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Community and Friendship

Community and Friendship

 

Charger Trails has many team-building exercises that make us work together as a community and friend. One activities that I liked the most was the marble luge. I liked the marble luge because we threw ideas out and we tested them. One of the ideas that we came up with was making an actual marble track, which didn’t work after three tries. The last idea was interesting because it had you not make a marble track, but instead hold the marble in a tube and work as a team to get it to the destination.

Being a friend at Charger Trails is a big part about the activities because it is about teamwork and how you use teamwork to succeed in the activity. For example, when we were doing the marble luge, we had to brainstorm ideas and come up with a solution to the problem. We tried doing it one way, but the second one worked better, and I think that it did because we worked better as a team. Also in the maze, we had to develop a solution to the maze and find out how to get through it. We worked together as friends to find a path to the end.

On the hog call, we chose a team leader who put people in groups to make words. The community in Charger Trails was also a large part about the activities. This is because if we never knew each other, then it would be harder to communicate, but now, we have known each other for about two and a half months and it is easier to work together.

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Writing and Education

 

Writing and Education

Raiya Patel

What did Scribes do for the ancient Egyptian society?

  • Official record keeper
  • Performed various jobs for the government and religious institutions
  • Administered laws, collected taxes, and supervised government projects
  • Worked at Pharaoh’s palace
  • Travel with members of the court to keep a record of events
  • High achieved Scribes may earn high ranks and honors and be financially rewarded

What are hieroglyphs? Who taught it to them?

  • The curriculum in school that they learned
  • Hieroglyphs took years to master
  • Priests taught Scribes to read and write hieroglyphs

How did school masters teach and how strict were they?

  • School masters treated students harshly
  • Very strict
  • Students may be scolded if the student is not paying attention
  • May be physically punished if the student is not doing what they are supposed to be

What did Scribes do if they finished their education?

  • Measure the rise of the Nile River
  • Could go on military expeditions
  • Can travel to cities and villages to keep track of tax records
  • Kept record for grain and food supply
  • Also kept a census

Image Sources:

[Images]http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/large.aspx?img=images/KMKG-MRAH/BrE.5043%283%29.jpg.September 16th, 2015.Web.

[Image]http://www.hollanders.com/index.php/papyrus-light.html.Spetember 16ht, 2015.Web.

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My Favorite Seedfolks Character

Kim is my favorite character so far in Seedfolks because she has made a huge impact on the people who have seen and planted in the garden, like Ana who cared for her beans. Kim planted the beans because she wanted to impress her father, who she didn’t know. I also like how Kim planted the beans in secret, without her sister or her mother knowing. I can relate to Kim because I have been through that time before. I also like how Kim is trying to make her father proud.

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China

 

 

China-picture1One of the places I would like to visit is China. I would also like to see the fastest train in the world and maybe go on that. China has many places to visit but the place I would like to visit the most is The Great Wall of China, but not walk on the whole thing. I would like to eat, well maybe see a fried scorpion, and I would also like to eat some of their traditional food. I would like to go to China because of the places to see and the food to eat.