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media type="custom" key="4834403" = media type="youtube" key="8e8ZVD0emfI" height="344" width="425" = = [] = = media type="custom" key="4811691"​Anyone interested in the ancient skill of headshrinking? There is a show on the National Geographic Channel tonight, Sunday November 15th at 9 PM following a society in the AMAZON region of South America. If you click on the link above you can see what it is about. = = [][|Ancient History Blog] = = = = Welcome to Mrs. Assini's Honor's Class' Wiki= 
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11/09/09 Let's start thinking about research papers How too:media type="custom" key="4756903"

And a reminder about essays:

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 10/27/09 Here is two cool links for Indus and Egyptian Civilizations. []

[|http://www.guardians.net/egypt] [|/]

-- 10/15/09 Here is the [|National History Day] site for anyone who is interested. When the page loads, click on "Contest" and wonder around the page looking at all the information and ideas.

10/10/09

Okay I found something I think is pretty neat: A website with all kinds of Web2.0 tools for school work and even some games. Check it out and let me know what we should use. I'd love for each of you to become an expert in at least one of the things you find there so your presentations can be more interesting throughout the year. You know, I get bored seeing the same thing over and over too! http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Creativity+Tools

This is how Google docs work. Click on the video to get a preview of Tuesday and Wednesday's class! media type="youtube" key="NN2I1pWXjXI" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY" height="313" width="384" I am too cool for myself!media type="youtube" key="hiqKofc4p68" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="eRqUE6IHTEA" height="344" width="425" Activity #2 I have another idea. I would like you to find a partner in either honor's class. You will need to agree on a place that you would both like to write a research paper about. You will have laptops in class on Tuesday and Wednesday and I am hoping to have a technology expert in with us on both days. She will help you with your research skills and help you use an online collaborative tool to write your paper. Again, this is not to make you panic, but to have you improve your skills. So find a partner on here by discussing the place you would like to research and use the Five Themes of Geography to describe. You should have a partner and a place picked by the start of class on Tuesday. We will be talking about the Five Themes on Friday and Monday. You just need to choose a place. It can be a foreign country or an American state. Maybe you have been there, or maybe you would like to visit there. SO START THINKING AND TALKING ABOUT WHO YOU WILL PARTNER WITH AND WHERE YOU WILL RESEARCH. ==//<span style="background-color: #fdff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Activity #1***Your post is due by 8:00 AM Thursday morning (9/24) //== Starting at the [|CIA World Factbook]at []

Look up the country you were assigned, and if a page has not already been started for that country, begin one. //(Go to the top of this page and click on "NEW PAGE.")// If someone has already started a page for the country you were assinged, add information to the page. Try to use a different color text then has already been used. //(This can be done by clicking on the "T" on the editor's bar at the top of the page.)// On that page you and the others assigned that country should discuss: //(Be sure to note URL's of additional// //sources)//
 * 1) Location both relative and absolute.
 * 2) Determine the economic system and support your decision.
 * 3) Most valuable resouce
 * 4) Standard of living.
 * 5) An additional interesting fact about this country
 * 6) Connect this country to an ancient civilization that existed in the area