See whether YOU can make a great video like this!
Philosophy - Seven Sacraments. Again. And a great discussion on the earliest Universities.

Writing: Write two paragraphs. In paragraph one, summarize Mali’s wealth and Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage. Pick 6-8 interesting facts from the reading and write a key word outline first. In paragraph two, brainstorm, do a keyword outline, and write about where you would go (and what you would pack and how you would travel) if you had unlimited wealth (like Mansa Musa).  Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 15 sentences:
1. King Jayavarman II gave the Khmer an empire after they gave him authority.
2. Since Al-Khwārizmī left us his math book, we can teach students Algebra.
3. The Tiwanaku people built themselves a monument near Lake Titicaca.
4. Ce Acatl founded the Toltec Empire while he lived in Yucatan.
5. While Vladimir ruled Kiev, he gave his country Christianity.
6. Because Leif Ericsson was an explorer, he sailed to North America.
7. After Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he caravanned through Egypt, spent gold freely, and spread Islam.
8. Anaxagoras gave us an understanding of rainbows because he discovered the reflection of light.
9. Since Theodorus of Cyrene researched square roots, he showed us irrational numbers.
10. If Neo-Babylonia had protected its allies, they might not have yielded Persia their kingdoms.

***Challenge***

11. Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, caravanned through Egypt, and because he spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while he spread Islam.
12. Cartographers gather source data and then design and draw a map to document it.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us about the protagonist and what type of conflict he/she encounters in the book.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 29 in class and make a Malian Mud Cloths.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 15 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 16.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about al-Idrisi and make a topographical map of the parking lot!

Math Club: Learn about al-Biruni and the trigonometric functions.

Art Appreciation: Create a Djenne Djenno sculptures out of air dry clay.

Writing Club:

Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp". Read “The Assignment” on page 107. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 109.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 111 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week.  Remember, we have a new one: “quality adjective” .Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!  We will have a vocabulary quiz next week so study words from Lessons 1-16. Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 14 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  
Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp". Read “The Assignment” on page 107. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 109.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 111 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week.  Remember, we have a new one: “quality adjective” .Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!  We will have a vocabulary quiz next week so study words from Lessons 1-16. Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 14 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!