I have learnt so much about the renaissance just by playing 1 game.  So in class we were playing a game and it have 2 different sort of cards, they were: a bluder and a stump card.  A blunder card is where you get a little paragraph about a person and it has a question in it and you have to do research to find the answer to the question, then tell Ms. Nash.  A stump card is a card where you get a topic and find out as much information as you can so you can write a paragraph or an essay about that topic.  So the first couple of rolls we got a blunder card.  I cant remember all of the blunder cards but I know 2 of them, they were, were there public toilets in the renaissance, and were there forks in the renaissance. So there were toilets in the renaissance but there were not public toilets and there were forks in the renaissance.  Then I think we had 4 stumps and I can’t remember all of them either but, some of them were, we had to go from a church to a gate and we also had to find out about astronomy in the renaissance, but I cant remember the rest.  That is what we did in the game that we played over the last 2 classes.

#1. Think about class today and reflect on the presentations you listened to. Explain with details and specific information what you learned and what you found interesting about the presentations you heard in class.

Well I really liked everyone’s interview and I at least learnt something form someone’s.  But if I don’t have much information for someone’s that is not my fault because some of them I really couldn’t hear because they didn’t speak loud enough.

Kim- Leonardo da Vinci.

• I learnt about the time-line of his life
• He made his most famous painting which was “The Monalisa” in Florance which is in Italy
• The church would not allow Leonardo to cut up dead body parts so instead he cut up animal parts form the butchers.

Shane- Marco Polo

• Marco Polo was born on September 15th, 1454
• He was capable of speaking 4 languages
• He spent 17 years in Cathay which is in China
• He wrote a book about Cathay which became a best seller

Tom- Michelangelo (I couldn’t hear him very well)

• Michelangelo was born on March 6th, 1465
• His parents and everyone else didn’t give him much support
• People became more religious because of him

You Won- King Henry VIII (couldn’t hear very well)

• He is most famous for marrying 6 times
• He made himself the head of the Church of England (which I am part of)
• His father was King Henry VII

Sebastian- Christopher Marlowe (Couldn’t hear him at all) (have no information)

Anthony- Miguel de Cervantes

• Before Miguel was a writer he was a slave
• His best book was Don Quixote
• As I said before he was a writer

The rest of my classmates and their interview’s either weren’t working or they didn’t put it on their blog yet.

#2. What would you change to improve your interview/presentation if you were to do the assignment again?

What I think I would do if I had a chance to redo my interview would be to get some more information on my person so I could actually put myself in Martin Luther’s shoes and see kind of what it is like to be him.  I think I should also work a little harder on my interview script not particularly making it longer but just putting some more extra details into it.  I don’t think I really needed to do anything else because I think I did a pretty good job!

There are so many people these days who are willing to give up their lives for what they believe in and what they think is right. The people I think that make a decision and sometimes don’t realize that they are risking their lives are policemen and firemen. I think they risk their lives because firemen are going and putting out fire’s everyday and their friends and family never know if they are going to come out alive or not because they could have got stuck and burned to death.  Also I think police men risk their lives because they are trying to catch all the criminals out there that are really silly for doing all the stuff that they do but there are so many criminals out there that a policeman could be shot or blown up or something any minute while they are doing their job. 

Armies that go out and fight in wars also risk their lives because they are fighting against other people because they disagree, and even though they disagree I don’t think they should go to war about it, but they are also fighting for what they believe in and what they think is right.

The people in the medieval time who risked their lives were the Christians that went to fight for the Holy Land where Jesus Christ was born and lived.  They risked their lives for religion because they didn’t want to let Jesus down and they also wanted to see and experience what life was like for Jesus when he was still alive.

There are so many people these days who are willing to give up their lives for what they believe in and what they think is right. The people I think that make a decision and sometimes don’t realize that they are risking their lives are policemen and firemen. I think they risk their lives because firemen are going and putting out fire’s everyday and their friends and family never know if they are going to come out alive or not because they could have got stuck and burned to death.  Also I think police men risk their lives because they are trying to catch all the criminals out there that are really silly for doing all the stuff that they do but there are so many criminals out there that a policeman could be shot or blown up or something any minute while they are doing their job. 

Armies that go out and fight in wars also risk their lives because they are fighting against other people because they disagree, and even though they disagree I don’t think they should go to war about it, but they are also fighting for what they believe in and what they think is right.

The people in the medieval time who risked their lives were the Christians that went to fight for the Holy Land where Jesus Christ was born and lived.  They risked their lives for religion because they didn’t want to let Jesus down and they also wanted to see and experience what life was like for Jesus when he was still alive.

In the last few lessons we have been learning about the medieval times.

I would have to say that my favorite lesson was when Ms. Nash put this poem up on the board and we had to write what we felt it meant:

“Ring o’ ring of roses

A pocket full of posies

A tissue, a tissue

We all fall down”

This was always a nursery rhyme my mum always used to play with me and you would stand in a circle and when you said “We all fall down” we would always fall down.  Ms. Nash told us to write what we thought what this nursery rhyme meant and I had never thought about this before but I wrote that it meant that they were standing in a ring of roses, that they had a pocket full of tissues and when they sneezed they fell down and died.  To find out what the rhyme actually meant we watched a movie which was like a news report and told us that the nursery rhyme was actually created because of a very deadly disease which actually started by black rats!

I have also learnt that in the middle ages people never took credit for their mistakes and they always blamed it on the gods.  As you can see the people back then were very religious and even when that deadly desease was arounf that I was telling you about before they thought the gods were mad at them for some reason and to once again they blamed it on the gods.

I have had fun learning about the middle ages and hope to learn more.

Zaira!!!

What is the issue?

The issue is that the world is heating up because of the suns rays. So the earth uses it up and bounces back.  Also the heat tries to escape from the atmosphere and some escapes but not allot.

Who is involved?

The things that are involved are all living organisms, because the earth right now is at the very highest point it can be at and it cannot get any higher or else it will cause major tsunami’s and the animals will soon become endangered.

Who is affected and how?

Everyone and everything in the world right now is affected because the world is heating up rapidly and loads of things are being affected.

What do you think is a solution to this problem?

Well the greenhouse effect is pretty important but at this point it is heating up too fast.  So my solution is not to keep building greenhouses because right now the earth is at the very top line it can be at and we still need greenhouses but not as many as people want to.

check out this site: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html

 Citation: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Last updated on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
URL: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html

(13 December, 2006)

Today in class we watched a movie all about Rome.  This movie talked about a lot of things but I will only talk about some.

Roman women did work but they were prostitutes!  Even if the roman women were married the only job they could do was be a prostitute.  Women also had to take care of the children and do household work.

The Roman gladiators were like what we would call an army these days.  But instead of fighting against something like the army’s do today, they would fight for something.  So the gladiators would fight for land against another city or country.  To become a gladiator you had to go to school and work to become a gladiator, you didn’t just have your spots handed to you.  The Roman gladiators built the Hadrians Wall because they had not been to battle for a very long time, so the head of the gladiators made them build it to keep them busy.

That is all I am going to tell you about the movie now!

Zaira

To me I think that social studies and history can be sometimes fun, sometimes interesting and sometimes boring.  I think this because I only like doing stuff when I actually understand what i am doing, then it can be kind of interesting.  I especially like social studies when it is fun because when we were doing a greek play that was allot of fun for me and i got a really good grade!  Then it can be boring.  I think sometimes it can be boring because you might not understand and also you say to yourself “why do we need to learn this stuff?”.  The first thing that comes to my mind when i think about social studies is BORING, but sometimes when I get to class and I am with my friends and learning it can be a lot of fun and interesting at the same time.

 The reason I didn’t mention about history is that I have never had to take history; I have always took social studies.

This is a social studies picture!