Silk Roads Project Reflection

I traveled back in time to the gruesomely heated desert to find myself resting in a river city. The city was named Bukhara. After a while I had set off and decided to learn more of old ages and went towards the next town to achieve more knowledge. Then I jumped back to present day to share this knowledge with you.

I learned many things in this project. First, I learned how many ideas can travel along with humans because of the birth of the Silk Roads. The envoy, or a messenger, of Han Wudi, Zhang Quian, saw trade routes and took the idea back to china. That is an example of how ideas travel about trade routes.

Second, I learned that things other than goods can be traded. Religion, disease, beliefs, skills, entertainment and a lot more techniques are passed along the Silk Roads, not only silk and other goods.

I think the final product of our tent was good, though it could’ve been better. It was plain but good. We did fine but the tent set-up was a bit lousy and plain. We all did our hardest. We all fooled around a little, and I think that’s why we got a little off task, but we did our best to make our tent look nice. I f we didn’t fool around every so often, I think we would have done an amazing job.

It was a bit hard setting up as well because somebody in our group was always absent. I think that this was a really fun project and we should do it again, though I think there should be more time to prepare since the projects was a bit rushed and we had only two weeks to get everything in. But that’s just my opinion. I hope next year it’ll be cooler than ever.

Medieval Europe Newspaper Project Reflection

This project was basically about creating a newspaper. We made articles using real information to make a fake story seem logical. We also looked at real newspapers to see how they were laid out and how to fold them.

I learned many things in this project as I was writing the articles. I learned how a boy becomes a knight, the sports they played, and the beasts used for battle.

The women still didn’t have much right back then; they weren’t allowed to become knights. Though the young boys who could have to go through three steps to prove himself. First, they start their training at seven, only using toys or wooden crafts; no real weapons or animals. At fifteen, they can become squire where they assist a knight. Once the knight thinks one is ready, a squire is knighted.

The sports they played were mainly tournaments. Tournaments were the local entertainment. The most popular tournament sport was the Joust and the Melee. The joust was where two knights would ride upon horses and hold long sharp lances and try to hit each other off of their steed. The Melee is where there are teams, each with colored flags on their backs. Each team tries to knock off the flags of other teams with blunt swords or clubs.

That is what I learned when I lived in that time era.

Hello!

This is my Seventh grade humanities blog for Mr.Elizondo. I'll be sure to keep this updated. :]