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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

ABC Facts

Ambrose Pare he was an official royal surgeon for Henry II and III, Charles I and XI, and FrancisII.
Black Plauge a plauge that was in Europe in 1347.
City-State was a goverment that includes a city and the land surrounding it.
Dictator an absolute ruler.
Ethics is a study of what is good from what is bad.
Factory system is the production if goods in a factory with the use of machines.
Golden age is a period of time in Greece that was an era of cultral progress.
Hundred Years War was a war that lasted for one hundred years between France and England.
Iliad is Homer's epic that tells a story of the Trogen War.
John Calvin was an influential French pastor during the Protestant Reformation.
King Henry was th eKing of Emgland that had 6 wifes.
Lutheranism  is a major branch of Western Christianity that was created by Martin Luther.
Magna Carta is a document that made the law of supreme power.
Neanderthalnds were the people who lived during the Old Stone Age.
Odyessey is Homer's epic that thells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus.
Pax Romana is a period of Roman peace.
Queen Mary was Henery XIII daughter and was crazy also known as "Bloody Mary."
Renissance was a movment throught the Middle Ages of intrest in Classical Learning.
Serfs pesants who were bound to the land where they worked for a lord.
Theocracey was a goverment that was ruled by religiuos leaders who were claiming God's authority.
United Nations is an organisation of nations to help solve the World's problems.
Veto is to vote against something.
War of the Roses is a war that was between the York and Landcaster familes in 1455.
Xia is a line of Kings ruling over Neolithic people in the Huange River region.
Yang and Yin are forces that show that balance in life and help balance you.
Zen is a sect of Buddisim that stresses meditation.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Syria Info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria
http://www.mapsofworld.com/syria/information/problems-in-syria.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/06/EDO71N3M9J.DTL
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Threats_to_Israel/Syria.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sy.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/08/c_131117302.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108016.html
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/syria.htm
http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/19/ban_ki_moon_calls_for_an_expanded_un_mission_for_syria
Egypt and Syria were original Members of the United Nations from 24 October 1945.
Following a plebiscite on 21 February 1958, the United Arab Republic was established by a union of Egypt and Syria and continued as a single Member.
On 13 October 1961, Syria, having resumed its status as an independent State, resumed its separate membership in the United Nations.
On 2 September 1971, the United Arab Republic changed its name to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
I sugest that we continue our work with the "Water For Life" into the next decade to help all the countries that are still having water issues.


Bell Ringer 4/25/12

How did the lives of women and children change during the revolution?
Women and children started working.

How and why did methods of production change during the industrial revolution?
They changed from people farming by themselfs and into factory working.

How did the increase use of machinery affect workers and working conditions?
They worked harder and faster with the machines and they got worse working conditions.

How did inventions in the textile industry lead to other new inventions?
They helped give poeple ideas and they helped them learn how to style or craft their machine.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Bell Ringer 4/24/12

Playing a video game would not make you crazy enough and give you the skills you need to go on a mass murder spree. If you read a book, or watched a movie with killing scenes in it, it could do the same thing as playing the video game with killing. That is just stupid to suggest that it causes this guys sociological break down.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Bell RInger 4/16/12

A steam enginee was the most important because it was a new way of faster travel through the rivers.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Reselutions

You will find a problem that exists in you country, but you want it to be in alot of countries so they can help you.
You will write a reselution that is anywhere between 20-25 lines.
1. Is it relistic
2. Is it feziable
3. You have to tell us where it comes from.
 theun.org has all the orginizations you will choose money from
you tell how your issue is a problem and how you can solve it.
*After someone presents you can do one of three things
1. question
"will the author yeild to a question" when you ask a question

2. comment
 __________ speaks out in favor or opposition of this reselution.
you can not proceed until the leader says so "be."

3. admendment
"_________ proposses an admendment"
protocall is a deduction of a grade.
You will have to speak 15 time to get full credit.

April 26 Due by the end of the 7th period.
April 30 changing to 27 Ranked reselutions
Mock UN May 2,3,4,8,10

Bell Ringer 4/12/12

I couldn't live without the sewing machine because it hepls make all the clothes.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Advances That New Machines Make

Before these tools came around, people made everything by hand. The things that people made were taught to them through an apprenticeship. So instead of people spending time learning how to make things, they learned a small proportion of it.
Agrarian Society- everything is based around agriculture.
Subsistance farming- your grow crops and the amout you grow is based on what your family is going to need that year
People are grow ing food to make money to feed their family
People began moving from the cournty into the cities for more jobs
society is changing becasue it had to people people cuoldnt make a living off of growing crops
factory owners are starting to find, that instead of haveing people learn everything certain people learn parts of it.
training time has been cut into more that half
they are also finding that women and children will work for alot cheaper than a guy will who has spent his whole life trainging for it 
the idea of cheap labor has come into play
They understand that the faster you get the product out the more money you make.
Crop rotaion-every year they rotated where they plant a crop so they get diffrent nutriance from the ground
It statred in England because they had alot of natural resources like rivers, iron, coal, and cotton
Unions are fighting for them new laws are being passed that give them the rights that they need. these are you have to give breaks and you have to play minimum wadge.
Factories are starting to get larger, they start building more
Assembly line-you pass it down
Automoblies start coming into play
Henry Ford was the first person in the USA to start making cars.

Bell Ringer 4/11/12

I feel confused. Did he like Castro or not? Why would he make a statment like that and then try to take it back?

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Shearing Machine Invention

The new mechanical shears were demonstrated at shearing competitions. The machines not only sheared faster, but left less wool on the sheep. However, skillful hand-shearing required years to perfect and was a source of pride among the workers who composed the shearing teams. It was not until 1888, when the Dunlop sheep station of New South Wales equipped its shearing sheds with the machines, that commercial success began for Wolsely and Howard.
heep stations in Australia, New Zealand, America, and other parts of the world gradually adopted the machines. By 1900, their use was widespread. However, in areas where spring came late, like Wyoming, hand-shearing continued until about 1940 because some wool had to be left on the sheep to protect them from the cold. Eventually, the high cost of shearing forced the total adoption of the machines in the United States by the 1940s and worldwide acceptance by the 1960s.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

Agricultural Revelation started in the 1600's in Great Britain and the English Islands (Scotland, North Ireland, and England)
Citizens of different towns were subsistence farmer, their family survives on crops.
As they got into the later 1600's the Encloser Movement went on. It was that any open land was open to anyone who wanted it to farm and it carried on until the 1700's. Because smaller land owners took small farmers land they moved into the cities to find work and food. The farmers were looking for new ways to farm so people were coming up with more efficient ways to farm.
A man named Jethro Toll that when people were seeding their lands that alot of the seed was getting wasted so he invented a thing called the seed drill, which planted seeds in strait rows.
Charles Townson copied a dutch idea called crop rotations, which is that you planted different crops on other crops fields from the years before.

The discovery of iron and metal made farming easier. A metal plow was made and so was a replaceable blade so you didn't have to buy a new plow if it breaks. Their are more workers in the cities so their are more people looking for jobs. Natural resources in Great Britain are great. Iron and coal were two main ones. Their is alot of cotton, also.
Factors of production are things like they are producing more because they have abundant supplies of it.
Great Britain also has alot of river and water. It helped by providing transportation, food, and water mills which provides power. The downside is though that you may have a flood or a draught. Not all big cities were on rivers either.
Textile Industries made clothes from cotton and silk. It is becoming a huge thing.
One of the first factories was a cotton and silk factory. So now people are coming in and working for a flat rate a day.
Efficiency had started going thought the roof.
Steam engines are now being used as a source of power. They found a way how to take water and turn it into power. They helped people get places fastly.
Communication had advanced so much now it is almost double. 
 Great Britain started the Industrial Revaluation in Europe.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Chapter 16 Test Review

The reniscance begane in this couunty. Italy
An intrest in the classics is called _________.
Who wrote the first modern biography? monks, the Bible
Who wrote "The Prince"? Niccolò Machiavelli
Who created The David? Michilangelo
Where was the birthplace of the Italian Rennisance? Florence
Who painted the Mona Lisa? Leonardo da Vinci
What was the famous family in Florence that rulled? Medici
Donitetlo, Michilangelo, and Ghiverti were all what? artist
Who painted the Last Supper? da Vinci
Who painted the Sistine Chapel? Michalangelo
Who invented the movable metal type? Johannes Guttenburg
What is  french name for a castle? chateau
Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxenburg are refered to as the lower bunelux countries.
In the Renissance, the begane to paint with with what? prospective
Who wrote the book Utopia? Thomas More
Who was a famous playwrite whos works include Romeo and Juliet and Hammlic? Shakeshpere
This is a change in the churches way of teaching and practicing Christianity.
These were certificated issued by the church said the reduce ones present and future sins. indulgences
Who believed in justification by faith? Martain Luther
Luther nailed these to the door of a Wittenburg church to protest the Catholic believes. 95 Thesis
What was the first protestant faith? Lutherism
Who was the faounder of Luthranism? Martain Luther
Who was the Swiss reformer? Huldrych Zwingli
What is a church-run state called? theocracy
Who wrote the instites of christian religion? John Calvin
Who was the founder of Calvinism? John Calvin
What is it called when God determins the faith of every person? predestination
These people believed that only adults could be baptized? baptist
Who was Henery's first wife? Catherine
Second? Anne
Third? Jane
Fourth? Anne
Fifth? Cathrine
and Sixth? Cathrine
What happened the Henery's first wife? Divoreced
Second? Beheaded
Third? Died
Fourth? Devoreced
Fifth? Beheaded
Sixth? Survived
Why did Henery VIII get married so many times? so he could have a son
Name Henery children: Crazy Mary, Elizabeth, Edward
Who became the head of the church in Henery VIII's rain? Henry
The Inquisition was braught about the restore who's authority? the churches
This was a change by the Catholic church?
Who was the founder of the Jesuits? Ignatius Loyola
Was was the name of the society of Jesus? Jesuits
The main job of the Jesuits was to spread the word of God.
The qualities of being merciful, trustworthy, humain, religious, and honest were the qualities of a good person according to whom? Niccolo Machiavelli
*Last twenty will have the little facts with the people.*

Thursday, March 15, 2012

4 page newspaper

3 news articles; 300-350 words each; who, what, when, why and how
4 feature articles; fact based but not as timley as feature; 275-325 words each
2 editorials; only earticles that will ever use the word I or have an opinion-fact based; 350-400 words
5 pictures with captions
3 charts/graphs
name newspaper; something chatchey that deals with era
due: 3/27

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Ambrose Pare

He was a french surgeon
official royal surgeon for henry II and III, charles and charles XI, and francis II
leader in battlefield medicine
"i bandaged him and God healed him" a quote to summarize his work
he published a book "the method of curing wounds caused by arquebus and fire arms"
introduced the legeture of arteries instead of culturizing and amputation
designed the beckdecorbin crow's beak
believed that phantom pains are cured in the brain and not in the limbs
he was an important figure in childbirth
showed how to deliver the baby safely instead of having to kill it
introduced the lancine of infants gums, which usually led to death
studied by jaquise guatemalu who translated his work to latin
accepted to the royal service under henry II but he was unable to fix him
stayed under service of the kings until he died

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Willam Spakesphere
He was considered the greatest writer in Eglish.
He wrote over 30 peoms.
Some of his most famous works are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.

Christopher Columbus
Explorer
Saied the ocean blue in 1942.
He saied to Venisuela, Costa Rica, and more.
We claimed for Spain.
He wanted to spread the Cristian religion.
He was lead away in chains at one point.

Robert Hook
EH was a brittish pholosipher and architect.
He contributed to camera.
He origianted the word sell
He worked with Issac Netwon.
He develpoed the compound microscope.

Leonardo da Vincii
He was bornn April 14 and died May 2.
He was a painter, draftsman, scultper, acrchitect, and engieneer.
Three famous paitings were Mona Lisa adn the Last SUpper.
He started painting at age 15.
He scethched early tanks and cars.

Mhicolanalo
He was a painter sculpter, poet, and engenieer.
The most famous sculpter was the David.
He painted the celing of the sistine chapel.

Prince Henry
He aws the thrid son of Kings John.
He attacked the muslum court.
His father made him the goveof argof.
He started the first school of oceanic travel.
He established the center for navigation and exploration.

Miguel de Cervantes
He was a spainsh painter and play writer.
He died in Madrid in 1619.
Don Quixote wrote a play about him.

Sir Thomas More
He was a noted rennisance humanist.
He was reconised as a saint by the Catholic church.
He wrote the book Utopia which he sshared the vision of equal societys.
He made the perfect place to live in the book.

Luis laVe
She was a famous french poet.
Between 1543 and 1545 she married Admal Perron.
She wrote imence de Porges.
The debate was one of the most popular of her works.
Her sonnetes where her most famous works.
She was an author who encouraged women to write books.

Peter Burgehgl
Painted the Presant Dance, which relied on detail and realizim.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Wrote "The Prince."

Fillippo Brunelleschi
Designed and built a dome for the Florence Cathidreal

Johannes Guttenburg
Invented the miblie type printing press.

Aretmisia Genttilpschi
Painted pictures of stong women including a self portrait

Martain Luther
Wrote the 95 Thesis, chalanging the Catholic Church.

Nicholas Conpurnicus
Published the therory that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

John Calvin

He was an influential French pastor during the Protestant Reformation.
He was a key figure in the development of the system of Christian theology which is now called Calvinism.
Originally trained as a lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions started a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
In that year, Calvin was recruited by William Farel to help reform the church in Geneva.
Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees. He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and was eventually invited back to lead its church.
Following his return, Calvin introduced new forms of church goverment, despite the opposition of several powerful families in the city who tried to curb his authority. During this time, the trial of Michael Servetus was extended by libertines in an attempt to harass Calvin. However, since Servetus was also condemned, outside pressure from all over Europe forced the trial to continue. He was follewd by refuges and new additions to the city council, he forced his oppents out. Calvin spent his final years promoting the Reformation both in Geneva and throughout Europe.
He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to the Institutes, he wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, as well as theological treatises and confessional documents.
The Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as a chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
Calvin's writing and preachings provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Protestent Reformation

                            The Prodesent Reforming is the changing of the church
  • Catholic Church had a lost sight of its spiritual mission
  • The church needed money because they were spending more money than they had.
  • Pope Leo X hires John Tetzel to go out and sell indulgences,pardons from your sins past or prestent, to make money.
  • Martain Luther was a monk who believed in Justification of Faith. He writes the 95 Thesis and nails them to the church door in Wittenburg. He is expelled from the Catholic Church.
  1.  Church lost sight of its spiritual mission.
  2.  The popes didn't set an example of moral leadership .
  3.  The priest engaged in misconduction.
  4.  The church became intrested in income not saving soles.
  5.  Their was no central goverment in Germanay, which ment that their was no controll over religius ideas or papel obuses.
  6.  Tetzel began selling indulgences.
  7.  Luther was summened to appear infront of the Impereal Diet, a meeting of the Chruch in Worms.
  8.  Luther is commanded to abandon his ideas. He rufues.
  9.  Luther is banished from the empire, his works are banned.
  10. Luther translates the Bible into German.
  11. Luthers works and ideas continue to spread.
  12. Luther established the first Protestent Church.
  13. The first denomination was Lutheran.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Renaissance

Rennasiance was a rebirth and society started to florish again.
The rennisance began in Italy, Florence.
It began the Medici family. They started the importance of the art.
Laurnezo was the one that started it.
The people who returned to the classic studys were humanist.
Franchesco petrichar was a poet who wrote peoms to Laura, who was his ideal love.
Niccolo Machiavelli was a floritine writer and he wrote the Prince which is about what the ideal society should liooks like in the eyes of the goverment and it asks you more questions than gives you answer.
"Is it better to be loved than feared, or than feared than loved?" -Machiavelli
-I think that it is better to be loved than feared because people will follow you if they love you and if they fear you they will do it out of fear.
-If you were a leader is it better to be loved than feared, or feared than loved.
I think that it would be better to be loved than feared beucase people will still respect you as much as they do if thet fear you.
Artist used prospective and made things life like.
Michaloangalo was the most famous artist and he painted the Sistine Chapel.
Leonardo da Vinci was a little bit of everything. He was famous for the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
Rafael was fampous for painting frescoes and madonnas.Tiitian was known for The Assumption of the Virgin.

Renaissance Person

Have you ever wonder what you would do with your life? Well I, Leonardo da Vinci, had a pretty good idea when I was growing up. My father was a longstanding painter so I had access to some of the best artworks and texts to read in the world.  Then, when I was only fifteen, I was taken in for my apprenticeship. I was working under the very talented and renowned Andrea Del Verrochio. I stayed with him in his workshop until I decided it was time to make my own and leave in 1477.
I then spent around twenty year’s studding at Duke and in Milan. A lot of people say that this is when I ‘first start coming’ around as a painter and scientist. What I studied at Duke helped me in thinking of a lot of my designs. I was always painting and working on sculptures here. I had so many apprentices buzzing around me, it was hard to work!
Sometimes I would be working on a project that I had been working on, and then I would think of a new design or artwork to create. Then I would just stop the other one. I guess you could say that I had “a lot on my plate to think about.” Around this time, I got the idea to start writing down all of my artworks a journal. That way I would always remember all of the works that I have.
In 1503, I started to work on my best masterpiece so far. I call it the “Mona Lisa”. I pulled an average woman off of the street and had her model for me. I did this rather than an upper-class lady so that people would understand that things like that don’t really matter. I also did a few great other things which are the "The Virgin and Child with St. Anne" and I was offer head painter for the King! Then around sixteen years after I created the “Mona Lisa”, I passed away with King Francis at my side. 

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Middle Ages Notes 2

Section 3
The Black Death, bubonic plague, killed 1/3 of the people and it was caused by rat's fleas bitting people.
Section 4
Latin was the main language of educated people, but uneducated people spoke vernacular languages.
Troubadours, traveling singers, song's were one of the first forms of venrnacular literature.
Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer were to great vernacular writers.
Few people received an education.
The attempt to bring together faith and reason is called scholasticism.
Peter Abelard was an important philosopher who taught in Paris.
Thomas Aquinas, monk of the Dominican order, was probably the greatest medieval philosopher.
Section 5
In the early 1300s the English king Edward III also held land in France. This made him a vassal to the French king. The fact helped lead to a series of conflicts between England and France called the Hundred Years' War. (1337-1453)
By 1453 Fance had all of England's land exept for Calais.
In England the House of Commons gained more power than the King. They wanted speacial taxes and by the late 1300s, the king wanted their consent on speacial taxes.
The War of the Roses began between the York and Lancaster families for the throne of England. In 1485 Henry Tudor the the house of Lancaster won the war.
In France a fight for the throne began between The House of Burgundy and the house of Orleans. With the help of Joana of Arc, Charles VII of Orleans was crowned king and they drove the English out.
In 1461, Louis XI followed Charles VII as king of France and he made France a powerful monarchy.
Spain became a united nation in 1479 under Ferinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.
In 1273 a member of the Habsburg family became emperor of Rome. Under the control of the family, they became a larger country and the Habsburg family became the most wealthy in Europe.

Monday, February 6, 2012

February Black History Month Bell Ringers

Monday, 2/6/12
Whoopi Goldburg
1. At one point she starred in the Broadway show, The Spook Show.
2. She launched her own T.V show, The Whoopie Goldburg Show, in 1992.
2. In the early 1970's, she married her drug councilor, had one child, and then divorced.

Tuesday, 2/7/12
Booker T. Washington
1. He was born inyo slavery.
2. He woreked in the salt mines in West Virginia
3. Under hid leadership, Tuskegee, Alabama, he was asked to lead a black collage instead of a white man of whom they hoped.

Wednesday 2/8/12
Tiger Woods
1. His real name is Eldrick Woods.
2. He was the youngest play to win the masters.
3. He was the first player to break over 6 million dollars with 6.6 million.

Thursday 2/9/12
Michael Jordan
1. He played for the University of North Carolina and lead them to a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship.
2. In 1985 he became a gaurd for the Chicago Bulls.
3. He was the lauges most valuable player in 1991 and 1992.

Monday 2/13/12
Langston Hughes
1.He was a writer born in Joplin, Missouri.
2. In his senior year he was choosen class poet and yearbook editor.
3. The Crisis printed his poem "A Negro Speaks of River."

Tuesday 2/14/12
Frederick Douglass
1. He was the first African Anerican leader of national stature in Untied States history.
2. In 1838 he inpersonated him and escaped to New York.
3. In 1870 Douglass and his sons began publishing the New National Era newspaper.

Wesday 2/15/12
Muhammad Ali
1. He had Parkinson's syndrome.
2. He was born in 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay.
3. He used the "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" method of fighting.

Thursday 2/16/12
Harriet Tubman
1. She was born into slavery around 1820.
2. She was a spy, nurse, feminist, and social reformer.
3. She was one of the leaders in the Underground Railroad.

Wednesday 2/22/12
Clarence Thomas
1. Hid first years of life he lived in a little shack.
2. In 1964, he was redrawed from the all black schooland sent to an all white one.
3. In 1979 he moved to Washington, DC.

Thursday 2/23/12
Colin Powell
1. He was secretary of the state.
2. He was born in Harlem, New York.
3. He was in the war, and was sent to Vietnam.

Friday 2/24/12
Benjamin Banneker
1. He was the son of two slaves.
2. He taught himself astronomy.
3. In 1980 they began making a stamp to commerate his life.

Tuesday 2/28/12
Lena Horne
1. She was an actress born in Brooklyn, New York.
2. SHe married a minor politician Louis Jones.
3. She has a biography, In Person: Lena Horne.

Wednesday 2/28/12
Hank Aaron
1. He was born in 1934 in Mobile, Alabama.
2. At an early age, he wanted to play professional baseball.
3. When he was young, baseball began to intergate with the playing of Jackie Robinson.

Maya Angelou
1. She was a world famous poet.
2. She won the grammy's and Horatio Alger awards.
3. She was raised in segregated Arkansas.

Barry Bonds
1. He broke Hank Arrons homerun record.
2. He was playing for the New York Giants when he beat the record.
3. He did take steririods.

Gale Sayers
1. He was one of the first great black running backs for the NFL.
2. He was lighting quick.
3. He was known for his great agility.

Ricky Henderson
1. He was known for talking about himself in third person.
2. He was adored by fans.
3. He had a loud mouth and everyone heard him.

Donovan McNabb
1. He wasn't appriciated by Philly.
2. He was one of the best quarterbacks to ever play.
3. He was top player in the position year after year.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Technology Notes

Americans have acsess to over 1,000,000,000,000 websites.Digital adevertisng is slowing getting bigger.
95% of all songs downloaded last year weren't payed for
American teenagers have 2275 texts each month
Dell makes over 3 billion a year
Twitter played a role in whol won elections in 2009
90% of the 20 billion emails sent each day are spam
Over a minutes 365 baybs will be born in INdia
We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist
Many of todays collage courses didnt exist 10 years ago
More than 70% og 4 year olds have uses a vomputerthe first text message was sent in Decemer 1992
there were 2.7 illion searxhes on google this month
Chicgo schools only use media
10K laptops we supplies to CPS schools
less than 1% of stuents are allowd to use cell phones in school
India has more honors kids than America
1 of out 8 couples this year met online
If myspace were a country it would be the 5th largest in the world
The amount of text messsages sent and recived each day is more the the worlds population
The amount of internet devices in 1992 was 1000
We have more infromation than the last 5000 years
there are 210 million phoe calls each second
by 2013 a computer will be built that exceeds the brain
694000 songs were downloaded illegally in 3 mintues
A girls sent over 7000 texts a day for a year
In 2010 the top 10 jobs weren't even made in 2004

Monday, January 30, 2012

The Crusades

During the late 1000's, the Seljuq Turkss, a Muslim people from Central Asia, gained control of the Palestine-known among Christians as "the Holy Land." They went on and attacked Asia Minor, part of the Byzantine Empire. THey they threatened the capital city of Constantinople, the Byzintine emporer called the Pope Urban II in Rome for help. They wanted the Holy Land back so they called cal meeting of church leaders and fuedal lords in 1095. They met in Clermont, France and they jooined together to regain the land. This Began the Crusades, a series of military expeditions to regain the Holy Land. At least 10,000 died. They sewed a cross on their clothes and were called Crusaderes.
The first Crusade lasted frim 1096 to 1099. French and Italian lords lead several armies from Europe to Constaninople. The Turks emporer saw the army coming and feared that they would take the city so the let the crusders pass through the city. They suffered from heat and lack of food and water but luckly Italy brought them food. After a series of battles, they captures Jerusalem. After they slaughtered all the Musslium and Jeruslim inhabitants.
After 100 years, the Truks started gaining back the lands they lsot. By 1146 they had reuntied their forces. In 1147 the second Crusade began. King Luis VII of France and king Conrad III led seperate armies then met up and they didn't regain controll. In 1149 the Turks returned to Europr in disgrce.
In 1187 the Muslim leader Saladin gained controll of Jerusalem. The crusade lasted from 1189 to 1192. They could not recapture after Barbossa drowned.
Pope Innocent III gathered a group and French knights for the Fourth Crusade. In 1202 they left ships provided by the Italian city-state Venice and procuded to attack Zadar. Crusaders whom attacked it were latter excicutted by Innocence. Then in 1204 they attacked and looted Consantinople. THey stole many holy things to the Byzantine Christisans. Constinople remained under their control for 60 years THe once stong empiure Contisiple collapsed in 1453.
In 1212 The Childrens Crsade took place. Young people decided to march to the holy Land and regain controll. BY the time the reached the Medderterainian they were a small mob. Atemps to regain it lasted until 1291 when the Musslums captured Arce. Acre was the last Christian stongholdand with its fall, the Crusades ended.
During the Crusade the wepon of choise was a cross bow. The fund the Crusades many land lords stle their land. During the Crusades Christian churches became popular. Between 1096 and 1291 thousands of crusaders traveled to the Holy Land. THey also gained knowlage from the Byzantines and Mussluems and helped inrich their empire. Italian citys also become main trading ports. Thats when Europeans began buying good like apricots, leons, melons, rice and sugar.

Vow of Silence

I think that it was hard to do this assignment. When we were first told about it, I didn't think that it would be as easy as it was. I figured that I would be dying to talk and just say something by now, but I'm not. All that you really have to do is just be quiet, think about it, and pay attention.
I think that a whole day like this would defiantly be harder. You wouldn't be able to talk at lunch or in between classes when other people talk to you. If my whole day was like this it would be very interesting. I learned that i am lucky to have a voice and to be cable to hear everything around me. Some people can't talk at all, which would be every hard. 
When we were doing group work it was very hard to tell people what you meant to say. You couldn’t just say that you were thinking. You had to act it out or write it down for them to see. A couple f times I was tempted to just talk or almost forgot not to talk. I couldn’t imagine a whole day like that. It would be one of the hardest things that I would have done. 

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Notes

Notes
Bathing
1. People bathed once a month
2. People wore the same clothed day after day, they only had one outfit.
3. They used lavender flowers and mint in the water for cleaing. These were used to keep the fleas aways bcause they had a lot of animals and straw in thier houses.

Chairman
1. The word chairman comes from the Middle Ages where a house only had one chair, for the exclusive use of the man in the family.

Sleeping
1. At night time people would pile onto a matress- a lump of straw on the floor. The whole family slept in the same bed (Mom, Dad, Sisters, Brothers). If an animal was friendly they made then sleep in the same bed-to keep you warm of course.

Troubadours
1. Troubadours traveled from town to town "singing for thier supper."
2. His songs were often about love or the glory of kings.
3. Troubadours would strum a lute or guitar.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Important Notes

Alfred the Great you had the Anglos and the Saxon's combined together to create the Anglo-Saxons.
Edward the Confessor was the last Anglo-Saxon king.
When he died he had no direct heir so it lead to a war.
The was was called the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Edwards brother-in-law was Herold Godwinson.
Other people thought that their was no connection, so the wanted William the Duke of Normandy.
The battle of Hastings is between Godwinson and William.
William defeats Herold, and William is given the title 'William the Conqueror".
The first thing he does is He starts to collect taxes through a census. William was the first since Ancient Roman times to collect a census. The shiers are people who collected all the info and put it into the Doms Day book. The people nicknamed the book, The Dooms Day Book.
Henery the First sucseads his father. Henery the Second sucseads Henery the Second.
Henery the FIrst was a push-over king. He let people walk all over him and basically had no rules. WHen his grandson takes over, he wants to change everything. He thinks that the chruch should have to follow the laws, too, just like other people. His best friend, Thomas Becket, is the Archbishop of the church. He feels that what Thomas is doing is wrong. He goes over and visits Henery the Second and they get into a big fight. Then when Thomas leaves, he say I wish he would just die, and a couple of knights overheard him and went and killed Thomas praying, at the curch, on Christmas eve. King Henery II feels bad and changed his mean demenor and become more leanient. He was haunted with the killing of the best friend, Thomas Saint Becket, the rest of his life.
King John, King Henery 's son, demanded that the people pay more taxes to support is war. In 12, the people met and wanted to overthrow him. They forse him to sign the Magna Carta, which stated that John vouldn't collect any new or speacil taxes without the Great Council, he couldn't take property without paying for it, sell it, refuse, or delay justie, and agreed to let any accused to be judged by a jury is his or their own peirs.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ireland

I would like to visit Ireland because it is very beautiful. A lot of my family on both sides are Irish so it would be nice to see where I come from. I would like to see the Clonmacnoise which is ruins of a Catherdril and and early christian grave slabs. I would also just like to go and be able to view all the seanery and visit a real pub and stay in a quint little cottage.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Book Presentation Notes

Lindsey Crowther
1. Servo Davao is capital of Masvia.
2. The Language is Serbian.
3. Childrens stories are very simple stories about your religion or animals.
4. Toys are not very well made, they are all deficient.
5. Romidad is a main holiday, and they celebrate with a big feast after fasting.

Shania Pennington
1. The language spoken is Spanish.
2. Issac Goldenburg is a famous author.
3. Children usually play with marbles, coins, and sport balls.
4. They play regular sports like soccer or tennis.
5. Rice, potatoes, pork, perusian peppers and lamb are regular foods found there.

Faith Cline
1. They speak Portuguese.
2. 194,946,470 is the population.
3. The capital is Brazila.
4. Only country in South America that doesn't speak Spanish.
5. The children like jumping rope and playing checkers.

Caleb Huwakins
1. The capital is Herero.
2. They speak English.
3. Kristi Kerwakii is a famous Olympic swimmer from there.
4. Games are burger where kids learn about adulthood.
5. They have a pulmonary democracy.

Mark Hill
1. 105,000,000 is the population.
2. The Iliad is very famous written by Homer.
3. They play with dolls, tops, and things like us.
4. Lucas Popguns is the prime minister.
5. Baklava is a regular dessert there.

John Terwiliger
1. The capital city is Madrid.
2. Spanish is the main language.
3. El Salvador Dali is a very famous painter who lived there.
4. Poi Peep is a nursery book which almost all children have listened to.
5. Soccer is the main sport there and they won the world cup in 2010.

Hannah Greg
1. 10,760,305 is the population.
2. Hernando Pesos is a very famous author.
3. "Fly Lady Bug Fly" is a famous short story.
4. Tops, skateboards, tambourines, maracas are children's toys.
5. The presidents have a five year term.

Haley Truman
1. 7,623,488 is the population.
2. June 6 is the Independence day.
3. Albrecht Stephen is a famous play writer.
4. Sky dreamer is a famous book by Selene Vending.
5. Cortes Swindled is a famous politician and also a lawyer.

Samantha Mason
1. Arabic is the official language.
2. The population is 3,480,509,364.
3. The alphabet has 26 letters and they are all contestants.
4. "Draw My Father" is a famous nursery rhyme.
5. They go to preschool for 2 years and high school is only 3 years.

Madori Elmore
1. Turkish, Russian, and Polish are other languages spoken their. 
2. They started WWII over Jewish in 1933.
3. Walt Disney was from Germany.
4. A thumb toy is the favorite children's toy.
5. They have a president but the chancleor is the main controller.

Krista Robinson
1. Rhianna is from there.
2. English is their main language.
3. I'm a Little Teapot is a famous nursery rhyme.
4. Children play with chalk, jump ropes, and in the ocean.
5. They have few schools inside of the country.

Kristen Stawder
1. Tokyo is the capital.
2. Mat Soho Debauch is a famous author.
3. They are one of the best educated countries in the world.
4. They don't get very many school breaks and they often have homework during them.
5. They have a Constitutional Democracy and the emperor is a figure head.

Taylor Talbott
1. Suva is the capital of Fiji.
2. Their is no native language but they usually speak English.
3. "The Monkey and the Crock" is a famous story told.
4. Scones are very good homemade.
5. They don't wear hat's in the village because it is disrespectful to the chief.

Karlie Smallwood
1. Caril is the capital of Egypt.
2. Wine is very rare there, but beer is common.
3. Their language is Arabic but, they put their own accent to it.
4. They are a republic and have only have four presidents.
5. For fun they play board games and they invented the top.

Paige Bibey
1. The capital city is Buenos Arias.
2. "The Magic Bean Tree" and "Donde Esta el Eberto" is a very popular
3. Krista Hernando de Cortes is the president.
4. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day and restaurants close at that time.
5. Education is similar to America's and education is free.

Katara Pennington
1. The capital city is Paris.
2. Noe de Basic and Victor Hugo are famous writers.
3. Vera Jaca is a famous nursery rhyme.
4. They have toy libraries where you can check out toys to play with.
5. Cheese and wine are a large part of their foods and exports.

Gunnar Poling
1. There government is a Unitmary Parliamentary Democracy but they also have a king.
2. They have three branches of there army, which is one of the largest in the world.
3. Education is free up to 17 and the average IQ is 98.
4. They have one of the highest literary rates in the world.
5. 66,720,000 is around the population.

Dale Scott
1. The capital is Panama City.
2. The main religion is Roman Catholic.
3. They play with marbles, dolls, toy cars, and board games.
4. They are a constitutional republic.
5. The education is like ours.

Courtney Nuzam
1. Children in Scotland play with the same things as us. 
2. They play basketball, football, and soccer.
3. The foods are quit similar to ours expet for traditional foods.
4. The education is diffrent than ours because they end at age 16.
5. They share the same nursery rhymes as us but the most famous is "Count the Stars".

Josh Stewart
1. The capital city is London.
2. They speak English.
3. The most famous author is J. K Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter series.
4. "The London Bridge" song is about when the London bridge collapsed in the late 1800's.


Viola Donegie
1. The capital is Dubland.
2. Irish is the main language in Ireland.
3. Ohm was the illiterate system they use to use.
4. Mr. Fox is a popular children game which is one that we play here.
5. They are a republic and pulmonary republic.


Gabrielle Kyle
1. The capital of Bolivia is La Paz.
2. They are a very poor country.
3. A popular tourist attraction is the "Death Road" which is 345 miles above sea level.
4. The president is Evo Marales.
5. Humptey Dumptey is a famous nursery rhyme.

Abby Suder
1. The main language is Mali.
2. Jeane Josie Marvell and Michelle Maracaibo are famous authors.
3. Monkey by Sari Marie is a famous nursery rhyme.
4. They play relvoco which is a form of tag.
5 .Andre Regale is the president of the republic.

 Chase Swick
1. Venezuela's capital is Dorcas.
2. Jose Basso is a famous author.
3. They are a Federal republic.
4. April 19 is independence day,
5. Angle Falls is the worlds largest waterfall and it is located their.

Sarah Cleavenger
1. 9,880,728 is the population of Sweden.
2. Ashon Launderer published many famous nursery rhymes.
3. The toys in Sweden are very similar to the ones that we have now.
4. Fredrick Roosevelt is the Prime Minister.
5. They grow and cook everything they make like vegetable's.

Kelsey Pingley
1. 6,590,000 is the population.
2. San Salvador is the capital.
3. They don't have any famous authors, poetry is more famous.
4. Most popular books are by George Veseala.
5. They are a republic, George Sere is the vice President.

*Me and Hannah Matlick worked together for the first dozen or so because their weren't enough computers.