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Las líneas de Nazca están en el sur de Perú. Las líneas de Nazca son muy grandes. Yo se que tú tienes que estar en el avión ves las líneas de Nazca. En la arena tú ves, aves, peces, monos, ballenas, y otros animales. El origin de las líneas de Nazca es un misterio. Ellos están en un desierto en el sur de Perú. Hay tambien figuras geometricas-triangulos, rectángulos, y líneas paralelas. La gente cree las líneas de Nazca vienen de constelaciónes en el cielo. En mi opinión, la figura de un mono el la más interesante. Algunos de las líneas son de diez millas largo.

Mi favorita línea de Nazca es el mono

Overview of Assignment
What were you asked to do?
We were asked to write a five paragraph essay on comparing the culture of Romans and Germans.

Germans vs. Romans essay

Between the warlike Romans and the Blood-thirsty Germans there was a lot of different and similarities. You would think the German Kingdoms and the Roman Empire would be very similar, but they are very different in many ways. The Germans were people that fought wars to gain status, not to gain land, like Romans did. Their religion was mostly based on nature. They were warriors and put into clans based on family ties. They had chieftains that were the heads of the clans. There are three main comparisons. They are village life to city life, which is like how the Germans lived in the villages and what their their jobs were. Then how the Romans lived in the cities, and what their jobs were. The other comparisons are law and warriors.

Village life in Germany was much different from living a roman life in the cities. In Germany the villages were surrounded by miles of farmland and pastures.Their houses were long. thatched, roof huts. The houses were not like ours though. They only had wooden tables and benches for furniture. Then the family only stayed in half of the house. The other half was filled with animal stalls. This was not just because they didn’t have enough room. It was because the animals heated the houses. As jobs the German Villagers herded cattle, gathered food, and made clothing. Farming was a big thing, woman, children, and enslaved people farmed. As you can tell already this is going to be very different than the Romans life style. In Rome the rich lived in houses called a domus. They were very nice. In it it had heat, stone floors, and running water. They even had running water that reached the top floors. On the other had the poor lived in apartment buildings called islands. They were usually six or more stories high. The higher the floor, the lower the rent was. The ground floor was dedicated to shops. The apartment building didn’t seem too nice because they had no heat, no water, and sometimes no windows. The houses in both these civilizations were very different. The Germanic houses were one floor, basic, and simple houses while Romans houses were two or three floors with high quality furniture. They also had pipes for their water system. The Romans could not farm because they lived in the cities. While in Germany farming was one of the main jobs and way to make money. They are similar because they both had heat. Not the island, but the domus and the German houses. They got it different ways though. These are the similarities and differences I have with Germans and Romans.

The different ways of using law in other civilizations is quite interesting. I will explain and compare the contrast law between the Romans and the Germans. The Germans did not write down their laws in a book like we do. They memorized their laws and passed them down from parent to child. Most of the time if they had reckless fighting it would turn into blood feuds. They had judges that would try to settle this. In Germany they had weird ways of deciding if you were guilty or not. Here were some if them. You could take an oath. You were the defended by an Oath Taker and if you lied you were punished by the gods. Then they had an ordeal, which was severe trial. The people would have to either walk barefoot over red hot coals or put their arm into boiling water. If the scars went away in three days that meant they were innocent. Then they would throw you in water with your hands tied, and if you floated you were guilty and if you sank to the bottom you were innocent. If you were guilty though you were not always punished physically. You could get things called Wergelds, which were fines. The German Laws kept peace throughout the civilization. The Roman laws were organized much differently. They had something called the Twelve Tables. When Rome conquered other people the Roman merchants had to do business with non-romans. So the judges had to make new laws for the non-romans. Then they got help from people called juris prudentes. These were special lawyers and legal writers. Together they would make the laws. The differences between these two ways of law were that in Germany you were not always 100% certain if the people were guilty or not. They had harsh ways that their gods probably told them. In Rome it was organized a lot better. You would just go to a court and have time to explain what you had done. Then the judge wold decide if you were guilty or not. The similarities were that in Germany and Rome there were two similar people that had the same jobs but had different names. In Germany they were called oath takers and in Rome they were called judges or juris prudentes. These were my similarities and differences about law on Germans and Romans.

Warriors in Germany and legionaries from Rome had a lot of different purposes in their civilizations. German fighters became warriors at young ages. Mostly when they were young boys. They would fight, hunt, and make weapons. When the males reaches manhood they would go on sacred gatherings. There they would receive a shield and spear. They had to guard them with their lives and if they were lost that would mean they lost their honor. Once that was done they were divided up into groups called clans. They were based on their family ties. In each clan there was a leader. They were called chieftains. These men were very important and gave much leadership to their men. He also gave them weapons and a chance to advance in wealthiness. The most important thing though was that he made peace. The Chieftains fought for victory and the warriors fought for the chieftain. The Roman army had a very good tactic. Their army was organized into something called legions. Each legion had about 5,000 men and the soldiers were called legionaries. The legionaries were then divided up into even smaller groups of 60-120 soldiers. This was a good technique to use because it was small and could move quickly. It could also split off from the main point and attack from the sides. It depended on every mans fighting ability. It worked very well for the Romans. As you could see here they had no similarities. The Germans had a well know leader for their defensive strategies where as the Romans just went in as a big group. Even though they were both divided up into groups meaning the Germans as the clans and the Romans as the legions, it still worked differently. There is one similarity though. It is that both strategies worked for both civilizations.

Overall Rome and Germany were great civilizations because of how organized everything was. They had different leaders and emperors so they had different lifestyles but they were both very successful. There was one similarity and two differences for village life to city life. For the law of both civilizations they figured out ways to keep the civilization peaceful. Then there was the warriors from Germany and the legionaries from Rome!--

This is my gladiator journal. Our Social Studies teacher gave us a project to become a mini expert on gladiators. Every Social Studies class we learned about The Gladiatorial Games and Ancient Rome. So we put together a fictional journal from a point of view of a gladiator.

Excerpt

I just finished the day. I got up really early and went down to the arena. My lanista trained me until 12 o’ clock. It was like a work out session. We used weights to work my muscles. Then he taught me what a gladiator really was, like I didn’t already know. I was very upset at the old man because he made me use a fake wooden sword. He said I wasn’t ready to use a real one yet. I think they were afraid if I got a real one then I would try to escape. He told me that I had to prove myself first. After my training was over I went to eat. We, being the gladiators were on strict diets. All we could have were protein shakes, and energy stuff. I was so used to having three heavy main courses when I was back in Rome. We would have appetizers and soups like snails fed on milk, and barley soup with dried vegetables, topped with cabbage leaves. It was so good. Then we would have our main courses. There were a bunch of options but my favorites by far were, leg of boar, and smoked pig's stomach stuffed with brains, pine kernels, and peppercorns. Boy I miss those days. What really bothers me is that now we can't even have dessert. We used to be able to have sweet fricassee of pumpkin and egg sponge with milk in honey.

I went to my first fight at the amphitheater in Pompey. I am trying to work my way up to the big leagues fighting at the Colosseum in Rome. I am a Murmillo, which is a type of Roman Gladiator. We wear heavy armor. I have to wear a big, oval shaped, heavy shield, called a scutum. They were red with some kind of Roman symbol on them. We also had swords, that were not wooden practice swords. They were real swords called a gladius. These were infantry swords and were medium sized, probably 2 1/2 feet long. I had to wear a large dorsal, metal helmet with red fins on them. The last piece of equipment I had to put on was a leg greave. We already had a ton of armor on our upper body so we didn’t need much leg protection. We wore a boot on our left leg and then put the greave on top. That was what we wore in battle.

For the project of making a prezi presentation, our group did The Battle Of Salamis.

For our prezi presentation our group did divide the work evenly, we each got one of the 5 W's, I got where. I also did part of the work cited with Noah.

Where I found the information for our prezi presentation was mostly on EBSCO, in the category of Middle Search Plus. I also used my textbook but it did not have a lot of information.

Dear Mom and Dad,
In module 1 for math class we learned about probability, experimental and theoretical. We also have been learning about exponents meaning 10 t the 2nd power would be 100. I have learned a lot from Miss Harte, including a lot of fancy ways to do things. We used the Texas Instruments Calculators and she teaches us easy tricks to figure out problems. We learned a lot about graphing data and putting that information into a frequency table. Then from that we made bar and line graphs.
We did a really fun project for probability. We picked an object and picked it out of a hat or bag 100 times and then recorded the results. My friend Ksky and I did ours on different colored hairbands. It was a lot of fun and I hope we do more projects like that throughout the year.
Another topic we learned about was exponents. We worked a lot on these and it helps you to find answers on other types of problems. It can be tricky but if you get it it can help a lot, like instead of writing 5x5x5x5x5 1 million times you can just right 5 to the millionth power. See how much time you saved.
The last topic I'm going to talk about is graphing data and making frequency tables. This can help you with probability too. I like making graphs because you can graph just about anything. Thanks for letting me teach you about module 1.

Love, BRBR :) <3

Town-Rye

County-Rockingham

State-New Hampshire

Region-Northeast

Country-U.S.

Continent-North America

Hemisphere-Northwestern Hemisphere

Planet-Earth

Solar system-Sol

Galaxy-Milkyway

Cluster-Local Cluster

Super Cluster-Local Super Cluster

Universe- the whole containing thing

Have you looked at your eye lately? Well if you haven't then do so now.

Science Class is fun. The teacher is Mr.Bissonnette. Right now we are learning about the equinox. It is when the sun comes directly over the equator and on the last day of summer there are exactly 12 hours of night time and 12 hours of daylight and it happens in another six months too. A few days before that we learned about the parts of the flower. In his classes we take a lo of notes and right now we have been taking notes and labeled drawings of our butterfly. Right now his stage is a chrysalis. Today in Science Class we went for a walk by Parsons Field. We learned about our five senses and wrote about them in what we saw when we were walking. Mr. B also told us about poison ivy and where it grows. We talked about bird noises and what we saw around us. I think Science Class is super fun. I like taking walks and learning about different things in nature. Art is one of my favorite specials. I love painting and being able to sketch. It is super fun and we learn a lot. right now we are doing a project where we sketch a fruit or vegetable and then we carve it into the linoleum. I am on the carving stage. I am excited for what else we are going to do in art class. In Language Arts we learn a lot. Right now we are learning about different genres and if they are fictional or nonfictional. We have groups for this SSKA, HJGA and GSMA are in my group. We have a reading log and a book list and every night we have to read 30 minutes. I love writing stories and right now I am writing one about a wake-boarder. In Social Studies we usually have maps that we fill out with all the oceans and the continents. We already had a test on that and the Five Themes of Geography. That is movement, region, location, place and human environment interaction. We did a poster on those. Now everyone in the grade are hanging outside Mrs. Collyer's room. Right now we are learning about the Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Arctic Circle, North Pole,Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle and the South Pole. I like math. We just went out into the garden and dug for potatoes. Then we weighed them. They were all shapes and sizes and some looked really demented. In his class we have a thing called math points where we have to do 100 math points by the end of the trimester. The kitchen staff are going to also turn the potatoes into potato soup. It sounds super yummy. So far in Spanish we have took two tests. One on the Spanish alphabet and on on the places in the world that speak Spanish. Now I know the whole Spanish alphabet. My Spanish name is Benita because my real name is Brianna and the first letter is always the same. I think by the end of the year I will be able to have a whole conversation with somebody who speaks Spanish. In Life Skills we have made lots of yummy stuff. We have made homemade salsa, Bruschetta and they was fantastic. Life Skills is definitely my favorite subject because I love food. Right now we are making sewn pumpkins with pumpkin hats. They are super cute and I learned how to sew. I can't wait for my next life skills class. In Tech Ed we are making our own designable ping pong paddles. Mine is in the shape of an art pallet. Once we get it sawed out we have to sand it. How you sand it is you grab a piece of sand paper and you rub the wood with it to make all the sharp edges dull. I can't wait to paint mine. There are a lot of fun games that people in the past have made like Foosball, checkers and chess. There are a lot more too. In P.E. our number one rule is to be safe so we have a lot of challenges that involve teamwork. One of them being getting the whole class to the other side of the gym. We could use four mats for that. Another one was getting the whole class from one mat to the other swinging on the rope without knocking anything over. If we did we would have to start all over again. Right now we are learning all about basketball.