Middle Ages Week 28

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Declared Sultan in 1520, Suleiman the Lawgiver wrote a new code of law and expanded the Ottoman Empire, and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem that had fallen in the Crusades.

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Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 24 & Vol. 3, Chapter 1 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Oceania and label these Geographical Features:
Mount Kosciuszko
Uluru/Ayers Rock
Great Dividing Range
Gulf of Carpentaria
Great Barrier Reef
Mariana Trench

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize The systems of the human body:
circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, endocrine, immune, integumentary, skeletal, muscle and reproductive.

Learn more about health & medicine from Khan Academy.

Math: Perfect Square Trinomials are factored as follows: (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2

Learn more about the Factoring Perfect Square Trinomials on Khan Academy.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary
ἔρχομαι I come, I go
εἰσέρχομαι I go in, I enter
ἐξέρχομαι I go out
διέρχομαι I go through
κἀγώ and I

English:
Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense

Learn more about proper grammar 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:  Complete Lesson 26 B: The Conclusion of Critique
Diagram Week 28 sentences.
 

Dialecticians (5-8th grades)=

Writing: Research Visalius, and color the attached image of a theater dissection. Then pick one character in the picture and write an account of the event from his/her perspective. Be sure to include 6-8 details about Visalius and his work. Format should be 3 paragraphs following the story sequence (I. setting and characters, II. conflict, III. climax and resolution). Be sure to include all dress-ups (ly adverb, who-which clause, www.asia.b adverbial clause, quality adjective, strong verb), all openers (subject, preposition, www.asia.b, ly adverb, -ing participle, very short sentence), and one decoration (conversation, alliteration, simile, metaphor or 3 short staccato sentences) in each paragraph in your essay.

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:

History - Sabine, Catalina, Cooper - Charles V was important. Here is his biography. Suleiman also was important.
Art - Jocelyn, Maggie - Michelangelo painted and sculpted. Look at the sculpting process.
Science - Eva, Luca F - Visalius. A video. Here’s the color version of the Cover page.
Geography - Phoebe - click around Oceania. Information about Ayer’s Rock.
Philosophy - Maisy, Luca R. - Machiavelli.
Math - Hanry - Christoff Rudolff’s Die Coss. Some video help with roots.

History: Declared Sultan in 1520, Suleiman the Lawgiver wrote a new code of law and expanded the Ottoman Empire, and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem that had fallen in the Crusades.

Learn more on Khan Academy

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 24 & Vol. 3, Chapter 1 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Oceania and label these Geographical Features:
Mount Kosciuszko
Uluru/Ayers Rock
Great Dividing Range
Gulf of Carpentaria
Great Barrier Reef
Mariana Trench

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize The systems of the human body:
circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, endocrine, immune, integumentary, skeletal, muscle and reproductive.

Learn more about health & medicine from Khan Academy.

Math: Perfect Square Trinomials are factored as follows: (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2

Learn more about the Factoring Perfect Square Trinomials on Khan Academy.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary
ἔρχομαι I come, I go
εἰσέρχομαι I go in, I enter
ἐξέρχομαι I go out
διέρχομαι I go through
κἀγώ and I

English:
Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense

Learn more about proper grammar on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or number 10 challenge sentence below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 28 sentences:
1. Whoever wrote a new code of law expanded the Ottoman Empire and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem that had fallen in the Crusades.
2. Darwin published what he wrote on the origin of species.
3. Whoever seceded from the US considered themselves Confederates, but soon Congress declared war on them!
4. Dost Mohammad Khan defended whoever lived in Afghanistan!
5. Maxwell theorized on whatever was electric, while Faraday conducted many experiments in 1864.
6. Mendel learned that physical traits are genetic.
7. Did Congress give whoever was enslaved freedom in 1865?
8. The least common multiple of two numbers is the smallest number that is a multiple of both and is often used to find a common denominator.
9. In De Architectura, Vitruvius wrote "All structures should possess strength, utility, and beauty."
10. ***Challenge*** Declared Sultan in 1520, Suleiman the Lawgiver wrote a new code of law, expanded the Ottoman Empire, and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem that had fallen in the Crusades.
 

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class. Pick a book that you’ve read this year in Book Club for your final book report. More information will come Tuesday. We will continue reading The Kite Rider and Crispin Cross of Lead in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 24 & Vol. 3, Chapter 1 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Book 5 definitions and study proportions!

Greek: Complete & study lesson 28 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 29.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Andreas Vesalius, Michael Servetus.

Math Club: Learn about Rudolph, square roots and perfect square trinomials.

Art Appreciation: Learn about da Vinci as an artist. Paint portraits using the Golden Ratio.

Writing Club Homework: Week 27  DUE ON MAY,  2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Unit 8:  Lesson 26 “Genghis Khan". Read “Lesson 26 B: The Conclusion” on page 182.  This is the second part of a two part lesson. Use the “Source Text” on page 178, paying special attention to the conclusion.  USE THIS TEXT AS A BLUEPRINT or ROAD MAP of what a Formal Critique should look like. Notice the author used examples from the original story in quotes. Read page 243-244  for a sample of a Formal Critique. Use page 183 to make a Key Word Outline. Add all of the elements of STRUCTURE and STYLE you have learned so far. We will go over the checklist in class next week. Try to add vocabulary for extra points!  THERE WILL BE A VOCABULARY QUIZ SOON :)
 
Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 27 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:  
Unit 8:  Lesson 26 “Genghis Khan". Read “Lesson 26 B: The Conclusion” on page 182.  This is the second part of a two part lesson. Use the “Source Text” on page 178, paying special attention to the conclusion.  USE THIS TEXT AS A BLUEPRINT or ROAD MAP of what a Formal Critique should look like. Notice the author used examples from the original story in quotes. Read page 243-244  for a sample of a Formal Critique. Use page 183 to make a Key Word Outline. Add all of the elements of STRUCTURE and STYLE you have learned so far. We will go over the checklist in class next week. Try to add vocabulary for extra points!  THERE WILL BE A VOCABULARY QUIZ SOON :)

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 27 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!