Middle Ages Week 34
/Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
History: John Cabot founded Newfoundland. Jacques Cartier founded Canada on the St. Lawrence River for French settlers to stay. Spanish Coronado found the Grand Canyon, de Soto explored the Mississippi River. England defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Learn more about the Japan on Khan Academy.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 3, Chapter 42 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Memorize these American Geographical Features:
Rocky Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Andes Mountains
Mississippi River
Amazon River
Carribean Sea
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Bering Strait
Isthmus of Panama
Practice memorizing the countries of South America with this game!
Science: The Earth is a giant magnet, which is the cause of compasses pointing north/south and of the aurora borealis.
Math: In elementary mathematics, a variable is a symbol, commonly an alphabetic character, that represents a number, the value of the variable, which is either arbitrary, not fully specified, or unknown.
Introduction to variables on Khan Academy
A short biography of Francois Viete.
Greek: Memorize Greek vocabulary:
κοινός common
κάθετος perpendicular
ορθός right
λοιπος remaining
αυτός same, self
Keep learning Greek over the summer!
English:
put-put-put
see-saw-seen
show-showed-shown
take-took-taken
tell-told-told
think-thought-thought
Learn more about irregular 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 fall!
Diagramming: Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 34 sentences:
Jacques Cartier founded Canada on the St. Lawrence River for the French, John Cabot founded Newfoundland for England.
Since the The Vietnam War ended in 1975, when did it begin?
The Berlin Wall falls after Communism fails in Eastern Europe?
Why did Gorbachev resign and why was Communism outlawed?
After September 11, the day the World Trade Center was attacked, the US declared war on terror?
Who invented the global internet and ushered in the Information Age?
Check your diagrams online.
