For Ms. Wetzel's homeroom class

          Ancient Rome Study Guide

Ancient Romans worshipped many gods and goddesses

Pompeii was buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted

Patricians- were members of powerful and wealthy families

Plebeians- ordinary working Romans

The city center was called the forum.

A dictator for life during the last days of the Roman Republic was Julius Caesar

Roman Senators killed Julius Caesar

Octavian’s name was changed to Augustus after he took power

Well-built roads connect the provinces to Rome

Roman Empire surrounded the Mediterranean Sea

 At the Coliseum Romans watched fights between gladiators and wild beasts

At Circus Maximus Romans watched chariot races.

Legendary twin brothers who founded Rome- Romulus and Remus

Romans persecuted Christians because Christians refused to worship Roman gods

First Christian Roman Emperor-Constantine

Rome defeated Carthage in all 3 Punic Wars

What were at least 3 reasons for the fall of Rome?

1. Greedy, selfish emperors;
2. provinces unprotected from attack;
3. corrupt generals;
4. murder of senators and powerful Romans;
5. civil wars that destroyed towns and farms and disrupted trade;
6. lack of food and people without jobs and homes;
7. army made up of foreigners and soldiers were poorly treated;
8. Barbarians attacked and drove Romans out.

 

Eye, Ear, Light and Sound quiz

The Ear and Sound Study Guide

You need to be able to fill out the parts of the ear.

Sound is vibrations that travel in waves.

The reason you feel dizzy after spinning for a period of time is that your brain is confused. It is receiving two messages from your body. One- your semi-circular canals have liquid in them that continues to move after you stop which tells your brain that you are still moving. Two- your legs tell your brain that you have stopped moving. You become dizzy and may fall.

There are many ways to keep your ears healthy. Some of them are…

• Let a doctor remove your earwax when necessary.
• Don’t listen to loud noises for long periods of time.
• Wear hearing protectors like ear plugs or ear muffs if you are going to be around loud noises.
• Don’t ever place sharp things into your ears.

The Light and Eye Study Guide

Know these definitions:

- Refract: to bend
- Reflect: to bounce back
- Transparent: You can see clearly through it and light can pass through it. (A window, eye glass lens, glass, water.)
- Translucent: You can not see clearly through it, you can see shadows of objects. Light can pass through it. (Most colored glass or glass with a design, fluorescent light covers, some shades, gauzy curtains).
- Opaque: You can not see through it. No light can pass through it. (Person, car, tree, wall, desk, chair.)
- Convex: curved outward- Larger view, used in stores to see around corners. Used in microscopes.
- Concave: curved inward- smaller view, objects appear upside down. Used in telescopes.

Know this information:

• - Light travels in a straight line.
• - Light is energy.
• -We can only see things when light hits an object and bounces off it. The light from the object then travels through our pupils which creates an upside-down image on our retina. The image then travels on the optic nerve to the brain, where it is turned right side up again.
• - Dark objects absorb more light than light colored objects. This is why dark clothing is hotter in the summer. It is collecting more energy from the light.
• -When light is blocked by an opaque object, a shadow of the object is formed.
• -White light is made up of a spectrum of colors (all the colors of the rainbow).

An oldie but goodie post...

Aiding your child's understanding of Literature

During conference I spoke to many families about how to help increase their child’s comprehension (understanding) of what they are reading by asking questions about what they read. I thought this information might be important to shall with all of you!

These are some quality questions that provide different levels of understanding you can ask while they are working on their homework or after reading together for fun.

At the beginning of the book-

What does the title tell you about the story? Have you read any other books by this author?

What do you think will happen in this story?

What background knowledge do you already have about the character or setting?

Have you read any other books based in this time period?

How might the story relate to you?

Middle of the book:

What questions do you have about the story?

Why did the character act the way they did?

Predict how the story will end. What clues did you use to make your prediction?

How would you have solved the problem?

How could the character have avoided the problem?

End of the book:

Summarize the story

How was the problem solved?

How would you end the story differently?

If you could re-name the story- what would you name it?

What lesson can you learn from the story?

Compare and contrast you and the main character.

What is the main idea of the story?

Retell just one main event of what we read.

Thank you so much for your support and reading with your child at home!!!

Tara Whalen