Ancients Week 10
/Ancients, Week 10 Homework
Grammarians (Optional)
PreK-4th graders
- Commit the memory work for the week to memory.
- Read The Story of the World Chapter 10.
- Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 10.
- Learn something interesting about the Shang Dynasty in China.
- Identify quadrilaterals around the house by their mathematical names. Cut them out and experiment with them and see which ones would make good floor tiles or tessellations.
- Practice identifying important features of China: China, Yellow River, Yangtze River, Yinxu, Sanxingdui
- Learn the Chinese characters for your name on Google Translate and try painting it with black paint and a homemade paintbrush.
- Make your own perfume from ingredients in your spice rack.
- Prepare a presentation on your favorite history topic so far.
Writing Club (3-5th)
- Grammar Week 10 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram
- Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/
- Learn vocabulary through lesson 9 in IEW pg 258
- Key Word Outline of “Remembering the Exodus” & Brainstorming Style prewriting IEW pg 92-94 (No need to go sentence by sentence! Use the questions to describe the Setting, Characters, Background; Conflict; and Climax & Resolution.)
- Write a first draft with checklist IEW pg 95
- Ask a parent to edit for spelling & punctuation, then write a final draft.
- Be prepared to present your paragraph in class next week!
Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders
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Rhetoricians
9th-12th Graders
- Find an archaeological site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Phoenician_cities and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a two minute presentation about the site or that civilization. This list might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware!
- Practice blobbing the continents & drawing and/or labeling settlements around the Mediterranean on the map
- Read one of these texts:
- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Baudhayana.html
- https://books.google.com/books?id=S_NJ7AubQIcC&lpg=PA1&ots=gWXrlKn7Dw&dq=Tapputi-Belatekallim&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false pages 1 and 2
- http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/ancient1.html
- Write a key word outline to compare write 2-5 paragraphs (depending on writing ability) and share with cohort next week.
- Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA. Scores and times posted weekly.
- Read The Story of the World, Chapter 10 and complete the activities.
- Practice Greek workbook through Chapter 10
- Sketch the constellations of the Zodiac, beginning with the stars, then adding the lines.
- Memorize all subjects orally or copy and illustrate.
- Choose a Chinese story to tell to the class in your presentation.
- Make a Hindu shrine structure following the Sulba Sutra’s instructions.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic787469.files/camb%20hist%20china%20124-231.pdf
