Here is TheBean's first writing assignment for the Ancients.  It was a poem practicing using adjectives.  The Bean is an Upper Grammar level student.   They enjoyed playing with words when creating their poems and thinking of lots of describing words  :-)  The other boys did the poem as well but were not as eager to have Mommy post it online  :-) 

The Ancient World

Mesopotamia, with two long, meandering rivers

     And enormous, steppy ziggurats

Egypt, with powerful, heartless pharaohs

     And humongous, triangular pyramids

Israel, with God's perfect, eternal law

     And the enormous, ancient temple

Babylon, with the towering, decorative Ishtar Gate

     And the colorful, high Hanging Gardens

Rome, with wealthy, wise (?) emperoros

     And great, mighty armies

The Ancient World,

     Amazing, Astonishing, and Mysterious