Middle Ages Week 6
/Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”
Learn about the Battle of Tours.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 12-13 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Geography: Draw Africa and label the Southern African countries: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Science: Memorize The Engineering Design Process:
Ask: Identify the Need & Constraints
Research: the Problem
Imagine: Develop Possible Solutions
Plan: Select a Promising Solution
Create: Build a Prototype
Test: and Evaluate Prototype
Improve: Redesign as Needed
Math: Memorize The algebraic operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, powers, roots and logarithms.
Investigate the basic operations and exponents, roots & logarithms here.
Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings:
singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους
English: A verb expresses an action or state of being.
Investigate Verbs 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 6, Unit 3.
Diagram Week 6 sentences.
Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)
Writing & Math: Do a key word outline, first draft, edits & final draft “Homage to a number” similar to Isidor of Seville’s.
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 notecard of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned! Here are the topics you picked in class:
Phoebe - science, automata
Sabine - history, Mohammed
Henry - science, Sons of Musa
Gino - art, symmetry in Islamic art
Cooper - math, Isidore of Seville or the mathematical operations or mathematicians favorite numbers
Jocelyn - art, tessellations
Catalina - Choose any topic or continue Yang Chien & Sui Dynasty
History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”
Learn about the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers.
Geography: Draw Africa and label the North & Western African countries from memory.
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
Math: Finish the worksheet on the commutative/associative property and variables. Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.
Investigate the basic operations and exponents, roots & logarithms here.
English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 4 sentences:
1. Did the Chaldeans defeat the Assyrians?
2. The Seven Sages said what?
3. Nebuchadnezzar exiles the Jews?
4. Who taught the Jain religion?
5. Did Siddharta Gautama found Buddhism?
6. Cyrus the Great rules whom?
7. Did Mohammed expand the empire?
8. Can you engineer a project?
9. Can you compute the algebraic operations?
Greek: Complete lesson 6 in your workbook.
Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders
From our session Thursday 9/28/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started. Three presentations next week!
Geography: Draw and label the countries of North, West & Central Africa:
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”
Learn about the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers.
Literature - Learn about Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh. Rustam is the national hero of Iran. Find his introduction on this page. Look for Suhrab there too.
Philosophy - Learn about the philosophy of Al-Kindi.
Math - Isodore of Seville was more than a mathematician, he was a bishop! And he’s a saint!
Learn about mathematicians’ favorite numbers.
Your Assignment: Write a stream of consciousness description of your chosen number.
Khan Academy,
Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!
Science - Learn about the Sons of Musa and The Book of Ingenious Devices.
Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings:
singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους
Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the (Simple S-Vt-DO) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the history sentences above
1. Did the Chaldeans defeat the Assyrians?
2. The Seven Sages said what?
3. Nebuchadnezzar exiles the Jews?
4. Who taught the Jain religion?
5. Did Siddharta Gautama found Buddhism?
6. Cyrus the Great rules whom?
7. Did Mohammed expand the empire?
8. Can you engineer a project?
9. Can you compute the algebraic operations?
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. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf.
MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 12-13 in class and make 3D mosaics.
Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.4
Greek: Complete & study lesson 6 for our quiz! We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 7.
Wednesday classes
Make Science: In class we’ll make automata like the Banu Musa.
Math Club: Investigate Algebraic operations
Art Appreciation: Make Arabic calligraphy
Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 7, Unit 3. Read “The Introduction”. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book. Read page 51 and learn about “Strong Verbs” and Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said). Complete page 52 for practice. Read “The Assignment” on page 53. Write your first draft from your Story Sequence Chart on page 55 and use page 56 to brainstorm. For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).
Use the checklist on page 57 to be sure you have included every element required this week. There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week! Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-6and see if you can include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!
Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 6 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook. Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. Review page 17 in preparation for week 7!
Upper Grammarians (3-4):
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 6, Unit 3 Read “The Assignment” page 44. Complete “The Story Sequence Chart”,then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline.. Brainstorm using page 47. For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 49 to be sure you have included every "Element of Style" required this week. Hint: there are 2 per paragraph!
Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4.
Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 6 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook. Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. Review page 17 in preparation for week 7!
