Middle Ages Week 23

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Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Henry VI of Lancaster fought the Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses. Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field beginning the reign of the Tudors.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 27 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Caucasus Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Tibetan Plateau
Arabian Desert
Taklamakan Desert
Gobi Desert
Volga River
Ob River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the horizontal coordinate system:
zenith
nadir
celestial meridian
horizon
altitude
azimuth

Math: Memorize Mathematical induction is a method of proving that something true for any number n and n+1 must be true for all possible values of n.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
κράζω I cry out
χαίρω I rejoice, am glad
ἄδω I sing
ὀφείλω I owe
πίνω I drink

English:  Memorize Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when while where as since if although whereas unless because

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 22: “Amusement”
Diagram Week 23 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: Pick one of these three one paragraph options this week:

  1. Write the biography of Francois Villon, the poet who wrote “Ballad of the Ladies of Time Past.”

  2. Write clear instructions for the distributive law for a 9 year old to follow.

  3. Write about the mystery of the princes in the tower following the Wars of the Roses.

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 - Cooper - Ulugh Beg’s Observatory. There’s a documentary about him coming out.
History - Catalina - The Wars of the Roses video we watched in Fine Art.
Literature - Francois Villon was a criminal and poetic kind of guy.
Art - Henry, Sabine, Phoebe, Jocelyn  Pick a piece from Italy or Northern Europe and talk about history, subject & style.
Math - Levi ben Gerson is the first to write about the Inductive method for proof (Daniel has a good book if you’d like to research this).
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Henry VI of Lancaster fought the Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses. Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field beginning the reign of the Tudors.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 27 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Caucasus Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Tibetan Plateau
Arabian Desert
Taklamakan Desert
Gobi Desert
Volga River
Ob River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the horizontal coordinate system:
zenith
nadir
celestial meridian
horizon
altitude
azimuth

Math: Memorize Mathematical induction is a method of proving that something true for any number n and n+1 must be true for all possible values of n.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
κράζω I cry out
χαίρω I rejoice, am glad
ἄδω I sing
ὀφείλω I owe
πίνω I drink

English:  Memorize Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when while where as since if although whereas unless because

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 23 sentences:

1. Did Henry VI who lived in Lancaster fight Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses, and did Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
2. Did Britain defeat the Spanish Armada, and did William Shakespeare whom the British named The National Poet of England write his first play in 1590?
3. Was Jamestown, which historians consider the first American Colony, founded in Virginia, or did Galileo create his first telescope in 1609?
4. Where did the Mayflower sail in 1620 and which ports did Iemitsu close in Japan?
5. What is mathematical induction, and why do we call it that?
6. Why do we call up zenith, and why do we call down nadir?
7. ***challenge*** Did Henry VI who lived in Lancaster fight Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses, and did Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field beginning the reign of the Tudors?
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

Writing: Pick one of these three one paragraph options this week:

  1. Write the biography of Francois Villon, the poet who wrote “Ballad of the Ladies of Time Past.”

  2. Write clear instructions for the distributive law for a 9 year old to follow.

  3. Write about the mystery of the princes in the tower following the Wars of the Roses.

From our session Thursday 3/15 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/19/18:
 

Science - Ulugh Beg’s Observatory. There’s a documentary about him coming out.
History - The Wars of the Roses video we watched in Fine Art.
Literature - Francois Villon was a criminal and poetic kind of guy.
Art -  Pick a piece from Italy or Northern Europe and talk about history, subject & style.
Math - Levi ben Gerson is the first to write about the Inductive method for proof (Daniel has a good book if you’d like to research this).
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Henry VI of Lancaster fought the Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses. Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field beginning the reign of the Tudors.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 27 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Caucasus Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Tibetan Plateau
Arabian Desert
Taklamakan Desert
Gobi Desert
Volga River
Ob River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the horizontal coordinate system:
zenith
nadir
celestial meridian
horizon
altitude
azimuth

Math: Memorize Mathematical induction is a method of proving that something true for any number n and n+1 must be true for all possible values of n.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
κράζω I cry out
χαίρω I rejoice, am glad
ἄδω I sing
ὀφείλω I owe
πίνω I drink

English: Memorize Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when while where as since if although whereas unless because

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 23 sentences:

1. Did Henry VI who lived in Lancaster fight Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses, and did Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
2. Did Britain defeat the Spanish Armada, and did William Shakespeare whom the British named The National Poet of England write his first play in 1590?
3. Was Jamestown, which historians consider the first American Colony, founded in Virginia, or did Galileo create his first telescope in 1609?
4. Where did the Mayflower sail in 1620 and which ports did Iemitsu close in Japan?
5. What is mathematical induction, and why do we call it that?
6. Why do we call up zenith, and why do we call down nadir?
7. ***challenge*** Did Henry VI who lived in Lancaster fight Edward IV of York for the English throne in 1455 in the Wars of the Roses, and did Henry Tudor beat Richard III in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field beginning the reign of the Tudors?

 

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. We’ll continue reading Otto of the Silver Hand and The Apple and the Arrow in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read about the Wars of the Roses in Story of the World chapter 27 in class and make spectacles.

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

Greek: Complete & study lesson 23 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 24.

 

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Ulugh-Beg.

Math Club: Learn about Levi ben Gersen and mathematical induction.

Art Appreciation: Continue studying Durer and color a giant print.

Writing Club:
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lesson 22 "Amusement"
Fix it! Grammar Week 22