Grammar stage memorisation

Kill and flay the Nemean lion 
2. Kill the Lernaean Hydra 
3. Capture the Arcadian stag 
4. Capture the Erymanthian bear 
5. Cleanse the Augean stables 
6. Kill the Stymphalian birds 
7. Capture the Cretan bull 
8. Capture the man-eating mares of Diomedes 
9. Fetch the Amazon queen Hippolyte’s girdle 
10. Fetch the oxen of the three-bodied monster Geryon 
11. Bring back the golden apples of the Hesperides 
12. Bring the three-headed dog Cerberus up from the underworld 
6.9 The Twelve Knights of the Round Table 
Lancelot 
Galahad 
Bors 
Perceval 
Gawain 
Tristan 
Lamorack 
Torre 
Kay 
Gareth 
Bedivere 
Mordred 
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6.10 The royal houses of England after 1066 
Normandy 
Plantagenet 
Lancaster 
York 
Tudor 
Stuart 
Hanover 
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 
Windsor 
6.11 The liberal arts of the medieval curriculum 
Grammar 
Rhetoric 
Logic (the first three forming the trivium) 
Arithmetic 
Geometry 
Music 
Astronomy (the last four forming the quadrivium) 
6.12 The seven French dynasties 
Merovingian 
Carolingian 
Capetian 
Valois 
Bourbon 
Bonapartist 
Orléanist 
6.13 The wives of Henry VIII 
Catherine of Aragon 
Anne Boleyn 
Jane Seymour 
Anne of Cleves 
Catherine Howard 
Catherine Parr 
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6.14 The main colonizers of Africa in 1914 
Great Britain 
France 
Belgium 
Portugal 
Germany 
Italy 
Spain 
6.15 Republics of the former Soviet Union 
Russia 
Ukrane 
Belarus 
Moldova 
Georgia 
Armenia 
Azerbaijan 
Kazakhstan 
Turkmenistan 
Uzbekistan 
Kyrgyzstan 
Lithuania 
Latvia 
Estonia 
6.16 Ten major US wars and their dates 
Revolutionary War (1775-83) 
War of 1812 (1812-15) 
Mexican war (1861-65) 
Civil war (1861-65) 
Spanish-American war (1898) 
World War 1 (1917-18) 
World war 2 (1941-45) 
Korean war (1950-73) 
Vietnam war (1961-73) 
Persian gulf war (1991) 
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6.17 Major wars 
From “The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World” 
• Trojan wars between the Myceneans and Trojans (around 1250) 
• Peloponnesian war between Athena and Sparta (431-404 BC) 
• Punic wars between Rome and Carthage (264 – 146 BC) 
• Cursades between Saracens and the Christians over Palestine 
(1096 – 1204) 
• Hundred years war between England and France (1337-1453) 
• Wars of the Roses between the House of York and the House of 
Lancaster (1455-1485) 
• French wars of religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics 
(1562-1598) 
• English civil wars between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads 
(1642-1648) 
• Thirty years war: Catholic League (Germany, Austria and Spain) 
vs. Denmark, Sweden and France (1618-1648) 
• War of League of Augsburg: France vs. League, England and the 
Netherlands (1689-1697) 
• Great Northern War: Sweden vs. Russia, Denmark, Poland and 
Holland (1700) 
• War of Spanish Succession: Spain, France and Bavaria vs. 
England, Holland, Austrian empire and Portugal (1701-1713) 
• War of Polish Succession: Russia and Poland vs. France (1730-
1738) 
• War of Austrian Succession: Autstria and Britain vs. Prussia, 
Bavaria, France and Spain (1740-1748) 
• Seven years war: Britain and Prussia vs. France, Austria and 
Russia (1756-1763) 
• American war of Independence between the American Colonies 
and Britain (1775-1783) 
• Napoleonic wars: France vs.Britain, Austria, Sweden, Russia and 
Prussia (1793-1815) 
• Greek war of Independence between Greece and the Ottoman 
Turkey (1821-1829) 
• Mexican-American war between Mexico and the USA (1846-1848) 
• Crimean War: Russia vs.Britain, France and Turkey (1854-1856) 
• War for Italian Independence: France and Piedmont-Sardinia vs. 
Austria (1859) 
• US Civil war between the Confederates and the Unionists (1861-
1865) 
• Austro-Prussian war between Prussia and Austria (1866) 
• Franco-Prussian war between France and Prussia (1870) 
• Chinese-Japanese war between China an Japan (1894-1895) 
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• Boer War between Britain and the Boers in South Africa (1899-
1902) 
• Russo-Japanese war between Russia and Japan (1904-1905) 
• World War I: Germany and Austria-Germany vs. Frence, Russia, 
Britain and other nations (1914-1918) 
• Russian Civil War between the Bolsheviks and White Russians 
(1918-1921) 
• Chinese-Japanese war between China an Japan (1921-1933) 
• Spanish Civil war between the Nationalists and Republicans 
(1936-1939) 
• World War II: Britain, France, USSR, USA and other nations vs. 
Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-1945) 
• Six Day’s War between Israel and the Arab states (1967) 
• Korean war between North Korea and South Korea (1950-1953) 
• Vietnam war: North Vietnam vs. South Vietnam and the USA 
(1964-1973) 
• Iran-Iraq war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1988) 
• Gulf war between Iraq and combined international forces (1991) 
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7 Geography 
7.1 Names of the continents (and location on map) 
North America 
South America 
Europe 
Asia 
Australia 
Africa 
Antarctica 
7.2 Names of the oceans (and location on map) 
Pacific Ocean 
Atlantic Ocean 
Indian Ocean 
Southern Ocean 
Arctic Ocean 
7.3 Provinces of South Africa (and location of the map) 
Western Cape¹ (Cape Town) 
Northern Cape (Kimberley) 
Eastern Cape (Bhisho) 
KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg²) 
Free State (Bloemfontein) 
North West (Mafikeng) 
Gauteng (Johannesburg) 
Mpumalanga (Nelspruit) 
Limpopo (Polokwane) 
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7.4 Eleven official languages of South Africa 
Afrikaans (Afrikaans) 
English 
Ndebele (isiNdebele) 
Northern Sotho(Sesotho sa Leboa), 
Southern Sotho (Sesotho) 
Swati (siSwati) 
Tsonga (Xitsonga), 
Tswana (Setswana) 
Venda (Tshivenda), Xhosa (isiXhosa), Zulu (isiZulu). 
7.5 Recognize photo’s of, know history and location of famous 
landmarks 
Table Mountain – Cape Town, South Africa 
Great Zimbabwe ruins - MasvingoZimbabwe 
The Pyramids of Gisa – Cairo, Egypt 
Eiffel tower – Paris, France 
Leaning Tower of Pisa – Italy 
Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed - Red Square, Moscow, Russia 
Stonehenge- near Amesbury, England 
Big Ben – London, England 
The Tower of London – London, England 
The Colloseum – Rome, Italy 
Arc-de-Triomphe-Foch – Paris, France 
The Parthenon – Athens, Greece 
Vatican City – Vatican City State 
West wall – Jerusalem, Israel 
Taj Mahal - Uttar Pradesh, India 
Great Wall of China – China 
Forbidden City, Beijing, China 
The Petronas Twin Towers - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
Sydney Opera House – Sydney, Australia 
Ayers Rock – Australia 
The Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco, United States 
The Statue of Liberty, New York, USA 
The Empire State Building – New York, USA 
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, USA 
Christ the Redeemer statue – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
Machu Picchu – Peru 
and more 
There is a list of world heritage sights at  and 
famous buildings at  and 
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7.6 Points on the compass 
North 
South 
East 
West 
7.7 Geography definitions 
From www.EnchantedLearning.com to be memorized as we learn them. 
7.8 Types of clouds 
alto-cumulus - Middle-level, medium-sized puffy clouds. 
alto-stratus - Middle-level, layered clouds. 
cirro-cumulus - High-altitude, small, wispy, patchy, puffy clouds. 
cirro-stratus - High-altitude, thin, wispy clouds in layers. 
cirrus - High-altitude, thin, wispy clouds. 
cumulo-nimbus- Large, dense, towering clouds that cause thunderstorms. 
cumulus - Low, puffy clouds. 
fog - Ground-hugging clouds. 
nimbo-stratus - Low, dark, rain cloud. 
stratus - Low, layered, horizontal, wispy clouds with a flat base. 
strato-cumulus - Low clouds, broad and flat on the bottom, puffy on top (higher 
than cumulus and lower than altocumulus). 
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8 Science 
8.1 Colours of the rainbow 
Violet, 
Indogo, 
Blue 
Green, 
Yellow, 
Orange 
Red 
8.2 Names of the planets 
Mercury 
Venus 
Earth 
Mars 
Jupiter 
Saturn 
Uranus 
Neptune 
8.3 Linnaeus’s classification system of plants and animals 
Kingdom 
Phylum 
Class 
Order 
Family 
Genus 
Species 
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8.4 Five kingdoms of living things 
Animalia, which is made up of animals; 
Plantae, which is made up of plants; 
Protista, which is made up of protists (single-celled creatures invisible to the 
human eye); 
Fungi, which is made up of mushrooms, mold, yeast, lichen, etc; and 
Monera, which is made up of the three types of bacteria. 
8.5 Characteristics of mammals 
Breathes air, 
Warm-blooded 
Has fur or hair 
Suckles young 
8.6 Characteristics of a fish 
Lives in water 
Breathes through gills 
Ha a skeleton 
Lays eggs 
Stays at the same temperature as the water around it. 
8.7 Characteristics of reptiles 
Scaly 
Watertight skin 
Cold blooded 
Carnivorous 
Lay eggs 
8.8 Characteristics of amphibians 
Live in wate rand on land 
Cold blooded 
Lay eggs 
8.9 Characteristics of an insect 
Six legs 
Pair of antennae 
Wings 
Body dividided into head, thorax and abdomen 
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8.10 Six main types of invertebrates 
Spiders 
Slugs 
Insects 
Centipedes 
Worms 
Wood lice 
8.11 Main parts of a flower 
Bud 
Stamen 
Petal 
Pistil 
Stigma 
Stamen 
Pollen 
8.12 Body systems 
Skeletal system 
Nervous system 
Cardiovascular system 
Digestive system 
Respiratory system 
Urinary system 
Endocrine system 
8.13 Science terms 
Learn definitions as we study a concept 
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9 Grammar 
Study definitions as they come up. 
The eight parts of speech poem 
 Poet unkown 
Every name is called a noun 
As field and fountain, street and town; 
In place of noun the pronoun stands, 
As he and she can clap their hands; 
The adjective describes a thing, 
As magic wand or bridal ring; 
The verb means action, something done – 
To read and write, to jump and run; 
How things are done the adverbs tell, 
As quickly, slowly, badly, well; 
The preposition shows relation, 
As in the street or at the station; 
Conjunctions join, in many ways, 
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase; 
The interjection cries out, Hark! 
I need an exclamation mark.