10 Questions

• How did you feel toward the political issues in your country?
• Did you support your leader, or was glad he stepped down?
• What views did you family have on it?
• If you were against your family, how did they treat you or what did they say to you?
• Did you attend any protests?
• Was anyone in your family or your friends affected by the police violence?
• Have you only seen one leader in power?
• Was it scary to witness all of these violent outbreaks?
• Are you worried about what will happen next in the government?
• Do you think the future government and people in power will know what to do better, or will it happen all over again?

Eygptian raps

Today in class we listened to everyone perform their Egyptian raps.  We also started to watch a video about a girl in current day Egypt.  Her name is Gigi .Gigi's family does not support her political beliefs.  They don’t listen to her to explain what she is doing. They think she is against her country, by not supporting their leader.       

Egyptian Rap

When you mummify someone you are preserving the body.

They go all out and make it real gaudy.

They can be preserved wet, frozen, or even dried.

I heard this from a website and I know they have not lied.

When you get rid of moisture, you can stop the decay.

Egyptian climate helps the process since it’s hot and dry all day.

Gods and goddesses were a part in Egyptian culture.

They ask them for things to help them in the future.

In ancient Egypt there were hundreds of gods.

Most really believed but some thought they were frauds.

Some were gods of, creation, floods, and even protection.

You worshiped and prayed to them if you were an Egyptian.

I hope you learned something in this Egyptian rap.

And if were gunna have a test on this, you better study asap!

Ancient Egypt

Today we talked more about ancient Egypt.  All of my notes and information are the powerpoint and on somebody else's computer.  I couldnt send to me. So we can show you in class again.

Ps:
Hope your daughter is feeling better !

Ancient Egypt Powerpoint

Today in class we worked on our PowerPoint on ancient Egypt.  We finished it and have it saved and will show you in class next time you are here.

Egyptian god's and goddesses

The gods and goddesses were a major part in Egyptian culture. Their names today are a mix of both their original Egyptian ones like, and the Greek forms.  There were hundreds of gods and goddesses in Ancient Egypt. In most cultures the gods kind of looked like people.  While most Egyptian gods had animal heads. They had temples where they honored and praised their gods. Each temple was home to one or more temple gods. Some were gods of, creation, floods, protection, and some were to take care of people after they passed. Some different ones were just local gods. The may have represented towns. Others sometimes represented plants or animals. The Egyptians thought it was important to praise them and give those things so the gods will remain happy and let the people live peaceful lives.

When you mummify someone or something you are preserving the body. You mummify can either animal or human. Some mummies can be preserved wet, frozen, or dried. When you get rid of the moisture, you can stop decay. They dry the body by using a salt mixture called natron. A lot of natron is found along the Nile river. The Egyptian climate helps the mummification process. Since it is both very hot and dry.

Papua New Guinea Essay for Test

Essay B

Discuss the significance of a food surplus

The Middle East was home, not only to the best crops but them also best animals.  Since the people in Middle East stored stuff they had a surplus of food they could use that would last for a while. When you have an excess of food you don’t have to worry about starvation and you can have time to figure out how to make granaries and other ways for food.  They also had many animals in the Middle East.  As well as for meat, animals could be used for milk, and skins for clothes for extra warmth.  Animals could eat the remains of crops for food.  Plants and animals are beneficial to each other as well as for the people. Use their waste for soil and fertilizer.  And you can reproduce them so they won’t have to constantly hunt them down. 

The people in Papua New Guinea just spend all of their time getting and preparing the food.  Rainforest of new guinea is one of the only places where people still hunt for their food right on the spot but they never a productive way to get enough food, it takes too much time and with a bow.  There is no certainty to whether you will get it.  Traditional societies rely more on gathering, in this part it is done by women.

An architect in the Middle East uncovered remains of ancient dwelling that were very sophisticated.  He found a small village, one of the first civilized permanent villages.  It was the first time people settled down in a community.  He wondered how they fed an entire village if times are so hard? They found a dry, humidity controlled environment where they would take grains and protect them from moisture, world’s first granary, where they could store food and preserve it.  This way food could be stored for years.  People started growing their own food- stayed close to any place of water they could find and place wheat and barley fields around them, bringing them as seeds and putting them next to their village.  People of the Middle East were becoming the first farmers.  They were changing the nature of the crops around them.  Domestication is how crops are changed by human modification.

Papua New Guinea Review for Test

Papua New Guinea

• Growth rate is 6.2% there economy is growing very quickly.  It is booming.

• Import from U.S.A, China, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. 

• They export gold, oil, copper, silver, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa,  crayfish, and prawns.

• Also import machinery, food, chemicals, oil, and technology.

• They mine gold, copper, silver, crude oil, petroleum production, construction, tourism, copra crushing, palm oil production, plywood production, wood chop production.

• They have many languages:
• Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and around 860 native languages

• Religions: 
• catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, many native beliefs, etc. 
• Overwhelmingly Christian

• Communications:
• 2 tv stations
• 3 radio
• 60,000 landlines
• 900,000 cellphone
• They have satellite and cable
• 125,00 internet users
• 4285 internet hosts

• Transportation
• 563 airports
• 9, km of roads
• 2 helicopters
• Airports only have 21 paved runways

Papua New Guinea Powerpoint

Today in class the two sections you told us to watch, we had already watched so we just started off working with partners. Rachel W and I, worked together as partners.  We made a power point and it is on her blog.  She tried to send it to me but it wasn't working so it's just up on her  blog.

Guns Germs and Steel Part 4

 Out of the animals that are domesticated only llamas come from South America.  The rest come from Asia, Africa, and Europe.  The Middle East was home, not only to the best crops but them also best animals.  Since the people in Middle East stored stuff they had a surplus of food they could use that would last for a while.  People in the Middle East had specialized labors.  This meant they learned how to do other work other than hunting, gathering farming.   People become weaves, weapon makers, bronze makers, and tin or metals.  This helped move along the process of development. Some people made plaster from stones, they had to be heated for days at a time and heated over 100 degrees; these were the first steps to making steel. Places like New Guinea never developed advanced ways of doing things.  People were still using stone tools.  It’s not bad; it’s just that they were “stuck in time”.  Then the Europeans came over and they were easily conquered. They didn’t have any way to fight back.  On the other hand they were not getting cancer, heart attacks, stress related, no preservatives in food, and they are living the way there ancestors had.  Not like a lot of other societies. Fertile Crescent is in the middle of Eurasia, many of the farmers could move because the places on the same line of latitude share the same time of day and that would be helpful for farming.  Wherever they went they transformed societies all over the world.  Americans consumed 20 million bales of wheat a year.  Modern America would not be possible without the spread of the Fertile Crescent.  People in New Guinea could progress the same way America could but they just didn’t have the right material.  There was still a big gap to overcome but the towns in New Guinea were trying to develop.  It’s not that the people in New Guinea weren't smart enough or able to develop; it’s just that they did not at all have geographic luck.

Guns Germs and Steel Part 3

Humans started interacting with animals in the Middle East. They started domesticating them.  They began with plants and hunting and gathering and gradually advanced to domesticating animals. When you have an excess of food you don’t have to worry about starvation and you can have time to figure out how to make granaries and other ways for food preservation.  They people in Papua New Guinea just spend all of their time getting and preparing the food.  As well as for meat, animals could be used for milk, and skins for clothes for extra warmth. Animals could eat the remains of crops for food.  Plants and animals are beneficial to each other as well as for the people. Use their waste for soil and fertilizer.  And you can reproduce them so they won’t have to constantly hunt them down.  They now have meat right there under their control and no need to keep hunting but you have it right there.  They also invented the plow.  They domesticated the animals and trained them to pull a plow.  They would train the big animals for this; this way is faster and more efficient.  The animals will work and work and work and you don’t have to make the people do as much labor intense work.  The plow was the most powerful tool at the time.  It allowed the farmers to make for food for more people.  People in Papua New Guinea have pigs and deer but they can’t domesticate them.  The only muscle power they have for the jobs are human muscle power. Domesticated animals need to get along with humans.  Out of 148 animals, only 14 have been successfully domesticated. They include; Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cows, Horses , Donkeys, Camels, Water buffalo, Llamas , Reindeer, Yacks, Mithan, Valley cattle , Some Birds, Fish , Reptiles, Large plant eating mammals.  Some zebras would be good but they have a vicious streak that humans cannot tame.

Guns Germs and Steel Part 2

How come Greeks, romans, and Mayan people can advance in development but Papua New Guinea could not? Diamond is a scientist not a historian, yet he is trying to solve the puzzles of human history. After ice age parts of world became warmer and wetter, people in the Middle East were thriving.  Rainforest of new guinea is one of the only places where people still hunt for their food right on the spot but they never a productive way to get enough food, it takes too much time and with a bow there is no certainty to whether you will get it.  Traditional societies rely more on gathering, in this part it is done by women. They collect wild sago, from the sago tree.  In it they get the pulp form the center and it is cooked into dough.  This is not enough calories to support the whole community.  One tree only has about 70 pounds of sago, a lot of work for not enough food, and it is low on protein.  Sometimes they have to eat spiders to get some protein.  Ian focused on an archaeological dig.  He uncovered remains of ancient dwelling that were very sophisticated.  He found a small village, one of the first civilized permanent villages.  It was the first time people settled down in a community.  But how did they feed entire village if times are so hard? They found a dry, humidity controlled environment where they would take grains and protect them from moisture, world’s first granary, where they could store food and preserve it.  It was an oval shaped mud wall building primarily for wheat and barley.  Could be stored for years.  People started growing their own food- stayed close to any place of water they could find and place wheat and barley fields around them, bringing them as seeds and putting them next to their village.  People of the Middle East were becoming the first farmers.  Changing the nature of the crops around them.  Domestication is how crops are changed by human modification.  This is not so different from what the farmers were doing in the Middle East.  Archeologist believes people have been farming in Papua New Guinea for 10,000 years, almost as close to the people in the Middle East.  But if they were farmers why weren’t they advancing to what other parts of the world were doing? What was the difference? The people who had access to the most productive crops had the most productive farms, Geographic luck.