Middle Ages Week 11

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

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 11 from Unit 4.

Diagram Week 11 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a keyword outline, first draft, edits & final draft play based on the Robin Hood poem we read in class, following the story sequence: Characters & Setting, Conflict, Climax & Resolution.

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:

Henry - Art - Stained Glass King Richard Lionheart  Khan Academy video about a Renaissance stained glass window
Catalina - Art - Rose Windows   stained glass techniques
Sabine -
Jocelyn - Robin Hood Legends
Phoebe - Greek
History: Khan Academy Video about Saladin

Science: Ibn Sahl
Math: Abu Kamil Combinations

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns 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 11 sentences:
1.    Be a missionary, and preach to the Gentiles.
2.    Be Nero, and persecute the early church.
3.    Become a tyrant like Titus, and destroy the temple.
4.    Become an astronomer like Ptolemy, and write The Almagest.
5.    Write proverbs, and compile them in a book like Marcus Aurelius.
6.    Stay Japanese, and be an emperor of Japan.
7.    Retake Jerusalem, and be an Egyptian sultan.
8.    Be light, so you can travel fast and change directions!
9.    Calculate combinations!
10.    Identify the countries of the Balkan Peninsula.
11.    A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
12.    After Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule, English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies, tried to conquer Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.
13.    Since light travels at different speeds through different materials, it changes direction.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/16/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE next 11/27/17 Monday:

History: Khan Academy Video about Saladin
Science: Ibn Sahl
Math: Abu Kamil  Combinations
Art: Stained Glass King Richard Lionheart  Khan Academy video about a Renaissance stained glass window, Rose Windows   stained glass techniques
Literature: Robin Hood Legends  Robin Hood poem we read in class or find another story on his site.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns 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 11 sentences:
1.    Be a missionary, and preach to the Gentiles.
2.    Be Nero, and persecute the early church.
3.    Become a tyrant like Titus, and destroy the temple.
4.    Become an astronomer like Ptolemy, and write The Almagest.
5.    Write proverbs, and compile them in a book like Marcus Aurelius.
6.    Stay Japanese, and be an emperor of Japan.
7.    Retake Jerusalem, and be an Egyptian sultan.
8.    Be light, so you can travel fast and change directions!
9.    Calculate combinations!
10.    Identify the countries of the Balkan Peninsula.
11.    A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
12.    After Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule, English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies, tried to conquer Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.
13.    Since light travels at different speeds through different materials, it changes direction.

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 19 in class and make windmills 

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Muslim tessellations.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 11 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 12.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Ibn Sahl and the calculation of refraction.

Math Club: Learn about Abu Kamil and Combinations

Art Appreciation: Notre Dame cathedrals & stained glass windows.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: 
Complete Lesson 12: Charlemagne, Part I. Read “The Assignment” on page 89.  We have a new “decoration” this week: Similes! Remember to us the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 87 for the “Rough Draft” to be sure you have all the elements of style you need for this week. Next class, we will do Part II and put it all together.  Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-12 and try to include some vocabulary in your report!

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 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 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 report!

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 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!