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HOMEWORK
Tuesday, May 19--Your homework for the next week, due Thursday, May 28th is to read Helen Keller, and answer all GRQ--the packet will be graded, worth 100 points!!
TODAY's CLASSWORK, Tues., May 19--working with your assigned partners, begin Commas web quest, linked here: COMMAS
Monday, May 4--Write a "Proverb" two paragraph composition.
TMT TEST on chanpters 3 & 4 on Wednesday--begin reviewing chapters 3 & 4.
Friday, May 1--Read ch. 4 TMT, answer GRQ (Scroll to the bottom of this page for ch. 4 GRQ.)
Wednesday and Thursday, April 29 and April 30--Read ch. 3 TMT, answer GRQ given to you in class, due 5/1.
April 28--Study your notes and drawings for chapters 1 and 2 of TMT--TEST TOMORROW!
April 27--Draw simple cartoon illustrations (stick-figures o.k.) with detailed labels of the following: Copper Man, Basket Maker, Scythian king, steps to making tsantsa, Chinese lady's grave
April 24--No New Homework this weekend. If you get the chance, try to watch the National Geographic special "Waking the Baby Mammoth" on Sunday evening, April 26th at 9:00 PM. Check out the link to the National Geographic website at the bottom of this page. Make sure to bring in any missing homework on Monday.
April 22--Earth Day--Write about your nature experiences on Earth Day--a poem, a paragraph, your choice of form. Assignment will be due on Friday
This is a photograph of the famous baby mammoth mummy, Dima. The picture was taken in Helsinki, Finland, when Dima's remains were on loan from Russia.
When Russia hosts the winter Olympics in 2014, some Russians believe Dima should be the official mascot for the games. This picture shows what the logo might look like:
April 21: Answer GRQ 9-16 for TMT chapter two. Be sure to follow the directions!
April 20: Read chapter two of Tales Mummies Tell and answer GRQ 1 -8 for chapter two. We will work on the rest of the questions in class tomorrow. The questions are below.
Directions: Respond to the following prompts. Write your answers neatly…
* in complete sentences including the question stem in your answer
* with a proper heading
* in pencil or typed in Times New Roman or Arial 12 point
* using clean looseleaf paper
* using the title: Reading Response to Tales Mummies Tell Chapter Two "Many Kinds of Mummies"
Questions for Chapter Two – “Many Kinds of Mummies”
1. Explain how most mummies are formed. 9
2. How was the Copper Man mummified and why was he called the Copper Man? 10
3. Explain how the mummies in Palermo, Sicily and in Kentucky were formed. 10-11
4. What other example of a mummy formed by rapid freezing is mentioned in this chapter? Give details such as where the mummy was found, the age of the mummy, etc. 13
5. Where and when did the Scythians live? 14
6. What did the Scythians wear? What did their horses wear? 14
7. How did the Scythians embalm the body of a king? 16 Does embalming a body make it into a mummy? 18
8. What unusual practice did the Scythians follow when they received a visit from the party that presented the mummy of their king to the different tribes? 17
9. Summarize the process that is followed to make a tsantsa. 20
10. How was the body of John Paul Jones preserved? From what diseases did he suffer, and what was the cause of his death? 21 and 22
11. What chemicals/ processes were used to preserve the female mummy from Hunan Province, China? 22
12. How did scientists come to the conclusion that the people who buried the Chinese Lady believed in life after death? 22
13. How did the mummy of the Chinese lady look different from other mummies? 23
14. When scientists performed an autopsy, what were some of their findings? 23
15. How did the Chinese lady die (most likely)? 23
16. Why do scientists study mummies? 24
CLASSWORK April 17: Click the SURVEY link at the bottom of this page. Write a letter to your penpal in the text box that pops up. Unfortunately, I do not have the pen pal address list with me, but I do have some of the names. If I your name isn't here, just write a "generic" letter and we will personalize it later. These are the names and penpal names I have: Connor: Adrian, Tristan: Emanuel, Sandra: Luda, Caitlin: Madeline, Bea: Otabek, Melissa: Hana, Tatyana: Monika, Peter: Alex, Tess: Laura, Christina: Britta, Farrell: Paul, Emma: Sarah, Kelly: Nina, Amberley: Daiana
HOMEWORK April 17: Read chapter one of "Tales Mummies Tell" and answer GRQ for chapter one.
April 16: Make sure to bring in all parts of your essay for typing in the library tomorrow. Study for "Getting Away with Murder" test using the practice test.
Tales Mummies Tell – Guided Reading Questions
Directions: Respond to the following prompts. Write your answers neatly…
· in complete sentences including the question stem in your answer (*see samples below)
· with a proper heading
· in pencil or typed in Times New Roman or Arial 12 point
· using clean looseleaf paper
· using the title: Reading Response to Tales Mummies Tell Chapter…
Questions for Chapter One – “A Mammoth Mummy”
1. Where and when was Dima found?
(sample) The mammoth mummy, Dima, was found…
2. Who found Dima?
(sample) Dima was found by…
3. Why was the discovery of Dima a significant event?
(sample) The discovery of Dima was a significant event….
4. What were the circumstances of the mammoth’s death? (The circumstances are the evidence of where, why and how Dima died. This information is scattered throughout the chapter.)
(sample) Scientists believe that…
5. Write the definitions of milk teeth and mummy.
(sample) Milk teeth are…
6. How does carbon 14 dating help scientists? (Explain how it works.)
(sample) Carbon 14 dating helps scientists by…
7. Approximately how old is Dima?
(sample) Dima is approximately….
8. What is the main reason that scientists study mummies?
(sample) The main reason scientists study mummies is…
9. On a blank piece of paper, sketch Dima as he would have appeared when alive. Remember, details are important! Label body parts and include other important information such as Dima’s length and weight. Note: this drawing will be graded on its completeness, not your artistic ability, and this question is worth 5 points.
Martin Niemoller was a German pastor born in 1892. Because Niemoller was an anti-Communist, at first he supported Hitler's rise to power. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemoller became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. Hitler personally detested Niemoller and had him arrested and eventually confined in a concentration camp. His famous poem was published in a 1955 book. The text below is translated from the original German.
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
--A. E. Housman
Tales Mummies Tell Chapter Four – " Seeing the Unseen"
1. Why aren’t autopsies a good method for studying mummies? 39
2. What problems might arise if you autopsy mummies at the hospital Why are portable x-ray machines the best method for x-raying mummies? 39?
3. Summarize the Amenhoptep II and Thutmosis IV information. 40
4. Summarize the Thutmosis I information. 41
5. In general, what have x-rays shown us about mummies? 40-41
6. From what type of diseases did ancinet Egyptians suffer? 41-42
7. Elder Lady was found in whose tomb? Why was she in this tomb? When scientists tested a locket of her hair, to whose hair did they compare it? What did they conclude? 43
8. What led to the conclusion that Egyptians enjoyed food and drink and ate well? 43
9. What was the condition of Lady Tashat’s mummy? What was found, surprisingly, between lady Tashat’s legs? This is not the first time that extra bones have been found with a mummy. What did these other bones turn out to be in many cases? 45
10. How did parasites from the Nile enter their hosts? What problems did they cause? 46
11. How did desert sand affect the lungs of the Egyptians? How did it affect their teeth? What were two ways it might have got into their food? Once teeth were infected, what health risks resulted? 46-48
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