Middle Ages Week 2

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
 

• Memorize: “Frankish King Clovis married Princess Clotilda who wanted him to follow Christianity. He beat the Allemani tribe, converted all his subjects, made Paris the capital, and wrote the Salic Laws.”
   

• Learn about Clovis, King of the Franks.
   

• Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
   

• Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 11 and do the activities in the activity guide.
   

• Draw Africa and label the North African countries: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara.

• Memorize “Aristotle taught that objects move through the air because the air keeps pushing them. John Philoponus argued that it was impetus, now called momentum.”
  Learn about Severinus Boethius.

• Memorize “The surface area of a prism is 2B+Ph (two times the area of the base plus the perimeter times the height.  The surface area of a pyramid is B+1/2Ph (area of the base plus one half of the perimeter times the height).”
   

• Practice some Greek verbs:

ἀκούω I hear
βλέπω I see
ἔχω I have or hold
λύω I loosen
πιστεύω I believe
γινώσκω I know
γράφω I write
λαμβάνω I take
λέγω I say or speak
πάσχω I suffer

• Memorize the 4 purposes of a sentence: declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, imperative.

• Investigate purposes of a sentence on Grammar Revolution.
  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 Unit One, Lesson 2.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week two in your student book and copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/7/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.
 

Draw Africa and label the North African countries: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara.
 

Memorize: “Frankish King Clovis married Princess Clotilda who wanted him to follow Christianity. He beat the Allemani tribe, converted all his subjects, made Paris the capital, and wrote the Salic Laws.”

Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) present one essay on one of these topics next week. Present another topic from a keyword outline.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades) choose one of these and prepare a 2-3 minute presentation to share in class next Thursday. Write a one paragraph summary on the life of Clovis.  We read & annotated “The Conversion of Clovis” and did a sample key word outline together.  Be sure to use an ly adverb, strong very, www.asia.wub, who which, quality adjective, etc. and label them in the margin.  Ask an adult to edit for spelling & grammar, then create a clean copy for your portfolio.

• History - Learn about the Franks and their king, Clovis.

  • Here’s a short biography.

  • Here’s a map of his conquests.

• Literature - Memorize stanzas 2, 4, 5 and 10 of this poem.

• Philosophy - Learn about Severinus Boëthius.

  • Here is a wonderful (full) up to date translation of The Consolation of Philosophy. Read the poems, they’re excellent!

  • Here’s an abridged version. It’s the one we read in class.

  • Here’s a nice scan of The Institutes of Arithmetica. (I like pretty things!)

• Math - Learn more about Perfect Numbers

• Science - Learn about John Philoponus and Impetus.

  • John Philoponus also wrote about how to use an astrolabe!

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Lower Dialecticians (5th-6th grades), ALSO complete the worksheet on Order of Operations & Commutative Property.

Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the  (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the history sentences above

1. Was ancient Harappa founded?
2. Does Akkadia expand?
3. Were wild horses domesticated?
4. Did the Hebrew Patriarchs live?
5. The Minoans lived?
6. Did Babylon conquer?
7. Did Clovis convert?
8. Which force pulls?
9. Does surface area cover?
10. Did independent city-states conflict?
 

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.

MAKE: History: In class we’ll make Merovingian discs out of clay with melted crayon

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.2

Greek: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 2.  Greek 1 students, memorize the Greek alphabet.   Greek 2 students, review verbs.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study John Philoponus

Math Club: In class we’ll make nets to find the surface area of prism & pyramid

Art Appreciation: In class we’ll make Merovingian crosses with clay and metallic paints

Writing Club: Dialecticians 5-8:
“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lesson 3.   Be prepared to present your COMPLETED paper from a printed copy. No computers allowed.  One or two papers will be selected to be critiqued and returned the following week.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week two in your student book and copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks.