Middle Ages Week 5

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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.”

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.”

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

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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.”

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

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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 -

  • 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

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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.

 

 

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

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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.

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

  • 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

  • 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!

 

Ancients Week 34

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Grammarians

PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 395 AD Rome split east and west, then the Roman Empire fell to a Visigoth conquest. The emperor exiled and the rule of law overturned. In 410 AD the city of Rome burned.”

  • Learn about the fall of the Roman Empire.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapters 41-42 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe at the time of the Fall of Rome: Goths, Vandals, Alemanni, Franks, & Lombards.

  • Learn about the split of the Roman Empire, then its fall.

  • Memorize “Specific Gravity is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standard, water for liquids and air for gases.”

  • Learn about Hypatia.

  • Memorize the Classifications of Triangles: Acute, Right, Obtuse, Scalene, Isoceles, Equilateral!

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary with motions:
    δέ but
    οὐκ not
    γάρ for
    ὅτι that
    εἰ if

  • Memorize these irregular verbs

    • put-put-put

    • see-saw-seen

    • show-showed-shown

    • take-took-taken

    • tell-told-told

    • think-thought-thought

  • Investigate verbs on Grammar Revolution.

  • Have a wonderful summer of learning more about any of these topics, and don’t forget to keep up with Reading, Writing & Math.  We look forward to hearing a presentation on something you’ve learned next fall!

 

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 34 sentences - We finished these in class today!

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Work on your oral presentation of your research paper and your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration this Saturday, June 10.

  • Create a final draft of our poem The Ancient World on page 204 in IEW book.  Use that as the first page of your portfolio of essays on the ancient history this year!

 

Dialecticians

5th-8th Graders

 

From our session Thursday 5/25/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is looking good. Time to edit and prepare your presentation for June 10!

  • Memorize: “In 395 AD Rome split east and west, then the Roman Empire fell to a Visigoth conquest. The emperor exiled and the rule of law overturned. In 410 AD the city of Rome burned.”

  • Learn about the split of the Roman Empire, then its fall.

    1. Khan Academy has a good video.

    2. A list of causes.

  • Read Augustine of Hippo.

    1. Here’s a sample of a very clear text. Not too long (you can skip the introduction down to page 37.

    2. What does Harry Potter have to do with Augustine?

  • Read about Hypatia:

    1. Clear and quick, be sure to follow the links to each specific topic: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ws499/technology/culture_site_example/index.htm

    2. MacTutor biography

    3. Ginny Adair wrote a biography

  • Grammar Week 33 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (and learn what’s going on).

    1. In 395 AD Rome split east and west, but then the Roman Empire fell to a Visigoth conquest. The emperor was exiled and the rule of law overturned. In 410 AD the city of Rome burned.

    2. Since the The Vietnam War ended in 1975, when did it begin?

    3. The Berlin Wall falls after Communism fails in Eastern Europe?

    4. Why did Gorbachev resign and why was Communism outlawed?

    5. After September 11, the day the World Trade Center was attacked, the US declared war on terror?

    6. Who invented the global internet and ushered in the Information Age?

  • Greek on Tuesday: Great job in the Chronos Greekiest Geek Challenge last week!  Here are the last 5 vocabulary words this year!  We’ll start Elementary Greek 2 in the fall.

δέ but

οὐκ not

γάρ for

ὅτι that

εἰ if

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Complete the Arithmetic topic on Khan Academy.

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read some great books this summer!

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Reassemble a pot like an archaeologist!

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.1!

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Go to a museum this month!

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Keep working through Wordly Wise this summer to increase your vocabulary.

    2. Memorize the irregular verbs:

      • put-put-put

      • see-saw-seen

      • show-showed-shown

      • take-took-taken

      • tell-told-told

      • think-thought-thought

    3. Do a final draft of your Speed Story we did in class.  Be sure to include all dress-ups & openers.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make your own Astrolabe!

Jocelyn's presentation

Jocelyn's presentation

Cooper's Capstone

Cooper's Capstone

Drawing Out Arithmetic

Drawing Out Arithmetic

Gino's presentation
The Stamp Store

The Stamp Store

Book Club

Book Club

Ancients Week 33

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Grammarians

PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 320, Chandragupta I was Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India. Later, his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.”

  • Learn about Chandragupta and the Gupta Empire.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2 The Middle Ages, Chapter 5 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of India: the Gupta Empire, Narmada River, Ganges River, Varanasi, Rann of Kutch, and Pergamon.

  • Memorize “Anatomy is the study of parts and their organization and interrelationships. Physiology is the study of biological functions.”

  • Learn about Galen.

  • Memorize “Skip counting by 8s & 9s 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96 & 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99, 108” and practice multiplying them!

  • Practice multiplying in a minute to increase your speed.

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary with motions:
    ἐκβάλλω I throw out
    πρόἐκβάλλω I extend
    ἀπόλαμβάνω I take from
    ποιέω I do, make
    ἀλλά but

  • Memorize these irregular verbs

    • go-went-gone

    • know-knew-known

    • lay-laid-laid

    • leave-left-left

    • lie-lay-lain

    • make-made-made

  • 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 (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 33 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Investigate correlating conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Work on your oral presentation of your research paper and your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration June 10.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 30: pp. 225-226 “Vocabulary Story.” Write a key word outline for a three paragraph story.  Use the story sequence on page 226 and the checklist I gave you in class.  Use at least 30 vocabulary words! Print your story (if it’s typed), underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

 

Dialecticians

5th-8th Graders

 

From our session Thursday 5/25/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is looking good. Time to edit and prepare your presentation for June 10!

  • Memorize: “In 320, Chandragupta I was Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India. Later, his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.”

  • Learn about the Gupta Dynasty and their accomplishments.

    1. Khan Academy has a good video set.

    2. I have a super good book on it.

    3. Samudragupta carved his deeds into an Ashoka Pillar. Here’s what he said.

    4. Read text from a buddhist pilgrim from China about his visit to the Gupta’s land.

  • Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations.

    1. Listen to a free audiobook.

    2. Read the text itself (starts on Page 74)

      • REQUIRED: create a list of people to whom you are indebted as Marcus Aurelius wrote in the first section. Describe their attributes that you admire and aspire to be like.

      • REQUIRED: Find a good short passage that applies to your life. Memorize and recite it on Thursday.

    3. Marcus Aurelius's One Question to Beat Procrastination, Whining, and Struggle

    4. The Daily Stoic has a good intro.

  • Read about Pappus of Alexandria and his great work Synagoge:

    1. A good, quick overview (don’t get bogged down in the proofs).

    2. MacTutor biography

  • Read about Galen, Surgeon to the Stars!

    1. Read his biography.

    2. Listen to an interesting discussion about him.

    3. Learn how to check your pulse!

  • Grammar Week 33 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (and learn what’s going on).

    1. In 320, not only was Chandragupta I Maharajadhiraja, King of Kings of the Gupta Empire in India, but also his successor, Skandagupta, fought the Huns, who attempted to invade India.

    2. In 1948 either Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated or the nation of Israel was established.

    3. The decision, Brown v. Board of Education, both paved the way for integration and served as a model for future civil rights cases.

    4. Who knows whether Soviet astronauts or American astronauts first walked on the moon?

    5. John F. Kennedy was not only a Congressman representing Massachusetts but also the 35th President of the United States.

    6. Galen was a physician to not only gladiators but also emperors in 157 AD!

    7. Pappus of Alexandria writes Synagoge (Collections) which is a guide to Greek geometry.

    8. Either anatomy is the study of parts of the body and their organization and interrelationships, or physiology is the study of biological functions.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 29 and memorize these prepositions:

ἐκβάλλω I throw out

πρόἐκβάλλω I extend

ἀπόλαμβάνω I take from

ποιέω I do, make

ἀλλά but

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Pappus of Alexandria! More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make Indian milk tea.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.33

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: The Golden Age - religious or secular - we wrap up the year with our best depictions of ancient art, OR finish paintings, OR create a peacock using feathers and beads.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 7 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize the irregular verbs:

      • Go-went-gone

      • Know-knew-known

      • Lay-laid-laid

      • Leave-left-left

      • Lie-lay-lain

      • make-made-made

    3. Read and complete IEW Challenge: pp. 204-205 “Ancient World.” Write a 12 line or more poem about the ancient world using dual adjectives, adverbs, and verbs and alliteration.  Be sure to brainstorm first.  There is an example on page 249.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: copy anatomy illustrations

Ancients Week 32

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 312, Emperor Constantine saw a vision of a cross in the sky and the very next day won at Milvian Bridge and declared, ‘A new Christian am I.’ Then he legalized Christianity and established Constantinople, on the Bosphorus by the Black Sea, the brand new Roman capitol.”

  • Learn about Constantine and Constantinople.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 1, Chapter 39 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of the Roman Empire and label "Constantinople, Milvian Bridge, Antioch, Ephesus, Nicaea as well as Nanyang, Zhang Heng’s home in China

  • Memorize “Three causes of earthquakes are: Fault movement, Volcanism and Induced Seismicity.”

  • Learn about Zhang Heng’s seismograph.

  • Memorize “Skip counting 6s & 7s: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66, 72
    7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84” and practice multiplying them!

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary with motions:
    τέμνω I cut
    συμπίπτω I coincide
    ἀφαιρέω I take away
    καλέω I call
    ὑπότείνω I subtend

  • Memorize these irregular verbs

    • begin-began-begun

    • come-came-come

    • eat-ate-eaten

    • find-found-found

    • get-got-gotten

    • give-gave-given

  • 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 (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 32 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Investigate appositives on Grammar Revolution.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.  We’ll have a vocabulary quiz next week!

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Work on your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration June 10.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 31: pp. 227-232 “The Curse of the Sphinx.” Write a key word outline for an introduction, a three-paragraph summary of the story sequence and conclusion paragraph critique of “The Curse of the Sphinx.”  Be sure to follow the checklist on page 232 and underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a five paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 5/25/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is looking good. Time to edit and prepare your presentation for June 10!

  • Memorize: “In 312, Emperor Constantine saw a vision of a cross in the sky and the very next day won at Milvian Bridge and declared, "A new Christian am I." Then he legalized Christianity and established Constantinople, on the Bosphorus by the Black Sea, the brand new Roman capitol.”

  • Read about the Constantine’s rise to power and accomplishments as Roman Emperor.

    1. Khan Academy has a good write-up.

    2. Encyclopedia Britannica article

    3. Here’s the big temple that had his big statue inside.

  • Read about the Nicene Creed:

    1. The Creed

    2. Interesting and Unusual Facts about the Council of Nicaea

  • Read about Diophantus and his great work Arithmetica:

    1. Check with me about books that have information about him. His work influenced a BIG mathematical proof in 1994.

    2. MacTutor biography

    3. Diophantus’ Riddle

    4. A very, very thorough article.

  • Read about Epictetus

    1. Today’s article.

    2. Lots of quotes.

    3. The Manual

    4. The Navy Fighter Pilot who endured seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam relied on the teachings of Epictetus.

  • Read about Zhang Heng and his inventions

    1. Read the section The Earliest Seismoscope on pages 183-184.

    2. This page includes our video: http://seismoscope.allshookup.org/

    3. MacTutor Biography

    4. A short article with nice photos.

  • Grammar Week 30 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (and learn what’s going on).

    1. In 312 AD, after Constantine, Emperor of Rome, saw a vision of a cross in the sky, won at Milvian Bridge and declared himself a Christian, he legalized Christianity.

    2. The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, the Women's Suffrage Amendment, granted women the right to vote!

    3. The Great Depression began after Black Friday, the day of the stock market crash of 1929.

    4. Hitler's autocracy The Third Reich caused World War II.

    5. In World War II, the Allies: Great Britain, France, United States and Russia, fought the Axis Countries: Germany, Italy and Japan.

    6. After World War II, an international coalition the United Nations formed to prevent another world war.

    7. Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution, received the Nobel Peace Prize for saving a billion people from starvation!

    8. Three causes of earthquakes are fault movement, volcanism, and induced seismicity.

    9. Which irregular verbs are most commonly misused?

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 29 and memorize these prepositions:

τέμνω I cut

συμπίπτω I coincide

ἀφαιρέω I take away

καλέω I call

ὑπότείνω I subtend

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Diophantus’ Algebra (before it was called Algebra!). More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: shields with chi rho, reenact Battle of Milvian Bridge.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.31

  • Art Appreciation on Wednesday: Create "Roman" coins of our own, showing our status through symbols. http://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/Files/Learn/For%20Educators/Publications%20for%20Educators/Roman.pdf

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 7 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize the irregular verbs:

      • begin-began-begun

      • come-came-come

      • eat-ate-eaten

      • find-found-found

      • get-got-gotten

      • give-gave-given

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 30: pp. 225-226 “Vocabulary Story.” Write a key word outline for a three paragraph story.  Use the story sequence on page 226 and the checklist I gave you in class.  Use at least 30 vocabulary words from Lessons 1-6 in Wordly Wise!  Print your story, underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make a chinese seismograph.

Ancients Week 31

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “On Africa’s western coast, Ghana stood between two mines: gold in the South, salt in the North. By taxing a bit of each they got rich. Ghana became a wealthy nation.”

  • Learn about the Kingdom of Ghana and the art they created.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, Chapter 29 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of West Africa and label Ghana, Koumbi Saleh, Senegal River, Niger River, Sijilmasa

  • Memorize “Apparent retrograde motion is the apparent motion of a planet in an opposite direction of the stars. Direct motion or prograde motion is motion in the same direction.” Explore retrograde motion. Explore a model of Ptolemy’s Theory of the Universe.

  • Memorize “The set of real numbers consists of natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and irrational numbers.” Investigate real numbers.

  • Practice this Greek vocabulary:
    περιέχω I include
    ἅπτω I join
    πίπτω I cut
    ἐμπίπτω I fall on
    προσπίπτω I fall upon

  • Memorize “An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.” Investigate appositives 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 (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 31 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on 2 of the 3 types of verbals: infinitives, gerunds, and participles.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Work on your tri-fold boards for our End of the Year Celebration June 10.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 27: pp. 213-214 “If I were an Emperor.” Write a key word outline of your ideas of what it would be like if you were an Emperor.  Write 2-3 paragraphs using the checklist on page 213. Don’t forget to underline each dress-up and label them in the margin.  Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 5/18/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Ghana.

περιέχω I include
ἅπτω I join
πίπτω I cut
ἐμπίπτω I fall on
προσπίπτω I fall upon

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Ptolemy’s trigonometry. More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Ghanaian scarfs with symbols and color meanings.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.31

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 6 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.”

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 31: pp. 227-232 “The Curse of the Sphinx.” Write a key word outline for an introduction, a three-paragraph summary of the story sequence and conclusion paragraph critique of “The Curse of the Sphinx.”  Be sure to follow the checklist on page 232 and underline and label each dress-up in your essay.  Ask an adult to edit and create a four paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: More circles than you’ve worked with before!

Ancients Week 30

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 250 in Japan, Yamato became the strongest clan. Their patriarch became emperor; they rule Japan today.”

  • Learn about the Yamato.

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

  • Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, Chapter 9 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Japan/China and label Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tokyo, Shaoxing, and Yamato

  • Memorize “The water cycle: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation.” Investigate the water cycle in more detail.

  • Memorize “A chord is a segment that intersects a circle at two points.
    A secants is a line that intersects a circle at two points and a tangent is a line that intersects a circle at one point.” Learn math facts about circles.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 30 and memorize these nouns:
    κοινός common
    κάθετος perpendicular
    ορθός right
    λοιπος remaining
    αυτός same, self

  • Memorize “Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.” Investigate verbals 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 (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 29 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on 2 of the 3 types of verbals: gerunds, and participles.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Finish up your edits & final draft if you haven’t already.

    • Add a Bibliography of the sources you used in your research. Use EasyBib to help!

  • Write Read and complete IEW lesson 26: pp. 207-211 “If I lived in Ancient Times.” Pick two things you would miss if you lived in ancient times and write a key word outline of your ideas.  Write 2 paragraphs using the checklist on page 211. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 5/11/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Japan.

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is looking good. Time to edit and prepare your presentation for June 10!

  • Memorize: “In 250 in Japan, Yamato became the strongest clan. Their patriarch became emperor; they rule Japan today.”

  • Learn about Yamato Japan.

  • Choose one of these three poems to memorize and recite on Thursday:

    1. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj096.htm

    2. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj077.htm

    3. http://sacred-texts.com/shi/hvj/hvj013.htm

  • Read about Wang Chung.

    1. Download his book, Lunheng, then read pages 276-277. What is he arguing about the source of rain?

    2. Read about his life and work: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/wang.chung.html

    3. http://www.iep.utm.edu/wangchon

  • Read about Menelaus of Alexandria

    1. Come to me for books. I have about 5 that have information about him.

    2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Menelaus-of-Alexandria

    3. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Menelaus.html

    4. https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Menelaus%27s_Theorem

  • Grammar Week 30 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (and learn what’s going on).

    1. In 250 in Japan, because Yamato became the strongest clan, their patriarch became ruling emperor, and they are still the reigning clan today.

    2. Painting & sculpting, Henri Matisse, who was named "wild beast," founded Fauvism.

    3. Riding to San Juan Hill, Colonel Roosevelt charged the Spanish troops.

    4. After building an airplane, the Wright brothers flew the first successful flight.

    5. Creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques  in 1904.

    6. During his annus mirabilis, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers at the age of 26.

    7. Favoring constitutional monarchy, Young Turks reformed the Ottoman Empire in 1908.

    8. Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.

    9. First evaporating then condensing, water collects in clouds so that it may precipitate as rain or snow.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 29 and memorize these prepositions:
    κοινός common
    κάθετος perpendicular
    ορθός right
    λοιπος remaining
    αυτός same, self

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Menelaus spherical triangles. More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Japanese Manga and how it relates to Ancient Japanese art.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.24

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 6 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives are forms of verbs which function as nouns or adjectives.”

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 29: pp. 219-224 “Greek and Roman Gods, Part 2.” Write a key word outline then your introduction and conclusion paragraphs for your compare/contrast essay of Greek gods and the Judeo-Christian God.   Ask an adult to edit and create a four paragraph final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: ReMake Heron’s Fountain, and cloud jars!

Ancients Week 29

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels called the Zealots took over Jerusalem and kicked out the Romans. General Titus seized the city and destroyed all the walls, including the Temple. The Arch of Titus still stands in Rome today.”

  • Learn about the Jewish Wars.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 38 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Jerusalem and label the starting point of the fire, the Upper City, Lower City, New City, Mount Moriah, & the Temple.

  • Memorize "Heron's Aeolipile converts chemical energy into heat energy by burning, then heat energy into pressure energy by boiling, then pressure energy into kinetic energy as the steam escapes.” Learn more about Heron of Alexandria.

  • Memorize “Square numbers: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225, 256.” and investigate square numbers!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 28 and memorize these nouns:
    ἴσος equal
    άνισος unequal
    ὅλος whole
    παράλληλος parallel
    ευθύγραμμος perpendicular

  • Memorize “Homophones: are/our, affect/effect, here/hear, than/then, to two too, their there they're, which/witch, you're/ your” and play a homophone game.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

 

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 29 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on gerunds.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Create a key word outline for your introduction & conclusion using the ideas on IEW page 220-223.

    • Write the introduction & conclusion paragraphs from your outline using the checklist on page 224 and add it to your essay from last week.

    • Ask an adult to edit it for grammar & spelling mistakes.

    • Create a final draft to present in class next week.

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/27/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Jerusalem.

ἴσος equal
άνισος unequal
ὅλος whole
παράλληλος parallel
ευθύγραμμος perpendicular

  • Math Club on Wednesday: More video! More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: make a model of Herod's temple

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.22

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 5 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense.”

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 28: pp. 215-218 “Greek and Roman Gods, Part 1.” Write 2 key word outlines comparing Greek/Roman gods to the Judeo-Christian God.  Write 2 paragraphs using the checklist on page 218. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make Heron’s Fountain

Ancients Week 28

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “In AD 64 after the great fire of Rome, Nero built his palace instead of homes. When Roman citizens blamed him for the fire, he blamed Christians and persecuted them.”

  • Research the life and times of Emporer Nero. Here’s an 3d rendering of his new palace: http://www.italyrome.info/domusaurea/domusaurea-eng.php

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 39 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Rome and label the starting point of the fire, the Temple of Jupiter, Circus Maximus, Aventine Hill, Esquiline Hill, and the Forum.

  • Memorize "Vitruvius De Architectura Book 1, Chapter 3, Part 2 states: All structures should possess strength, utility, and beauty.” Learn more about Vitruvius Roman architect.

  • Memorize “The least common multiple (LCM) of two numbers is the smallest number (not zero) that is a multiple of both and is often used to find a common denominator.” Explore factors, GCF & LCM

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 28 and memorize these nouns:
    ἡ εὐθεῖα the straight line
    τό κέντρον the center, the sharp tip
    ὁ διάμετρος the diameter
    ἡ πλευρά the side
    τό τετραγώνον the square

  • Memorize “Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense.”

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 28 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on noun clauses.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Create a key word outlines from 3 sources for each of your 3 subtopics.

    • Fuse the outlines into one key word outline for each topic with a topic sentence and clincher for each.

    • Write three paragraphs (one for each subtopic) from your three fused outlines using the most recent checklist in the IEW book.  Underline and label each dress-up & decoration in the margin.

    • Ask an adult to edit it for grammar & spelling mistakes.

    • Create a final draft to present next Saturday, May 6!

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/27/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Rome.

ἡ εὐθεῖα the straight line

τό κέντρον the center, the sharp tip

ὁ διάμετρος the diameter

ἡ πλευρά the side

τό τετραγώνον the square

  • Math Club on Wednesday: More video! More skills! More games!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make a Vitruvious Collage.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.20

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 4 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “Sentence requirements: Capital letter, end mark, subject, verb, makes sense.”

    3. Read and complete IEW lesson 27: pp. 213-214 “If I were Emperor.” Write a key word outline of ideas from your own imagination of what you would do if you were emperor!  Organize those ideas into 2 or 3 subtopics and write a key word outline.  Write 2 or 3 paragraphs using the checklist on page 214. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

  • MAKE: Science on Wednesday: See how you measure up to the Vitruvian Man. Also, Violet.

Upper Grammarians building model Pantheons out of spaghetti & mini marshmallows!  We judged on strength, utility & beauty!

Ancients Week 27

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “Warrior Queen Boadicea fought Rome in 60 AD with Celtic British tribes like the Iceni. They successfully attacked many settlements but when they fought Roman troops, Boadicea’s army lost.”

  • Research the life and times of Queen Boadicea on wikipedia or Historic UK. She fought in the Battle of Watling Street.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 40 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of England and label Icene, Londinium, Watling Street, & Uroconium.

  • Memorize "All nature is founded on two things: bodies and empty space, or void, in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about.” Learn more about Lucretius who first said atoms & void existed.

  • Memorize Some common fraction/decimal pairs:
    3/4 = .75
    2/3 = .666
    1/2 = .5
    1/3 = .333
    1/4 = .25

  • Investigate fraction & decimal equivalents.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 27 and memorize these nouns:
    ὁ κύκλος the circle
    τό τρίγωνον the triangle
    ἡ γωνία the angle
    ἡ γράμμή the line
    τό σημεῖον the point

  • Memorize “Objective case personal pronouns: me you him her it us you them” and learn more about  the objective case and pronouns.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 27 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and objective complements.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Chronos Capstone

    • Choose a topic - a person or civilization from ancient times.

    • Read about your topic in an encyclopedia.

    • Pick 3 subtopics to research.

    • Reserve 3 or more books at the library & bring them to class Thursday.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/20/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

τό τρίγωνον the triangle

ἡ γωνία the angle

ἡ γράμμή the line

τό σημεῖον the point

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Music Theory!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read your play or poetry book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make an Iceni Torc.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 3.18

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    1. Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 3 and study the words and their definitions.

    2. Memorize “Objective case personal pronouns: me you him her it us you them” and learn more about  the objective case and pronouns.

    3. Put all 3 paragraphs about Rome together into one essay.  Add a topic sentence about all 3 paragraphs at the beginning of the first and a final clincher at the end of the third as well as a bibliography of your sources.  Turn it in next week!

    4. Read and complete IEW lesson 26: pp. 207-211 “If I lived in Ancient Times.” Pick two things you would miss if you lived in ancient times and write a key word outline of your ideas.  Write 2 paragraphs using the checklist on page 211. Ask an adult to edit and create a final draft.  Bring it to class to present next week!

  • MAKE: Science on Wednesday: compare water & ice to solid & liquid coconut oil.

Ancients Week 26

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize: “Jesus was born in Judea in 3 BC. He taught "The Kingdom of God is nigh."  Some thought he spoke truth; others thought he spoke blasphemy. They convicted him of treason and crucified him.  The story of his resurrection traveled all over the empire. People who believed Jesus was the Messiah were named Christians and persecuted.”

  • Research the life and times of Jesus on wikipedia or biography.com.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter ?? and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Palestine during the time of Jesus, and label Bethlehem, Judea, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Capernaum & Nicaea.

  • Memorize "The earth rotates on its axis, which itself rotates slowly, completing a rotation in approximately 26,000 year.” Research this on Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Learn more about Hipparchus who first discovered earth’s wobble.

  • Memorize “Three trigonometric ratios of right triangles are sine of an angle equals the opposite divided by the hypotenuse, cosine of an angle equals the adjacent side divided by the hypotenuse, and tangent of an angle equals the opposite side divided by the adjacent (SOH CAH TOA),” and learn more about trigonometry!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 26 and memorize these nouns & prepositions:
    ἡ ἔρημος the desert
    ἡ ὁδός the road, the way
    πρό before
    παρά from
    περί about

  • Memorize “Nominative case personal pronouns: I you he she it we you they.” and learn more about  the nominative case and pronouns.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 26 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and objective complements.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 24-25: pp. 199-203 “Ancient Rome: Engineering Feats.” Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic Roman Engineering, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 200.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

  • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

  • Put 3 paragraphs together into one essay: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering.  Add an introductory sentence to the first paragraph and a final clincher to the last following the instructions on page 202.  Write a Bibliography (we did this in class) to give credit to each source.
     

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 4/6/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & Judea, indicating Bethlehem, Judea, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Capernaum, Nicaea.

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Trigonometry!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss The Aeneid.

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 3 and study the words and their definitions.

    • Memorize “Nominative case personal pronouns: I you he she it we you they.” and learn more about  the nominative case and pronouns.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 25: pp. 201-203 “Ancient Rome: Putting it all Together”

    • If you haven’t already, finish your three paragraphs from Lessons 22-24: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering.  Ask an adult to edit for spelling, punctuation and grammar.  Label each item from the checklist (see page 200), and make sure you have one of each in each paragraph!

    • Put the 3 paragraphs together into one essay: How Rome Began, Roman Government & Roman Engineering.  Add an introductory sentence to the first paragraph and a final clincher to the last paragraph following the instructions on page 202.  Write a Bibliography (we did this in class) to give credit to each source and include this with your final draft.  Label each item from the checklist in the margin and underline each in the document.  Don’t forget to double space!

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Make a Dioptra.

Ancients Week 25

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize to the tune of Dona Nobis Pacem: “Augustus Caesar, Rome’s First Citizen, established Pax Romana through the Empire. This method of leadership began BC 27 and remained until Constantinople fell in 1453.”

  • Research the life and times of Augustus Caesar on wikipedia or history.com.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 36 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Danube River, Galatia, Parthia, Illyria, Via Appia, and Thessaly.

  • Memorize "Lunar and solar eclipses occur when the moon crosses the ecliptic, passing between the sun and the Earth to cause a solar eclipse and passing through the Earth's shadow to cause a lunar eclipse and casting a shadow on the Earth to cause a solar eclipse.” Research them on Nasa’s spaceplace.

  • Memorize “The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic States: every integer greater than 1 either is prime itself or is the unique product of primes.,” and learn more about each number’s unique fingerprint!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 25 and memorize these prepositions:
    ἀπό from
    διά through
    ἐκ, ἐξ out of
    μετά with
    κατά against

  • Memorize “Irregular comparatives & superlatives: bad worse worst, good better best, little less, least, many more most.” and learn more about them.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 25 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and objective complements.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 23: pp. 195-198 “Ancient Rome: Government.” Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic Roman Government, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 198.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

  • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/23/17 - Carefully read the whole list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Danube River, Galatia, Parthia, Illyria, Via Appia, and Thessaly.

1. Because Augustus Caesar established Pax Romana throughout the Empire, Rome considered him diplomatic, and this method of leadership began around BC 27 and remained until Constantinople fell in 1453.
2. Musicians consider Mozart brilliant while they play his compositions, for he is the forerunner of the Classical Period.
3. Since James Watt patented the steam engine, people found him innovative!
4. England named James Cook, who took his last voyage in 1776, an ocean explorer, and he discovered many new lands!
5. After Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the US declared independence from England, and the world considers the United States free since then.
6. Beethoven called Napoleon heroic until he crowned himself emperor of France, so Beethoven erased his dedication on his Third Symphony.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 25 and memorize these prepositions:
    ἀπό from
    διά through
    ἐκ, ἐξ out of
    μετά with
    κατά against

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Arithmetic!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss The Aeneid.

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 2 and study the words and their definitions.  We’ll have a quiz on Lesson 2 words on Wednesday!

    • Memorize “Irregular comparatives & superlatives: bad worse worst, good better best, little less, least, many more most” and learn more about them.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 24: pp. 199-200 “Ancient Rome: Engineering Feats”

    • Do a Key Word Outline of each source from the previous lesson (pp. 190-192) on the topic Roman Engineering, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 200.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

    • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

  • MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Find the ecliptic in real life.

Ancients Week 24

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Rome’s dictator, Julius Caesar, expanded the empire he defeated the Celts, crossed the Rubicon River, traveled to Egypt, fell in love with Cleopatra. In 44 BC he came home, to rule his empire, the senators conspired against him to assassinate him in Rome.”

  • Research the life and times of Julius Caesar on wikipedia or biography.com.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 34-35 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Rubicon River, Germania, Gaul, Britain, & Spain

  • Memorize "The major latitudes are Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle”

  • Memorize “The conic sections are a circle, an ellipse, a parabola, or a hyperbola,” and try out this interactive tool.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 24 and memorize these words:
    δίκαιος righteous
    νεκρός dead
    δεύτερος second
    ὁ Φαρισαῖος the Pharisee
    ἀποστέλλω I send

  • Memorize “Comparatives compare two people, places or things with ‘more’ or ‘-er.’ Superlative compare three or more with ‘most’ or ‘-est’” and learn more about them.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 23 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and object complement nouns.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study all vocabulary on IEW pp. 258-259.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 22: pp. 189-194 “Ancient Rome: Its Beginnings.” Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic how Rome began, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 194.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

  • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.
     

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/23/17 - Carefully read the whole list, then get started.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of Europe & the Mediterranean, and label the Rubicon River, Germania, Gaul, Britain, & Spain

  • We’re still reading through a Hellenistic Comedy. Enjoy!

  • Your Chronos Capstone topic is due this Thursday. We will be making a trip to the library. So far:

    • Eva is researching Enheduanna.

    • Cosmo is researching Alexander the Great.

    • Maggie is researching Hypatia.

    • What are you writing about?

  • Memorize “Rome’s dictator, Julius Caesar, expanded the empire he defeated the Celts, crossed the Rubicon River, traveled to Egypt, fell in love with Cleopatra. In 44 BC he came home, to rule his empire, the senators conspired against him to assassinate him in Rome.”

  • Read about the life and times of Julius Caesar:

  • Read about Namoratunga:

  • I didn’t introduce Apollonius’ Conic Section curves to you last Thursday. We’ll discuss on monday. Here’s a good video about them: https://youtu.be/VAz-X6uaSs4

    • Long read. Skim it. Maybe even get really, really interested!

  • Find Julius Caesar’s Tracks in archaeology. I’m sending a Google search this time. Find out who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a presentation about the site or civilization. Wikipedia might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.

  • I mentioned a list of Ancient History Errors on Thursday. Enjoy!

  • Grammar Week 24 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).

    • Julius Caesar, after you cross the Rubicon River, declare yourself emperor, but beware of assassination attempts in the Senate!

    • Because philosophers declare you the Father of Western Philosophy, Mr. Descartes, coin Cartesian Argument in the field of logic, and create the Cartesian Plane in mathematics.

    • Resolve your conflict over Calculus, Mr. Newton and Mr. Leibniz, and become intellectual friends, since your students consider both of you geniuses!

    • If you declare everyone a blank slate at birth, Mr. Locke, teach them good governance, and give the United States a precedent for their Constitution.

    • J.S. Bach, compose us a Baroque Minuet in the key of G, and we will consider you a great composer, as we play your piece on the harpsichord.

    • Apollonius of Perga, call conic sections parabola, ellipse and hyperbola, so that Copernicus can later declare the planets' orbits ellipses, or create a gasket of nested circles.

  • We discussed this article during philosophy.

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    δίκαιος righteous

νεκρός dead

δεύτερος second

ὁ Φαρισαῖος the Pharisee

Ἀποστέλλω I send

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Apollonius and the Conic Sections

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss The Aeneid.

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 2 and study the words and their definitions.

    • Memorize “Comparatives compare two people, places or things with ‘more’ or ‘-er.’ Superlative compare three or more with ‘most’ or ‘-est’” and learn more about them.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 23: pp. 195-198 “Ancient Rome: Government”

    • Do a Key Word Outline of each source from the previous lesson (pp. 190-192) on the topic Roman Government, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 197.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

    • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Mark the rising and setting of major stars on the fences in the parking lot

Ancients Week 23

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Of the Warring States the Qin became the strongest and in 221 BC the emporer was Shi Huangdi. He joined the Great Wall to keep the Xiongnu steppe peoples out of China in the North. He was buried in a grave, the size of a city, filled with treasures guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army.”

  • Research the Warring States Period in China.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 32 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of China and label the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer in Xianyang, Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao

  • Memorize "Plants propogate sexually with seeds, or asexually by cutting, grafting, budding, layering, division, sectioning or cloning.”

  • Memorize The Great Greek Problems: squaring the circle, doubling the cube, trisecting an angle.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    πιστός faithful
    πρῶτος first
    ἅγιος holy
    πονηρός evil
    μικρός small, little

  • Memorize “Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because” and learn more about subordinating conjunctions.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 23 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and object complement nouns.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 19 in IEW pg 258.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 21: pp. 183-188 “Roman Gladiators”

  • Do a Key Word Outline of each source then fuse the two into one key word outline.  Do the brainstorming activity on page 187, then write a paragraph using the checklist on page 188.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

  • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/16/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

  • Practice: Map of the World, then Draw a zoomed map of China and label the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emporer in Xianyang, Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Zhao

  • We’re still reading through a Hellenistic Comedy. Enjoy!

  • Memorize “Of the Warring States the Qin became the strongest and in 221 BC the emporer was Shi Huangdi. He joined the Great Wall to keep the Xiongnu steppe peoples out of China in the North. He was buried in a grave, the size of a city, filled with treasures guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army.”

  • Memorize "Plants propogate sexually with seeds, or asexually by cutting, grafting, budding, layering, division, sectioning or cloning.” Here’s a very good video of several types!

  • Read about Ancient China in Story of the World Chapter 32.

  • Read these articles about Emporer Shi Huangdi and his Tomb. Write a short essay comparing and contrasting the information presented in at least three articles.

  • Find a Chinese Archaeological Site and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a presentation about the site or civilization. Wikipedia might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.

  • Read about the Great Greek Problems then learn about Nichomedes’ 200 BC solution to two of them!

  • Grammar Week 23 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).

    • 1.     After the Warring States declared Qin the strongest state, who became emperor in 221 BC, and who fortified the Great Wall?

    • 2.     Did Britain defeat the Spanish Armada, and did William Shakespeare whom the British named The National Poet of England write his first play in 1590?

    • 3.     Was Jamestown, which historians consider the first American Colony, founded in Virginia, or did Galileo create his first telescope in 1609?

    • 4.     Where did the Mayflower sail in 1620 and which ports did Iemitsu close in Japan?

    • 5.     Mathematicians name these problems the Great Greek Problems because they will never be solved through construction, but who solved them?

    • 6.     How do plants reproduce and who named these methods asexual reproduction?

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 23 and memorize these adjectives:
    πιστός faithful
    πρῶτος first
    ἅγιος holy
    πονηρός evil
    μικρός small, little

  • Math Club on Wednesday: What did Eratosthenes know that we should find out?

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Do the activities in Wordly Wise Lesson 1 and study the words and their definitions.  We’ll have a quiz on these vocabulary words next week.

    • Memorize “Subordinating conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because” and learn more about subordinating conjunctions.

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 22: pp. 189-194 “Ancient Rome: Its Beginnings”

    • Do a Key Word Outline of each source on the topic how Rome began, then fuse them into one key word outline.  Write one paragraph using the checklist on page 194.  Try to include each dress-up, sentence opener, vocabulary word, and decoration as you write the first draft!

    • After an adult edits for grammar, punctuation & spelling, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, sentence openers, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Learn about Theophrastus then propagate a plant by cutting.

Ancients Week 22

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “In 1869, José Serrano discovered gigantic heads carved out of stone by the Olmec people in south Mexico before 900 BC a long, long time ago. In the 1940s Paul Kosok flew a plane above the Nazca Desert looked down and exclaimed, giant images of animals below created sometime around 2000 years ago.”

  • Research the Olmecs or Nazca People.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 29 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed map of the Americas and label Tres Zapotes, La Venta, Nazca Desert, Tuxtla Mountains, Peru, & Mexico.

  • Memorize "The circumference of the Earth is 40,075 km at the equator.
    The diameter of the Earth is 12,756.1 kilometers at the equator.”

  • Memorize the prime numbers to the tune of Old Virginy: “some prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101” and learn more about them!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 22 and memorize these adjectives:
    ἀγαθός good (moral)
    ἄλλος other
    ἔσχατος last
    κακός bad
    καλός good"

  • Memorize “Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so” and practice using them!

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 22 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on compound-complex sentences and object complement nouns.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 19 in IEW pg 258.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 175-182 “In the Colosseum with Lions”

  • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 178.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 182.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

  • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/9/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 22 and memorize some adjectives:

    • ἀγαθός good (moral)

    • ἄλλος other

    • ἔσχατος last

    • κακός bad

    • καλός good

  • Math Club on Wednesday: What did Eratosthenes know that we should find out?

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 175-182 “In the Colosseum with Lions”

    • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 178.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 182.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

    • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Determine whether the seasons are the same in the northern hemisphere compared to the southern. Also, get a grip on solar rays.

Ancients Week 21

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “As Rome expanded throughout the Mediterranean, they fought with Carthage in the Punic Wars for three hundred years. Hannibal crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alps with an army of elephant warriors and terrorized Italy, but fell to Scipio in 202 BC.”

  • Research the Punic Wars and Hannibal.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 29 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of the Mediterranean.  Find and label Strait of Gibraltar, Alps, Pyrenees, Sicily, Sardinia, & Syracuse

  • Research Archimedes Principle: “Archimedes principle states that anything submerged in gas or liquid is acted upon by an upward force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.”

  • Memorize the Volume formulas: “Volume of a prism & cylinder is area of the base times height V=Bh, volume of a pyramid & cone is one third area of the base times height V=1/3Bh, sphere is four thirds pi r cubed 4/3πr^3”

  • Practice calculating the volume of solids.

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 21 and memorize our new vocabulary:

ἐγὼ I
καλύπτω I hide
ἡ οἰκία the house
ὁ καρπός the fruit
ὁ Χριστός the Messiah, Christ

  • Memorize “Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those” and practice using them to form compound-complex sentences.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

 

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 19 in IEW pg 258.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 169-174 “A Wild Ride in the Aqueducts”

  • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 171.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 174.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

  • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/2/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of the Mediterranean.  Find and label Strait of Gibraltar, Alps, Pyrenees, Sicily, Sardinia, & Syracuse

 

Daily homework for Full Week Students

  • Find an Archaeological Site anywhere for any time period and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a presentation about the site or civilization. Wikipedia might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.

  • Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA.

  • Grammar Week 21 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).

  • Greek on Tuesday:Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 21 and memorize our new vocabulary:

ἐγὼ I

καλύπτω I hide

ἡ οἰκία the house

ὁ καρπός the fruit

ὁ Χριστός the Messiah, Christ

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Circles and Spheres!

  • Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss your historical fiction book.

  • MAKE: History on Tuesday: Make little model Quinquiremes to place on our model of Rome.

  • Drawing out Arithmetic: Finish constructing Euclid’s Elements Propositions 3.2

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 19: pp. 169-174 “A Wild Ride in the Aqueducts”

    • Do a Key Word Outline from your imagination based on the three pictures on pg. 171.  Each picture starts with a central fact that is reflected in the clincher as well as four descriptive sentences about each picture.  Write a three paragraph story from your key word outline using the checklist on pg. 174.  Notice each paragraph needs all the dress-ups and a decoration.

    • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Differentiate between different liquids using Archimedes's Principle.

Ancients Week 20

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Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

  • Memorize “Chandragupta established the Mauryan Empire in India in 321. His grandson Ashoka waged a terrible war to conquer Kalinga. Then he regretted his terrible war and converted to Buddhism in 263 BC then led his empire with justice and peace.”

  • Research the Maurya Empire.

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

  • Read The Story of the World Chapter 31 and do the activities in the activity guide.

  • Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of India and label Pataliputra, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Deccan Plateau, & Kalinga.

  • Memorize the planets in order by their distance from the sun: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

  • Memorize Euclid’s Postulates to the tune Go Tell Aunt Rhody:
    1. Two arrows: line, one arrow: ray, no arrows: segment.
    2. Extend a segment into a ray. Extend a ray into a line.
    3. Point in the center, measure the radius, around the circle.
    4. All right angles are congruent
    5. Postulate of Parallel Lines

  • Research the postulates and draw them yourself!

  • Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί

  • Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever” and practice using them to form complex sentences.

  • Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!

Writing Club (3-5th)

  • Grammar Week 20 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram.  Here’s more info on complex sentences, indirect objects & diagramming them.

  • Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/

  • Study vocabulary through lesson 18 in IEW pg 258.

  • Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”

  • Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”.  Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.

  • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.

 

Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders

From our session Thursday 2/16/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:

Daily homework for Full Week Students

  • Find a Memorial to Ashoka and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a presentation about the site or civilization. Wikipedia might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.

  • Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA.

  • Grammar Week 20 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).

  • Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”

singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί"

  • Math Club on Wednesday: Spotlight on 2-3 propositions of Euclid--tie back to work on Thales, non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, ideas of axiom, proof, and logic, and historical significance and longevity

The quiz will continue until math improves.

  • Writing Club on Wednesday:

    • Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”

    • Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”.  Don’t outline sentence by sentence!  Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.

    • After an adult edits, compose a final draft.  Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin. Be ready to present in class Wednesday.

MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Figure out how to prove the sun in the center of the solar system, also the sizes and distance of the sun and moon.