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We have been working on the renaissance for a while now and I have learned A LOT about them and got pretty interested in them too! I thought that when we started learning about them, it would be very boring but it wasn’t, I really enjoyed it. So when we started playing the game, it was really fun because we could learn and have fun at the same time because I really enjoy searching stuff in the web that we have to find, and when I find it, I love reading about all this interesting facts about the past.

In the game, we had stump and the blunder card. Some stump cards were very hard to do because we didn’t just have to search and find out what something is, we actually had to do work and it was very hard to find answers to stump cards. Ex: There was a stump car that our group got that we had to find 3 different houses from the renaissance and then draw it, It was very hard to even find a house from back then. Then, there were blunder cards, which we only had to research what something is or was today and write about it. Ex: our group had a blunder card which we had to see how watches we’re made and where it was created and when too, then write about it.

I responded to max’s current event

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         Saturday morning, the Kenya Airlines officially said that the plane has approximately 114 people, including 105 passengers from 23 countries. They found out this information by having Cameroon’s military dispatch helicopters from Douala airport to where the plane had crashed (Southern Cameroon). Just before the crash, they were flying over the forested area where they lost signal with the airlines. Villagers have said that they heard a large “boom” sound that night but no wreck or parts of the plane were found. Also, the plane crash may have happened because of the rain (the plane was delayed one hour because of the rain) but it is too early to really know what happened.

Citation:                            “Giant panda Tai Shan to remain in D.C.” Scholastic News. April 24, 2007. <http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3745747>

Link:                http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3745747

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                        I think that William Shakespeare was a very wise person because of his wonderful English poems and a wrote many plays. His mind was probably the wisest of his people because if it wasn’t for his great writing skills or the beautiful plays he wrote, the word would have never remembered him and also we would probably not have plays in this century. Shakespeare has wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as many poems. William is mostly non as a England’s national poet and also non as “Bard” or “Avon“. He produced most of his poems in 1586 and 1612. Shakespeare wasn’t so famous for his playwrights because he did not right many of them, but the ones that he did were magnificent tragedy and comedy plays not so much as his poems because his poems were mostly expressing love and feelings. So I think that Shakespeare is very important and special because he can write about many different things, and still be very successful.

               Some people these are not willing to give up their lives for what they believe in because they are too scared. But we have many people that really are willing to give up their lives for what is right.

An example of this is people in the military are giving up their lives to fight against another military basis to try to win against them and have more freedom. They are also giving up their lives to the people they don’t want hurt and to protect their home.

The monks were very important in the middle ages because they were very hard working and had almost no sleep but many hours to pray. The monk’s schedule was very stricked.

The schedule:

 1:45 a.m. – Wake up. Private reading and prayer.2:00 a.m. - Church service3:30 a.m.- Sleep(summer only)4:00 a.m. – Church service5:00 a.m. – Private reading and prayer6:00 a.m.- Church service then eat7:00 a.m.- Work8:00 a.m.- Church service9:15 a.m. Work11:15 a.m.- Church serviceMidday- MEAL!1:00 p.m.- Private reading and prayer1:45 p.m.- Sleep(summer only)2:45 p.m.- Church service3:00 p.m.- Work5:45 p.m.- MEAL6:00 p.m.- Church service7:15 p.m.- Private reading and prayer7:45 p.m.- Church service

8:00 p.m.- Bed!

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             The city there was very different from ours today! Usually there are malls in the middle of the city or famous structures, but in the middle ages city there were strange because the church was practically the whole town, it covered most of the land and it was in the middle of the town. Then also in the town there were small things like cemeteries, chapter houses, dormitories, cloisters, cellars, kitchens, refectories, guest houses, stables, almonry, barns, a fish pond, etc.  

Their life is very different from ours because they have to work so much and we don’t really. They have almost no sleep, but we do if we want. Church isn’t really our life! And we can have a meal anytime we want, they cant. 

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Many things were important in the MEDIEVAL TIMES like religion, Charlemagne, the gatherings they had.

They were very sucure about the religions and very serious about it too. They had 2 main churches which were the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. But then was discovered the Islam religion which Muslims worshipped and loved.

The Charlemagne was a king of Franks and Italy also known as the emperor of Rome. But then He left and Rome was a disaster.

They also had this thing called “gathering” which was a group that achieved the Western Europe but that was very bad for Rome because they were Romes enemy.

   I think that History/Social Studies is a very important subject that we need to have. It teaches us many things about the past and how it effects us now. It also teaches us all the famous people that did many fantastic things in the past. This subject is important to us today because we can cherish all the wonderful things that people like us did to make our world better. If I really think about it, if we didn’t have social studies, I wouldn’t know all the important people we know today. Also where many states and cities are located in the world. And all the important things that happened in some states of the world. There would be no reason to go somewhere like Rome or Greece because noone would really know why those places are so important if we didnt have social studies. All of these are some of so many reasons why we should have social studies and why it is important for us to learn it.

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