I really enjoyed the charger trails. I feel like it was a nice way to work on cooperating with a group of people. It was a similar experience to the activities we participated in at Camp Hanes. There were three activities that we went through. I personally feel like I really saw what the teachers were talking about. That some people have strengths in certain areas whereas others may have strengths in other activities. I feel like as a friend I was successful because I learned more about my friends. As a teammate I was successful because I was helping my team towards our goal of completing the puzzle. I feel like this showed especially in The maze and the hog call. We had some good laughs but we were working together to our goal as well. Overall I think it was a really fun experience.
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Daily Life- Housing
Daily Life- Housing
Cassidy Young
Lower Class
- The size of houses and amounts of furnishings varied between lower and upper class.
- If you were lower class, as you probably would have guessed, your house would be duller and smaller than upper class.
- As a poorer Egyptian, you would have little furniture as well.
- The most basic furniture the Egyptians had were tables and beds, which is for the most part the only furnishings in the poorer Egyptians homes.
Upper Class
- Important and wealthy citizens lived in bigger cities. These cities were the center of business.
- Also, your house would look nicer, for example it might be painted and plastered.
- Royals would have much nicer homes. They would be at least twice the size of others, and some even had multiple stories.
- Some decorations that wealthy and royal Egyptians had included, trees, flowers, bushes, and sometimes high walls around them.
Ways of Living
- The houses that were made of mud bricks were not as sturdy as the stone buildings.
- However, they still served their purpose nicely.
- The Egyptians created temples and tombs out of better quality materials than other buildings like their houses, in hope that they would last forever.
- Ancient Egyptian houses were mostly made out of mud bricks.
- The Egyptians made their houses facing the north so that the north wind could circulate through the houses.
The Building Process
- As I’ve already mentioned, the houses are made from the mud in the Nile.
- The mud was gathered using leather buckets, and then carried to the building site.
- Once there, the builders would add straw and pebbles to strengthen the mud. After this, it was poured into wooden frames to form the actual “bricks”.
- To dry the bricks, they would put them out in the sun. Once dried, the houses would typically be decorated.
Citations
(Image).http://www.crystalinks.com/egypthomes.html.9/16/15.Web
(Image).http://quatr.us/egypt/architecture/houses.htm.9/16/15.Web
Hart, George. Ancient Egypt. Alfred A Knopf, Inc. 1990. Print
Favorite Seedfolks Character
My favorite character in Seedfolks so far is Sam. I like Sam’s character because he’s a good person. He’s always trying to bring people together. For example when he was talking about smiling to everyone so they know that he’s a nice person, and that way they feel welcome. He said that he always tries to help the world, I admire that because I think being kind is important. I feel like Sam is the person that I want to be, this is because everything he does is for others sake. He tries to impact the world in a good way, and bring everyone together.