Sunday, May 29, 2011

Taj Mahal

The story of the Taj Mahal is one of the most inspiring stories i have ever read. It teaches you about true love and not just liking people of how they are but of how they act.





The Taj Mahal was built because the wife of the prince died. It all started when he was at war and she came with him, she was in labor. On the night of birth she delivered a girl but she was so tired and weak that she died, the last worlds that came out of her mouth before she died was, "show to everyone how much we are in love." So then he thought for many weeks and he was depressed for weeks and weeks because he didnt know how to show toeveryone. Until he had this dream that he and his wife where back together and in love. But once he woke up he figured it out, he would build a tomb to show to everyone how much he loves her. So he did. So the Taj Mahal is for her and it is her tomb.


  

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Lost city of Mohenjo

The lost city of Mohenjo seems to be a very interesting and it is very developed. The thing about this city that amazed me was that it had streets and it also had a drainage system.




The city was pretty impressive but the thing that was a big bummer was that it had no temples, palaces and monuments. Another cool things about the city was that they had a watertight pool, which was called the Great bath.





 The pool was located on the top of a dirt pill. Which i dont get is that if the pool was a bath tub or was it a really big pool, because if everyone went int0o the Great bath that would be very unhygienic. The most interesting thing that i found was that the city was on elevated ground because elevated ground is one of the hardest to make a building or buildings.




Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Grade 7 Reflection

I am choosing three learner profiles, open- minded, communicator and thinker. When i was doing my map for Egypt i worked with Ergi. I was open- minded during that project because i herd and thought of Ergis and my plans to create our map, we figured out how to put our own style of drawing and working in one peace of work. Also in the project of the map i was a thinker, i thought of how i would color and decorate my map. I also had to think how to label and add all the little details in to the map. Like the mountain parts all the rivers and some lakes. A really important thing as well is that i communicated with Ergi, like to tell him if he is doing a good job or to tell him what i think about his work that he is doing. I would tell him to improve, so we would communicate to express our feeling to the work. So i really had to think, be open minded and communicate. So that we could complete the project with a high grade and also be proud of the map.

Civilizations are different for example, the homos they where surrounded mostly by rocks and trees and underbrush. They also might live next to special things, like water, mountains, food etc They had different ways do catch there food from other civilizations and different times. Like the homos hunted with spears, daggers and other weapons. But then in we go further in time, like the Egyptians they built big temples and they where smart where they lived, like water or they lived where there where a lot of animals for food. Egyptians also had different ways to catch there pray like, they used bow and arrow. They had some horses so they could move faster on the ground and attack. But if i went into things like Alexander the great and his armys and how they lived it would be totally different from the ways the Egyptians lived or the homos.