I think that charger trails was very successful because everyone was both a friend and a teammate in the various activities that we did. One of these examples was in the Hog Call, when Mr. Rokuskie taped different words on our backs and we had to partner with the person with the matching word. I think that everyone was a leader in some way because everyone was cooperating and helping get people together with their matches. Also, in the Marble Luge we tried many different ways to get a marble 18 feet into a cup. After many failed attempts we still couldn’t get it in. I think that the reason this happened was because we weren’t listening to everybody’s suggestions and only trying certain things that we thought were ok. The last example that I have is the Maze Challenge. I think that we worked really well after we tried different ideas and different things. We started off with going one by one, but then we realized that that was going way to slow, so we started a line, which made that process much more fast and efficient. I think that this experience made our advisory better friends.
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Social Classes
Social Classes
Alex Lim
What are the social classes that made up ancient Egyptian society?
- The pharaoh was on the top of the social ladder.
- Then the members of the royal family, nobles and government officials.
- Then came the Priests and Priestesses,
- Next the scribes
- Then the skilled workers and artists.
- The largest and poorest group was the laborers.
What was the pharaoh in charge of?
- He owned all the land and had complete control over the people.
- Still needed help from the military advisors, the powerful nobles
- Sometimes rewarded loyal nobles with gifts of land to keep their support.
- Priests looked after the pharaoh’s temples and held religious ceremonies.
Why did parents want their children to become scribes?
- Becoming a scribe was a way that a common person could become wealthy and powerful
- Takes 10 years of training to become a scribe.
- Scribes recorded important documents for the pharaoh.
What did the craftspeople make?
- Made furniture jewelry cloth for the pharaoh and other members of royalty.
- Jewelry such as headdresses, collar necklaces, bangles, and bead collars.
What did the Laborers do?
- Laborers spent most of their time raising and selling crops.
- During flood season, Farming was not possible, laborers worked on government building projects: irrigation systems, pyramids, and temples.
- Flood season is from June to October
Image Sources
[Image]http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/farming_deir_tombs.html. September 16 2015.Web
[Image]http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/nef_tomb.html. September 16 2015.Web
Seedfolks Favorite Character
My favorite character is Gonzales. I think that he has made the biggest change throughout the book. When he takes care of Tio Juan, he realizes that Tio Juan is not just a crazy man in a straw hat, that he is a strong farmer. I also like the fact that he had to go through a lot of change when he came from Guatemala to the USA. This means that he is capable of adapting to new things. I have to adapt to new things when I went from 5th grade to 6th grade. Although this is not nearly as hard to go from Guatemala to a whole new country, it is still a change. Gonzales helps Tio Juan make his garden and doesn’t care that Tio Juan is sometimes a little confused. When Tio Juan is acting like a man, Gonzales respects him. When Tio Juan is not acting like one, then he stays distant. My opinion is that Gonzales is a little scared of Tio Juan.
Return to The City On Water (Venice)
I would like to go to Venice Italy again because I would like to see how getting to see how people live on the water all of the time. I also wonder how people get around in boats all the time. Say you have a family of 6 and you want to go to the market or something. How would you cram 6 people into a gondola without the boat either capsizing, or everybody whining and squirming and eventually making the boat capsize. When I took a trip there one summer there was no traffic on the water. What if on regular days (days without American tourists taking pictures of everything) there is traffic? How would it feel if you had to wait around all day in a boat waiting for a stop light to turn green? Then again, I didn’t see too many stoplights in Venice. Take a look at the picture above. Do you see any stop lights? I don’t. I have one of the main reasons I would like to go back is because I have a lot of questions about my once in a lifetime experience to visit the city on water.