Middle Ages Week 16
/Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”
Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"
Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but
English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn
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 17, “The King and the Dragon"
Diagram Week 16 sentences.
Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)
Writing: Write a three paragraph creation story following the story sequence (1 setting and characters, 2 conflict of problem, 3 climax/resolution) like Quetzalcoatl OR one paragraph summary of it. 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 Thursday 1/18/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:
Science - NASA article “When Planets Transit” and another
History - Phoebe - video about Aztec Empire, this article with lots of links
Art - Catalina, Gino, Henry - video about Coatlicue, sculpture of an Aztec goddess
Math - Omar Khayyam,
History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”
Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"
Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but
English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 16 sentences:
1. The Eastern Church, which became Orthodox, separated from the Western Church, which became Roman Catholic!
2. While the Anasazi and the Chinese were watching, the Crab Nebula exploded!
3. William the Conqueror who ruled Normandy won the Battle of Hastings in England!
4. Urban II, who was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, called for the First Crusade!
5. Oxford University, which was founded in England, taught students many subjects!
6. King Suryavarman II builds his people Angkor Wat in Cambodia!
7. In 1345, Aztecs, who were belligerent, built their city on Texococo.
8. Hippocrates who established a school of medicine gave doctors the Hippocratic Oath!
9. Archytas who studied the classical problem applied mathematics to music!
***Challenge***
10. In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.
11. Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.
Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders
From our session Thursday 1/18/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 1/22/18:
Science - NASA article “When Planets Transit” and another
History - Phoebe - video about Aztec Empire, this article with lots of links
Art - Catalina, Gino, Henry - video about Coatlicue, sculpture of an Aztec goddess
Math - Omar Khayyam
Writing: Choose any one of these topics. Write a really great essay about it. Pick two specific ideas about your topic to write about. Explain why you picked those two and how they relate to one another. Email or text me the moment you read this: right now.
Review these topics:
History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”
Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"
Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but
English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 16 sentences:
1. The Eastern Church, which became Orthodox, separated from the Western Church, which became Roman Catholic!
2. While the Anasazi and the Chinese were watching, the Crab Nebula exploded!
3. William the Conqueror who ruled Normandy won the Battle of Hastings in England!
4. Urban II, who was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, called for the First Crusade!
5. Oxford University, which was founded in England, taught students many subjects!
6. King Suryavarman II builds his people Angkor Wat in Cambodia!
7. In 1345, Aztecs, who were belligerent, built their city on Texococo.
8. Hippocrates who established a school of medicine gave doctors the Hippocratic Oath!
9. Archytas who studied the classical problem applied mathematics to music!
***Challenge***
10. In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.
11. Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.
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.
MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 32 in class and make Aztec temples out of popsicle sticks.
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 Avempace and explore Newton’s first law.
Math Club: Learn about Omar Khayyam and geometric slope.
Art Appreciation: Create a Aztec calendar.
Writing Club:
Writing Club Homework: Week 15 DUE ON JANUARY 24, 2018
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Complete Lesson 17, “The King and the Dragon". Read “The Assignment” on page 114. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 115. You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page. Use the checklist on page 117 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week. Remember we have a new one: “3sss”. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!
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 15 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 17, “The King and the Dragon". Read “The Assignment” on page 114. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 115. You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page. Use the checklist on page 117 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.
Remember we have a new one: “3sss”. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!
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 15 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!
