Middle Ages Week 10

Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”

Learn about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?

Investigate adjectives 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 11, Unit 4.
Diagram Week 10 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a keyword outline, first draft, edits & final draft paragraph extended metaphor about the mathematical operations. We started in class!

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:

ART - Andalusian Art, Moorish Chain Maille
History - Crusades, Pope Urban II’s announcement beginning the First Crusade (read #5)
Science - al-Sufi’s constellations, the Large Magellanic Cloud (download the fullsize original file!)
Geography - pick an African or Eastern European country
Math - Check out Mahavira’s Garland numbers! Also, here is a list of his mathematical discoveries.
Literature - El Cid
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”
Learn about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: ***Geography quiz retake next week!***
Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?
Investigate adjectives on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:
1. Who was the founder of the College of Technology, and was it located in Alexandria?
2. Who were the Nazca, and what was their civilization?
3. What did Lucretius write, and what is Epicureanism?
4. Was Julius Caesar the most powerful emperor, and whom did he rule?
5. Did Cicero write Hortensius?
6. Who was Jesus Christ, and was he born in year 1 AD?
7. El Cid was a Christian general, but who was Urban II?
8. What are the three types of galaxies?
9. What is a permutation, and how does one calculate it?
10. What are the countries of Eastern Europe?
11. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun?
12. El Cid was a Christian general who lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094, but later who called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege?
13. Is a permutation the number of ways to choose a sample of elements from a set of distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed?

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/9/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday:

ART - Andalusian Art, Moorish Chain Maille
History - Crusades, Pope Urban II’s announcement beginning the First Crusade (read #5)
Science - al-Sufi’s constellations, the Large Magellanic Cloud (download the fullsize original file!)
Geography - pick an African or Eastern European country
Math - Check out Mahavira’s Garland numbers! Also, here is a list of his mathematical discoveries. His problem of the Mangoes can’t work (as far as I can tell) unless you say each person took their fraction from the remainder of the previous person. Then it’s much easier. I’ll tell you the answer on Monday.
Literature - El Cid
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”
Learn about the Crusades
Literature - El Cid

Review these topics:
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: ***Geography quiz retake next week!***
Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?
Investigate adjectives on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:
1. Who was the founder of the College of Technology, and was it located in Alexandria?
2. Who were the Nazca, and what was their civilization?
3. What did Lucretius write, and what is Epicureanism?
4. Was Julius Caesar the most powerful emperor, and whom did he rule?
5. Did Cicero write Hortensius?
6. Who was Jesus Christ, and was he born in year 1 AD?
7. El Cid was a Christian general, but who was Urban II?
8. What are the three types of galaxies?
9. What is a permutation, and how does one calculate it?
10. What are the countries of Eastern Europe?
11. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun?
12. El Cid was a Christian general who lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094, but later who called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege?
13. Is a permutation the number of ways to choose a sample of elements from a set of distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed?

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 how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapters 18 in class and make windmills

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.10.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 10 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 11.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about al Suffi and galaxies.

Math Club: Learn about Mahavira & Permutations.

Art Appreciation: Romanesque & Gothic art depicting the Crusades.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 11 from Unit 4. Read “ The Assignment” on page 80. Remember to use the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 84 to be sure you have included all the elements of style you need this week. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-11 and try to include some vocabulary in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 10 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  10  “Barrowing a Conflict” Unit 3. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 74 and learn about the “Because Clause". Read “The Assignment” on page 75.. Write your first draft from the Story Sequence Chart on page 76 and use page 74 to brainstorm.  

For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).Use the checklist on page 77 to be sure you have included every element required this week.  There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week, banned words, and a decoration!

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9 and try to  include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 10 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!