Middle Ages Week 25

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Ferdinand, prince of Aragon, and Isabella, princess of Castile united Spain with their secret wedding, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, expelled the Jews in 1491 to make Spain a Christian nation.

Memorize to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Asian Geographical Features:
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
Lake Baikal
Bering Strait

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the types of simple lenses:
Biconvex
Plano-convex
Positive Meniscus
Negative Meniscus
Plano-concave
Biconcave

More on simple lenses here and how lenses correct vision.

Math: Memorize Using the distributive property, multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately and then add the products. a(b+c)=ab+ac

Learn more about the distributive property.

Greek: Memorize the Greek Imperfect Active Tense to the tune of “Happy Birthday.”
singular
1 ἔλυον
2 ἔλυες
3 ἔλυε
plural
1 ἔλυομεν
2 ἔλυετε
3 ἔλυον

English: Irregular comparatives & superlatives: bad worse worst, good better best, little less, least, many more most.

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 23: “Amusement, Part 2”
Diagram Week 25 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: Everyman is a morality play that personifies abstract ideas. Create a 1-3 paragraph narrative scene in which a person speaks with an idea. For example, a highschooler is playing lacrosse and crosses the out-of-bounds line. He isn’t called by the referee. Freeze scene: Player talks with Sportsmanship, Honesty and Competitiveness.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

History - United Spain. Paving the way for exploration
Literature - Everyman. Everyman with Guinea Pigs! Couldn’t get enough? Here’s the full translation.
Math - Madhava of Sangamagrama. He developed the first infinite series to define the inverse tangent (and pi!). Here’s the series:
=tan-13 tan3+15 tan5 -17 tan7...
=(oa)-13(oa)3+15(oa)5-17(oa)7+...
So with a right triangle with legs 2 and 3:
=(23)-13(23)3+15(23)5-17(23)7+...
Longest accurate calculation wins the prize!

Art - Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Video. (He created a lot of illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, find it if you dare.)
Science - Nicholas of Cusa. More on simple lenses here and how lenses correct vision.
Philosophy - John Wycliffe, they couldn’t kill him, but they could declare him a heretic, exhume his body and burn his bones.
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Ferdinand, prince of Aragon, and Isabella, princess of Castile united Spain with their secret wedding, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, expelled the Jews in 1491 to make Spain a Christian nation.

Memorize to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Asian Geographical Features:
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
Lake Baikal
Bering Strait

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the types of simple lenses:
Biconvex
Plano-convex
Positive Meniscus
Negative Meniscus
Plano-concave
Biconcave

More on simple lenses here and how lenses correct vision.

Math: Memorize Using the distributive property, multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately and then add the products. a(b+c)=ab+ac

Learn more about the distributive property.

Greek: Memorize the Greek Imperfect Active Tense to the tune of “Happy Birthday.”
singular
1 ἔλυον
2 ἔλυες
3 ἔλυε
plural
1 ἔλυομεν
2 ἔλυετε
3 ἔλυον

English: Irregular comparatives & superlatives: bad worse worst, good better best, little less, least, many more most.

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or #7 challenge sentence below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 24 sentences:

1. After Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille were secretly married, they united Spain, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, expelled the Jews in 1491, and declared Spain a Christian nation.
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.
7. ***challenge**** Ferdinand, prince of Aragon, and Isabella, princess of Castille united Spain with their secret wedding, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, and expelled the Jews in 1491 to make Spain a Christian nation.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/29 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 4/2/18:

Writing: Everyman is a morality play that personifies abstract ideas. Create a 1-3 paragraph narrative scene in which a person speaks with an idea. For example, a highschooler is playing lacrosse and crosses the out-of-bounds line. He isn’t called by the referee. Freeze scene: Player talks with Sportsmanship, Honesty and Competitiveness.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

History - United Spain. Paving the way for exploration
Literature - Everyman. Everyman with Guinea Pigs! Couldn’t get enough? Here’s the full translation.
Math - Madhava of Sangamagrama. He developed the first infinite series to define the inverse tangent (and pi!). Here’s the series:
=tan-13 tan3+15 tan5 -17 tan7...
=(oa)-13(oa)3+15(oa)5-17(oa)7+...
So with a right triangle with legs 2 and 3:
=(23)-13(23)3+15(23)5-17(23)7+...
Longest accurate calculation wins the prize!

Art - Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Video. (He created a lot of illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy, find it if you dare.)
Science - Nicholas of Cusa. More on simple lenses here and how lenses correct vision.
Philosophy - John Wycliffe, they couldn’t kill him, but they could declare him a heretic, exhume his body and burn his bones.
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Ferdinand, prince of Aragon, and Isabella, princess of Castile united Spain with their secret wedding, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, expelled the Jews in 1491 to make Spain a Christian nation.

Memorize to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Asian Geographical Features:
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
Lake Baikal
Bering Strait

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the types of simple lenses:
Biconvex
Plano-convex
Positive Meniscus
Negative Meniscus
Plano-concave
Biconcave

More on simple lenses here and how lenses correct vision.

Math: Memorize Using the distributive property, multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately and then add the products. a(b+c)=ab+ac

Learn more about the distributive property.

Greek: Memorize the Greek Imperfect Active Tense to the tune of “Happy Birthday.”
singular
1 ἔλυον
2 ἔλυες
3 ἔλυε
plural
1 ἔλυομεν
2 ἔλυετε
3 ἔλυον

English: Irregular comparatives & superlatives: bad worse worst, good better best, little less, least, many more most.

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or #7 challenge sentence below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 24 sentences:

1. After Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille were secretly married, they united Spain, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, expelled the Jews in 1491, and declared Spain a Christian nation.
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.
7. ***challenge**** Ferdinand, prince of Aragon, and Isabella, princess of Castille united Spain with their secret wedding, took Alhambra from the Muslim king, and expelled the Jews in 1491 to make Spain a Christian nation.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class. The older classes will continue reading The Kite Rider, and the younger classes will continue The Apple and the Arrow in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read about Spain in Story of the World Chapter 28 and make a water mill.

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

Greek: Complete & study lesson 25 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 26.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Nicholas de Cusa and optics.

Math Club: Learn about Al Kashi and the distributive property.

Art Appreciation: Learn about El Greco and draw elongated faces.

Writing Club: DUE ON  APRIL 4, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Continuation of Lesson 22: “Favorite Amusements, Part 1” and Lesson 23: “Favorite Amusements, Part II:  You will be using checklists on both pages 156 (for the paragraphs you completed for Lesson 22) and 161 (for the Introduction and Conclusion) in order to “polish” your 4 paragraph essay.  You will be adding to your essay to be sure you have included all of the elements of structure and style. Underline the vocabulary words you use (from the book). Each are worth one point! Topic sentences need to have keywords highlighted. Clinchers need to have  keywords highlighted. Don’t forget your title! We will add up the points and the student with the most points gets a prize!

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 24 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

Continuation of Lesson 22: “Favorite Amusements, Part 1” and Lesson 23: “Favorite Amusements, Part II:  You will be using checklists on both pages 156 (for the paragraphs you completed for Lesson 22) and 161 (for the Introduction and Conclusion) in order to “polish” your 4 paragraph essay.  You will be adding to your essay to be sure you have included all of the elements of structure and style. Underline the vocabulary words you use (from the book). Each are worth one point! Topic sentences need to have keywords highlighted. Clinchers need to have  keywords highlighted. Don’t forget your title! We will add up the points and the student with the most points gets a prize!

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 24 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 24

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Ivan the Great freed Moscow from the Golden Hored, united Russia, built his palace in the Kremlin in 1462. Ivan the Terrible, tsar of Russia, went mad and committed crimes against his people, and eventually killed his son who was heir to the throne.

Memorize to the tune of Russian Sailor’s Dance.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 23 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Amur River
Indus River
Ganges River
Brahmaputra River
Mikong River
Yangtze River
Yellow River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

Learn more about physics of mechanical advantage on Khan Academy.
The architecture & engineering of Brunelleschi’s Dome of the Cathedral in Florence.

Math: Memorize The numerator of a fractional exponent is an exponent but the denominator is a root.
4^1/2 = 2
27^1/3 = 3
9^3/2 = 27

Learn more about rational exponents on Khan Academy, on CoolMath or on MathisFun!

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ὑπακούω I obey
ἡ παρουσία the presence, coming
ἡ εὐλογία the praise, blessing
ὁ γεωργός the farmer
γνωρίζω I reveal

English:

Comparatives compare two people, places or things with "more" or "-er". Superlative compare three or more with "most" or "-est".

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 23: “Amusement, Part 2”
Diagram Week 24 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: After reading Baba Yaga a Russian Folktale, write one paragraph discussing the allusions to other stories & fairy tales you noticed.

Class Project: Write a story, advertisement or article for the class newspaper!

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

History - Early Rus. Ivan the Great. Ivan the Terrible.
Literature - Phoebe & Cooper - The story we read. Baba Yaga is kind of a big deal.
Science - The architecture & engineering of Brunelleschi’s Dome of the Cathedral in Florence.
Math - Henry - Learn more about rational exponents on Khan Academy, on CoolMath or on MathisFun! Or Research Nicole Oresme
Art - Catalina - St. Basil’s Cathedral or Pick a Renaissance piece from Italy or Northern Europe and talk about history, subject & style.
Philosophy - Jocelyn - Research Nicole Oresme
Geography - Sabine - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Ivan the Great freed Moscow from the Golden Hored, united Russia, built his palace in the Kremlin in 1462. Ivan the Terrible, tsar of Russia, went mad and committed crimes against his people, and eventually killed his son who was heir to the throne.

Memorize to the tune of Russian Sailor’s Dance.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 23 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Amur River
Indus River
Ganges River
Brahmaputra River
Mikong River
Yangtze River
Yellow River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

Learn more about physics of mechanical advantage on Khan Academy.
The architecture & engineering of Brunelleschi’s Dome of the Cathedral in Florence.

Math: Memorize The numerator of a fractional exponent is an exponent but the denominator is a root.
4^1/2 = 2
27^1/3 = 3
9^3/2 = 27

Learn more about rational exponents on Khan Academy, on CoolMath or on MathisFun!

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ὑπακούω I obey
ἡ παρουσία the presence, coming
ἡ εὐλογία the praise, blessing
ὁ γεωργός the farmer
γνωρίζω I reveal

English:

Comparatives compare two people, places or things with "more" or "-er". Superlative compare three or more with "most" or "-est".

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-5 or 6-7 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 24 sentences:
1. Ivan the Terrible, declare yourself tsar of Russia, but your people call you mad because you committed crimes against your people.
2. 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.
3. Resolve your conflict over Calculus, Mr. Newton and Mr. Leibniz, and become intellectual friends, since your students consider both of you geniuses!
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. ***Challenge***Whenever kingship approaches tyranny, it nears its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division, change of dynasty, or total destruction, especially in a temperate climate … where men are habitually, morally and naturally free. -De Moneta (c. 1360)
7. Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification which is achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/22 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/26/18:

History - Early Rus. Ivan the Great. Ivan the Terrible.
Literature - The story we read. Baba Yaga is kind of a big deal.
Science - The architecture & engineering of Brunelleschi’s Dome of the Cathedral in Florence.
Math - Learn more about rational exponents on Khan Academy, on CoolMath or on MathisFun! Or Research Nicole Oresme
Art - St. Basil’s Cathedral or Pick a Renaissance piece from Italy or Northern Europe and talk about history, subject & style.
Philosophy - Research Nicole Oresme
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

Writing: After reading Baba Yaga a Russian Folktale, write one paragraph discussing the allusions to other stories & fairy tales you noticed.

History: Ivan the Great freed Moscow from the Golden Hored, united Russia, built his palace in the Kremlin in 1462. Ivan the Terrible, tsar of Russia, went mad and committed crimes against his people, and eventually killed his son who was heir to the throne.

Memorize to the tune of Russian Sailor’s Dance.
Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 23 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Asian Geographical Features:
Amur River
Indus River
Ganges River
Brahmaputra River
Mikong River
Yangtze River
Yellow River

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

Learn more about physics of mechanical advantage on Khan Academy.
The architecture & engineering of Brunelleschi’s Dome of the Cathedral in Florence.

Math: Memorize The numerator of a fractional exponent is an exponent but the denominator is a root.
4^1/2 = 2
27^1/3 = 3
9^3/2 = 27

Learn more about rational exponents on Khan Academy, on CoolMath or on MathisFun!

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ὑπακούω I obey
ἡ παρουσία the presence, coming
ἡ εὐλογία the praise, blessing
ὁ γεωργός the farmer
γνωρίζω I reveal

English:

Comparatives compare two people, places or things with "more" or "-er". Superlative compare three or more with "most" or "-est".

Investigate comparative & superlative adjectives on this page of Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-5 or 6-7 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 24 sentences:
1. Ivan the Terrible, declare yourself tsar of Russia, but your people call you mad because you committed crimes against your people.
2. 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.
3. Resolve your conflict over Calculus, Mr. Newton and Mr. Leibniz, and become intellectual friends, since your students consider both of you geniuses!
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. ***Challenge***Whenever kingship approaches tyranny, it nears its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division, change of dynasty, or total destruction, especially in a temperate climate … where men are habitually, morally and naturally free. -De Moneta (c. 1360)
7. Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification which is achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep practicing your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening! Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class. The older classes will begin The Kite Rider, and the youngest class will continue The Apple and the Arrow in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read about the Russians in Story of the World Chapter 23 and make Russian Batik.

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

Greek: Complete & study lesson 24 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 25.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Filippo Brunelleschi’s engineering.

Math Club: Learn about Nicole d’Oresme and rational exponents.

Art Appreciation: Continue studying Russians & decorate Russian eggs.

Writing Club: DUE ON March 28, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Lesson 23: “Favorite Amusements, Part 2”.  You will be adding a paragraph of Introduction and a paragraph of Conclusion to your two paragraph essay from Lesson 22.  Read “The Assignment” on page 160. Read page 158 all about the Introduction and fill out the “Outline Introduction” if you did not do so in class. Read page 159 all about the Conclusion and fill out “Outline a conclusion” if you did not do so in class. Use the Checklist on page 161 to be sure you have added all of the elements of Structure and Style you need this week have a new sentence opener! The #3,  -ly Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 23 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

Lesson 23: “Favorite Amusements, Part 2”.  You will be adding a paragraph of Introduction and a paragraph of Conclusion to your two paragraph essay from Lesson 22.  Read “The Assignment” on page 160. Read page 158 all about the Introduction and fill out the “Outline Introduction” if you did not do so in class. Read page 159 all about the Conclusion and fill out “Outline a conclusion” if you did not do so in class. Use the Checklist on page 161 to be sure you have added all of the elements of Structure and Style you need this week have a new sentence opener! The #3,  -ly Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 23 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 23

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 22: “Amusement”
Diagram Week 23 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

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

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

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

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep practicing your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening! Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class. We’ll continue reading Otto of the Silver Hand and The Apple and the Arrow in class.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

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

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

Middle Ages Week 22

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”

Diagram Week 22 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: After reading Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies, look at that wikipedia link and find a woman who most interests you. Then write a paragraph about her contributions, virtues, and innovations. Be sure to include stylistic techniques such as -ly adverb, quality adjective, strong verb, who/which clause, www.asia.b clause, a variety of sentence openers, and an alliteration or simile/metaphor or conversation and label them all in the margin. Be ready to present your final draft next week.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

Science - Henry & Jocelyn - Guy de Chauliac and surgical knots. Here’s a video for actually suturing a living thing.
History - Sabine? The Fall of Constantinople. Interesting article about the guns used to attack Constantinople. Be sure to read about making and firing the 27-foot “horrifying and extraordinary monster.” Here’s the Economist article we read in class and a unit on Khan Academy.
Literature - Catalina Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies.
Art - Gino & Cooper - Albrecht Durer. Click around on the website to read his biography and to look at his complete works! Here’s a Khan Academy video too.
Math - Phoebe - Qin Jiushao wrote The nine chapters on the mathematical art. “He was a dishonest rogue who was quite prepared to poison those whom he disliked.”
Philosophy - Gersonides thinks opinions are not as strong as reality. Do you? He invented the cross staff.
Geography - Pick an East Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7-8 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 22 sentences:
1. The fall of Constantinople, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453 is deemed the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.
2. Magellan circumnavigates the globe in 1522, but when he lands in the Philippines, Chief Lapu Lapu considers him a threat and kills him on the beach!
3. John Calvin is named the Father of Calvinism, because he wrote his Institutes in 1536 in Switzerland!
4. Historians call Copernicus a great Renaissance scientist, because he put the sun at the center of the universe, and he wrote The Revolutions!
5. England crowned Elizabeth I queen, although she was not married, and she ruled for 45 years!
6. Guy de Chauliac described sutures in Chirurgia magna, and he named some ligatures.
***Challenge****
7. Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople, and then they named it Istanbul.
8. No argument can nullify the reality that is perceived by the senses, for true opinion must follow reality, but reality need not conform to opinion.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/1 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/5/18:

Science - Guy de Chauliac and surgical knots. Here’s a video for actually suturing a living thing.
History - The Fall of Constantinople. Interesting article about the guns used to attack Constantinople. Be sure to read about making and firing the 27-foot “horrifying and extraordinary monster.” Here’s the Economist article we read in class and a unit on Khan Academy.
Literature - Christine de Pisan’s The City of Ladies. Look at that wikipedia link and find a woman who most interests you.
Art - Albrecht Durer. Click around on the website to read his biography and to look at his complete works! Here’s a Khan Academy video too.
Math - Qin Jiushao wrote The nine chapters on the mathematical art. “He was a dishonest rogue who was quite prepared to poison those whom he disliked.”
Philosophy - Gersonides thinks opinions are not as strong as reality. Do you? He invented the cross staff.
Geography - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

Writing: Create a game and write detailed instructions of the pieces or cards, strategies and how to play.  Write your user manual as if you are writing to a ten-year-old in the style of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Review these topics:

History: Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople then they turned it into Istanbul. The fall of Rome with Constantinople hit the Eastern Church in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 24 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Read an article published in the Economist.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Eastern Asia:
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Surgical Knots:
Surgical Tie
Surgical Slip Tie
Ligature
Surgical Constrictor

Practice tying them by watching these videos we saw in class.

Math: Memorize The polynomial remainder theorem states that the remainder of the division of a polynomial f(x) by a linear polynomial x-a is equal to f(a).

Learn more about polynomials and check out the animation of Synthetic Division.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
ἀντί instead of
ἀποθνῄσκω I die
ἀποκτείνω I kill
ἡ Γαλιλαία Galilee
δοξάζω I glorify

English:
Coordinating conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses that are the same: for and nor but or yet so

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-6 or 7-8 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 22 sentences:
1. The fall of Constantinople, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453 is deemed the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance.
2. Magellan circumnavigates the globe in 1522, but when he lands in the Philippines, Chief Lapu Lapu considers him a threat and kills him on the beach!
3. John Calvin is named the Father of Calvinism, because he wrote his Institutes in 1536 in Switzerland!
4. Historians call Copernicus a great Renaissance scientist, because he put the sun at the center of the universe, and he wrote The Revolutions!
5. England crowned Elizabeth I queen, although she was not married, and she ruled for 45 years!
6. Guy de Chauliac described sutures in Chirurgia magna, and he named some ligatures.
***Challenge****
7. Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople by building a canon across the Bosphorus which crumbled the walls of Constantinople, and then they named it Istanbul.
8. No argument can nullify the reality that is perceived by the senses, for true opinion must follow reality, but reality need not conform to opinion.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Keep practicing your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening! Keep reading your Medieval Book Club books at home, and be ready to present a critique in class (much like we did with the Demi books last Tuesday). We’ll continue reading Otto of the Silver Hand and The Apple and the Arrow in class.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 24 in class and use our printing presses to create a newspaper announcing the Fall of Constantinople.

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

Greek: Complete & study lesson 22 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 23.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Guy de Chauliac.

Math Club: Learn about Qin and play a game of synthetic division.

Art Appreciation: Study Durer and create an etching.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Lesson 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”.  Read “The Assignment” on page 144. This assignment will use two sources.  One is from the textbook and the other you will chose by doing research. You will create a 2-paragraph report. Read Source One from the textbook pages 145-146.  Using the template on page 147, make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John). Next, read Source TWO from your research and make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John).  You will have 2 Keyword Outlines for each topic (4 total). Create a Fused Outline for BOTH Topic A and Topic B. From the Fused Outlines, write your two paragraphs. Be sure to use the checklist on page 150 to be sure you have included all of the necessary Structure and Style. Remember we have a new sentence opener! The #2, preposition.  Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 21 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  
Lesson 21: “King Richard and His Brother John”.  Read “The Assignment” on page 144. This assignment will use two sources.  One was handed out in class or you can use “Story of the World” Chapter 19, pages 174-177.   You will create a 2-paragraph report. Read Source One from the textbook pages 145-146. Using the template on page 147,  make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John). Next, read Source TWO from your research and make a Keyword Outline for Topic A (King Richard) and a Keyword Outline for Topic B (King John).  You will have 2 Keyword Outlines for each topic (4 total). Create a Fused Outline for BOTH Topic A and Topic B. From the Fused Outlines, write your two paragraphs. Be sure to use the checklist on page 150 to be sure you have included all of the necessary Structure and Style. Remember we have a new sentence opener! The #2, preposition.  Try to add some vocabulary to add interest to your report.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 21 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 21

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin

Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C

Learn more about the Law of Sines.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut

English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 25 Introduction & Conclusion

Diagram Week 21 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing: Create a game and write detailed instructions of the pieces or cards, strategies and how to play.  Write your user manual as if you are writing to a ten-year-old in the style of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

Science - Astrolabe - http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
History - Phoebe - The Hundred Years’ War - interesting facts about Hundred Years War Joan of Arc
Literature - Henry - Divine Comedy - http://foxtwin.com/inferno/
Art - Jocelyn & Catalina - Pick a Renaissance painting and discuss its history, subject & style. Here’s the link from class - The Arnolfini Portrait
Math - Cooper - Nasir al Din Al Tusi, Law of Sines
Philosophy - William of Occam and Occam’s Razor.
Geography - Sabine & Gino - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin

Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C

Learn more about the Law of Sines.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut

English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-8 or 9-10 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 21 sentences:

1. Henry V of England named Aquitaine an English territory, but Charles VI called it France, so they fought the Hundred Years War.
2. Historians call Michelangelo a brilliant artist, because he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and visitors admire it still.
3. Columbus called Native Americans Indians because he assumed he had reached Asia, but he had discovered America.
4. The king of Portugal pronounced Vasco da Gama Count of Vidigueria after he rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage.
5. Since Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church, Protestants named him the Father of the Reformation, but the Catholic Church called him an apostate.
6. The Aztecs called Cortes a god because he was white, and their tradition prophesied about him.
7. The Ottoman Empire considered Suleiman the Lawgiver.
8. Chaucer named the tip of an astrolabe the horse.
***Challenge***
9. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII to win Orleans, but then he lost to the Burgundians, and the English named her a witch.
10. Nasir al Din Al Tusi published The Complete Quadrilateral in Persian, which considered trigonometry its own discipline and named his triangle formula the Law of Sines.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 3/1 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 3/5/18:

Science - Astrolabe - http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
History - Phoebe - The Hundred Years’ War - interesting facts about Hundred Years War Joan of Arc
Literature - Henry - Divine Comedy - http://foxtwin.com/inferno/
Art - Jocelyn & Catalina - Pick a Renaissance painting and discuss its history, subject & style. Here’s the link from class - The Arnolfini Portrait
Math - Cooper - Nasir al Din Al Tusi, Law of Sines
Philosophy - William of Occam and Occam’s Razor.
Geography - Sabine & Gino - Pick an Asian country, research its history, culture & geographical features.

History: Henry V of England fought Charles VI of France in the Hundred Years War. In 1415 England won at Agincourt. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII win Orleans, but he lost to the Burgundians who sold her off to England.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 26 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these countries of Southeast Asia:
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Timor-Leste
Brunei
Philippines

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Parts of an astrolabe:
horse
rete
plates
mater
throne
alidade
pin

Math: Memorize The Law of Sines states a/sin A=b/sin B=c/sin C

Learn more about the Law of Sines.

Greek: Memorize this Greek vocabulary:
θεραπεύω I heal
διώκω I persecute
εὑρίσκω I find
ὁ θρόνος the throne
κόπτω I cut

English: Demonstrative pronouns identify a noun nearby or far away: this that these those

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-8 or 9-10 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 21 sentences:

1. Henry V of England named Aquitaine an English territory, but Charles VI called it France, so they fought the Hundred Years War.
2. Historians call Michelangelo a brilliant artist, because he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and visitors admire it still.
3. Columbus called Native Americans Indians because he assumed he had reached Asia, but he had discovered America.
4. The king of Portugal pronounced Vasco da Gama Count of Vidigueria after he rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his voyage.
5. Since Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church, Protestants named him the Father of the Reformation, but the Catholic Church called him an apostate.
6. The Aztecs called Cortes a god because he was white, and their tradition prophesied about him.
7. The Ottoman Empire considered Suleiman the Lawgiver.
8. Chaucer named the tip of an astrolabe the horse.
***Challenge***
9. French Joan of Arc helped Charles VII to win Orleans, but then he lost to the Burgundians, and the English named her a witch.
10. Nasir al Din Al Tusi published The Complete Quadrilateral in Persian, which considered trigonometry its own discipline and named his triangle formula the Law of Sines.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Memorize your monologue from Good Masters Sweet Ladies and be ready to present it in class and during opening!

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 26 in class and make a long bow.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 21 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 22.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Chaucer’s astrolabe, take a quiz on the astrolabe to earn your own laser cut one.

Math Club: Learn about Nasir al Din Al Tusi and the Law of Sines.

Art Appreciation: Study Bosch and Brueghel & symbolism. Create a piece with a moral and many many symbols.

Writing Club:
Writing Club Homework: Week 20  DUE ON March 7,  2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173. “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  Add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE  PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  Try to add vocabulary! There will be a quiz soon……  You will be presenting the Introduction and Conclusion.  Use the checklist on page 175 to be sure you have  included all the necessary structure

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 20 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!



Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  
 

For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173. “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  Add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE  PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  Try to add vocabulary! There will be a quiz soon……  You will be presenting the Introduction and Conclusion.  Use the checklist on page 175 to be sure you have included all the necessary structure

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 20 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 20

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians - PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

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

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 20, “Knights, Part 2”
Diagram Week 19 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 3 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading about Gutenberg’s printing press, write two persuasive paragraphs. In the first, pretend you’re an official of the Catholic Church or government, and write the negative effects of printing. In the second, take the perspective of a common peasant, and write the positive effects!

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 2/15/18 - Please read these, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - Sabine - what Columbus knew about the earth, Look at the maps on pages 8, 10 and 12 to see how stretched out Ptolemy’s map (orange dots) was, and how accurate Eratosthenes’ was (yellow dots). It also has green dots for the modern location. Why do you think Columbus thought Asia was closer with Ptolemy’s map?
History - Phoebe - how printing press changed the world
Science - Jocelyn, Cooper - Ibn al Baitar created a Pharmacopia, a large book about medicines. Drugs.com has a good list of medical uses for plants.
Art - Gino - paper-making, Henry - casting type, type-setting, printing press demonstration, demonstration in museum
Literature - Sabine? Canterbury Tales summary on SparkNotes
Math - Li Ye

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

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

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 20 sentences:
1. Who built the Incas Machu Picchu, which is a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for ruling elites of their civilization?
2. Did the Turks win their empire Constantinople?
3. Who invented the printing press, and what did he print us?
4. What did Ivan the Great rule in 1462?
5. Did Da Vinci give us many ideas, since he invented flying contraptions in Italy?
6. Expand the Songhay Empire in Africa as Sunni Ali did in 1470.
7. Give peace a chance like Buddhist Ashoka did!
8. Tell me the planets in order until you have them memorized.
9. Did Euclid give us a systematic development of Geometry when he wrote The Elements?
***Challenge***
10. Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1436 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible, creating an intellectual revival.
11. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.

 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 3 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading about Gutenberg’s printing press, write two persuasive paragraphs. In the first, pretend you’re an official of the Catholic Church or government, and write the negative effects of printing. In the second, take the perspective of a common peasant, and write the positive effects!

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics from class Thursday 2/15/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - what Columbus knew about the earth, Look at the maps on pages 8, 10 and 12 to see how stretched out Ptolemy’s map (orange dots) was, and how accurate Eratosthenes’ was (yellow dots). It also has green dots for the modern location. Why do you think Columbus thought Asia was closer with Ptolemy’s map?
History - how printing press changed the world
Science - Ibn al Baitar created a Pharmacopia, a large book about medicines. Drugs.com has a good list of medical uses for plants.
Art - paper-making, Henry - casting type, type-setting, printing press demonstration, demonstration in museum
Literature - Canterbury Tales summary on SparkNotes
Math - Li Ye

History: Memorize “Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1455 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible creating an intellectual revival.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 35 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the book printing in Medieval Times on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Southern Asia countries:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.”

Read more about  a good list of medical uses for plants.

Math: Memorize “The absolute value of a number is its numerical value, magnitude or distance from zero.”

Find out more about absolute value on Khan Academy.

Greek: Complete lesson 20 in your workbook and Memorize Present Active Indicative Verb "to be"

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

English: Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 20 sentences:
1. Who built the Incas Machu Picchu, which is a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for ruling elites of their civilization?
2. Did the Turks win their empire Constantinople?
3. Who invented the printing press, and what did he print us?
4. What did Ivan the Great rule in 1462?
5. Did Da Vinci give us many ideas, since he invented flying contraptions in Italy?
6. Expand the Songhay Empire in Africa as Sunni Ali did in 1470.
7. Give peace a chance like Buddhist Ashoka did!
8. Tell me the planets in order until you have them memorized.
9. Did Euclid give us a systematic development of Geometry when he wrote The Elements?
***Challenge***
10. Gutenberg was a metallurgist, in 1436 made a printing press, set some type and copied the Bible, creating an intellectual revival.
11. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources.
 

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. Practice your monologue or duet from Good Masters, Sweet Ladies if you’d like to perform it during opening!

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 32 in class and make our own printing presses.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This has taken us a few weeks as we’ve reviewed several other propositions from the first four books. We’re almost done!

Greek: Complete & study lesson 20 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 21.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll use astrolabes and learn about Geoffrey Chaucer.

Math Club: Learn about Li Yeh and absolute value.

Art Appreciation:

Writing Club Homework:
Week 18  DUE ON FEBRUARY 28,  2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

We are moving on to Lesson 25!  We will return to Lessons 21-24 in the next session. However, if you did not finish assignments for Lessons 19 and/or 20 complete the paragraphs on:                         Topic A: “Duties of Knights’
                        Topic B: “Code of Chivalry”
                        Topic C: Training

Use the checklist for Lesson 20 (on page 142). Include a #2 Sentence opener in each paragraph.. Read about #2 Sentence openers on page 138! Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   Add a Bibliography!  Read page 141 to learn how or use easybib.com if you chose your own source. Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced. Paragraphs on Topics A, B, and C are due February 28th. For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173 “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  

We will discuss your ideas in class next time and plan to add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  So exciting, right?  We may also learn more fun Sentence Openers!  I can’t wait until Spring Session I

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 19 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!
 

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

We are moving on to Lesson 25!  We will return to Lessons 21-24 in the next session. However, if you did not finish assignments for Lessons 19 and/or 20 complete the paragraphs on:

                        Topic A: “Duties of Knights’
                        Topic B: “Code of Chivalry”
                        Topic C: Training

Use the checklist for Lesson 20 (on page 142). Include a #2 Sentence opener in each paragraph.. Read about #2 Sentence openers on page 138! Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   Add a Bibliography!  Read page 141 to learn how or use easybib.com if you chose your own source. Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced. Paragraphs on Topics A, B, and C are due February 28th. For Lesson 25: read pages 169-174. Do exercises on page 173 “Dramatic Open-Close: Very Short Sentence VSS”.  

We will discuss your ideas in class next time and plan to add an Introduction and Conclusion to complete our FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY!  So exciting, right?  We may also learn more fun Sentence Openers!  I can’t wait until Spring Session I

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 19 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 19

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu, the Incan empire, grew out from Cuzco, Peru. King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile. Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1572.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Incas on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Central Asian countries:
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Scientific theories must be independently verified in order for them to hold authority.”

Learn more about making gunpowder….don’t try this at home without a parent!

Math: Memorize “The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where a number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Starting with 0 and 1, the sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so forth. Written as a rule, the expression is xn = xn-1 + xn-2”

Find out more on Khan Academy: Doodling in Math Vi Hart video & Golden Ratio

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 19 in your workbook.

ἡ μαρτυρία the testimony
ὁ ὀφθαλμός the eye
τό στάδιον the stadium
ἡ κώμη the village
ἡ σωτηρία the salvation

English: Memorize “Interrogative pronouns ask a question: what which who whom whose”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 20, “Knights, Part 2”

Diagram Week 19 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 2 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading St. Erkenwald, write an alliterative poem. Suggestion: use the letters of your first name for each line and write a poetic story about yourself.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 2/8/18 - Please read these, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - Sabine - Europe

History - Gina, Catalina, Jocelyn - Incas on Khan Academy, Lots of information in this artlcle. Incan Hymns by the creator of Tawantinsuyu, Pachacutec. Good pictures in this article.

Science - Cooper & Henry - A little art about Roger Bacon’s gunpowder. A detailed biography. How to make gunpowder

Art - Phoebe - Incan Art

Literature - A good article in Wikipedia (especially check out the stuff about the yogh). Here’s the original text.

Math - Khan Academy: Doodling in Math Vi Hart video & Golden Ratio. Learn about Leonardo of Pisa.

History: Memorize “In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu, the Incan empire, grew out from Cuzco, Peru. King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile. Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1572.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Incas on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Central Asian countries:
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Scientific theories must be independently verified in order for them to hold authority.”

Learn more about making gunpowder….don’t try this at home without a parent!

Math: Memorize “The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where a number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Starting with 0 and 1, the sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so forth. Written as a rule, the expression is xn = xn-1 + xn-2”

Find out more on Khan Academy: Doodling in Math Vi Hart video & Golden Ratio

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 19 in your workbook.

ἡ μαρτυρία the testimony
ὁ ὀφθαλμός the eye
τό στάδιον the stadium
ἡ κώμη the village
ἡ σωτηρία the salvation

English: Memorize “Interrogative pronouns ask a question: what which who whom whose”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 19 sentences:

1. After the Yuan collapse, Hongwu founds China the Ming dynasty.
2. Chaucer wrote the King's Court the Canterbury Tales in 1387!
3. Fra Angelico, who painted The Annunciation, left us his masterpieces.
4. Henry the Navigator sponsored explorers who founded Portugual new colonies.
5. Durer and Bruegel painted when the Renaissance was changing Europe.
6. Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the British.
7. In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu expanded from Cuzco, Peru because King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile.
8. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great physics and philosophy.
9. Aristotle founds the Peripatetic School in the Lyceum Temple after he studies for 20 years at Plato's Academy.
***Challenge***
10. In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu, the Incan empire, expanded from Cuzco, Peru because King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile, but then Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1572.
11. Scientific theories must be independently verified in order for them to hold authority.

 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

***Study countries & geographical features of Europe - Quiz 2 next week

Writing Assignment:  After reading St. Erkenwald, write an alliterative poem. Suggestion: use the letters of your first name or a secret message for each line and write a poetic story about yourself.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics from class Thursday 2/8/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Geography - Europe
History - Incas on Khan Academy, Lots of information in this artlcle. Incan Hymns by the creator of Tawantinsuyu, Pachacutec. Good pictures in this article.
Science - A little art about Roger Bacon’s gunpowder. A detailed biography. How to make gunpowder
Art - Incan Art
Literature - A good article in Wikipedia (especially check out the stuff about the yogh). Here’s the original text.
Math - Khan Academy: Doodling in Math Vi Hart video & Golden Ratio. Learn more about Leonardo of Pisa.
History: Memorize “In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu, the Incan empire, grew out from Cuzco, Peru. King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile. Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1572.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Incas on Khan Academy.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Central Asian countries:
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Scientific theories must be independently verified in order for them to hold authority.”

Learn more about making gunpowder….don’t try this at home without a parent!

Math: Memorize “The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where a number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Starting with 0 and 1, the sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so forth. Written as a rule, the expression is xn = xn-1 + xn-2”

Find out more on Khan Academy: Doodling in Math Vi Hart video & Golden Ratio

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 19 in your workbook.

ἡ μαρτυρία the testimony
ὁ ὀφθαλμός the eye
τό στάδιον the stadium
ἡ κώμη the village
ἡ σωτηρία the salvation

English: Memorize “Interrogative pronouns ask a question: what which who whom whose”

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 19 sentences:
1. After the Yuan collapse, Hongwu founds China the Ming dynasty.
2. Chaucer wrote the King's Court the Canterbury Tales in 1387!
3. Fra Angelico, who painted The Annunciation, left us his masterpieces.
4. Henry the Navigator sponsored explorers who founded Portugual new colonies.
5. Durer and Bruegel painted when the Renaissance was changing Europe.
6. Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the British.
7. In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu expanded from Cuzco, Peru because King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile.
8. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great physics and philosophy.
9. Aristotle founds the Peripatetic School in the Lyceum Temple after he studies for 20 years at Plato's Academy.
***Challenge***
10. In the early 1400s, Tahuantinsuyu, the Incan empire, expanded from Cuzco, Peru because King Pachacuti conquered land from Columbia to Chile, but then Francisco Pizarro conquered them in 1572.
11. Scientific theories must be independently verified in order for them to hold authority.
 

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. Finish your comic strip: Take a character from your reading and imagine him/her as an animal.  Use the Story Sequence to create a short story in three frames: 1. Setting and Characters, 2. Conflict, 3. Climax and Resolution.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 32 in class and make Incan "bolas".

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 19 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 20.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Roger Bacon and make gunpowder.

Math Club: Learn about Fibonacci and his sequence.

Art Appreciation: Study the Cuzco School.

Writing Club Homework: Week 17  DUE ON FEBRUARY 14, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Complete Lesson 20, “Knights, Part 2" Read “The Assignment” on page 139.  Do your TWO  Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about ‘Code of Chivalry"” from  Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 128-131 .You only need to read the paragraphs about “Code of Chivalry”. You will be working with TOPIC B:“Code of Chivalry”. Chose interesting and/or important facts about the Code of Chivalry.  DO NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 3. Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE  on Topic B using the most interesting or important facts from your Keyword Outline. Use page  140 to write your FUSED OUTLINE for TOPIC B ONLY.  Next, do your TWO Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about “Training” from Source Text 2 on page 130-131 AND from Source Text 3 on page 132. DO NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 1.  You will be working with TOPIC C: “Training”.  Chose interesting and/or important facts about training of knights. Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE on Topic C with the most interesting or important facts from your Keyword Outline.  Use page 140 to write your FUSED OUTLINE for TOPIC C only. Use the checklist on page 142 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  We have a new one this week; # 2 Sentence opener. Read about it on page 138!

Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 18 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

Complete Lesson 20, “Knights, Part 2" Read “The Assignment” on page 139.  Do your TWO  Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about ‘Code of Chivalry"” from  Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 128-131 .You only need to read the paragraphs about “Code of Chivalry”. You will be working with TOPIC B:“Code of Chivalry”. Chose interesting and/or important facts about the Code of Chivalry.  DO NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 3. Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE  on Topic B using the most interesting or important facts from your Keyword Outline. Use page  140 to write your FUSED OUTLINE for TOPIC B ONLY.  Next, do your TWO Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about “Training” from Source Text 2 on page 130-131 AND from Source Text 3 on page 132. DO NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 1.  You will be working with TOPIC C: “Training”.  Chose interesting and/or important facts about training of knights. Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE on Topic C with the most interesting or important facts from your Keyword Outline.  Use page 140 to write your FUSED OUTLINE for TOPIC C only. Use the checklist on page 142 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  We have a new one this week; # 2 Sentence opener. Read about it on page 138!

Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your Final Draft for Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C.   The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 18 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 18

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Though sailors sailed for thousands of years,  Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding and trade winds and cartography. Europe began the Exploration Age in 1415.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Learn more on Khan Academy:
Origins of European Exploration of the Americas video
Motivation for European conquest of the New World

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Iraq
Iran

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Simple Machines and explore on Khan Academy:
Lever
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Inclined plane
Wedge
Screw

Math: Memorize "A positive exponent is how many times to multiply by the number. A negative exponent is how many times to divide by the number. 2^3=8 but 2^(-3)=⅛."

Investigate exponents on Khan Academy

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
τό πρόβατον the sheep
ὁ ἥλιος the sun
Αβραάμ  Abraham
ὁ δῆμος the people
ὁ γάμος the wedding

English: Memorize the helping verbs to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Helping verbs, helping verbs there are 23: am are is was were being been be have has had do does did shall should will & would.  There are 5 more helping verbs: may must might can could

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 19, “Knights, Part 1"
Diagram Week 18 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing Assignment:  After reading “The Priest’s Tale” from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, identify literary devices (for example simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, imagery, irony, allusion, etc.) and write a paragraph about the author’s technique and how it helps convey the story.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 2/1/18 - Please read these, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Math: I like this article on al-Samawal the best. Check out the equation for the sum of square numbers! Watch this video if you’re curious about what you can and can’t do with zero.
Science: Catalina & Henry escapement theory, lego escapement perpetual motion teeter totter, Is perpetual motion possible? The escapements we watched in science on Thursday. Also, Villard de Honnecourt’s sketches.
Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas, the dumb ox.
History: Gino - quadrant,  Origins of European Exploration of the Americas video
Motivation for European conquest of the New World
Literature: Sabine - personification
Art: Jocelyn & Cooper - You made Linear Perspective so learn more about it. Watch both videos and read the article.
Phoebe: Greek

History: Memorize “Though sailors sailed for thousands of years,  Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding and trade winds and cartography. Europe began the Exploration Age in 1415.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Learn more on Khan Academy:
Origins of European Exploration of the Americas video
Motivation for European conquest of the New World

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Iraq
Iran

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Simple Machines and explore on Khan Academy:
Lever
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Inclined plane
Wedge
Screw

Math: Memorize "A positive exponent is how many times to multiply by the number. A negative exponent is how many times to divide by the number. 2^3=8 but 2^(-3)=⅛."

Investigate exponents on Khan Academy

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
τό πρόβατον the sheep
ὁ ἥλιος the sun
Αβραάμ  Abraham
ὁ δῆμος the people
ὁ γάμος the wedding

English: Memorize the helping verbs to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Helping verbs, helping verbs there are 23: am are is was were being been be have has had do does did shall should will & would.  There are 5 more helping verbs: may must might can could

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 18 sentences:
1. After Thomas Aquinas reinterprets Aristotle, give me a copy.
2. Found the Ottoman empire for the Turks!
3. Write me a parody of Heaven like Dante.
4. Be wealthy in Mali because Mansa Musa gave you gold!
5. Build the Aztecs a city which was called Tenochtitlan.
6. Do not give your people Black Plague when you arrive in Europe by boat!
7. Though sailors sailed for thousands of years, Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding.
8. Assemble a clock, as you illustrate Plato's theory of the Demiurge.
9. Plato founded Greece his Academy in Athens.
10. Draw me the islands of Greece, since you are learning them.
11. Name all twenty-three helping verbs!
***Challenge***
12. Though sailors sailed for thousands of years, Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding and trade winds and cartography, and Europe began the Exploration Age in 1415.
13. The simple machines are lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

Writing Assignment:  After reading “The Priest’s Tale” from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, identify literary devices (for example simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, imagery, irony, allusion, etc.) and write a paragraph about the author’s technique and how it helps convey the story.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics from class Thursday 2/1/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Math: I like this article on al-Samawal the best. Check out the equation for the sum of square numbers! Watch this video if you’re curious about what you can and can’t do with zero.
Science: Catalina & Henry escapement theory, lego escapement perpetual motion teeter totter, Is perpetual motion possible? The escapements we watched in science on Thursday. Also, Villard de Honnecourt’s sketches.
Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas, the dumb ox.
History: Gino - quadrant,  Origins of European Exploration of the Americas video
Motivation for European conquest of the New World
Literature: Sabine - personification
Art: Jocelyn & Cooper - You made Linear Perspective so learn more about it. Watch both videos and read the article.
Phoebe: Greek

History: Memorize “Though sailors sailed for thousands of years,  Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding and trade winds and cartography. Europe began the Exploration Age in 1415.“

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 28 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.
Learn more on Khan Academy:
Origins of European Exploration of the Americas video
Motivation for European conquest of the New World

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Iraq
Iran

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize the Simple Machines and explore on Khan Academy:
Lever
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Inclined plane
Wedge
Screw

Math: Memorize "A positive exponent is how many times to multiply by the number. A negative exponent is how many times to divide by the number. 2^3=8 but 2^(-3)=⅛."

Investigate exponents on Khan Academy

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
τό πρόβατον the sheep
ὁ ἥλιος the sun
Αβραάμ  Abraham
ὁ δῆμος the people
ὁ γάμος the wedding

English: Memorize the helping verbs to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Helping verbs, helping verbs there are 23: am are is was were being been be have has had do does did shall should will & would.  There are 5 more helping verbs: may must might can could

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-11 or 12-13 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 18 sentences:
1. After Thomas Aquinas reinterprets Aristotle, give me a copy.
2. Found the Ottoman empire for the Turks!
3. Write me a parody of Heaven like Dante.
4. Be wealthy in Mali because Mansa Musa gave you gold!
5. Build the Aztecs a city which was called Tenochtitlan.
6. Do not give your people Black Plague when you arrive in Europe by boat!
7. Though sailors sailed for thousands of years, Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding.
8. Assemble a clock, as you illustrate Plato's theory of the Demiurge.
9. Plato founded Greece his Academy in Athens.
10. Draw me the islands of Greece, since you are learning them.
11. Name all twenty-three helping verbs!
***Challenge***
12. Though sailors sailed for thousands of years, Prince Henry funded new research in shipbuilding and trade winds and cartography, and Europe began the Exploration Age in 1415.
13. The simple machines are lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.

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. Finish your quick write story: Take a character from Medieval literature and imagine him/her in today’s context, at your house, etc.  Use the Story Sequence to create a short story: 1. Setting and Characters, 2. Conflict, 3. Climax and Resolution.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 28 in class and make compass bracelets.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 18 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 19.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Villard de Honnecourt and make an escapement.

Math Club: Learn about Al-Samawal and exponents.

Art Appreciation: Study Ghiberti and the Baptistery doors in Florence.

Writing Club Homework: Week 17  DUE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Complete Lesson 19, “Knights, Part 1" Read “The Assignment” on page 127  Do your TWO Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about ‘DUTIES” from  Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 128-131 You only need to read the paragraphs about “Duties”. You will be working with TOPIC A “Duties of Knights"   Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE on page  134 for TOPIC A ONLY. DO
NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 3 for this assignment!

Use the checklist on page 135 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  

Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your Rough Draft of TOPIC A ONLY.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 17 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  
Complete Lesson 19, “Knights, Part 1" Read “The Assignment” on page 127  Do your TWO Keyword Outlines after reading the topic about ‘DUTIES” from  Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 128-131 You only need to read the paragraphs about “Duties”. You will be working with TOPIC A “Duties of Knights"   Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE on page  134 for TOPIC A ONLY. DO NOT USE SOURCE TEXT 3 for this assignment!

Use the checklist on page 135 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  

Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your Rough Draft of TOPIC A ONLY.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 17 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 17

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “In 1347, the plague came from Asia to Sicily. 50 million people died, and 30 million Europeans survived. France and England fought for land for over one hundred years and then in 1429 teen Joan of Arc led a French victory.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 25 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Plague for kids.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Turkey
Syria
Cyprus
Lebanon
Palestine
Israel
Jordan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Kinematics is the study of the geometry of motion through the action of forces on masses.”

Math: Memorize "The rule of three is the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given."

Investigate the Rule of Three on Smartick and practice on Khan Academy.

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
ἀνοίγω I open
ἐλέγχω I rebuke
σπείρω I sow
παραλαμβάνω I receive
πάλιν again

English: Memorize “A helping verb helps another verb portray time in the sentence.”

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 18, “Medieval Cathedrals."
Diagram Week 17 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6th grades)

Writing Assignment:  After reading the Decameron, write a 3 paragraph story following the story sequence from a Key Word Outline. (1. Setting and Characters, 2. Conflict/Problem, 3. Climax & Resolution)  Include stylistic elements such as ly words, quality adjectives, strong verbs, who/which clauses, www.asia.b clauses, varied openers, conversation, alliteration, simile/metaphor, etc.  Imagine that you and your friends are stuck in a secret location while a deadly epidemic plagues the world.  You tell stories as if around a campfire or at a slumber party.  

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 1/25/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Math: Bhaskara: Here is his daughter’s story with embellishments, and some comments about his mathematics. Two more word problems from Lilavati: One and Another. Try them!

Science: John Sacrobosco: His book Sphaera was a scientific best seller for centuries. Look at some of the pages here.

Philosophy: Maimonides: Good article here.
Good Video.

History:
Bubonic Plague on Khan Academy
Black Death & a fresco on Khan Academy
Plague for kids

Literature: The Decameron by Boccaccio influences many, many of the greatest writers and artists. Like Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well.

History: Memorize “In 1347, the plague came from Asia to Sicily. 50 million people died, and 30 million Europeans survived. France and England fought for land for over one hundred years and then in 1429 teen Joan of Arc led a French victory.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 25 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Plague for kids.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Turkey
Syria
Cyprus
Lebanon
Palestine
Israel
Jordan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Kinematics is the study of the geometry of motion through the action of forces on masses.”

Math: Memorize "The rule of three is the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given."

Investigate the Rule of Three on Smartick and practice on Khan Academy.

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
ἀνοίγω I open
ἐλέγχω I rebuke
σπείρω I sow
παραλαμβάνω I receive
πάλιν again

English: Memorize “A helping verb helps another verb portray time in the sentence.”

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 17 sentences:

1. Who translated Aristotle in Spain, so that he could give Europe his ancient ideas?
2. Where did the Maori arrive around 1200 AD?
3. Did Fibonacci publish Liber Abaci?
4. Did Genghis Khan win the Mongols China, and did he conquer Asia?
5. Who gave King John the Magna Carta before he signed it?
6. Was Marco Polo an explorer since he journeyed to China?
7. When the plague came from Asia to Sicily, how many people died?
8. Did Plato teach people his model of the universe so that they could live good lives?
9. Eudoxus developed which theory of proportion? 
***Challenge***
10. In 1347, when the plague came from Asia to Sicily, 50 million people died, and 30 million Europeans survived.
11. France and England fought for land for over one hundred years and then in 1429 teen Joan of Arc led a French victory.
12. Kinematics is the study of the geometry of motion through the action of forces on masses.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

Writing Assignment:  After reading the Decameron, write a 3 paragraph story following the story sequence from a Key Word Outline. (1. Setting and Characters, 2. Conflict/Problem, 3. Climax & Resolution)  Include stylistic elements such as ly words, quality adjectives, strong verbs, who/which clauses, www.asia.b clauses, varied openers, conversation, alliteration, simile/metaphor, etc.  Imagine that you and your friends are stuck in a secret location while a deadly epidemic plagues the world.  You tell stories as if around a campfire or at a slumber party. 

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week.  Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 1/25/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Math: Bhaskara: Here is his daughter’s story with embellishments, and some comments about his mathematics. Two more word problems from Lilavati: One and Another. Try them!

Science: John Sacrobosco: His book Sphaera was a scientific best seller for centuries. Look at some of the pages here.

Philosophy: Maimonides: Good article here.
Good Video.

History:
Bubonic Plague on Khan Academy
Black Death & a fresco on Khan Academy
Plague for kids

Literature: The Decameron by Boccaccio influences many, many of the greatest writers and artists. Like Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well.

History: Memorize “In 1347, the plague came from Asia to Sicily. 50 million people died, and 30 million Europeans survived. France and England fought for land for over one hundred years and then in 1429 teen Joan of Arc led a French victory.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 25 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Learn more about the Plague for kids.

Geography: Draw Asia and label these Western Asian Countries:
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Turkey
Syria
Cyprus
Lebanon
Palestine
Israel
Jordan

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Kinematics is the study of the geometry of motion through the action of forces on masses.”

Math: Memorize "The rule of three is the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given."

Investigate the Rule of Three on Smartick and practice on Khan Academy.

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 17 in your workbook.
ἀνοίγω I open
ἐλέγχω I rebuke
σπείρω I sow
παραλαμβάνω I receive
πάλιν again

English: Memorize “A helping verb helps another verb portray time in the sentence.”

Investigate helping verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 17 sentences:

1. Who translated Aristotle in Spain, so that he could give Europe his ancient ideas?
2. Where did the Maori arrive around 1200 AD?
3. Did Fibonacci publish Liber Abaci?
4. Did Genghis Khan win the Mongols China, and did he conquer Asia?
5. Who gave King John the Magna Carta before he signed it?
6. Was Marco Polo an explorer since he journeyed to China?
7. When the plague came from Asia to Sicily, how many people died?
8. Did Plato teach people his model of the universe so that they could live good lives?
9. Eudoxus developed which theory of proportion? 
***Challenge***
10. In 1347, when the plague came from Asia to Sicily, 50 million people died, and 30 million Europeans survived.
11. France and England fought for land for over one hundred years and then in 1429 teen Joan of Arc led a French victory.
12. Kinematics is the study of the geometry of motion through the action of forces on masses.

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 25 in class and make a Medieval village.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll continue Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 17 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 18.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Johannes de Sacrobosco and make a Quadrant.

Math Club: Learn about Bhaskara II and the rule of three.

Art Appreciation: Create a fresco, like Giotto.

Writing Club:
Writing Club Homework: Week 16 DUE ON JANUARY 31, 2018

Great work on Unit 6 everyone!  Let’s see what you can do with Unit 7!

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Complete Lesson 18, “Medieval Cathedrals" Read “Multiple Source Research Reports” on page 119.  Do your TWO  Keyword Outlines after reading Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 120 and 212.   Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE. Use the checklist on page 125 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  

Remember we have a new one this week: www.asia.wub. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!  Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 16 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!
 

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

Complete Lesson 18, “Medieval Cathedrals" Read “Multiple Source Research Reports” on page 119. Do your TWO  Keyword Outlines after reading Source Text 1 and Source Text 2 on pages 120 and 212.   Next, do your FUSED OUTLINE.

Use the checklist on page 125 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  

Remember we have a new one this week: www.asia.wub. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 16 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 16

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”

Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but

English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn

Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 17, “The King and the Dragon"

Diagram Week 16 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write a three paragraph creation story following the story sequence (1 setting and characters, 2 conflict of problem, 3 climax/resolution) like Quetzalcoatl OR one paragraph summary of it.  Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class Thursday 1/18/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation:

Science - NASA article “When Planets Transit” and another
History - Phoebe - video about Aztec Empire, this article with lots of links
Art - Catalina, Gino, Henry - video about Coatlicue, sculpture of an Aztec goddess
Math - Omar Khayyam,

History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”

Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but

English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn

Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 16 sentences:

1. The Eastern Church, which became Orthodox, separated from the Western Church, which became Roman Catholic!
2. While the Anasazi and the Chinese were watching, the Crab Nebula exploded!
3. William the Conqueror who ruled Normandy won the Battle of Hastings in England!
4. Urban II, who was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, called for the First Crusade!
5. Oxford University, which was founded in England, taught students many subjects!
6. King Suryavarman II builds his people Angkor Wat in Cambodia!
7. In 1345, Aztecs, who were belligerent, built their city on Texococo.
8. Hippocrates who established a school of medicine gave doctors the Hippocratic Oath!
9. Archytas who studied the classical problem applied mathematics to music!
***Challenge***
10. In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.
11. Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 1/18/18 - Please read this, watch the videos and choose one topic for your presentation and one for your writing assignment. BEFORE Monday 1/22/18:

Science - NASA article “When Planets Transit” and another
History - Phoebe - video about Aztec Empire, this article with lots of links
Art - Catalina, Gino, Henry - video about Coatlicue, sculpture of an Aztec goddess
Math - Omar Khayyam

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

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 32 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these European Geographical Features:
Danube River
Rhine River
Ural Mountains
Pyrenees
Mediterranean Sea
Alps
English Channel
Iberian peninsula
Scandinavian peninsula

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize “Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.”

Math: Memorize "The slope of a line is the measure of how steep it climbs over a given interval. m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)"

Greek: Memorize this vocabulary and Complete lesson 16 in your workbook.
ἀλλά but
εἰ if
ὅτι because, that
δέ and, but

English: Memorize the Linking verbs: am are is was were be being been appear become feel grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn

Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-9 or 10-11 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 16 sentences:

1. The Eastern Church, which became Orthodox, separated from the Western Church, which became Roman Catholic!
2. While the Anasazi and the Chinese were watching, the Crab Nebula exploded!
3. William the Conqueror who ruled Normandy won the Battle of Hastings in England!
4. Urban II, who was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, called for the First Crusade!
5. Oxford University, which was founded in England, taught students many subjects!
6. King Suryavarman II builds his people Angkor Wat in Cambodia!
7. In 1345, Aztecs, who were belligerent, built their city on Texococo.
8. Hippocrates who established a school of medicine gave doctors the Hippocratic Oath!
9. Archytas who studied the classical problem applied mathematics to music!
***Challenge***
10. In 1345, the belligerent Aztecs built their city on Lake Texcoco, named it Tenochtitlan, floated gardens, lined canals with houses, and made pyramids of stone.
11. Occulation is the passing of one astronomical body in front of another.

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 32 in class and make Aztec temples out of popsicle sticks.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 15 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 16.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about Avempace and explore Newton’s first law.

Math Club: Learn about Omar Khayyam and geometric slope.

Art Appreciation: Create a Aztec calendar.

Writing Club:

Writing Club Homework: Week 15 DUE ON JANUARY 24, 2018

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

Complete Lesson 17, “The King and the Dragon". Read “The Assignment” on page 114. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 115.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 117 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week. Remember we have a new one: “3sss”. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 15 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

Complete Lesson 17, “The King and the Dragon". Read “The Assignment” on page 114. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 115.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 117 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and all of the elements style for this week.  

Remember we have a new one: “3sss”. Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!   

Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 15 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

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Middle Ages Week 15

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp."

Diagram Week 15 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing: Write two paragraphs. In paragraph one, summarize Mali’s wealth and Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage. Pick 6-8 interesting facts from the reading and write a key word outline first. In paragraph two, brainstorm, do a keyword outline, and write about where you would go (and what you would pack and how you would travel) if you had unlimited wealth (like Mansa Musa).  Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

Science - Mapmaking can look beautiful! Al-Idrisi, cartographer.
History - Mansa Musa’s wealth in today’s standard
Art - Russian churches. Watch this!
Math - trigonometry & reciprocal identities. Henry, you’ll like this video!
Philosophy - Seven Sacraments. Again. And a great discussion on the earliest Universities.

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 15 sentences:
1. King Jayavarman II gave the Khmer an empire after they gave him authority.
2. Since Al-Khwārizmī left us his math book, we can teach students Algebra.
3. The Tiwanaku people built themselves a monument near Lake Titicaca.
4. Ce Acatl founded the Toltec Empire while he lived in Yucatan.
5. While Vladimir ruled Kiev, he gave his country Christianity.
6. Because Leif Ericsson was an explorer, he sailed to North America.
7. After Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he caravanned through Egypt, spent gold freely, and spread Islam.
8. Anaxagoras gave us an understanding of rainbows because he discovered the reflection of light.
9. Since Theodorus of Cyrene researched square roots, he showed us irrational numbers.
10. If Neo-Babylonia had protected its allies, they might not have yielded Persia their kingdoms.

***Challenge***

11. Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, caravanned through Egypt, and because he spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while he spread Islam.
12. Cartographers gather source data and then design and draw a map to document it.
 

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

Science - Mapmaking can look beautiful! Al-Idrisi, cartographer.
History - Mansa Musa’s wealth in today’s standard
Art - Russian churches. Watch this!
Math - trigonometry & reciprocal identities. See whether YOU can make a great video like this!
Philosophy - Seven Sacraments. Again. And a great discussion on the earliest Universities.

Writing: Write two paragraphs. In paragraph one, summarize Mali’s wealth and Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage. Pick 6-8 interesting facts from the reading and write a key word outline first. In paragraph two, brainstorm, do a keyword outline, and write about where you would go (and what you would pack and how you would travel) if you had unlimited wealth (like Mansa Musa).  Be sure to include dress ups: “ly,” strong verb, quality adjective, who/which clause, when/while/where class and vocabulary.  Underline them and label them in the margin.

Review these topics:

History: Memorize “Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. He caravanned through Egypt, spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while spreading Islam.”

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapters 29 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Europe and label these countries of Western Europe:
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Monaco
Andorra
Spain
Portugal

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize "Cartographers gather source data, and then design and draw a map to document it."

Math: Memorize "Stereographic projection projects a sphere onto a plane. Latitude and longitude circles are projected in either circles or straight lines."

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings and Complete lesson 15 in your workbook.

singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English:
A linking verb describes or renames the subject.
Investigate linking verbs on Grammar Revolution.

Diagramming: Choose sentences 1-10 or 11-12 challenge sentences below. Complete question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, state structure, purpose & patterns for each and diagram Week 15 sentences:
1. King Jayavarman II gave the Khmer an empire after they gave him authority.
2. Since Al-Khwārizmī left us his math book, we can teach students Algebra.
3. The Tiwanaku people built themselves a monument near Lake Titicaca.
4. Ce Acatl founded the Toltec Empire while he lived in Yucatan.
5. While Vladimir ruled Kiev, he gave his country Christianity.
6. Because Leif Ericsson was an explorer, he sailed to North America.
7. After Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he caravanned through Egypt, spent gold freely, and spread Islam.
8. Anaxagoras gave us an understanding of rainbows because he discovered the reflection of light.
9. Since Theodorus of Cyrene researched square roots, he showed us irrational numbers.
10. If Neo-Babylonia had protected its allies, they might not have yielded Persia their kingdoms.

***Challenge***

11. Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest man ever, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, caravanned through Egypt, and because he spent gold so freely, he depressed the price of gold while he spread Islam.
12. Cartographers gather source data and then design and draw a map to document it.

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 about the protagonist and what type of conflict he/she encounters in the book.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 29 in class and make a Malian Mud Cloths.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Proposition 4.11: circumscribe a pentagon about a circle. This will take us a few weeks and we'll review several other propositions from the first four books.

Greek: Complete & study lesson 15 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 16.

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll learn more about al-Idrisi and make a topographical map of the parking lot!

Math Club: Learn about al-Biruni and the trigonometric functions.

Art Appreciation: Create a Djenne Djenno sculptures out of air dry clay.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:
Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp". Read “The Assignment” on page 107. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 109.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 111 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week.  Remember, we have a new one: “quality adjective” .Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!  We will have a vocabulary quiz next week so study words from Lessons 1-16. Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 14 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  
Complete Lesson 16, “The Magic Lamp". Read “The Assignment” on page 107. Do your Keyword Outline after studying the picture on page 109.  You will be writing the story based on the three pictures on the page.  Use the checklist on page 111 to be sure you have included appropriate structure and  all of the elements style for this week.  Remember, we have a new one: “quality adjective” .Try to include some vocabulary words in your essay!  We will have a vocabulary quiz next week so study words from Lessons 1-16. Be ready to present from your final draft.  The draft you present needs to be in MLA format double spaced.

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 14 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 14

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate articles on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)
Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson 15, A Year to Remember: The Battle of Hastings.
Diagram Week 14 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week.  Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

Review these topics:

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights or Robin Hood.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

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

Writing Club:  DUE ON JANUARY 10, 2018

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

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

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 13 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

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

Fix it! Grammar:
Complete Week 13 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

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Middle Ages Week 13

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians

PreK-4th graders

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

Learn about John Lackland.

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 13 Charlemagne, Part II.

Diagram Week 13 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

2. Was Clovis tyrannical, and was he French?

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

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

5. Who unifies China, and was it successful?

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

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

8. Are drive systems efficient?

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

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

11. What are the prepositions?

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

Review these topics:

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

English: Preposition song to Yankee Doodle:

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

2. Was Clovis tyrannical, and was he French?

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

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

5. Who unifies China, and was it successful?

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

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

8. Are drive systems efficient?

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

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

11. What are the prepositions?

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights or Robin Hood.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

Art Appreciation: Create a multimedia image of phoenix.

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:

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

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 13 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

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

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

Fix it! Grammar:

Complete Week 13 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

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Middle Ages Week 12

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 12 Charlemagne, Part I.
Diagram Week 12 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week.  Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

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

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

Review these topics:

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

Learn about Genghis Khan through this video on Khan Academy

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate prepositions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

Art Appreciation: Weave a tapestry like this one.

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: 

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

Fix it! Grammar: 

Complete Week 12 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4)

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  

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

Fix it! Grammar: 

Complete Week 12 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 11

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

Continue learning about the Crusades

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

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

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

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

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 11 from Unit 4.

Diagram Week 11 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

Science: Ibn Sahl
Math: Abu Kamil Combinations

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

Continue learning about the Crusades

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

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

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

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

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

Review these topics:

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

Continue learning about the Crusades

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

*Study to retake your Geography quiz on Africa!

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

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

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

English: A pronoun takes the place of a noun.

Investigate pronouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

Math Club: Learn about Abu Kamil and Combinations

Art Appreciation: Notre Dame cathedrals & stained glass windows.

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

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

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

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

Fix it! Grammar: 
Complete Week 11 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!
 

Middle Ages Week 10

Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

Learn about the Crusades

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

Investigate adjectives on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)
“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 11, Unit 4.
Diagram Week 10 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week.  Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are some of the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

Math Club: Learn about Mahavira & Permutations.

Art Appreciation: Romanesque & Gothic art depicting the Crusades.

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

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 10 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help!  Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech.  Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons:  Complete Lesson  10  “Barrowing a Conflict” Unit 3. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 74 and learn about the “Because Clause". Read “The Assignment” on page 75.. Write your first draft from the Story Sequence Chart on page 76 and use page 74 to brainstorm.  

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

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

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 10 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 9

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

Learn about Viking Explorers

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

Geography: Draw Africa and label the physical features:

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

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

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

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

English: A conjunction joins two or more words, phrases or clauses.
Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 9 Section III, Unit 3.

Diagram Week 9 sentences.
 

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

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

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

Learn about Viking Explorers

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

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

***Geography quiz next week!***

Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

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

***Challenge***

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

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

Art: Cyrillic Alphabet

Math: Amicable Numbers
Thabit ibn Qurra

Review these topics:

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

Learn about Viking Explorers

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

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

***Geography quiz next week!***

Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

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

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

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

Investigate conjunctions on Grammar Revolution.

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf or One Thousand One Arabian Nights.

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

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

Art Appreciation: Compare Native American art to Viking art.

Writing Club:

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

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

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 9 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4)

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

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 9 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 8

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

Learn about Vikings!

Practice writing in Viking Runes!

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

Geography: Draw Africa and label the Eastern African countries:

Malawi
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Seychelles
Comoros
Mayotte
Madagascar
Reunion
Mauritius

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

Investigate the Order of Operations on Math is Fun!

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:

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

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

Investigate nouns on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 9 , Unit 3.
Diagram Week 8 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a note card of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

Learn about Vikings!

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North & Western African countries from memory.

Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,

Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,

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

Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

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

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

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

Investigate the Order of Operations on Math is Fun!

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

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

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

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

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

Upper Dialecticians 7th-9th Graders

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

Your assignments this week: One essay, one outline:

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

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

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

Links for your learning pleasure.

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

Art - Runestones

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

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

Geography: Draw and label the countries of North, West & Central Africa:

Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,

Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

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

Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

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

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

Upper Dialecticians (7th-9th grades)

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 14 in class and make Viking locks.

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

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

Art Appreciation: Make Byzantine abstract art.

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

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

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

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 8 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook. They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Upper Grammarians (3-4)

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

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

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 8 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  They really help! Suggestion: use two different colored pencils to correct the punctuation and parts of speech. Review in preparation for next week!

Middle Ages Week 7

Thursday Cohorts

Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

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

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

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

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

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

Investigate polynomials and their degrees.

Greek: Memorize some new vocabulary:

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

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

Investigate adverbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 7, Unit 3.

Diagram Week 7 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

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

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

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a notecard of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

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

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

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

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

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North & Western African countries from memory.
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

Investigate polynomials and their degrees.

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

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

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

Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders

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

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

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

Geography: Draw and label the countries of North, West & Central Africa:
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana
Eastern Africa: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

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

Learn about Charlemagne

Listen to experts: The Carolingian Renaissance

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

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

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

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

Khan Academy,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 13 in class and make Gregorian chants.

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

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

Wednesday classes

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

Math Club: Investigate Algebra and degrees of polynomials

Art Appreciation: Make Arabic illuminated manuscripts and Carolingian crosses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 57 to be sure you have included every "Element of Style" required this week.  Hint: there are 3 Elements of Style per paragraph this week!

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

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

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

Middle Ages Week 6

Thursday Cohorts
Grammarians
PreK-4th graders

History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”

Learn about the Battle of Tours.

Read The Story of the World, Vol. 2, Chapter 12-13 and do the activities in the Activity Guide.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the Southern African countries: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

Science: Memorize The Engineering Design Process:
Ask: Identify the Need & Constraints
Research: the Problem
Imagine: Develop Possible Solutions
Plan: Select a Promising Solution
Create: Build a Prototype
Test: and Evaluate Prototype
Improve: Redesign as Needed

Math: Memorize The algebraic operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, powers, roots and logarithms.

Investigate the basic operations and exponents, roots & logarithms here.

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings:
singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

English: A verb expresses an action or state of being.

Investigate Verbs on Grammar Revolution.

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

Writing Club (3-4th)

“Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons”:  Complete Lesson 6, Unit 3.
Diagram Week 6 sentences.

Lower Dialecticians (5-6h grades)

Writing & Math: Do a key word outline, first draft, edits & final draft “Homage to a number” similar to Isidor of Seville’s.

Presentation: Research and prepare a notecard keyword outline for your presentation this week. Don’t write it out word for word, and do bring a notecard of your key word outline - you’ll forget what you learned!  Here are the topics you picked in class:

Phoebe - science, automata
Sabine - history, Mohammed
Henry - science, Sons of Musa
Gino - art, symmetry in Islamic art
Cooper - math, Isidore of Seville or the mathematical operations or mathematicians favorite numbers
Jocelyn - art, tessellations
Catalina - Choose any topic or continue Yang Chien & Sui Dynasty

History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”

Learn about the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers.

Geography: Draw Africa and label the North & Western African countries from memory.
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

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

Investigate the basic operations and exponents, roots & logarithms here.

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

1. Did the Chaldeans defeat the Assyrians?
2. The Seven Sages said what?
3. Nebuchadnezzar exiles the Jews?
4. Who taught the Jain religion?
5. Did Siddharta Gautama found Buddhism?
6. Cyrus the Great rules whom?
7. Did Mohammed expand the empire?
8. Can you engineer a project?
9. Can you compute the algebraic operations?

Greek: Complete lesson 6 in your workbook.
 

Upper Dialecticians
7th-9th Graders

From our session Thursday 9/28/17 - Carefully read the WHOLE list, then get started. Three presentations next week!

Geography: Draw and label the countries of North, West & Central Africa:
Northern Africa: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Western Africa: Western Sahara, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger
Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Southern Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana

Practice memorizing the countries with this game!

History: Memorize “When Mohammed died, his empire expanded to the east and to the west. The armies of the Caliphate had a general in Spain named al Tariq. Charles Martel defeated them in 732 at the Battle of Tours.”

Learn about the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers.

Literature - Learn about Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh. Rustam is the national hero of Iran. Find his introduction on this page. Look for Suhrab there too.

Philosophy - Learn about the philosophy of Al-Kindi.

Math - Isodore of Seville was more than a mathematician, he was a bishop! And he’s a saint!
Learn about mathematicians’ favorite numbers.

Your Assignment: Write a stream of consciousness description of your chosen number.

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

Science -  Learn about the Sons of Musa and The Book of Ingenious Devices.

Greek: Memorize Second Declension Masculine Noun Endings:
singular
N ἄνθρωπος
G ἄνθρωπου
D ἄνθρωπῳ
A ἄνθρωπον
plural
N ἄνθρωποι
G ἄνθρωπων
D ἄνθρωποις
A ἄνθρωπους

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

1. Did the Chaldeans defeat the Assyrians?
2. The Seven Sages said what?
3. Nebuchadnezzar exiles the Jews?
4. Who taught the Jain religion?
5. Did Siddharta Gautama found Buddhism?
6. Cyrus the Great rules whom?
7. Did Mohammed expand the empire?
8. Can you engineer a project?
9. Can you compute the algebraic operations?
 

Tuesday classes

Book Club: Read at least 20 pages in your Medieval library book, annotate on sticky notes as you read, then make notes in your Book Club journal (title, author, copyright date, main characters, plot summary & new vocabulary) and be ready to present on what you’ve read so far. Tell us how one of the characters in your book is similar to a character in White Stag or Beowulf.

MAKE: History: We’ll read Story of the World chapter 12-13 in class and make 3D mosaics.

Drawing out Arithmetic: In class we’ll construct Euclid’s Elements Proposition 4.4

Greek: Complete & study lesson 6 for our quiz!  We’ll start Greek Workbook Lesson 7.
 

Wednesday classes

Make Science: In class we’ll make automata like the Banu Musa.

Math Club: Investigate Algebraic operations

Art Appreciation: Make Arabic calligraphy

Writing Club:

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

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 7, Unit 3. Read “The Introduction”. Familiarize yourself with the contents of the book.  Read page 51 and learn about “Strong Verbs” and Banned Verbs (go/went, say/said). Complete page 52 for practice.   Read “The Assignment” on page 53. Write your first draft from your Story Sequence Chart on page 55 and use page 56 to brainstorm.  For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1).

Use the checklist on page 57 to be sure you have included every element required this week. There are 3 elements  of style per paragraph this week!  Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-6and see if you can include some vocabulary words in your paragraph!

Fix it! Grammar: Complete Week 6 in your book and copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 17 in preparation for week 7!

Upper Grammarians (3-4):

IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons: Complete Lesson 6, Unit 3  Read “The Assignment” page 44. Complete “The Story Sequence Chart”,then write your paragraph from your Key Word Outline..   Brainstorm using page 47. For your FINAL draft use Modified MLA format (see Appendix 1) Use the checklist on page 49 to be sure you have included every "Element of Style" required this week.  Hint: there are 2 per paragraph!

Practice vocabulary from Lessons 1-4.  

Fix it! Grammar:  Complete Week 6 in your book. Copy the corrected paragraph into your notebook.  Review the Grammar Cards in the back of your notebook.  Review page 17 in preparation for week 7!