Middle Ages Week 30
/Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
Art: Renaissance composers we listened to are below!
History: For three hundred years, Europeans in America enslaved native peoples then transported captives from Africa to work agriculture, mining and household service with no hope to regain the freedom they lost in Africa.
Learn more about Spanish colonization on Khan Academy or read more here.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 33 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Memorize these countries of Central America:
Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: There are seven main structures of crystals, depending on the shape of the crystal. These are cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, orthorhombic, trigonal, monoclinic, and triclinic
Learn more about crystal structures on Wikipedia.
Math: The sum of two cubes can be factored as follows: a^3+b^3 = (a+b)(a^2-ab+b^2)
Learn more about the Sum of Cubes on Khan Academy and the Cubic Formula.
Greek: Memorize Greek Deponent Verb Present Tense:
Singular
1 γίνομαι
2 γίνῃ
3 γίνεται
Plural
1 γινόμεθα
2 γίνεσθε
3 γίνονται
English: Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.
Learn more about verbals 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: Complete Capstone Key Word Outlines
Diagram Week 30 sentences.
Dialecticians (5-8th grades)
Writing: After reading Priscilla’s story, write a 1-3 paragraph chronological account of her life. Be sure to include all dress-ups (ly adverb, who-which clause, www.asia.b adverbial clause, quality adjective, strong verb), all openers (subject, preposition, www.asia.b, ly adverb, -ing participle, very short sentence), and one decoration (conversation, alliteration, simile, metaphor or 3 short staccato sentences) in each paragraph in your essay.
Capstone: You’ve already picked a person from the Middle Ages for your Capstone and researched him/her in an encyclopedia, wikipedia or text book and chosen 3 interesting areas of his/her life or study to focus on, for example, da Vinci’s art, inventions & physiological study. Now choose 3 easy resources (like Eye Witness books), do a merged key word outline on each of your 3 topics and a Bibliography!
Geography quiz: We’ll retake our geography quizzes on Asia & Oceania until we have all the countries & geographical features memorized. Study Lizardpoint or test yourself on paper!
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:
History - Luca R - The Inquisition
- Henry Lotter - Cortez conquers the Aztecs. Video.
Geography - Maggie - Mayan Ruins
Literature - Priscilla’s Homecoming
Art - See attached music in the blog post.
Science - Eva - Agricola and Mines
Jocelyn and Phoebe - Crystals (with pictures!)
Math - Gino - Jerome Cardan, the mathematician. An argument against the argument.
History: For three hundred years, Europeans in America enslaved native peoples then transported captives from Africa to work agriculture, mining and household service with no hope to regain the freedom they lost in Africa.
Learn more about Spanish colonization on Khan Academy or read more here.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 33 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Memorize these countries of Central America:
Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: There are seven main structures of crystals, depending on the shape of the crystal. These are cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, orthorhombic, trigonal, monoclinic, and triclinic
Learn more about crystal structures on Wikipedia.
Math: The sum of two cubes can be factored as follows: a^3+b^3 = (a+b)(a^2-ab+b^2)
Learn more about the Sum of Cubes on Khan Academy and the Cubic Formula.
Greek: Memorize Greek Deponent Verb Present Tense:
Singular
1 γίνομαι
2 γίνῃ
3 γίνεται
Plural
1 γινόμεθα
2 γίνεσθε
3 γίνονται
English: Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.
Learn more about verbals on Grammar Revolution.
Diagramming: Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 30 sentences:
1. Losing all their freedom, Africans were captured and transported to America where they worked as slaves.
2. Painting & sculpting, Henri Matisse, who was named "wild beast," founded Fauvism.
3. Riding to San Juan Hill, Colonel Roosevelt charged the Spanish troops.
4. After building an airplane, the Wright brothers flew the first successful flight.
5. Creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques in 1904.
6. During his annus mirabilis, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers at the age of 26.
7. Favoring constitutional monarchy, Young Turks reformed the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
8. Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.
9. There are seven main structures of crystals, depending on the shape of the crystal.
Tuesday classes
Book Club: Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class. Pick a book that you’ve read this year in Book Club for your final book report and note themes that relate to other books we’ve read. Make notes in your book club journal or on the page of themes from class. We will continue reading The Kite Rider and Crispin Cross of Lead in class.
MAKE: History: We’ll read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 33 and make Conquistador Masks
Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Book 5 definitions.
Greek: Complete & study lesson 30 for our last quiz! We’ll start translating a passage from Euclid’s elements and from the New Testament.
Wednesday classes
Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Georg Agricola and the structures of crystals.
Math Club: Learn about Cardan and the sum & difference of cubes.
Art Appreciation: Learn about Africa, pull cotton bolls and read accounts of enslaved people on the Middle Passage.
Writing Club Homework: Week 29 DUE ON MAY 16, 2018
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
CAPSTONES! You should all have your topics for the Chronos Capstones by now. If you have not chosen a topic, please do so. This week you are to create a Keyword Outline for your three paragraphs for the body of your essay. You can read from your Keyword Outline in class next week. Create a bibliography for the paper of the resources you have chosen. Use the “Bibliography/Works Cited” paper I handed out in class and pages 141 and 213 as references. You can also try Easybib.com. BRING THE SOURCES YOU PLAN TO USE FOR YOUR PAPER TO WRITING CLUB NEXT WEEK. If you chose Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Raphael, or Galileo, there are some sources in your IEW text for you to use.
Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 29 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 weeks!
Upper Grammarians (3-4):
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
CAPSTONES! You should all have your topics for the Chronos Capstones by now. If you have not chosen a topic, please do so. This week you are to create a Keyword Outline for your three paragraphs for the body of your essay. You can read from your Keyword Outline in class next week. Create a bibliography for the paper of the resources you have chosen. Use the “Bibliography/Works Cited” paper I handed out in class and pages 141 and 213 as references. You can also try Easybib.com. BRING THE SOURCES YOU PLAN TO USE FOR YOUR PAPER TO WRITING CLUB NEXT WEEK. If you chose Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Raphael, or Galileo, there are some sources in your IEW text for you to use.
Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 29 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!
