Middle Ages Week 20

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians - PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

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 20, “Knights, Part 2”
Diagram Week 19 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 3 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading about Gutenberg’s printing press, write two persuasive paragraphs. In the first, pretend you’re an official of the Catholic Church or government, and write the negative effects of printing. In the second, take the perspective of a common peasant, and write the positive effects!

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 Thursday 2/15/18 - Please read these, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - Sabine - what Columbus knew about the earth, Look at the maps on pages 8, 10 and 12 to see how stretched out Ptolemy’s map (orange dots) was, and how accurate Eratosthenes’ was (yellow dots). It also has green dots for the modern location. Why do you think Columbus thought Asia was closer with Ptolemy’s map?
History - Phoebe - how printing press changed the world
Science - Jocelyn, Cooper - Ibn al Baitar created a Pharmacopia, a large book about medicines. Drugs.com has a good list of medical uses for plants.
Art - Gino - paper-making, Henry - casting type, type-setting, printing press demonstration, demonstration in museum
Literature - Sabine? Canterbury Tales summary on SparkNotes
Math - Li Ye

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 20 sentences:
1. Who built the Incas Machu Picchu, which is a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for ruling elites of their civilization?
2. Did the Turks win their empire Constantinople?
3. Who invented the printing press, and what did he print us?
4. What did Ivan the Great rule in 1462?
5. Did Da Vinci give us many ideas, since he invented flying contraptions in Italy?
6. Expand the Songhay Empire in Africa as Sunni Ali did in 1470.
7. Give peace a chance like Buddhist Ashoka did!
8. Tell me the planets in order until you have them memorized.
9. Did Euclid give us a systematic development of Geometry when he wrote The Elements?
***Challenge***
10. Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1436 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible, creating an intellectual revival.
11. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.

 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 3 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading about Gutenberg’s printing press, write two persuasive paragraphs. In the first, pretend you’re an official of the Catholic Church or government, and write the negative effects of printing. In the second, take the perspective of a common peasant, and write the positive effects!

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 from class Thursday 2/15/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - what Columbus knew about the earth, Look at the maps on pages 8, 10 and 12 to see how stretched out Ptolemy’s map (orange dots) was, and how accurate Eratosthenes’ was (yellow dots). It also has green dots for the modern location. Why do you think Columbus thought Asia was closer with Ptolemy’s map?
History - how printing press changed the world
Science - Ibn al Baitar created a Pharmacopia, a large book about medicines. Drugs.com has a good list of medical uses for plants.
Art - paper-making, Henry - casting type, type-setting, printing press demonstration, demonstration in museum
Literature - Canterbury Tales summary on SparkNotes
Math - Li Ye

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 20 sentences:
1. Who built the Incas Machu Picchu, which is a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for ruling elites of their civilization?
2. Did the Turks win their empire Constantinople?
3. Who invented the printing press, and what did he print us?
4. What did Ivan the Great rule in 1462?
5. Did Da Vinci give us many ideas, since he invented flying contraptions in Italy?
6. Expand the Songhay Empire in Africa as Sunni Ali did in 1470.
7. Give peace a chance like Buddhist Ashoka did!
8. Tell me the planets in order until you have them memorized.
9. Did Euclid give us a systematic development of Geometry when he wrote The Elements?
***Challenge***
10. Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1436 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible, creating an intellectual revival.
11. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.
 

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. Practice your monologue or duet from Good Masters, Sweet Ladies if you’d like to perform it during opening!

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 32 in class and make our own printing presses.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This has taken us a few weeks as we’ve reviewed several other propositions from the first four books. We’re almost done!

Greek: Complete & study lesson 20 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 21.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll use astrolabes and learn about Geoffrey Chaucer.

Math Club: Learn about Li Yeh and absolute value.

Art Appreciation:

Writing Club Homework:
Week 18  DUE ON FEBRUARY 28,  2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

We are moving on to Lesson 25!  We will return to Lessons 21-24 in the next session. However, if you did not finish assignments for Lessons 19 and/or 20 complete the paragraphs on:                         Topic A: “Duties of Knights’
                        Topic B: “Code of Chivalry”
                        Topic C: Training

Use the checklist for Lesson 20 (on page 142). Include a #2 Sentence opener in each paragraph.. Read about #2 Sentence openers on page 138! Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   Add a Bibliography!  Read page 141 to learn how or use easybib.com if you chose your own source. Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced. Paragraphs on Topics A, B, and C are due February 28th. For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173 “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  

We will discuss your ideas in class next time and plan to add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  So exciting, right?  We may also learn more fun Sentence Openers!  I can’t wait until Spring Session I

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 19 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:  

We are moving on to Lesson 25!  We will return to Lessons 21-24 in the next session. However, if you did not finish assignments for Lessons 19 and/or 20 complete the paragraphs on:

                        Topic A: “Duties of Knights’
                        Topic B: “Code of Chivalry”
                        Topic C: Training

Use the checklist for Lesson 20 (on page 142). Include a #2 Sentence opener in each paragraph.. Read about #2 Sentence openers on page 138! Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   Add a Bibliography!  Read page 141 to learn how or use easybib.com if you chose your own source. Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced. Paragraphs on Topics A, B, and C are due February 28th. For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173 “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  

We will discuss your ideas in class next time and plan to add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  So exciting, right?  We may also learn more fun Sentence Openers!  I can’t wait until Spring Session I

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 19 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!