Ancients Week 20
/Grammarians
PreK-4th graders
Memorize “Chandragupta established the Mauryan Empire in India in 321. His grandson Ashoka waged a terrible war to conquer Kalinga. Then he regretted his terrible war and converted to Buddhism in 263 BC then led his empire with justice and peace.”
Research the Maurya Empire.
Memorize all subjects through song, motions, pictures, games, etc.
Read The Story of the World Chapter 31 and do the activities in the activity guide.
Draw the continents and oceans by hand. Draw a zoomed in larger map of India and label Pataliputra, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Deccan Plateau, & Kalinga.
Memorize the planets in order by their distance from the sun: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Memorize Euclid’s Postulates to the tune Go Tell Aunt Rhody:
1. Two arrows: line, one arrow: ray, no arrows: segment.
2. Extend a segment into a ray. Extend a ray into a line.
3. Point in the center, measure the radius, around the circle.
4. All right angles are congruent
5. Postulate of Parallel LinesResearch the postulates and draw them yourself!
Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”
singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί
Memorize “Relative pronouns relate a clause to a sentence: that which who whom whoever whomever whichever” and practice using them to form complex sentences.
Prepare a presentation on one of these activities or another topic you’ve been learning and share with the class next week!
Writing Club (3-5th)
Grammar Week 20 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram. Here’s more info on complex sentences, indirect objects & diagramming them.
Check your answers on http://1aiway.com/
Study vocabulary through lesson 18 in IEW pg 258.
Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”
Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”. Don’t outline sentence by sentence! Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.
After an adult edits, compose a final draft. Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin.
Dialecticians
5th-8th Graders
From our session Thursday 2/16/17 - Everybody do this; it’s where your presentation will likely come from:
Practice: Map of World, The Mauryan Empire
Read about the Expansion of the Mauryan Empire and Ashoka in The Story of the World Chapter 31.
The Jakata Tales (choose 3 or more tales)
Here’s an easy to read set of stories about the Buddha. Read as many as you like. Tell a few of them to the group as a presentation. http://mocomi.com/fun/stories/jataka-tales/
Another story is on page 235 of Story of the World: Ancients.
Read about Euclid (choose 2 or more)
I have about 6 books with text about him. Come by and get one.
Read the introduction to this book: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106453581/euclid-usletter.pdf
Here’s an OLD book of the Elements (888 AD): http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/eucmsd/index.html
How about a presentation on how to prove one of Euclid’s propositions?
Learn more about Aristarchus and his connection to Copernicus. (choose 2 or more)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos
Follow the exernal links.
Why not buy a book? I’ll probably get a copy for myself sometime. https://www.amazon.com/Aristarchos-Samos-Polymath-Collection-Interrelated/dp/148178949X
Daily homework for Full Week Students
Find a Memorial to Ashoka and log the coordinates, who made it, year constructed, the first sentence of the article, & your name in the Google Sheets shared doc. Prepare a presentation about the site or civilization. Wikipedia might have some poorly documented sites. Be aware! Get information from elsewhere. I primarily use sites ending in .edu or .gov and links provided at the bottom of the article.
Daily math on Khan Academy (KA) 40 minutes minimum on KA.
Grammar Week 20 sentences - question confirmation & label each word in the sentence, structure, purpose & patterns for each, and diagram (attached). Check your work (or learn what’s going on).
Greek on Tuesday: Practice Greek Workbook Lesson 20 and memorize the Present Active Indicative Verb "to be”
singular
1. εἰμί
2. εἶ
3. ἐστί
plural
1. ἐσμέν
2. ἐστέ
3. εἰσί"
Math Club on Wednesday: Spotlight on 2-3 propositions of Euclid--tie back to work on Thales, non-Euclidean geometry, number theory, ideas of axiom, proof, and logic, and historical significance and longevity
Book Club on Tuesday: Read and be prepared to discuss your historical fiction book.
MAKE: History on Tuesday: Finish your tumbler lock
Drawing out Arithmetic: Construct Euclid’s Elements Propositions 3.2
Quiz on Proposition II.4 memory work http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookII/propII4.html
The quiz will continue until math improves.
Writing Club on Wednesday:
Read and complete IEW lesson 17: pp. 153-159 “Archimedes”
Do a Key Word Outline, brainstorming, and write a summary (with a checklist p. 159) of “Archimedes”. Don’t outline sentence by sentence! Choose information you find interesting or important to create a one paragraph summary. Don’t forget to include a when, while, where, as, since, if, although or because clause somewhere in your paragraph.
After an adult edits, compose a final draft. Be sure to underline & label the dress-ups, decorations & vocabulary in the margin. Be ready to present in class Wednesday.
MAKE: Science on Wednesday: Figure out how to prove the sun in the center of the solar system, also the sizes and distance of the sun and moon.
