Middle Ages Week 21
/Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin
Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C
Learn more about the Law of Sines.
Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut
English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those
Investigate pronouns 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 25 Introduction & Conclusion
Diagram Week 21 sentences.
Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)
Writing: Create a game and write detailed instructions of the pieces or cards, strategies and how to play. Write your user manual as if you are writing to a ten-year-old in the style of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.
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 - Astrolabe - http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
History - Phoebe - The Hundred Years’ War - interesting facts about Hundred Years War Joan of Arc
Literature - Henry - Divine Comedy - http://foxtwin.com/inferno/
Art - Jocelyn & Catalina - Pick a Renaissance painting and discuss its history, subject & style. Here’s the link from class - The Arnolfini Portrait
Math - Cooper - Nasir al Din Al Tusi, Law of Sines
Philosophy - William of Occam and Occam’s Razor.
Geography - Sabine & Gino - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.
History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin
Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C
Learn more about the Law of Sines.
Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut
English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those
Investigate pronouns 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!
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-8 or 9-10 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 21 sentences:
1. Henry V of England named Aquitaine an English territory, but Charles VI called it France, so they fought the Hundred Years War.
2. Historians call Michelangelo a brilliant artist, because he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and visitors admire it still.
3. Columbus called Native Americans Indians because he assumed he had reached Asia, but he had discovered America.
4. The king of Portugal pronounced Vasco da Gama Count of Vidigueria after he rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage.
5. Since Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church, Protestants named him the Father of the Reformation, but the Catholic Church called him an apostate.
6. The Aztecs called Cortes a god because he was white, and their tradition prophesied about him.
7. The Ottoman Empire considered Suleiman the Lawgiver.
8. Chaucer named the tip of an astrolabe the horse.
***Challenge***
9. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII to win Orleans, but then he lost to the Burgundians, and the English named her a witch.
10. Nasir al Din Al Tusi published The Complete Quadrilateral in Persian, which considered trigonometry its own discipline and named his triangle formula the Law of Sines.
Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders
From our session Thursday 3/1 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/5/18:
Science - Astrolabe - http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
History - Phoebe - The Hundred Years’ War - interesting facts about Hundred Years War Joan of Arc
Literature - Henry - Divine Comedy - http://foxtwin.com/inferno/
Art - Jocelyn & Catalina - Pick a Renaissance painting and discuss its history, subject & style. Here’s the link from class - The Arnolfini Portrait
Math - Cooper - Nasir al Din Al Tusi, Law of Sines
Philosophy - William of Occam and Occam’s Razor.
Geography - Sabine & Gino - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.
History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin
Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C
Learn more about the Law of Sines.
Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut
English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those
Investigate pronouns 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!
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-8 or 9-10 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 21 sentences:
1. Henry V of England named Aquitaine an English territory, but Charles VI called it France, so they fought the Hundred Years War.
2. Historians call Michelangelo a brilliant artist, because he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and visitors admire it still.
3. Columbus called Native Americans Indians because he assumed he had reached Asia, but he had discovered America.
4. The king of Portugal pronounced Vasco da Gama Count of Vidigueria after he rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage.
5. Since Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church, Protestants named him the Father of the Reformation, but the Catholic Church called him an apostate.
6. The Aztecs called Cortes a god because he was white, and their tradition prophesied about him.
7. The Ottoman Empire considered Suleiman the Lawgiver.
8. Chaucer named the tip of an astrolabe the horse.
***Challenge***
9. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII to win Orleans, but then he lost to the Burgundians, and the English named her a witch.
10. Nasir al Din Al Tusi published The Complete Quadrilateral in Persian, which considered trigonometry its own discipline and named his triangle formula the Law of Sines.
Tuesday classes
Book Club: Memorize your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening!
MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 26 in class and make a long bow.
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 21 for our quiz! We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 22.
Wednesday classes
Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Chaucer’s astrolabe, take a quiz on the astrolabe to earn your own laser cut one.
Math Club: Learn about Nasir al Din Al Tusi and the Law of Sines.
Art Appreciation: Study Bosch and Brueghel & symbolism. Create a piece with a moral and many many symbols.
Writing Club:
Writing Club Homework: Week 20 DUE ON March 7, 2018
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173. “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”. Add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY! Try to add vocabulary! There will be a quiz soon…… You will be presenting the Introduction and Conclusion. Use the checklist on page 175 to be sure you have included all the necessary structure
Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 20 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:
For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173. “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”. Add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY! Try to add vocabulary! There will be a quiz soon…… You will be presenting the Introduction and Conclusion. Use the checklist on page 175 to be sure you have included all the necessary structure
Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 20 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!
