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Las Líneas de Nazca están en Perú. No sabemos quiénes hacen las líneas. Las figuras en las líneas son de perros, triángulos, monos, y líneas paralelas. La cosa más interesante de las líneas es el mono, en mí opiníon. No sabemos la edad. Las líneas son muy grandes. La gente toma el avión para mirar las líneas. Las Nazcas hacen las líneas por poner piedras en una locación diferente. Sabmeos que las líneas están en Lima e Ica. No sabmeos el origin de las líneas.

In Social Studies we were asked to research Roman and German culture and compare it in a 5 paragraph, factual essay.

Essay

Which would you rather be, a Roman or a German? You don’t know? Here let me compare them for you to help with your decision. The Germans were not considered civil, they were considered barbarians by the Romans because they did not speak Latin. The Germans and Romans had very different ideas of lifestyle, law and army, but neither was right or wrong.
The way of life for the Germans was very different from the Romans. The Germans took part in some of the Roman life, but they kept mostly to their own culture. They lived in thatched huts with mostly farmland and woodland surrounding them. They made their living herding cattle because it provided food and clothes, and occasionally trading with the Romans.Most of the work around the house was done by women, children, or slaves because the men were usually hunting or fighting. Germanic women wore sack-like dresses or long skirts occasionally with a pin or brooch at the shoulder. The men wore tunics with trousers and sometimes a cape with a pin at the shoulder. To the Germanic people, hospitality was very important, so much that it was against the law to turn anyone away from your home. The Romans on the other hand, lived what we would now call ‘a city life.’ If you were a middle class or poor citizen that lived in the city, you lived in an island, or a six-story apartment. If you were rich, you usually lived in a big villa in the countryside. In Rome, the father was the head if the household, his word was law. He arranged children’s marriages and went to work while the wife did her duties at home. The Roman aslo either took part in or watched the Gladiatorial Games at the Colosseum. This was when prisoners of war, enslaved or poor people would fight to the death, against each other or against animals. Romans also watched chariot races at the Circus Maximus, which was a round race track in a building that had a similar shape of the Coloseum.
The Germans were very war-like people, and their war strategies were very different from the Romans uniform lines of legionaries and their extreme discipline and organization. The Germans did not use a fixed set of fighting plans, instead they barged in surprise raids, shouting and screaming to scare the enemy. Germanic soldiers used short swords, heavy wooden axes and daggers as weapons during a battle. Their armor was a wooden shield and a leather suit. Only the men fought in war and they spent most of their time fighting, making weapons and hunting. The warriors went into training when they were just boys and at the end of their training, they earned a sword and shield. Loss of these meant loss of honor. The warriors were divided into groups called clans, these were based to their family ties. The military leader of a clan was called a chieften. German war was closely linked to their religion. They had many gods of war such as Thor and Wodan. The Germans expected their soldiers to win or die fighting. The Romans fighting strategies were almost the exact opposite of those of the Germans. The

We researched Roman gladiators, the colosseum and, daily lifestyle for social studies. Theses are some excerpts from the journal I wrote about it.

Journal Excerpt Prologue In the year 2004, on an archaeological dig in the city of Pompeii, I, Germaine Lenkle, found the journal of a Roman gladiator called: Appius Octavius Magnus. We brought the journal to America and analyzed what the journal revealed about the lifestyle of a Roman gladiator. In the journal, Appius talks about his life as a Roman gladiator. With the help of the American government, we have taken excerpts from the journal and explained the meanings and what is going on in the journal. The journal was found in Pompeii. This city was one of the cities that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii was one of the three cities, including Oplonti and Herculaneum, that was covered in ashes when the volcano erupted. The ashes that rained down from Mount Vesuvius covered the three cities in white-gray covering, literally freezing the people, pets, and buildings in place. It was found under the body of a man who we assumed to be Appius. In his words, the journal explains all of the hardships and luxury’s of a Roman gladiators life. It also explains the structure and purpose of the Colosseum and training centers. May 30. The banquet. “Tonight we held a banquet. Although were are not wealthy, my wife put together a wonderful meal and invited our friends over for supper. We had, as an appetizer, fried bulbs, and for soups we had puree of lettuce leaves with onions. For our main course we had the most delicious smoked pigs stomach. The brains stuffed inside were cooked to perfection and had just the right amount of juice left inside them. For dessert, we had stew of apricot. Then all of our friends left and we went to bed on full stomachs.” In Roman households, the meals he explained above were common and there were many more that we would consider rather unappetizing today. For instance, for appetizers there were, snails fed on milk. They were fed on milk to take all of the gravel and silt out of their stomachs. They also had minced sea-crayfish-tail bulbs. For main courses they also had electric ray with hot raisins, boiled crane with turnips, leg of boar, roast flamingo with Jericho dates, dried onion, honey and wine and wood-pigeon. “I have won again, however I did not receive the money I was hoping for, I received a wooden sword and a pat on the back. I came home and my son was still feverish and sweating. My wife told me that she had called for a doctor but he had never shown up. I took matters into my own hands. I went down to the doctors building and refused to go until a trained medicinal man came with me. He came to our house assessed my son, bled him, then gave us a recipe to give him to help his fever. We payed the doctor and he left.” Appius's prize was not the one he had hoped for, no matter who the competitor, your prizes or winnings could vary from money and freedom, if you were a slave, to a pat on the back and some cheering. “Today my daughter turned 12. Since our family is not wealthy she will continue her education with her mother. She will learn how to cook, clean, wash clothes, take care of babies and much more that you will have to ask my wife about. We are all so proud of her. We held a celebration in he honor. It included her favorite meal; leg of boar. We will not have a celebration like this again until my next oldest son is sixteen.” Roman girls and boys were taught by their parents until they were three or four. Then they would go on to their formal education. The formal education stopped for girls when they were twelve. That was when they learned to be house wives and mothers by being taught by their own mothers. For boys, formal education stopped when they were fifteen or sixteen. This was when they would find a job, and learn to be a 'good man' from their father. Boys had the option of going to rhetoric school if they wanted to be a law man or work for the government or empire.

The war I researched for my Prezi was the Peloponnesian War. Our group sort of divided the work. We didn't really have assigned work, we just did something that no one else was doing and this worked pretty well for us. I was responsible for getting some images from the internet and also for writing our script on what each person was to present while we used our Prezi. We found information for our project from various websites such as the History Channel website and we also used the internet and our textbooks.

Dear Mom and Dad,

In Module one Math in math class I have learned about many different thins such as: The order of operations, graphs, probability and frequency tables. Now I will tell you about all of these.

The order of operations is a standard order used in multi-step problems. It is also known as PEMDAS. P is for parentheses, E is for exponents, M is for multiplications, D is for division, A is for addition, S is for subtraction. In a complicated problem you figure out what is inside the parentheses first, then the exponents. After that you do multiplication and division from right and the same thing with addition and subtraction. The order of operations is very helpful in a problem like this:(4+7)x3=33.

There are two types of graphs: bar graphs and line graphs. A bar graph is used to compare things, such as sales, in years, months, weeks or days. A line graph is used to show increase or decrease in things over time. In order to have a proper graph you have to have a title, key(if you are showing many different things), vertical axis label and horizontal axis label.

Probability is when you use theoretical and experimental probability to predict the outcome of any certain thing. While doing this probability unit our math teacher had us do an experiment on theoretical and experimental probability. The assignment was to create a poster on an experiment that you and your partner will be doing. My partner and I did ours on lollipops. We took sixteen lollipops of different colors and flavors and put them in a bag. We then took turns pulling a lollipop out of the bad 90 times. Our experimental and theoretical probabilities were very close. We then wrote a paragraph about our experiment and presented it in front of the class.

Another skill we learned in module 1 was making a frequency table. Frequency tables are used to make graphs. You would make a table with the titles of: something you were making the graph on, tally, frequency. This skill can help you make graphs and it also organizes information.

These are only some of the skills we worked on in module 1!

Sincerely,
DJGA