Middle Ages Week 22

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions 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 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”

Diagram Week 22 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: After reading Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies, look at that wikipedia link and find a woman who most interests you. Then write a paragraph about her contributions, virtues, and innovations. Be sure to include stylistic techniques such as -ly adverb, quality adjective, strong verb, who/which clause, www.asia.b clause, a variety of sentence openers, and an alliteration or simile/metaphor or conversation and label them all in the margin. Be ready to present your final draft next week.

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:

Science - Henry & Jocelyn - Guy de Chauliac and surgical knots. Here’s a video for actually suturing a living thing.
History - Sabine? The Fall of Constantinople. Interesting article about the guns used to attack Constantinople. Be sure to read about making and firing the 27-foot “horrifying and extraordinary monster.” Here’s the Economist article we read in class and a unit on Khan Academy.
Literature - Catalina Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies.
Art - Gino & Cooper - Albrecht Durer. Click around on the website to read his biography and to look at his complete works! Here’s a Khan Academy video too.
Math - Phoebe - Qin Jiushao wrote The nine chapters on the mathematical art. “He was a dishonest rogue who was quite prepared to poison those whom he disliked.”
Philosophy - Gersonides thinks opinions are not as strong as reality. Do you? He invented the cross staff.
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7-8 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 22 sentences:
1. The fall of Constantinople, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453 is deemed the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.
2. Magellan circumnavigates the globe in 1522, but when he lands in the Philippines, Chief Lapu Lapu considers him a threat and kills him on the beach!
3. John Calvin is named the Father of Calvinism, because he wrote his Institutes in 1536 in Switzerland!
4. Historians call Copernicus a great Renaissance scientist, because he put the sun at the center of the universe, and he wrote The Revolutions!
5. England crowned Elizabeth I queen, although she was not married, and she ruled for 45 years!
6. Guy de Chauliac described sutures in Chirurgia magna, and he named some ligatures.
***Challenge****
7. Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople, and then they named it Istanbul.
8. No argument can nullify the reality that is perceived by the senses, for true opinion must follow reality, but reality need not conform to opinion.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/1 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/5/18:

Science - Guy de Chauliac and surgical knots. Here’s a video for actually suturing a living thing.
History - The Fall of Constantinople. Interesting article about the guns used to attack Constantinople. Be sure to read about making and firing the 27-foot “horrifying and extraordinary monster.” Here’s the Economist article we read in class and a unit on Khan Academy.
Literature - Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies. Look at that wikipedia link and find a woman who most interests you.
Art - Albrecht Durer. Click around on the website to read his biography and to look at his complete works! Here’s a Khan Academy video too.
Math - Qin Jiushao wrote The nine chapters on the mathematical art. “He was a dishonest rogue who was quite prepared to poison those whom he disliked.”
Philosophy - Gersonides thinks opinions are not as strong as reality. Do you? He invented the cross staff.
Geography - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

Writing: Create a game and write detailed instructions of the pieces or cards, strategies and how to play.  Write your user manual as if you are writing to a ten-year-old in the style of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Review these topics:

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7-8 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 22 sentences:
1. The fall of Constantinople, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453 is deemed the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.
2. Magellan circumnavigates the globe in 1522, but when he lands in the Philippines, Chief Lapu Lapu considers him a threat and kills him on the beach!
3. John Calvin is named the Father of Calvinism, because he wrote his Institutes in 1536 in Switzerland!
4. Historians call Copernicus a great Renaissance scientist, because he put the sun at the center of the universe, and he wrote The Revolutions!
5. England crowned Elizabeth I queen, although she was not married, and she ruled for 45 years!
6. Guy de Chauliac described sutures in Chirurgia magna, and he named some ligatures.
***Challenge****
7. Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople, and then they named it Istanbul.
8. No argument can nullify the reality that is perceived by the senses, for true opinion must follow reality, but reality need not conform to opinion.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep practicing your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening! Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class (much like we did with the Demi books last Tuesday). We’ll continue reading Otto of the Silver Hand and The Apple and the Arrow in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 24 in class and use our printing presses to create a newspaper announcing the Fall of Constantinople.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll start Book 5 and study proportions!

Greek: Complete & study lesson 22 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 23.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Guy de Chauliac.

Math Club: Learn about Qin and play a game of synthetic division.

Art Appreciation: Study Durer and create an etching.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Lesson 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”.  Read “The Assignment” on page 144. This assignment will use two sources.  One is from the textbook and the other you will chose by doing research. You will create a 2-paragraph report. Read Source One from the textbook pages 145-146.  Using the template on page 147, make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John). Next, read Source TWO from your research and make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John).  You will have 2 Keyword Outlines for each topic (4 total). Create a Fused Outline for BOTH Topic A and Topic B. From the Fused Outlines, write your two paragraphs. Be sure to use the checklist on page 150 to be sure you have included all of the necessary Structure and Style. Remember we have a new sentence opener! The #2, preposition.  Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 21 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:  
Lesson 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”.  Read “The Assignment” on page 144. This assignment will use two sources.  One was handed out in class or you can use “Story of the World” Chapter 19, pages 174-177.   You will create a 2-paragraph report. Read Source One from the textbook pages 145-146. Using the template on page 147,  make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John). Next, read Source TWO from your research and make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John).  You will have 2 Keyword Outlines for each topic (4 total). Create a Fused Outline for BOTH Topic A and Topic B. From the Fused Outlines, write your two paragraphs. Be sure to use the checklist on page 150 to be sure you have included all of the necessary Structure and Style. Remember we have a new sentence opener! The #2, preposition.  Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 21 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!