2-27-15

today we took the quiz on Egypt. my shadow took the test and Mr. Shick said if he got a 100% as a shadow, that he would give him 1000 dollars cash. i hope that he takes the right guesses and receives 1000 dollars from a teacher he has never seen before. i thought the test wasn't that to hard but ik i didn't get a 100 because some of the questions were a bit challenging. The last class's average grade was a 74% so i am sort of scared but if i get a good grade it could pull my grade up to a higher B and maybe even an A at some point.

cyber day / 2-26-15

what is the triangle shaped physical feature at the end of the nile river. (delta)

who was at the bottom of the social pyramid in Egypt. (slaves)

what were the pyramids built for. (tombs)

The Pharaohs were considered part _____ & part ___. (human) (god)

What physical feature caused the people of Egypt to live where they did?  (nile)

2-25-15

today we went over more notes about Egypt and i think im getting the hang of it. i was complemented greatly on my elbow patches. there isnt much time left in class and i dont wanna blog when i get home so i will rant about nothing cause i have all my notes on egypt in previous blogs. your daughter must be having a blast in europe which is very cool. i wish i could leave the east coast haha

2-24-15

i hate this game and will never play it again. i have tried to complete this about 50 times and didn't complete it till 9 pm. with all of this effort a 70% is pretty demoting and will pull my grade down a bit. if you reconsider and make it anything higher i will start to cry in your class so when you ask me if i'm crying i will be the first person to cry in your class this semester. i have also become alot better at recognozing what it takes to create a pyramid, and how to steer a boat with the A, Z, N, and M keys on the key board

mondays class work

at one point all the pyramids were perfectly straight. there were multiple chambers within the pyramids. there was air vents in the pyramid. the great pyramid was the tallest building for over 3800 years. the Egyptian civilization was around for 2000+ years. the nile made it really easy to create crops. in fact the nile area they just threw seeds down and let their animals walk on it to plant them. the nile was very easy to irrigate. from the nile they created sail boats. there were three main times of Egypt. there was the old, middle and new kingdom. the pharaohs were expected to act like gods. Ra was a main central god. Egypt split up a little and created nubia and Egypt. the other main god for nubia was Oman and together they morphed into one and created OmanRa. the new kingdom was a time of war and expansion of the land. when mummifying somebody, their main organs were removed. the body was next covered with salt and was left their for about 40 days to get rid of the moisture. oils were then rubbed on the body. thicker layers were put on the body then the body was wrapped. the body was then put on  wooden board, then he was wrapped onto the board. a pouch was then placed on the chest. mummified Ibus were placed on the chest. they were wrapped on to the body, then was secured down father by bands horizontal to the body. a painting of their face was then out on the body and was strapped down by more bands. linon was then wrapped over top of that. the linon was died red and a hole was cut out where the painting of the Pharaohs face was. paintings were then put on top of the cloth and his name was inscribed at the feet.

john greens video was on all the basics and the process of Egypt

one was on the pyramids

 the last one was based on mummys

cyber day work

(clock/time) I believe the most important of the five things I have chose is the clock. Having a set standard time system allows them to advance much more as a civilization. they divided their days into hour like parts called obelisks. their clock used the motion of the sun or water to divide their days. by creating a form of time in whatever way they did choose to do it, created more organization throughout the land.

(farming) secondly i think their use of irrigation when it flooded was very important to the people of Egypt. with the new technology in their life, they created a way to farm all year round (even during the flooding season).  the technology they created was called a shaduf. it was a cross pole that was attached to a post in the ground. one end had a container attached , the other had a counter weight. when it flooded, the container was filled with the flood water from a channel before being raised up by the counter weight and swung where to the farmer wanted the access water to go.

(medicine) third, i think their advancements in technology was important to their culture. with these advancements, they are able to find out when people had medical illnesses. they were also able to find some treatments for these illnesses. they did this through just being educated mostly. with all the extra food going around, they were able to make these advancements such as surgery and things to take when they have certain illnesses.

(writing) 4th i picked writing. the form of writing they had in their time was called hieroglyphs. by creating this form of writing, they were able to keep track of mostly everything. by keeping track of things, it allowed them to advance in even more things.

(astronomy) 5th and probably least important in advancing their civilization there was astronomy. the one thing this did was help with was creating a calendar. the calendar and astronomy showed to them that their was about 365 days in a year and is divided into about 12 months. all this did was help keep track of things even more.

2-17-15

not enjoying the snow day with the upcoming try outs and stuck inside until them. but with his time i will be able to complete my first cyber day home work. with the social classes, next up after the scribes that wrote in hieroglyphics, there were the soldiers. these men used wooden weapons (bow and arrows along with spears) with bronze tips on the end. occasionally they would ride chariots. after them there was the white kilt class or upper class. then the religious and political leaders and lastly the pharaoh. these men were both political and religious leaders. they were in charge of ALL of Egypt and collected taxes, made laws, and defended Egypt from foreigners. Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh. Cleopatra VII was also a woman Pharaoh. there were over 2000 gods and goddesses, and they controled the lives of the humans. RA was the god of creation and the sun, there was another god from nubia (more south of the river) named OMAN, which translates to the english word hidden. over time they combine OMAN and RA to make OMANRA.

2-11-15

today we went over Egyptian geography for the first part of class. the main feature of geography of Egypt is the nile river. the nile is mad up three rivers. the nile flows south to north. the other thing we went over before i left was the social classes of Egypt. the social class is in the form of a pyramid and has the pharaoh at the top and the slaves at the bottom. another historical feature of Egypt is the Sphinx.

2-9-15

today we took our second test. i know i got the first question wrong because he went through the answers on that one because i asked about it. we got out first test back and i got an 87 which is not to shabby and showed the routine for when we get our tests back. the bell system is pretty cool as well. once we finished all of that i am completing this blog and then will watch more Brodie smith.

2-6-15

today we started the class doing nothing really. i watched a video on Brodie smith and frisbee shots. they are some great videos check him out! after that we finished our video and talked about test questions. we will be having our test on monday. to study i will review the notes i took through out the video. he says it will be a fairly good test so i think i will do good again. last test i got a B so now i will try to get an A on this one. one main topic to focus on is how some cultures have gotten more advanced then others. i also need to focus on the details of the food and locations effects on a growing civilization.

2-3-15

today we watched the video again and jared diamond explained what he thought made some races superior to others.he believed that farming was the key to a more advanced civilization. if you had the better crops that naturally grew in your area then you would probably be more advanced civilization. this explains the difference between new guinea and america. in new guinea, they had little to no crops growing in their area and if they did have a crop, it was not very filling ad low on protein and calories. since they had to spend a majority of their time on finding food, they had no time to work on other things. meanwhile, america had the best crops around the globe, so when people started to make civilizations there they had more then enough food. this allowed them to be more advanced in other things. he also touched base on domestic animals. there are 14 total animals in this world that are over 100 lbs and have been domesticated by humans. most of these have other great resources produced before they are killed for their meat.

2-2-15

today we watched a video on jared diamond called "guns, germs, and steel". this video is about the evolution of humans and how technology advances through time. the people of new guinea still live a very basic life that involves a lot of hunting and gathering. they compare them to the average citizen of new york and notice that the new yorkers have a lot more "cargo". because they have cargo, the people of new guinea automatically put them in charge and almost worship them. this leads people to believe that the white folk are just naturally in charge and have power, and the people of new guinea believe that because the amount of cargo they have. jared diamond is trying to unproved that thought because he believes otherwise.