Middle Ages Week 14

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “In 1295, Marco Polo returned from Beijing. He published his book, The Marvels of the World, about his adventures.”
Learn about Marco Polo.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 22 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Denmark
Germany
Austria
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Italy
San Marino
Vatican City
Malta
Greece

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "A salve is an ointment, a tincture is a drug dissolved in alcohol, and a poultice is a soft, moist mass of material used to promote healing of the skin."

Math: Memorize "Pascal's triangle is a configuration of the binomial coefficients used in the binomial theorem."
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
1 5 10 10 5 1
1 6 15 20 15 6 1

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 14 in your workbook.
ἡ γή the earth
ἡ σύναγωγή the synagogue
ἡ ἐξουσία the power
τό σημεῖον the sign
ἡ σοφία the wisdom

English:
An article identifies a noun rather than describing it: a, an, the

Investigate articles 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 15, A Year to Remember: The Battle of Hastings.
Diagram Week 14 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write a summary of the Marco Polo’s Marvels of the World. Pick 6-8 interesting articles, write a key word outline and one paragraph summary. Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

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 - Hildegard von Bingen recommended boiling water. Good idea.
History - Mongolian Empire, Marco Polo. Travel with Marco Polo with National Geographic.
Art - Yuan painting. Look at all the amazing pictures in this book!
Math - al-Karaji and a video!
Philosophy - Ramanuja was a very important Hindu philosopher. He said, “What an individual pursues as a desirable end depends upon what he conceives himself to be.”

History: Memorize “In 1295, Marco Polo returned from Beijing. He published his book, The Marvels of the World, about his adventures.”
Learn about Marco Polo.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 22 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Denmark
Germany
Austria
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Italy
San Marino
Vatican City
Malta
Greece

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "A salve is an ointment, a tincture is a drug dissolved in alcohol, and a poultice is a soft, moist mass of material used to promote healing of the skin."

Math: Memorize "Pascal's triangle is a configuration of the binomial coefficients used in the binomial theorem."
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
1 5 10 10 5 1
1 6 15 20 15 6 1

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 14 in your workbook.
ἡ γή the earth
ἡ σύναγωγή the synagogue
ἡ ἐξουσία the power
τό σημεῖον the sign
ἡ σοφία the wisdom

English:
An article identifies a noun rather than describing it: a, an, the
Investigate articles on Grammar Revolution.
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 14 sentences:

1.    Be Muslim, but expand the Arab Empire.
2.    Seem mathematical, and discover zero on a stone in Cambodia.
3.    Become wealthy, and trade salt in Ghana!
4.    Be brave like Charles Martel, and defeat Emir Abd al Rahman near Tours.
5.    Be holy and imperial, become Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor.
6.    Raid Europe by sea, so be a viking.
7.    Be an explorer, and write a book about your travels.
8.    Be a salve, and comfort others.
9.    Be a mathematician, and calculate Pascal's triangle.
10.   Be a cartographer, and map Western Europe.
11.    In 1295, Marco Polo returned from Beijing, and then he published his book, The Marvels of the World, about his adventures.    
12.   A salve is an ointment, but a tincture is a drug dissolved in alcohol, and a poultice is a soft, moist mass of material which is used to promote healing of the skin.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 12/14 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 1/8/18:

Science - Hildegard von Bingen recommended boiling water. Good idea.
History - Mongolian Empire, Marco Polo. Travel with Marco Polo with National Geographic.
Art - Yuan painting. Look at all the amazing pictures in this book!
Math - al-Karaji and a video!
Philosophy - Ramanuja was a very important Hindu philosopher. He said, “What an individual pursues as a desirable end depends upon what he conceives himself to be.”

Writing: Choose any one of these topics. Write a really great essay about it. Pick two specific ideas about your topic to write about. Explain why you picked those two and how they relate to one another. Email or text me the moment you read this: right now.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “In 1295, Marco Polo returned from Beijing. He published his book, The Marvels of the World, about his adventures.”
Learn about Marco Polo.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 22 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Denmark
Germany
Austria
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Italy
San Marino
Vatican City
Malta
Greece

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "A salve is an ointment, a tincture is a drug dissolved in alcohol, and a poultice is a soft, moist mass of material used to promote healing of the skin."

Math: Memorize "Pascal's triangle is a configuration of the binomial coefficients used in the binomial theorem."
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
1 5 10 10 5 1
1 6 15 20 15 6 1

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 14 in your workbook.
ἡ γή the earth
ἡ σύναγωγή the synagogue
ἡ ἐξουσία the power
τό σημεῖον the sign
ἡ σοφία the wisdom

English:
An article identifies a noun rather than describing it: a, an, the
Investigate articles on Grammar Revolution.
Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 14 sentences:

1.    Be Muslim, but expand the Arab Empire.
2.    Seem mathematical, and discover zero on a stone in Cambodia.
3.    Become wealthy, and trade salt in Ghana!
4.    Be brave like Charles Martel, and defeat Emir Abd al Rahman near Tours.
5.    Be holy and imperial, become Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor.
6.    Raid Europe by sea, so be a viking.
7.    Be an explorer, and write a book about your travels.
8.    Be a salve, and comfort others.
9.    Be a mathematician, and calculate Pascal's triangle.
10.   Be a cartographer, and map Western Europe.
11.    In 1295, Marco Polo returned from Beijing, and then he published his book, The Marvels of the World, about his adventures.    
12.   A salve is an ointment, but a tincture is a drug dissolved in alcohol, and a poultice is a soft, moist mass of material which is used to promote healing of the skin.

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights or Robin Hood.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 22 in class and make a Chinese hand canon.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll finish constructing the regular pentagon in Proposition IV.11

Greek: Complete & study lesson 14 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 15.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Hildegard von Bingen and make a tincture.

Math Club: Learn about Ibn al-Karaji, binomial theorem and Pascal’s triangle

Art Appreciation: Create a Mihrab (prayer niche) in triorama.

Writing Club:  DUE ON JANUARY 10, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Complete Lesson 15, “A Year to Remember: The Battle of Hastings”. Read “The Assignment” on page 101. Do your Keyword Outline after reading the source text on page 102  Use the checklist on pate 104 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay! Be ready to present from your final draft.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 13 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:  
Complete Lesson 15, “A Year to Remember: The Battle of Hastings”. Read “The Assignment” on page 101. Do your Keyword Outline after reading the source text on page 102  Use the checklist on pate 104 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay! Be ready to present from your final draft.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 13 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!

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Middle Ages Week 13

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians

PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “King John Lackland, King Richard's younger brother, lost his French land to King Phillip II, so angry English nobles made him sign the Magna Carta in 1215 to limit power of the monarchy; a law that lasts until this very day. This law inspired the US Constitution. Oh John Lackland, Oh John Lackland we thank you so.”

Learn about John Lackland.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Republic of Ireland
Isle of Man
United Kingdom
Faroe Islands

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Drive systems transfer motion from one shaft to another. They include belts, chains and gears.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 45°-45°-90° triangle are x, x & x√2”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 13 in your workbook.

ἐγώ I
σύ you
ἀμήν verily, truly, amen
μόνος alone, only
ὁ χρόνος the time

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

above, acro-oss, after, at, around, before, behi-ind, below, beside, betwe-en,
by-y, down, during, for, from, i-in, inside, onto, of, o-off, o-on, out,
through, to-o, under, up, and with and that's the preposition song"

Investigate prepositions 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 13 Charlemagne, Part II.

Diagram Week 13 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write a summary of the Magna Carta. Pick 6-8 interesting articles, write a key word outline and one paragraph summary. Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

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:

Phoebe - Science - Su Sung's Great Astronomical Clock and a picture! Listen to this great audio piece about it.
Jocelyn & Catalina - History - The Magna Carta and more about the Magna Carta and one more. Learn about King John Lackland.
Gino, Cooper, Henry - Art - Beasts, more beasts, even more beasts, quite even more beasts!
Sabine - Math - Ibn al-Haytham. Another article about this fascinating man.

History: Memorize “King John Lackland, King Richard's younger brother, lost his French land to King Phillip II, so angry English nobles made him sign the Magna Carta in 1215 to limit power of the monarchy; a law that lasts until this very day. This law inspired the US Constitution. Oh John Lackland, Oh John Lackland we thank you so.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Republic of Ireland
Isle of Man
United Kingdom
Faroe Islands

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Drive systems transfer motion from one shaft to another. They include belts, chains and gears.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 45°-45°-90° triangle are x, x & x√2”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 13 in your workbook.

ἐγώ I
σύ you
ἀμήν verily, truly, amen
μόνος alone, only
ὁ χρόνος the time

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

above, acro-oss, after, at, around, before, behi-ind, below, beside, betwe-en,
by-y, down, during, for, from, i-in, inside, onto, of, o-off, o-on, out,
through, to-o, under, up, and with and that's the preposition song"

Investigate prepositions 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!

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 13 sentences:

1. Was Attila the Hun just, or was he tyrannical?

2. Was Clovis tyrannical, and was he French?

3. Were the Mayans American, and did they found Chichen Itza?

4. Who built Hagia Sophia, and was it elaborate?

5. Who unifies China, and was it successful?

6. Who was Muhammed, and where did he travel?

7. King John Lackland was young, and he signed which law?

8. Are drive systems efficient?

9. What are the side lengths of isosceles right triangles?

10. Which countries are French, and which countries are Spanish?

11. What are the prepositions?

12. King John Lackland, King Richard's younger brother, lost his French land to King Phillip II, so angry English nobles made him sign the Magna Carta in 1215 to limit power of the monarchy?

13. Drive systems, which include belts, chains and gears, transfer motion from one shaft to another?

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/30/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE next 12/4/17 Monday:

Science - Su Sung's Great Astronomical Clock and a picture! Listen to this great audio piece about it.
History - The Magna Carta and more about the Magna Carta. Video! Learn about King John Lackland.
Art - Beasts, more beasts, even more beasts, quite even more beasts! Video!
Math - Ibn al-Haytham. Another article about this fascinating man.

Writing: Choose any one of these topics. Write a really great essay about it. Pick two specific ideas about your topic to write about. Explain why you picked those two and how they relate to one another. Email or text me the moment you read this: right now.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “King John Lackland, King Richard's younger brother, lost his French land to King Phillip II, so angry English nobles made him sign the Magna Carta in 1215 to limit power of the monarchy; a law that lasts until this very day. This law inspired the US Constitution. Oh John Lackland, Oh John Lackland we thank you so.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Republic of Ireland
Isle of Man
United Kingdom
Faroe Islands

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Drive systems transfer motion from one shaft to another. They include belts, chains and gears.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 45°-45°-90° triangle are x, x & x√2”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 13 in your workbook.

ἐγώ I
σύ you
ἀμήν verily, truly, amen
μόνος alone, only
ὁ χρόνος the time

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

above, acro-oss, after, at, around, before, behi-ind, below, beside, betwe-en,
by-y, down, during, for, from, i-in, inside, onto, of, o-off, o-on, out,
through, to-o, under, up, and with and that's the preposition song"

Investigate prepositions 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!

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 13 sentences:

1. Was Attila the Hun just, or was he tyrannical?

2. Was Clovis tyrannical, and was he French?

3. Were the Mayans American, and did they found Chichen Itza?

4. Who built Hagia Sophia, and was it elaborate?

5. Who unifies China, and was it successful?

6. Who was Muhammed, and where did he travel?

7. King John Lackland was young, and he signed which law?

8. Are drive systems efficient?

9. What are the side lengths of isosceles right triangles?

10. Which countries are French, and which countries are Spanish?

11. What are the prepositions?

12. King John Lackland, King Richard's younger brother, lost his French land to King Phillip II, so angry English nobles made him sign the Magna Carta in 1215 to limit power of the monarchy?

13. Drive systems, which include belts, chains and gears, transfer motion from one shaft to another?

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights or Robin Hood.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 19 in class and make books based on mythical beasts.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Muslim tessellations.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 13 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 14.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Su Song and make a clock.

Math Club: Learn about Ibn al-Haytham, trigonometry and 45-45-90 triangles

Art Appreciation: Create a multimedia image of phoenix.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Complete Lesson 14, “Vikings”. Read “The Assignment” on page 97. Do your Keyword Outline after reading the source text on page 98.  Use the checklist on pate 100 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements of style for this week. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 13 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:  

Complete Lesson 13 Charlemagne, Part II. Read “The Assignment” on page 91.  

Remember to us the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 93 for the “Rough Draft” to be sure you have all the elements of style you need for this week. Next, read page 94 to learn how to “Put it All Together” using “The Introductory Statement" and “The Final Clincher”  to create your FINAL DRAFT. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-13 and try to include some vocabulary in your essay!  There will be a quiz next week!

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 13 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!

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Middle Ages Week 12

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “The Steppe People of Central Asia united under one Mongol king, Genghis Khan, in 1206. He conquered the largest land empire. ”

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 21 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Hungary
Serbia
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania
Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Lodestones and other permanent magnets are objects made from material that is magnetized to create their own persistent magnetic fields.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 30°-60°-90° triangle are x, 2x & x√3”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 12 in your workbook.
κηρύσσω I preach
πείθω I pursuade
ἡ φυλακή the prison
ἡ δίκαιοσύνή the righteousness
οὐ not

English: A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.

Investigate prepositions 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 12 Charlemagne, Part I.
Diagram Week 12 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write 3 stanzas of a quatrain poem in iambic pentameter in AABA structure with words of advice for a younger student much like Omar Khayyám’s The Rubáiyát.

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:

Henry - Genghis Khan video  or the making of the Mongol empire was based on rain and a lot of people died. Mongolian culture remains strong today.
Gino, Phoebe, Jocelyn - We read chapter 7 from Marco Polo’s account during art. Paizas for safe passage. Archaeology of Paizas, more paiza awesomeness !
Catalina - Petrus Peregrinus
Cooper - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Sabine - The math of al-Wafa Buzjani affects art today. More from these artists. Photos of the silk road today - much of it never came back after Genghis Khan.

History: Memorize “The Steppe People of Central Asia united under one Mongol king, Genghis Khan, in 1206. He conquered the largest land empire. ”

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 21 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Hungary
Serbia
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania
Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Lodestones and other permanent magnets are objects made from material that is magnetized to create their own persistent magnetic fields.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 30°-60°-90° triangle are x, 2x & x√3”
Do grade level math on Khan Academy!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 12 in your workbook.
κηρύσσω I preach
πείθω I pursuade
ἡ φυλακή the prison
ἡ δίκαιοσύνή the righteousness
οὐ not

English: A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 12 sentences:
1.    Constantine the Great was Christian, and he was also powerful.
2.    India became wealthy in the Golden Age, for Sri Gupta was shrewd.
3.    Augustine was contrite, so he wrote his Confessions!
4.    The Roman Empire seems weaker, for it became two separate empires!
5.    The Visigoths were ruthless, for they looted Rome.
6.    The Steppe People of Central Asia were Mongolian, and Genghis Khan was their leader.
7.    Lodestones are magnetic!
8.    The sides lengths of special right triangles are proportional!
9.    The countries of the Scandinavian Penninsula are Norway, Sweden and Finland!
10.    A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word!
11.    In 1206 the Steppe People of Central Asia united under one Mongol king, Genghis Khan, who conquered the largest land empire!
12.    Lodestones and other permanent magnets are objects which are made from material that is magnetized to create their own persistent magnetic fields!

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/30/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE next 12/4/17 Monday:

History: Genghis Khan video  or the making of the Mongol empire was based on rain and a lot of people died. Mongolian culture remains strong today.
Science: Petrus Peregrinus
Math: The math of al-Wafa Buzjani affects art today. More from these artists.
Art: We read chapter 7 from Marco Polo’s account during art. Paizas for safe passage. Archaeology of Paizas, more paiza awesomeness! Photos of the silk road today - much of it never came back after Genghis Khan.
Literature: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Writing: Write 3 stanzas of a quatrain poem in iambic pentameter in AABA structure with words of advice for a younger student much like Omar Khayyám’s The Rubáiyát.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “The Steppe People of Central Asia united under one Mongol king, Genghis Khan, in 1206. He conquered the largest land empire. ”

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 21 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Hungary
Serbia
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania
Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Lodestones and other permanent magnets are objects made from material that is magnetized to create their own persistent magnetic fields.”

Math: Memorize “The side lengths of a 30°-60°-90° triangle are x, 2x & x√3”
Do grade level math on Khan Academy!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 12 in your workbook.
κηρύσσω I preach
πείθω I pursuade
ἡ φυλακή the prison
ἡ δίκαιοσύνή the righteousness
οὐ not

English: A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word.

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 12 sentences:
1.    Constantine the Great was Christian, and he was also powerful.
2.    India became wealthy in the Golden Age, for Sri Gupta was shrewd.
3.    Augustine was contrite, so he wrote his Confessions!
4.    The Roman Empire seems weaker, for it became two separate empires!
5.    The Visigoths were ruthless, for they looted Rome.
6.    The Steppe People of Central Asia were Mongolian, and Genghis Khan was their leader.
7.    Lodestones are magnetic!
8.    The sides lengths of special right triangles are proportional!
9.    The countries of the Scandinavian Penninsula are Norway, Sweden and Finland!
10.    A preposition relates a noun or a pronoun to another word!
11.    In 1206 the Steppe People of Central Asia united under one Mongol king, Genghis Khan, who conquered the largest land empire!
12.    Lodestones and other permanent magnets are objects which are made from material that is magnetized to create their own persistent magnetic fields!

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 21 in class and make yurts 

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Muslim tessellations.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 12 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 13.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Shen Kuo and Pierre Peregrine and design a magnetic perpetual motion machine.

Math Club: Learn about Abu’l Wafa, trigonometry and 30-60-90 triangles

Art Appreciation: Weave a tapestry like this one.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: 

Complete Lesson 13 Charlemagne, Part II. Read “The Assignment” on page 91.  Remember to us the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 93 for the “Rough Draft” to be sure you have all the elements of style you need for this week. Next, read page 94 to learn how to “Put it All Together” using “The Introductory Statement and “The Final Clincher” Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-13 and try to include some vocabulary in your essay!  There will be a quiz next week!     

Fix it! Grammar: 

Complete Week 12 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:  

Complete Lesson 12 Charlemagne, Part I. Read “The Assignment” on page 89.  We have a new “decoration” this week: Similes! Remember to us the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 87 for the “Rough Draft” to be sure you have all the elements of style you need for this week. Next class, we will do Part II and put it all together.  Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-12 and try to include some vocabulary in your essay!

Fix it! Grammar: 

Complete Week 12 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!

Middle Ages Week 11

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

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 11 from Unit 4.

Diagram Week 11 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a keyword outline, first draft, edits & final draft play based on the Robin Hood poem we read in class, following the story sequence: Characters & Setting, Conflict, Climax & Resolution.

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:

Henry - Art - Stained Glass King Richard Lionheart  Khan Academy video about a Renaissance stained glass window
Catalina - Art - Rose Windows   stained glass techniques
Sabine -
Jocelyn - Robin Hood Legends
Phoebe - Greek
History: Khan Academy Video about Saladin

Science: Ibn Sahl
Math: Abu Kamil Combinations

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 11 sentences:
1.    Be a missionary, and preach to the Gentiles.
2.    Be Nero, and persecute the early church.
3.    Become a tyrant like Titus, and destroy the temple.
4.    Become an astronomer like Ptolemy, and write The Almagest.
5.    Write proverbs, and compile them in a book like Marcus Aurelius.
6.    Stay Japanese, and be an emperor of Japan.
7.    Retake Jerusalem, and be an Egyptian sultan.
8.    Be light, so you can travel fast and change directions!
9.    Calculate combinations!
10.    Identify the countries of the Balkan Peninsula.
11.    A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
12.    After Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule, English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies, tried to conquer Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.
13.    Since light travels at different speeds through different materials, it changes direction.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/16/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE next 11/27/17 Monday:

History: Khan Academy Video about Saladin
Science: Ibn Sahl
Math: Abu Kamil  Combinations
Art: Stained Glass King Richard Lionheart  Khan Academy video about a Renaissance stained glass window, Rose Windows   stained glass techniques
Literature: Robin Hood Legends  Robin Hood poem we read in class or find another story on his site.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule. Then English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies. He lost his allies, his French and Austrian allies. He tried to get to Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.”

Continue learning about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 19 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

Science: Memorize "Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to change direction.”

Math: Memorize “A combination is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does not matter and replacements are not allowed and is computed with nCr=(n!)/((n-r)!r!)”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 11 in your workbook.
ἄρχω I rule
ἀναβαίνω I go up
καταβαίνω I go down
αἴρω I take up, I take away
ἐσθίω I eat

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 11 sentences:
1.    Be a missionary, and preach to the Gentiles.
2.    Be Nero, and persecute the early church.
3.    Become a tyrant like Titus, and destroy the temple.
4.    Become an astronomer like Ptolemy, and write The Almagest.
5.    Write proverbs, and compile them in a book like Marcus Aurelius.
6.    Stay Japanese, and be an emperor of Japan.
7.    Retake Jerusalem, and be an Egyptian sultan.
8.    Be light, so you can travel fast and change directions!
9.    Calculate combinations!
10.    Identify the countries of the Balkan Peninsula.
11.    A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
12.    After Egyptian Sultan Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187, returning it to Muslim rule, English King Richard Lionheart mustered three armies, tried to conquer Jerusalem, but failed and headed for home.
13.    Since light travels at different speeds through different materials, it changes direction.

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapters 19 in class and make windmills 

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Muslim tessellations.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 11 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 12.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Ibn Sahl and the calculation of refraction.

Math Club: Learn about Abu Kamil and Combinations

Art Appreciation: Notre Dame cathedrals & stained glass windows.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: 
Complete Lesson 12: Charlemagne, Part I. Read “The Assignment” on page 89.  We have a new “decoration” this week: Similes! Remember to us the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 87 for the “Rough Draft” to be sure you have all the elements of style you need for this week. Next class, we will do Part II and put it all together.  Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-12 and try to include some vocabulary in your report!

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 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:  
Complete Lesson 11 from Unit 4. Read “The Assignment” on page 80.
Remember to use the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 84 to be sure you have included all the elements of style you need this week. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-11 and try to include some vocabulary in your report!

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 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!
 

Middle Ages Week 10

Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”

Learn about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?

Investigate adjectives 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 11, Unit 4.
Diagram Week 10 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a keyword outline, first draft, edits & final draft paragraph extended metaphor about the mathematical operations. We started in class!

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:

ART - Andalusian Art, Moorish Chain Maille
History - Crusades, Pope Urban II’s announcement beginning the First Crusade (read #5)
Science - al-Sufi’s constellations, the Large Magellanic Cloud (download the fullsize original file!)
Geography - pick an African or Eastern European country
Math - Check out Mahavira’s Garland numbers! Also, here is a list of his mathematical discoveries.
Literature - El Cid
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”
Learn about the Crusades

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: ***Geography quiz retake next week!***
Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?
Investigate adjectives on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:
1. Who was the founder of the College of Technology, and was it located in Alexandria?
2. Who were the Nazca, and what was their civilization?
3. What did Lucretius write, and what is Epicureanism?
4. Was Julius Caesar the most powerful emperor, and whom did he rule?
5. Did Cicero write Hortensius?
6. Who was Jesus Christ, and was he born in year 1 AD?
7. El Cid was a Christian general, but who was Urban II?
8. What are the three types of galaxies?
9. What is a permutation, and how does one calculate it?
10. What are the countries of Eastern Europe?
11. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun?
12. El Cid was a Christian general who lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094, but later who called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege?
13. Is a permutation the number of ways to choose a sample of elements from a set of distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed?

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/9/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday:

ART - Andalusian Art, Moorish Chain Maille
History - Crusades, Pope Urban II’s announcement beginning the First Crusade (read #5)
Science - al-Sufi’s constellations, the Large Magellanic Cloud (download the fullsize original file!)
Geography - pick an African or Eastern European country
Math - Check out Mahavira’s Garland numbers! Also, here is a list of his mathematical discoveries. His problem of the Mangoes can’t work (as far as I can tell) unless you say each person took their fraction from the remainder of the previous person. Then it’s much easier. I’ll tell you the answer on Monday.
Literature - El Cid
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”
Learn about the Crusades
Literature - El Cid

Review these topics:
History: Memorize “El Cid, a Christian general, lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094. Two years later, Pope Urban II called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 18 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: ***Geography quiz retake next week!***
Draw Europe and label these countries of Eastern Europe:
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "The three main types of galaxies are Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular.”

Math: Memorize “A permutation is the number of ways to choose a sample of r elements from a set of n distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed.  When n = r this reduces to n!, a simple factorial of n and is computed with nPr=n!/(n-r)!”

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 9 in your workbook.
ἅπαξ first
δίς second
τρίς third
τέτράκις fourth

English: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, answering the questions Which one? What kind? How many? and Whose?
Investigate adjectives on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:
1. Who was the founder of the College of Technology, and was it located in Alexandria?
2. Who were the Nazca, and what was their civilization?
3. What did Lucretius write, and what is Epicureanism?
4. Was Julius Caesar the most powerful emperor, and whom did he rule?
5. Did Cicero write Hortensius?
6. Who was Jesus Christ, and was he born in year 1 AD?
7. El Cid was a Christian general, but who was Urban II?
8. What are the three types of galaxies?
9. What is a permutation, and how does one calculate it?
10. What are the countries of Eastern Europe?
11. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun?
12. El Cid was a Christian general who lead the Reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1094, but later who called for knights from all over Christendom to fight Islamic expansion and retake Jerusalem by siege?
13. Is a permutation the number of ways to choose a sample of elements from a set of distinct objects where order does matter and replacements are not allowed?

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapters 18 in class and make windmills

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.10.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 10 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 11.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about al Suffi and galaxies.

Math Club: Learn about Mahavira & Permutations.

Art Appreciation: Romanesque & Gothic art depicting the Crusades.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 11 from Unit 4. Read “ The Assignment” on page 80. Remember to use the topic-clincher rule and use the checklist on page 84 to be sure you have included all the elements of style you need this week. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-11 and try to include some vocabulary in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 10 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:  Complete Lesson  10  “Barrowing a Conflict” Unit 3. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 74 and learn about the “Because Clause". Read “The Assignment” on page 75.. Write your first draft from the Story Sequence Chart on page 76 and use page 74 to brainstorm.  

For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).Use the checklist on page 77 to be sure you have included every element required this week.  There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week, banned words, and a decoration!

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9 and try to  include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 10 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!

Middle Ages Week 9

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Banished from Iceland because of a fight turned wrong, Eric the Red sailed west to find a home, discovered Greenland. His boy, Leif Ericsson, travelled in 999, to Newfoundland. The antipodal East Indies' explorers sailed east with agriculture on their boats, a Peloponnesian feast.”

Learn about Viking Explorers

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 10 & 14 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the physical features:

African Geographical Features:
Sahara Desert
Great Rift Valley
Lake Victoria
Nile River
Congo River
Niger River
Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Four forces on a wing are weight, lift, thrust & drag.”

Math: Memorize “Amicable numbers are two different numbers so related that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number.”
Watch a video on Amicable Numbers or check out amicable pairs here!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 7 in your workbook.
ἐν in
σύν with
εἰς into
ὑπό under
ὑπέρ above

English: A conjunction joins two or more words, phrases or clauses.
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 9 Section III, Unit 3.

Diagram Week 9 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a keyword outline, first draft, edits & final draft 3 paragraph creative story based on the Polynesian story about Sisimataila’a.  We did a keyword outline of the first two paragraphs in class.  Feel free to outline & write an alternative ending.
I. Setting & Characters
II. Conflict
III. Climax & Resolution

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 the topics you picked in class:

Phoebe - science: Abbas Ibn Firnas, a little radio program about him.
Henry - history: Viking Explorers
Sabine - art: Cyrillic Alphabet
Catalina - science: airplane four forces on a wing
Gino - history: agriculture boats - videos of old Polynesian navigators showing how they prepare and go
Cooper - science: center of gravity on aircraft

History: Memorize “Banished from Iceland because of a fight turned wrong, Eric the Red sailed west to find a home, discovered Greenland. His boy, Leif Ericsson, travelled in 999, to Newfoundland. The antipodal East Indies' explorers sailed east with agriculture on their boats, a Peloponnesian feast.”

Learn about Viking Explorers

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 10 & 14 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the countries and physical features. Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

***Geography quiz next week!***

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
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

African Geographical Features:
Sahara Desert
Great Rift Valley
Lake Victoria
Nile River
Congo River
Niger River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Four forces on a wing are weight, lift, thrust & drag.”

Math: Memorize “Amicable numbers are two different numbers so related that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number.”

Watch a video on Amicable Numbers or check out amicable pairs here!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:
ἐν in
σύν with
εἰς into
ὑπό under
ὑπέρ above

English: A conjunction joins two or more words, phrases or clauses.

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-14 or 15-16 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:

1. Ashoka was the ruler of all of Egypt!
2. Carthage was Rome's enemy, so they fought three Punic Wars!
3. Archimedes of Syracuse was a great scientist, and he was a Greek citizen!
4. Shi Huangdi was the first Chinese Emperor!
5. The Roman Empire was a republic, but it conquered most of the known world!
6. Hipparchus of Nicaea catalogues the stars, so he is the "Father of Astronomy"!
7. The Roman Empire was a republic, but it conquered most of the known world.
8. Hipparchos of Nicaea catalogues the stars, so he is the "Father of Astronomy"!
9. Egyptian multiplication was doubles, so division was halves!
10. Eric the Red sailed west, and then he discovered Greenland!
11. Four forces on a wing are weight, lift, thrust, and drag.
12. Amicable numbers are two related numbers, and the sum of their divisors is equal to the other number.
13. The Sahara is a desert in Northern Africa, and Victoria is a lake in South Africa.
14. And is a coordinating conjunction, but because is a subordinating conjunction!

***Challenge***

15. Banished from Iceland, Eric the Red sailed west to find a home and discovered Greenland, and then his boy, Leif Ericsson, travelled in 999, to Newfoundland!

16. The antipodal East Indies' explorers sailed east with agriculture on their boats which became a Peloponnesian feast!

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 11/2/17 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday:

Literature: A story about Sisimataila’a. Stories about Maui

Science: Abbas Ibn Firnas, a little radio program about him.
center of gravity on aircraft
four forces on a wing

History: Viking Explorers
videos of old Polynesian navigators showing how they prepare and go

Art: Cyrillic Alphabet

Math: Amicable Numbers
Thabit ibn Qurra

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “Banished from Iceland because of a fight turned wrong, Eric the Red sailed west to find a home, discovered Greenland. His boy, Leif Ericsson, travelled in 999, to Newfoundland. The antipodal East Indies' explorers sailed east with agriculture on their boats, a Peloponnesian feast.”

Learn about Viking Explorers

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 10 & 14 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the countries and physical features. Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

***Geography quiz next week!***

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
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

African Geographical Features:
Sahara Desert
Great Rift Valley
Lake Victoria
Nile River
Congo River
Niger River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Four forces on a wing are weight, lift, thrust & drag.”

Math: Memorize “Amicable numbers are two different numbers so related that the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number.”

Watch a video on Amicable Numbers or check out amicable pairs here!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:
ἐν in
σύν with
εἰς into
ὑπό under
ὑπέρ above

English: A conjunction joins two or more words, phrases or clauses.

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-14 or 15-16 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 9 sentences:
1. Ashoka was the ruler of all of Egypt!
2. Carthage was Rome's enemy, so they fought three Punic Wars!
3. Archimedes of Syracuse was a great scientist, and he was a Greek citizen!
4. Shi Huangdi was the first Chinese Emperor!
5. The Roman Empire was a republic, but it conquered most of the known world!
6. Hipparchus of Nicaea catalogues the stars, so he is the "Father of Astronomy"!
7. The Roman Empire was a republic, but it conquered most of the known world.
8. Hipparchos of Nicaea catalogues the stars, so he is the "Father of Astronomy"!
9. Egyptian multiplication was doubles, so division was halves!
10. Eric the Red sailed west, and then he discovered Greenland!
11. Four forces on a wing are weight, lift, thrust, and drag.
12. Amicable numbers are two related numbers, and the sum of their divisors is equal to the other number.
13. The Sahara is a desert in Northern Africa, and Victoria is a lake in South Africa.
14. And is a coordinating conjunction, but because is a subordinating conjunction!

***Challenge***
15. Banished from Iceland, Eric the Red sailed west to find a home and discovered Greenland, and then his boy, Leif Ericsson, travelled in 999, to Newfoundland!
16. The antipodal East Indies' explorers sailed east with agriculture on their boats which became a Peloponnesian feast!

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 or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapters 10 & 14 in class and make portable agriculture systems.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.9.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 9 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 10.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll experiment with glass and learn more about Abbas Ibn Firnas.

Math Club: Learn about Thabit Ibn Qurra and investigate amicable numbers.

Art Appreciation: Compare Native American art to Viking art.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson  10. “Borrowing a Conflict” Unit 3. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 74 and learn about the “Because Clause". Read “The Assignment” on page 75.. Write your first draft from the Story Sequence Chart on page 76 and use page 74 to brainstorm.  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).Use the checklist on page 77 to be sure you have included every element required this week.  There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week, banned words, and a decoration! Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9 and try to  include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 9 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: Complete Lesson 9 Section III, Unit 3. Read “The Assignment" on page 65.  Read page 59 and learn about Alliterations and Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said). Complete page 62 for practice with Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said) and Alliterations. Write a Keyword Outline for Sections I, II, and III from “The Story Sequence Chart” on page . Use pages 69, 70, and 71 to brainstorm.  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 72 to be sure you have included all the the elements of style in your paper. There are 3 this week,  banned words, and a decoration! Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9  Try to include some vocabulary in your paper for extra points!  There will be a vocabulary quiz next week!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 9 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!

Middle Ages Week 8

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “During Charlemagne's rule Norsemen from Scandinavia began "i viking," raiding and conquering. The first Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, repelled them in 878. King Godwinson lost to William the Conqueror's Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.”

Learn about Vikings!

Practice writing in Viking Runes!

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 14 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the Eastern African countries:

Malawi
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Seychelles
Comoros
Mayotte
Madagascar
Reunion
Mauritius

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Alchemists believed that all metals are unique combinations of Mercury and Sulfur."

Math: Memorize The order of Operations: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction

Investigate the Order of Operations on Math is Fun!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:

ἡ ἀδελφή the sister
ἡ θύρα the door
ἡ πέτρα the rock
ὁ στραυρός the cross
ἡ τιμή the honor

English: A noun names a person, place, thing or idea.

Investigate nouns 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 9 , Unit 3.
Diagram Week 8 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a key word outline (we did this in class), first draft, edits & final draft 3 paragraph creative story about Thor which explains something in nature.
I. Setting & Characters
II. Conflict
III. Climax & Resolution

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 the topics you picked in class:

Sabine - science - Jabir and Alchemy. Also check with Daniel for a book on Alchemy.
Catalina - art - Runestones
Jocelyn - history - Vikings and the Viking Museum
Henry - history - Viking trade video and the excavation of a viking ship in the 1930s.
Cooper - math - Muhammad al-Kwarizmi. Be sure to check out the links under Additional Material in MacTutor at the bottom of the article.
Gino - art  Viking art
Phoebe - science  alchemy video
Let me know if I got your topics mixed up!

History: Memorize “During Charlemagne's rule Norsemen from Scandinavia began "i viking," raiding and conquering. The first Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, repelled them in 878. King Godwinson lost to William the Conqueror's Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 14 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn about Vikings!

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

Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
***Geography quiz in two weeks!***

Math: Memorize the Order of Operations: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction. Do the worksheet on variables.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

Investigate the Order of Operations on Math is Fun!

English: Choose all 11 simple sentences or 2 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 8 sentences:

1. Herodotus was the first historian, for he wrote The Histories.
2. Socrates was Plato's teacher.
3. Aristotle tutors Alexander the Great!
4. Alexander the Great is the ruler of Persia, and he is also the ruler of Egypt.
5. Chandragupta Maurya was a king in ancient India.
6. Euclid is the author of The Elements, but it is not a chemistry textbook.
7. Alfred the Great was the king of the Anglo-Saxons, but William the Conqueror was a Norseman.
8. Metals are unique combinations of mercury and sulfur.
9. The order of Operations are Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction.
10. Malawi is an East African country, but Reunion is an East African island.
11. A noun is a person, place, thing or idea.

***Challenge***
1. Since Norsemen from Scandinavia began raiding and conquering, the first Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, repelled them in 878, but then King Godwinson lost to William the Conquerer's Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
2. While a thin line of light energy is called a light beam, light rays always travel in straight lines, and shadows form when an object blocks a light beam.

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 7 in your workbook.

ἡ ἀδελφή the sister
ἡ θύρα the door
ἡ πέτρα the rock
ὁ στραυρός the cross
ἡ τιμή the honor
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 10/26/17 - Please read this and know what to work on BEFORE Monday.

Your assignments this week: One essay, one outline:

Literature: Write a fan-fic story about Thor. Use the two texts we read, Thrymskvitha and Story of the World. Create something funny, something thrilling, something wonderful!

Math: Write a summary presentation of the life and work of Muhammad al-Kwarizmi. Your presentation must have one example of al-jabr and another of al-muqabala.

Buy and install Algebra Touch. Use it. You’ll be good at it in no time.

Links for your learning pleasure.

Science - Jabir and Alchemy. Also check with Daniel for a book on Alchemy.  Here’s a video.

Art - Runestones

History - Vikings and the Viking Museum. Viking trade video and the excavation of a viking ship in the 1930s.

Math - Muhammad al-Kwarizmi. Be sure to check out the links under Additional Material in MacTutor at the bottom of the article.

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

Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!
***Geography quiz in two weeks!***

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades)

Khan Academy, master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 7 in your workbook.

ἡ ἀδελφή the sister
ἡ θύρα the door
ἡ πέτρα the rock
ὁ στραυρός the cross
ἡ τιμή the honor

Diagramming: Choose all 11 simple sentences or 2 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 8 sentences:
1. Herodotus was the first historian, for he wrote The Histories.
2. Socrates was Plato's teacher.
3. Aristotle tutors Alexander the Great!
4. Alexander the Great is the ruler of Persia, and he is also the ruler of Egypt.
5. Chandragupta Maurya was a king in ancient India.
6. Euclid is the author of The Elements, but it is not a chemistry textbook.
7. Alfred the Great was the king of the Anglo-Saxons, but William the Conqueror was a Norseman.
8. Metals are unique combinations of mercury and sulfur.
9. The order of Operations are Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction.
10. Malawi is an East African country, but Reunion is an East African island.
11. A noun is a person, place, thing or idea.

***Challenge***
1. Since Norsemen from Scandinavia began raiding and conquering, the first Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great, repelled them in 878, but then King Godwinson lost to William the Conqueror's Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
2. While a thin line of light energy is called a light beam, light rays always travel in straight lines, and shadows form when an object blocks a light beam.
 

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 14 in class and make Viking locks.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.7 & 4.8

Greek: Complete & study lesson 8 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 9.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll experiment with camphor and sublimation and learn more about Jabir ibn Hayyan, alchemist.

Math Club: Investigate Algebra and the Order of Operations. Learn about Al-Khwarizmi, the Father or Algebra.

Art Appreciation: Make Byzantine abstract art.

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 9 Unit 3. Read “The Introduction”. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 59 and learn about “alliteration”. Read “The Assignment” on page 65. Write your first draft from your Story Sequence Chart on page 68 and use pages 69- 71 to brainstorm.  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).

Use the checklist on page 72 to be sure you have included every element required this week. There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week, banned words, and a decoration! Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9 and try to  include some vocabulary words in your paragraph! There will be a vocabulary quiz next week

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 8 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: Complete Lesson 9 , Unit 3  Read “The Assignment on page 53. Read page 59 and learn about Alliterations and Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said) Complete page 62 for practice with Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said) and Alliterations. Write a Keyword Outline for Sections I and II from “The Story Sequence Chart” on page . Use pages 69 and 70 to brainstorm.  Next week, we will do the KWO for Section III!

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-9  Try to include some vocabulary in your paper for extra points!  There will be a vocabulary quiz next week!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 8 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!

Middle Ages Week 7

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, began the Carolingian Renaissance with a new law that the Church must build schools throughout Western Europe in 800 AD.”

Learn about Charlemagne on Khan Academy: Charlemagne’s coronation, Carolingian Renaissance and Carolingian art

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 13 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the Eastern African countries:
Mozambique
Tanzania
Kenya
Somalia
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Uganda
Rwanda
Burundi

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "A thin line of light energy is called a light beam and light rays always travel in straight lines. Shadows form when an object blocks a light beam."

Math: Memorize The degrees of polynomials are constant (y=x^0), linear (y=x), quadratic (y=x^2), cubic (y=x^3), quartic (y=x^4) and quintic (y=x^5).

Investigate polynomials and their degrees.

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:

ἡ ἀρχή the beginning
ἔχβάλλω I cast out
ἡ χώρα the country
ὁ ὅχλος the crowd
πίπτω I fall

English: An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb, answering the questions how? when? where? why? and To what extent?

Investigate adverbs 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 7, Unit 3.

Diagram Week 7 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Do a key word outline (we did this in class), first draft, edits & final draft 3 paragraph summary of The Song of Roland using the 3 Paragraph story sequence:
I. Setting & Characters
II. Conflict
III. Climax & Resolution

***Complete the Fall Session 1 review quiz, from memory first then use your notes.

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:

Sabine, Catalina, Jocelyn - Carolingian art Charlemagne’s crown, Charlemagne’s monogram, Charlemagne’s sword, painting of his coronation, Carolingian Manuscripts, Good images
Henry - science: Al-Kindi, light rays, how eye works
Cooper - history: Charlemagne, his sword, his travels or Learn about Charlemagne on Khan Academy: Charlemagne’s coronation, Carolingian Renaissance and Carolingian art
Gino - Greek grammar or vocabulary
Phoebe - math: Alcuin of York or another word problem

History: Memorize “Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, began the Carolingian Renaissance with a new law that the Church must build schools throughout Western Europe in 800 AD.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 13 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn about Charlemagne on Khan Academy: Charlemagne’s coronation, Carolingian Renaissance and Carolingian art

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
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Math: Finish Alcuin of York’s word puzzles as well as the worksheet on variables.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

Investigate polynomials and their degrees.

English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 7 sentences:

1. Reform Chinese society.
2. Believe numbers!
3. Attack Greece!
4. Teach Taoism.
5. Rule China!
6. Fight the Athenians.
7. Build schools throughout Western Europe!
8. Block light beams!
9. Calculate degrees!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 7 in your workbook.
ἡ ἀρχή the beginning
ἔχβάλλω I cast out
ἡ χώρα the country
ὁ ὅχλος the crowd
πίπτω I fall
 

Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/28/17 - Please read this and know what to work on BEFORE Monday.

Retake the Fall Session 1 review quiz, all over again. Study first, then sit down and get it all right!

Writing: One essay, one outline. Write a summary of the Song of Roland using the 3 Paragraph story sequence:
I. Setting & Characters
II. Conflict
III. Climax & Resolution

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
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

History: Memorize “Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, began the Carolingian Renaissance with a new law that the Church must build schools throughout Western Europe in 800 AD.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 13 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn about Charlemagne

Listen to experts: The Carolingian Renaissance

Khan Academy Charlemagne’s coronation and Carolingian Renaissance and Carolingian art

Literature - Learn about the Song of Roland. We printed these stanzas:
1-2 Introduction
46 Ganelon promises to betray Roland to Marsilla
58-59 Ganelon volunteers Roland for rear guard
79 attack
83-86 several people try to convince Roland to sound the horn
126-130 too late to blow horn, decides to blow it
133-135 blows horn and dies

Philosophy - Learn about the philosophy of Al-Kindi’s student Abu Zayd al-Balkhi.

Math - Alcuin of York. Here’s all 53 problems. Avoid looking at the answer for each question.

Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Science -  Learn about al-Kindi and his ideas about optics.

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary and complete lesson 7 in your workbook.

ἡ ἀρχή the beginning
ἔχβάλλω I cast out
ἡ χώρα the country
ὁ ὅχλος the crowd
πίπτω I fall

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. Reform Chinese society.
2. Believe numbers!
3. Attack Greece!
4. Teach Taoism.
5. Rule China!
6. Fight the Athenians.
7. Build schools throughout Western Europe!
8. Block light beams!
9. Calculate degrees!

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 13 in class and make Gregorian chants.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.5

Greek: Complete & study lesson 7 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 8.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll make a pin hole camera like al-Kindi.

Math Club: Investigate Algebra and degrees of polynomials

Art Appreciation: Make Arabic illuminated manuscripts and Carolingian crosses

Writing Club:
Upper Dialecticians (7-9) and Lower Dialecticians (5-6):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 8, Unit 3. Read “The Introduction”.

Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 59 and learn about “alliteration”. Read “The Assignment” on page 53. Write your first draft from your Story Sequence Chart on page 61 and use page 62 to brainstorm.  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).

Use the checklist on page 63  to be sure you have included every element required this week. There are 3 elements of style per paragraph this week and a decoration! Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-7and try to  include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

OR: Write your Keyword Outline and present from that in class!  No first draft, just your KWO!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 7 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 18 in preparation for week 8!
 

Upper Grammarians (3-4):
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 7 , Unit 3  Read “The Assignment on page 53. Read page 51 and learn about “Strong Verbs” and Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said) Complete page 52 for practice.  Write your first draft from “The Story Sequence Chart” on page 55. Use page 56 to brainstorm, then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline..   

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 of Style" required this week.  Hint: there are 3 Elements of Style per paragraph this week!

OR: Write your Keyword Outline and present from that in class!  No first draft, just your KWO!

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-7.  Try to include some vocabulary in your paper for extra points!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 7 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 18 in preparation for week 8!

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!

Middle Ages Week 5

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Mohammad of Mecca proclaimed Allah the only God then fled to Medina for his life. He returned to Mecca with his followers and established a theocracy. His followers recorded his sayings and laws in the Koran and the Hadith.”

Learn about The Life of Muhammad.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 6 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the Central African countries: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize Light is produced when charged particles, electrons and protons, change direction or speed. The greater the change, the stronger the light.

Math: Memorize The sum of an arithmetic series is the average of the first and the last terms times the number of terms n(a1+an)/2

Investigate arithmetic series and sequences here.

Greek: Practice some Greek adjectives:

ἀγαθός good (moral)
ἄλλος other
ἔσχατος last
κακός bad
καλός good
δίκαιος righteous
νεκρός dead
δεύτερος second
ὁ Φαρισαῖος the Pharisee
ἀποστέλλω I send

English: An interjection is a short, sudden expression of emotion that is not grammatically related to the rest of the sentence.

Investigate Interjections 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 Unit One, Lesson 5.

Diagram Week 5 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing & Literature: Do a key word outline, first draft, edits & final draft comparing the story of Abraham & Isaac from the Quran Sura 37:99-113 and Genesis 22:1-19. (We started a key word outline in class.)

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:

Sabine - Art - Islamic mosaics
Gino - Muhammad.
Catalina - Choose any topic or continue Yang Chien & Sui Dynasty from last week
Jocelyn - Science - Sonduk
Cooper - Choose any topic or continue Outlaws of the Marsh
Henry - Islam
Phoebe - Math - Mayan mathematics; Maya Mathematical System - Maya World Studies Center; Maya mathematics; Mayan mathematics references; Mayan Mathematics - The Story of Mathematics  

History: Memorize “Mohammad of Mecca proclaimed Allah the only God then fled to Medina for his life. He returned to Mecca with his followers and established a theocracy. His followers recorded his sayings and laws in the Koran and the Hadith.”

• Learn about The Life of Muhammad.
  Learn with your ears on 15 Minute History.

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game.

Math: Finish the worksheet on the associative property.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

Investigate arithmetic series and sequences here.

English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 4 sentences:

1. Bantu inhabit Africa!

2. The Dark Ages open the Archaic Period!

3. Phoenicians settle Carthage!

4. Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey!

5. Etruscans inhabit the Alps!

6. Assurbanipal collected cuneiform texts!

7. Mohammed founded Islam.

8. Charged particles produce light!

9. Students average numbers!

Greek: Complete lesson 5 in your workbook.

Upper Dialecticians7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/28/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

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, 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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

History: Memorize “Mohammad of Mecca proclaimed Allah the only God then fled to Medina for his life. He returned to Mecca with his followers and established a theocracy. His followers recorded his sayings and laws in the Koran and the Hadith.”

• Learn about The Life of Muhammad.
  Learn with your ears on 15 Minute History.

Literature - Reread the Quran Sura 37:99-113 and Genesis 22:1-19. Compare the two accounts in detail.

Philosophy - Learn about the philosophy of Muhammad.

Math - Read about the Mayans and their special character for zero (hint: it’s a shell). Be sure to click all the links to other pages at the bottom. Who know what you’ll grow to understand!

Uncover why zero to the zero power is one!

Khan Academy, Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Science -  Learn about Sonduk.

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. Bantu inhabit Africa!

2. The Dark Ages open the Archaic Period!

3. Phoenicians settle Carthage!

4. Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey!

5. Etruscans inhabit the Alps!

6. Assurbanipal collected cuneiform texts!

7. Mohammed founded Islam.

8. Charged particles produce light!

9. Students average numbers!

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 6 in class and make mosaic tessellations.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.3

Greek: Complete & study lesson 5 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 6.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study the light spectrum of astronomical objects!

Math Club: Investigate Arithmetic Series.

Art Appreciation: Paint mosaics from Tuesday

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 6, Unit 3. Read “The Introduction”.

Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read “The Assignment” on page 44 . Complete page 47 then write your first draft from your Story Sequence Chart on page 46.  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 required this week.  There are 2 elements per paragraph this week!  Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-5 and see if you can include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 5 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 1in preparation for week 6!



Upper Grammarians (3-4): IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 5.  Read “The Assignment” page 37. Complete pages 40, then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline..  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 41 to be sure you have included every element required this week.

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4.  

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 5 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 1 in preparation for week 6!

Middle Ages Week 4

Middle Ages, Week 4 Homework for Chronos Cohorts

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

Learn about Yang Chien who became Emporer Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 8 and do the activities in the activity guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the West African countries: Western Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical tools: Scalpel, Forceps, Clamp, Retractor, Babcock, Rogeur, Scissors, Syringe

Math: Memorize The sum of a converging infinite geometric series is a1/(1-r).

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

Greek: Practice some feminine Greek nouns:

ἡ ἀλήθεια the truth
ἡ βασιλεία the kingdom
ἡ ἐκκλησία the church
ἡ ἡμέρα the day
ἡ ὥρα the hour
ἡ φωνή the voice
ἡ ψυχῇ the soul, life
ἡ καρδία the heart
ἡ ἀγάπη the love
ἡ ἁμαρτία the sin

English: Memorize the 8 Parts of Speech are

interjection, verb, adverb, noun, conjunction, adjective, pronoun, preposition

Investigate the Parts of Speech 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 Unit One, Lesson 4.

Diagram Week 4 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians
5-6h grades

Writing & Literature: Do a key word outline, first draft, edits & final draft of what happens after chapter 2 in Outlaws of the Marsh. (We started a key word outline in class.)

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and don’t come without a notecard - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

Sabine - Golden Age of China & Tang Dynasty and ice cream
Gino - Indigo dye art
Catalina - Yang Chien & Sui Dynasty
Jocelyn - Brahmagupta’s math
Cooper - Another chapter in Outlaws of the Marsh
Henry & Phoebe can choose a topic from week 3 or 4

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

Learn with your ears on the Almost Forgotten Podcast.

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game.

Math: Finish the worksheet on the commutative and associative property.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 4 sentences:

1. Phoenicians traded goods.
2. Mycenaeans inhabited Greece.
3. The Olmecs built giant heads.
4. The Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang.
5. Kush rule Nubia.
6. King David ruled Israel.
7. Yang Chien expanded his empire.
8. Surgeons use scalpels and forceps.
9. Mathematicians calculate series.

Greek: Complete lesson 4 in your workbook.

Science: Annotate the article on Paul of Aegina.

Philosophy: Annotate the article from class.
 

Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/14/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North African countries for Week 3: Western Africa: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia

Practice memorizing the countries with this game.

History: Memorize “Over the River to South China in 581 AD, Yang Chien expanded his empire and made the Sui Dynasty.  He built a canal to join North and South, and his son completed his task. The taxes made him unpopular, yet the The Tang Dynasty would last.”

• Learn about Yang Jian who became Emporer Wen of the Sui Dynasty.

• Learn with your ears on the Almost Forgotten Podcast.

Literature - Prepare a play of the action in Chapters 2 and 3 of The Outlaws of the Marsh.

ALSO: REwrite the comparison essay on Agathias’ My Partridge and To a Cat Which Had Killed a Favorite Bird. Compare:

• Emotion

• Audience

• Action

• One of five other points of comparison that you discover.
  Include an introduction and a conclusion.

Philosophy - Learn about Xuanzang on pages 28-30.  Annotate the article from class.

Math - Learn more about Brahmagupta. Especially pay attention to the rules for arithmetic of negatives and zero. Fill in the proper squares on our number system arithmetic sheets.

Create your own way of writing numbers like Brahmagupta. Try this:
The supreme court justices (9), the eggs in a carton (12) ---> 129
The Ezell children, the points on the star of David, the days of the week ---> 763
Now make up your own!

Science -  Annotate Paul of Aegina’s Surgeries.

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Investigate geometric series and sequences here.

Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the  (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the history sentences above

1. Phoenicians traded goods.
2. Mycenaeans inhabited Greece.
3. The Olmecs built giant heads.
4. The Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang.
5. Kush rule Nubia.
6. King David ruled Israel.
7. Yang Chien expanded his empire.
8. Surgeons use scalpels and forceps.
9. Mathematicians calculate series.

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. We finished White Stag in class last week.  We’ll start Beowulf this week!

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 8 in class and make lacquer.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.3

Greek: Complete & study lesson 4 for our quiz!  We’ll practice Greek Workbook Lesson 5.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study anatomy!

Math Club: Investigate negative numbers like Brahmagupta did.

Art Appreciation: Illuminated Manuscripts with carolingian cross

Writing Club:
Dialecticians 5-8:  IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 5. Read “The Introduction”.

Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read “The Assignment” on page 37 . Complete page 40 then write your first draft from your Key Word Outline (page 39).  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).

Use the checklist on page 41 to be sure you have included every element required this week. Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4, see if you can include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 4 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 12 in preparation for week 5!

Upper Grammarians (3-4): IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 4.  Read “The Assignment” page 31. Complete pages 34, then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline..  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 35 to be sure you have included every element required this week.

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4.  There will be quiz next week!

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 4 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 12 in preparation for week 5!

Middle Ages Week 3

Middle Ages, Week 3 Homework for Chronos Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

   •    Memorize: “Before Justinian became Emporer of Byzantium in 527, he met and married Theodora. Together they ruled the empire justly, establishing the Code of Justinian, rebuilding Constantinople after riots between blue and green teams. He reconquered the Roman Empire, but when he died, all but Rome was lost again.”

   •    Learn about Emporer Justinian and Empress Theodora., or check out this interview about Justinian’s Code.

   •    Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.

   •    Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 4 and do the activities in the activity guide.

   •    Draw Africa and label the West African countries: Western Africa: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia

   •    Memorize “Two forces in any structure are tension and compression. A tension force pulls materials apart. A compression force squeezes material together.” Learn about Isodore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.

   •    Memorize “The surface area of a cone is πr2+πrl (pi times the radius squared plus pi times the radius times the slant height).  The surface area of a sphere is 4πr2. (four times pi times the radius squared).”

   •    Practice some Greek nouns:

ὁ νόμος the law
ὁ βίος the life
ὁ θεός the God
ὁ ἀγρός the field
ὁ ἀπόστολος the apostle
ὁ θάνατος the death
ὁ οἶκος the house
ὁ υἱός the son
ὁ κύριος the lord
ὁ λίθος the stone

   •    Memorize the 7 sentence patterns are

subject verb intransitive

subject verb transitive direct object

subject verb linking predicate nominative

subject verb linking predicate adjective

subject verb transitive indirect object direct object

subject verb transitive direct object object complement noun

subject verb transitive direct object object complement adjective

   •    Investigate patterns of a sentence on Grammar Revolution.

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 Unit One, Lesson 3.

Diagram Week 3 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing & Literature: Write a one paragraph essay comparing two poems by Agathius: “My Partridge” & “To a Cat…” (We did a key word outline in class.)

Presentation: Do a presentation on the following topics.  Do a lilttle research online or at the library.  Do a key word outline and present from that!  Don’t write it out word for word.  See links below for ideas!

Cooper: science (compare tension & compression)

Sabine: history (Justinian’s Code compared to Twelve Tables law of Ancient Rome or check out this interview about Justinian’s Code.)

Gino: history (Justinian’s Code compared to US law or check out this interview about Justinian’s Code.

Catalina: art (icons)

Jocelyn: literature  maybe point of view?

Phoebe: history (green vs. blue chariot teams)

Henry: math  maybe Hagia Sophia’s triangle shaped supports for the nave?

History: Memorize “Before Justinian became Emperor of Byzantium in 527, he met and married Theodora. Together they ruled the empire justly, establishing the Code of Justinian, rebuilding Constantinople after riots between blue and green teams. He reconquered the Roman Empire, but when he died, all but Rome was lost again.” Check out this interview about Justinian’s Code.

Math: Finish the worksheet on the commutative and associative property.  Do grade level math on Khan Academy or in your own curriculum.

English: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 3 sentences:

1. Obey faithfully.
2. Run quickly.
3. Rule skillfully.
4. Reign victoriously!
5. Enter carefully.
6. Lead confidently!
7. Unite Egypt!
8. Melt metals!
9. Factor 60.
10. Draw the Nile River!

Greek: Complete lesson 3 in your workbook.

Science: Finish annotating Procopius’ description of the Hagia Sophia.

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

Upper Dialecticians7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/14/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

Draw Africa and label the North African countries for Week 3: Western Africa: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia

Memorize: “Before Justinian became Emporer of Byzantium in 527, he met and married Theodora. Together they ruled the empire justly, establishing the Code of Justinian, rebuilding Constantinople after riots between blue and green teams. He reconquered the Roman Empire, but when he died, all but Rome was lost again.”

Present the comparison essay given below. Present another topic from a keyword outline.

   •    History - Learn about Emporer Justinian and Empress Theodora.

Sports fandom gone wrong: The Nika Revolt.

Check out this interview about Justinian’s Code.

   •    Literature - Write a comparison essay on Agathias’ My Partridge and To a Cat Which Had Killed a Favorite Bird. Compare:

1. Emotion

2. Audience

3. Action

4. One of five other points of comparison that you discover.

Include an introduction and a conclusion.

   •    Philosophy - Learn about Damascius.

   •    Math - Learn more about Hagia Sofia. Especially pay attention to the triangle shaped supports for the nave.

Work to fully understand how to reduce square roots.

   •    Science -

• Learn about Isodore’s and Anthemius’ use of compression to build the Hagia Sofia.

• Read and annotate Procopius’s description of the Hagia Sofia.

• Turn all the Greek words with English letters back to Greek (on your own, no Google Translate!)

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the  (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the history sentences above

1. Obey faithfully.

2. Run quickly.

3. Rule skillfully.

4. Reign victoriously!

5. Enter carefully.

6. Lead confidently!

7. Unite Egypt!

8. Melt metals!

9. Factor 60.

10. Draw the Nile River!

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.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 2 in class and make chariots.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.2

Greek: Complete & study lesson 3 for our quiz!  We’ll practice Greek Workbook Lesson 4.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study architecture!

Math Club: Investigate the dome and pendentives of the Hagia Sophia and find the surface area of cones & spheres.

Art Appreciation: Paint Byzantine icons

Writing Club: Dialecticians 5-8: “Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lesson 4.   Be prepared to present your COMPLETED paper from a printed copy. No computers allowed.  One or two papers will be selected to be critiqued and returned the following week. “Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week four in your student book and copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks.

Middle Ages Week 2

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
 

• Memorize: “Frankish King Clovis married Princess Clotilda who wanted him to follow Christianity. He beat the Allemani tribe, converted all his subjects, made Paris the capital, and wrote the Salic Laws.”
   

• Learn about Clovis, King of the Franks.
   

• Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
   

• Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 11 and do the activities in the activity guide.
   

• Draw Africa and label the North African countries: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara.

• Memorize “Aristotle taught that objects move through the air because the air keeps pushing them. John Philoponus argued that it was impetus, now called momentum.”
  Learn about Severinus Boethius.

• Memorize “The surface area of a prism is 2B+Ph (two times the area of the base plus the perimeter times the height.  The surface area of a pyramid is B+1/2Ph (area of the base plus one half of the perimeter times the height).”
   

• Practice some Greek verbs:

ἀκούω I hear
βλέπω I see
ἔχω I have or hold
λύω I loosen
πιστεύω I believe
γινώσκω I know
γράφω I write
λαμβάνω I take
λέγω I say or speak
πάσχω I suffer

• Memorize the 4 purposes of a sentence: declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, imperative.

• Investigate purposes of a sentence on Grammar Revolution.
  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 Unit One, Lesson 2.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week two in your student book and copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/7/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.
 

Draw Africa and label the North African countries: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara.
 

Memorize: “Frankish King Clovis married Princess Clotilda who wanted him to follow Christianity. He beat the Allemani tribe, converted all his subjects, made Paris the capital, and wrote the Salic Laws.”

Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) present one essay on one of these topics next week. Present another topic from a keyword outline.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades) choose one of these and prepare a 2-3 minute presentation to share in class next Thursday. Write a one paragraph summary on the life of Clovis.  We read & annotated “The Conversion of Clovis” and did a sample key word outline together.  Be sure to use an ly adverb, strong very, www.asia.wub, who which, quality adjective, etc. and label them in the margin.  Ask an adult to edit for spelling & grammar, then create a clean copy for your portfolio.

• History - Learn about the Franks and their king, Clovis.

  • Here’s a short biography.

  • Here’s a map of his conquests.

• Literature - Memorize stanzas 2, 4, 5 and 10 of this poem.

• Philosophy - Learn about Severinus Boëthius.

  • Here is a wonderful (full) up to date translation of The Consolation of Philosophy. Read the poems, they’re excellent!

  • Here’s an abridged version. It’s the one we read in class.

  • Here’s a nice scan of The Institutes of Arithmetica. (I like pretty things!)

• Math - Learn more about Perfect Numbers

• Science - Learn about John Philoponus and Impetus.

  • John Philoponus also wrote about how to use an astrolabe!

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Lower Dialecticians (5th-6th grades), ALSO complete the worksheet on Order of Operations & Commutative Property.

Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the  (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the history sentences above

1. Was ancient Harappa founded?
2. Does Akkadia expand?
3. Were wild horses domesticated?
4. Did the Hebrew Patriarchs live?
5. The Minoans lived?
6. Did Babylon conquer?
7. Did Clovis convert?
8. Which force pulls?
9. Does surface area cover?
10. Did independent city-states conflict?
 

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.

MAKE: History: In class we’ll make Merovingian discs out of clay with melted crayon

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.2

Greek: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 2.  Greek 1 students, memorize the Greek alphabet.   Greek 2 students, review verbs.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll study John Philoponus

Math Club: In class we’ll make nets to find the surface area of prism & pyramid

Art Appreciation: In class we’ll make Merovingian crosses with clay and metallic paints

Writing Club: Dialecticians 5-8:
“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lesson 3.   Be prepared to present your COMPLETED paper from a printed copy. No computers allowed.  One or two papers will be selected to be critiqued and returned the following week.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week two in your student book and copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks.
 

Middle Ages Week 1

Middle Ages, Week 1 Homework

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
Memorize: “In 434, Central Asian Huns bonded as one under King Attila, attacked Rome in Italy, then left them alone in exchange for money. Meanwhile, British High King Vortigern hired the Angle & Saxon tribes to help him fight his enemies, but they took over England for their families.”
Learn about Attila the Hun & the Huns and King Vortigern & the Angles and Saxons.
Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapter 41 and Vol 2, Chapter 2 and do the activities in the activity guide.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand.

Memorize “Orbital inclination is the measure of the tilt of a planet's orbit above or below the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky.”
Learn about Aryabhatta.
Memorize “π is the ratio of the Circumference of the circle to the Diameter and is approximately 3.1416.”
Practice the Greek alphabet
Memorize the 4 sentence structures:  simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.

Investigate verbs on Grammar Revolution.
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 Unit One, Lesson 1.  We will continue with Lesson 2 next week.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week one in your student book.  We will review it next week and then you will be able to copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks, which are forth coming. Yeah!

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 8/31/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.
 

Draw the continents and oceans by hand from memory.
 

Memorize: “In 434, Central Asian Huns bonded as one under King Attila, attacked Rome in Italy, then left them alone in exchange for money. Meanwhile, British High King Vortigern hired the Angle & Saxon tribes to help him fight his enemies, but they took over England for their families.”

Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) present one essay on one of these topics next week. Present another topic from a keyword outline.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades) choose one of these and prepare a 2-3 minute presentation to share in class next Thursday.  Write a paragraph summary of St. Patrick's life.

• Learn about the Huns and their king, Attila.

  • Pricus on Attila the Hun 448

    • Upper Dialecticians (7-9th grades) research the answers to your annotation questions. Turn them in next week.

• Learn about the Angles, the Saxons, and their one way trip to Britain.  Annotate as you read.

• • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Fifth Century

• Read Patrick’s Confession and write a one paragraph summary of his account.

  • The Confessio of St. Patrick (There are a lot of interesting articles and images on this website. Please click around and see what interests you.)

• Read Augustine of Hippo’s City of God

  • City of God Excerpts

• Learn about Aryabhatta’s Aryabatiya.

  • Here’s a good introduction.

  • The Aryabatiya Page 16 (linked) has this text about Orbital Inclination: The greatest deviation of the Moon from the ecliptic is 4 degrees, of Saturn 2 degrees, of Jupiter 1 degree, of Mars 1 degrees, of Mercury and Venus 2 degrees.

  • Later parts of the book are about his mathematics. It’s not an easy book at all, but you have access to it! Skim it to see what you can find!

Math: Khan Academy,

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades) master the Arithmetic subject, THEN start mastering Pre-Algebra OR Geometry, your choice!

Lower Dialecticians (5th-6th grades), ALSO complete the PEMDAS worksheet.

Diagramming: Do Question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram the  (Simple S-Vi) sentences below and for a challenge, diagram the second part of the history sentence above   

1.     Jericho was founded.

2.     Sumerians write!

3.     Egypt unifies.

4.     Britons construct.

5.     Imhotep builds.

6.     Gilgamesh ruled.

7.     Huns invade!

8.     Orbits tilt.

9.     People count.

10.     Rivers flow.

11.     The Greeks alphabetize.
 

Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 1 and memorize the Greek alphabet.

Math Club on Wednesday: Aryabata & pi

Book Club on Tuesday: Read your Medieval library book, make notes in your Book Club journal and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far.
 

MAKE: History on Tuesday: Tie Celtic knots
 

Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.2
 

Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Draw Celtic knot patterns

Writing Club: Dialecticians 5-8:

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”: Complete Unit One, Lessons 1 and 2.   Be prepared to present your COMPLETED paper from a printed copy. No computers allowed.  One or two papers will be selected to be critiqued and returned the following week.

“Fix it! Grammar”: Complete week one in your student book.  We will review it next week and then you will be able to copy the grammatically correct sentences into your notebooks, which are forth coming. Yeah!