Mesopotamia: Geography

Task:  Create a three slide Google presentation about the basic geography of Early Mesopotamia.

Learning Objective:  Explain the relationship between the geographical features of Mesopotamia and the civilization that developed there.

Process:  (see example presentation)

• Create a Google presentation
• Create a title slide
• draw a map of Mesopotamia using Google drawing, and paste it into a second slide.
• label the map with norhtern and southern Mesopotamia,  the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, the Zagros Mountains, and the following ancient city states; Ur, Kish, and Hit. 
• As discussed in class you then must show the Mesopotamian Plateau, and the Mesopotamian Plains.  Use the description in your text book on pages 150-151 to indicate the location of these features on your map.  Don't forget to create a legend that explains each feature.
• on your third slide answer the two following questions:  

1. Describe the geography of Mesopotamia’s northern plateau, and southern plains.
2. What is the connection between the geography of Mesopotamia and the civilization that developed there?

• please answer these in paragraph form.  Make sure your answer has a clear main idea(s) and supporting details.  Label each answer with an appropriate subtitles that reflects the main idea.
• your work should reflect care and attention to detail.  Please see the rubric to understand how you will be assessed on this assignment.
• the assignment is due Friday December 10th, 2010.

Elijah: Extension Activities

Choose one of the following extension activities.

1. If you were unsatisfied with the ending of Elijah write the next next chapter telling how he arrives back in Buxton with Miss Chloe's baby hope.
2. Write the back story on the Preacher.  Explain how he became the mysterious, "jack-legged" man.  
3. Imagine you are Elijah and write a letter to Miss Chloe telling her how Hope is doing, and how the rescuing her changed your life.
4. Experience what it was like to escape on the underground railroad.  Write a story about the experience of a slave travelling on the Underground Railroad.

Criteria and Expectations

1. Your choice must demonstrate understanding of the theme we generated in class:  Slavery is cruel, and affects a person both physically and mentally.  The anger and hate [afflicted against enslaved Africans] tormented and devastated a person's soul.
2. Your writing should be focused on a clear purpose.
3. Your writing should demonstrate attention to spelling, punctuation, and complete sentences (Fragments and run-ons).
4. Your assignment must be completed in a Google document.
5. Your assignment will be marked out of 30 points.
6. Elijah projects are due Monday October 25th.

Please see the rubric to understand how you will be graded.

My Important Locations Assignment

Task: To create a Google map and a descriptive paragraph that show three important locations in your life.

The locations you will show are:

1. Your current home in Hsinchu.
2. Your home in your home country.  If you are a local student, please show your favorite city in Taiwan to visit.
3. The location of HIS.

How to create your Map
Go to Google Maps

1. click on the NEW option in the top right hand corner.
2. Enable the Distance Measurement Tool, and the LatLong Marker
3. Type Taiwan into the search bar.
4. Click on My Maps, then create a new map.
5. Find your home, use a place marker to mark it.
6. Do the same with HIS and your home in your home country, or your favorite city in Taiwan, if you are a local student.
7. Use the LatLong marker to find each absolute location.
8. Use the Distance measurement tool to find the distances between your two homes, or your home and your favorite city in Taiwan.
9. SAVE your map.
10. Go to your blog and create a new post.  Embed the Google map in your post.
11. To embed the map in your blog post:  On the map page you created choose LINK.  You will be given two choices.  Choose the second, or lower box, that says Paste HTML to embed in website.  Copy and paste the html text into your blog post.

What your paragraph must describe:

1. The absolute location of each of your locations.
2. The relative location of each of your locations.
3. State the distance between your home in Hsinchu and your home in your home country.

Your paragraph must be written in the same post that you embed your Google map in.  

Please look at my example project posted below.

The project is worth 20 points.  10 points for the map, and 10 points for the paragraph.

Your project must be posted on your blog no later than the morning of Wednesday September 7th.

Three important locations in Mr. Holt's Life

View My Current Location: Hsinchu City in a larger map


The above map shows three locations that are currently important in my life.  The first is my current home in Hsinchu City Taiwan, the second is the school at which I work in Hsinchu City, and the third is the place I lived before coming to Hsinchu City from  British Columbia, Canada.  My home in Hsinchu City, approximately 70 km south of Taipei,Taiwan's capital city, and is is located as the bird flies about 3 km from downtown Hsinchu on XinXiang Rd.  The absolute location is 24.7780 degrees North, 120.9588 degrees East.  As the bird flies HIS, the school I work at, is located about 2.5 km from my home on Niu Pu East Rd, next to XinXiang Elementary School.  The absolute location of HIS is 24.7961 degrees North, 120.9416 degrees East.  My home before returning to Taiwan was on Vancouver Island, on the West Coast of Canada.  My relative location was approximately 2km outside of the downtown core of Victoria BC, Canada, in the suburb of Saanich.  The absolute location of my home on Finlayson Street is 44.4468 degrees North, 123.36050 degrees West.  The approximate distance between my current location and my last location in Canada is 9556.14 km.

CHART-Sport Gr.6 like to play

Social Studies Page 399 Question Number3.

The Etruscans contribution that make roman society are that they development Rome from a grass hut and develop into cities. The first King in Rome is Romulus and that’s how Rome got their name, but the Etruscans are older than Romulus. Rome is built on hills that make them have a good defense and easy to excess to the sea, so Rome have the perfect location and this location offer a lot of advantages. They can also excess to trade very easy on the Tiber River and has a good farmland on the surrounding Latium Plain.

Han Dynasty

This is my video http://animoto.com/play/UnhjOx22LMx23Rcl00hoFg?utm_source=project_complete_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=project_complete_email&utm_content=main

Han Dynasty (2)

http://animoto.com/play/PRkcjnbM0D1pANu1GhE4mw?autostart=true

Haruka, Jessica, Laetitia, Koharu, and Asuka's Group's Part 2 is here~~
Click the link above.
Hope you enjoy watching it.

And the cut of word in the picture is "rebellion"
I don't know why it did that....^^;; Sorry!

Jessica

Han dynasty

Han dynasty (5)
This is Jessica, Laetitia, Koharu, Asuka, and Haruka's group's animoto part5.
I hope you like it.

Han Dynasty

Click here to look at Laetitia, Jessica, Asuka, Koharu, and Haruka's video part four- Han Dynasty: Achievements:
Han Dynasty
I hope you like it!

Han Dynasty Invention

Han Dynasty Inventions: The Seismograph and Silk Road

http://animoto.com/play/0tTmOs06frx9N7wX2t2QbQ?autostart=true

Han dynasty animoto

http://animoto.com/play/AREaSu5hajXjPnUvffnNuw?utm_source=project_complete_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=project_complete_email&utm_content=main
There are some mistakes...i don't know why. HOpe you like this video.

animoto:China:HAN dynasty

this is my Animoto.
http://www.animoto.com/play/xp88Kw1V3NsOrDSEZejQ
hope you like it.

Between the Dragon and the Eagle book review

Between the Dragon and the Eagle is a really interesting book.
The story is about two thousand years ago, a group of people were trying to travel trough a huge deserts between two empires that were the strongest powers on earth-desert between China and Rome. The main character Han Tzu was in the caravan. He was a brave man that full of adventure. On the way lots of things happened, but at last they travel over endless deserts and fight off thieves and outlaws. The traders crossed the river too broad for any bridge and climbed mountains so high that some of them died from lack of air. People kept arguing but some times help each other. Finally, they came to the cities-Merv, Palmyra, Damascus, Petra, and Alexandria.
For me, it’s the most interesting story that I had ever read, because every part in this story attracts me wants to kept reading, so I recommend this book to people who around twelve years old, and people who loves Adventurous stories.

The Fire Bug Connection Book Review

The Fire Bug Connection Book Review

To me, this book was boring. I have three reasons why I don't like this book. First, this book has few characters. Almost all the story's evolution moves by two main characters. The story is about two main characters Maggie and Mitch find her fire bugs' murder. I think if the story has more characters, it would be better. Second, this book tells about too much information about bugs. I don't have interest about bugs, so it was boring. Third, the ending made me disappointing. The killer of her fire bugs was a paper. It was not an amazing trick. Only one good thing I can say is it talks about global warming.
I recommend this book to who likes to insects. I don't recommend this book to people who likes mystery stories, because you will disappoint to the killer's identity.

Recommendation: ★☆☆☆☆

From Haruka

Book Review

The Fire Bug Connection

this book's main character is a girl called Maggie went to a Bug Camp for Summer. Her parents are also going with her, they are all scientists. Her grandmother says "When a raven flies at you, there will be a murder,". At first Maggie doesn't believe it, but she start to believe it, because in the story her fire bugs will got murdered. People say it is because of her grandmother is from

other country and the country may have some strong beliefs. One day, her friend Grace brought ravens for her. She was quite scared. When it was Maggie's birthday, Maggie received firebugs

from Capek, but the firebugs died, Maggie tried to figure out why. Mitch, is a computer genius, Maggie always thinks he is terrible, but he helped her to figure out who is the murderer. Mitch did

experiments with all sorts of animals for Maggie too. They also learn the paper making process and how global warming is important. In the end, the tree is the murderer and summer is over.

At first, i thought this book is a very boring and useless book, because it is talking about something that does't even get close to the fire bugs. And, readers want to know what will happened next, readers do not want to know the spiders, bats, and something that doesn't even bother the fire bugs. Even though first few chapters were very boring, but then , in the middle and last chapters it is start getting to be better. Because, fire bugs started to get murdered and they were finding the murderer. And i think it is very good that it talks about global warming and ozone hole, let people know how bad and how will it effect the animals or bugs. So, actually i think this book is not bad.

i recommend this book to the people in grade 6 or grade 5 and love bugs, spiders, bats, and other animals people. i recommend this book to these people, because in this book it tell us a lot of information about that kind of stuff. I also this the person who like science and mysteries would like this book.

STARS: ★★&1/2 ★

To the Climbing Gym

To the Climbing Gym

WIKI

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Some people think "WIKI" means What I Know Is , but that is WRONG!!!

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