Monday

2/13/2012

1.) Math 6 - Corrections for Chapter 9 Lesson 6 worksheet, Chapter 9 Lesson 7 worksheet, and Test yourself worksheet (back of Ch.9 Lesson 7 worksheet)
Math 7 - No HW
2.) POST A REPONSE: Research one of the innovations discussed in class today and explain what it is, how it helped ancient civilizations, and how it has helped/affected modern civilizations.

Mike Tyson

2/13/2012 07:47:48 am

@ Mr. Hong, I don't think we handed the maps in today.

Pooh Bear

2/13/2012 09:19:15 am

I was wondering this to???
I guess we just ran out of time! :)

sandy squirrel

2/13/2012 09:28:34 am

Are we doing a class party for v-day? I would really like that \! :) we could bring in items and tomorrow is red white and pink day as a reminder to those who forgot! ;)

Oreo

2/13/2012 07:53:49 am

@Mr Hong Should we bring something for the class for V-Day tomorrow ?????

Superduperman12

2/13/2012 08:08:14 am

I am also wondering this question.

Superduperman12

2/13/2012 08:09:13 am

I am also wondering this question. WRONG
I am also wondering about this. CORRECT

Superduperman12

2/13/2012 08:07:39 am

I will be talking about the wheel.
The wheel is a round object that can easly be pushed or moved. It has helped civilizations because it makes things alot easier to move like heavy loads, many people, packages, etc. It can also be easier to ship merchandise that you are trading to somewhere far away. The wheel has helped alot because we can use it to move heavy loads, many people, packages, etc. With this wheel it will not be a strugle to move to different places and transport things.

Joe Joltz

2/13/2012 09:13:56 am

I'll be talking about the spear.
The spear is a weapon shaped like a long pole with a pointed tip made mainly of metal or stone. It is a weapon that was often used by warriors in an army and is used by thrusting and throwing. It has helped many Mesopotamians while hunting, guarding and even fighting in war. What the spear can do will bring in food, make the city safer, and even allow them to fight for what they want.

Pooh Bear

2/13/2012 09:21:33 am

For the grade six math work sheet, is it all division? I was just wondering because I was a little confused about that.

Dragon

2/13/2012 09:51:55 am

Are we aloud to bing V-day card and even sweets

Dragon

2/13/2012 09:52:32 am

Sorry thats "bring"

sandy squirrel

2/13/2012 10:45:34 am

*Allowed :)

Hermonie

2/13/2012 09:58:15 am

I will be talking about fire
Fire helped ancient civilizations by giving them light and warmth
and Fire helped us because if fire was not invented we would probably not have light bulbs or fire when we are out at night or any kind of light

Ammit the Devourer

2/13/2012 10:12:16 am

I will be talking about the Mesopotamian innovation, laws. Laws are rules that are enforced, and you have to follow them. If you don't follow those laws there will have a big or small punishment, depending on what law you broke.
Laws have had a great impact on the modern world. Without them, we would have a chaotic world, where people would take whatever they wanted. We probably would not have some of the we have today because the inventors would be focused on stealing or protecting food and wouldn't have the time to create anything.

Ammit the Devourer

2/13/2012 10:17:04 am

(REDO)
I will be talking about the Mesopotamian innovation, laws. Laws are rules that are enforced, and you have to follow them. If you don't follow those laws there will have a big or small punishment, depending on what law you broke.
Laws has had a great impact on the modern world and the ancient Mesopotamian world. The laws helped us and the Mesopotamians very much. Without them, both would have a chaotic world, where people would take whatever they wanted. Today, we probably would not have some of the modern inventions we have today because the inventors would be focused on stealing or protecting food and wouldn't have the time to create anything.

Cole Mcgrath

2/13/2012 10:21:05 am

I'll be talking about the calandar
The calandar was used to tell when to plant crops by telling what season it is and back then there were two seasons only and they were winter and summer. When summer came it tells the mesopotamian people to plant there crops and in the winter it tells then that it is time to harvest and save food. They made the calandar by studying the moon.It helps us today by telling what day it is and what year and what month it is.

Cole Mcgrath

2/13/2012 10:23:34 am

@Mr Hong do we have to show are work for the test yourself

Dragon

2/13/2012 10:40:45 am

I will be talking about writing. Writing had many different form and without it there would be no books or they would take a long time to be invented. There is a few names such as: pictographs, pigments, hyrogriphics(Egypt) and one writing system is using cuneifrom. It was the Mesopotamians way of writing. They used writing for marking trades and education. I think writing was probally one of the most improtant of all.

Holmes

2/13/2012 10:56:25 am

*Heiroglyphics

Goddess Athena

2/13/2012 10:54:55 am

I will be talking about the barter system. In the olden days, you did not need money to get things you needed. Money wasn't used to trade goods and services. The Mesopotamians used the barter system instead. They developed a writing system to keep track of buying and selling. Scribes kept accurate records of all the trades by writing on clay tablets. When people traded, the contracts were sealed with a cylinder wheel.

Holmes

2/13/2012 10:54:57 am

I'll be talking about the Mesopotamian innovation, writing. Writing was their way of showing information like who owned what. It was mainly used for business-like stuff. It helped Mesopotamia by giving them a way of communication and showing information. Their form of writing was made up of pictures and over time, elvolved into our form of writing. Just like back then, we still use it for communication today. Typing out this paragraph probably wouldn't be possible wihout this innovation. Something I'd like to know is how and why the Mesopotamians created writing.

Conan

2/13/2012 11:08:13 am

I'm going to talk about pottery. Pottery is a pot, bowl, or plates, shaped from clay and hardened by heat. Pottery helped civilization in many different ways. It helped them by holding objects. We use pottery in these days. It holds water which is very important.

If there are no pottery, we wouldn't have any dishes, bowls, pots, or other things to put food or water on/in them.

Chelsea Somers

2/13/2012 11:21:26 am

I picked the wheel. The wheel is an object that is used to move things easily, with its round figure. Without wheels, we wouldn't be able to move wagons, drive cars, or even go for a bike ride. There are many things in the world that need wheels to work, so it is a very important invention that was made. In the ancient times, the wheel was used to move around things, like items for trade.

Oreo

2/13/2012 11:50:24 am

Im going to do the wheel, the whelk is so you can transportat for example you wouldn't have these things wagons, bikes, scooters, and even cars. This is why we really need the wheel.

sandy squirrel

2/13/2012 01:08:42 pm

@Oreo,
This did not take long to do but I suggest to re-do it because you are misspelling words that are easy. You also could add alot more detail as you can see on the other comments. :) This is just a suggestion but remember we get marked on this, so why not give it your best the first time?! :)

Ammit the Devourer

2/13/2012 11:20:26 pm

I think you meant wheel not whelk. Whelks are sea sails.

Sam fisher

2/13/2012 12:06:52 pm

fire- fire has helped the world in many ways and has destroyed it.... But I will be talking about the advantages of fire and how it started. We think the fire. Was started by someone hitting two items together and making a spark.. Fire hasn't really proceeded to get new versions of it but since it was invented until today it is thought of a free source of heat. In the 1900s it has been used to power trains, forn glass and metal and melt iron gold etc into something new.

winnie the poo

2/13/2012 12:18:56 pm

Hi today I will be talking about the amazing wheel. the wheel is so usefull if the mesopotamians didn't creat the wheel we wouldn't have cars,bikes,wagons,skateboards, rollerblades, and plenty more stuff. The wheel is used to be put on the bottom of stuff so it can easily be moved. it can move you as transportation or other objects so they can possibly be traded. I think the wheel was made first as a square but then they chipped the edges off by accident and they noticed that the round figure is the best way of moving stuff

Brian Robeson

2/13/2012 12:36:20 pm

There were many Mesopotamian innovations, from the wheel to the plow, but did you know that the Sumerians (Mesopotamian people) were storytellers? They even made a story of a super hero named "Gilgamesh"! All of this is interesting, but what invention really changed our lives today? Writing.

Writing was obviously made by Mesopotamia. Thousands of years ago, people of Mesopotamia used writing to communicate and record all sorts of information. Pictograms (A picture used to symbolize a word or phrase.) were used to communicate information. After some time, writing changed and used a "script" (Definition: Signs or letters, written by hand, used to make words. A type of writing.) called cuneiform.

Pooh Bear

2/13/2012 01:02:59 pm

The calender. Back when Mesopotamia was around, the solar year was divided into two seasons. "Summer" and "Winter". Summer included barley harvests at around the second half of May or the beginning of June. Summer to them back then was like our fall-winter time. Back then the Babylonians called the calender Chaldaeans, which is very similar to our English word calender. It took quite a long time for them to create the calender. Also, the king contributed on helping to invent this. We believe that it was invented in the mid-eighth century.

This was what they called the months and what they harvested at that time:

January- Sabatu

February- Adduru

March- Nissanu

April- Ajaru

May- Simanu

June- Du'uzu

July- Abu

August- Ululu

September- Tasritu

October- Arahsamna

November- Kislimu

December- Tebetu

:)

sandy squirrel

2/13/2012 01:06:02 pm

I will be talking about the early mesopotamians form of writing, known as cuneiform. A cuneiform is from the term in spanish meaning, "Wedge-shaped". They are pictures/symbols pressed onto a clay tablet. These were used to show what had been purchased or sold. A cuneiform was kind of like a receipt back then in ancient Mesopotamia, although back then it was evolving into bigger and better things since it is also form of communication, this could make us wonder, "What if it never existed.. would we still be around here today?".

:D

Mickey Mouse

2/13/2012 01:20:31 pm

I will be talking about money
Did you ever know that the mesopotamians invented money well they in invented the money. Also, a cool fact about the invention of money is that they invented a kind of money system by using clay tokens for trades. However, tokens were different sizes and shapes. Also, the tokens were put into clay ball with the number of tokens pressed on the outside. Also, I think the mesopotamians were very smart to invent money so they could buy things so they can live and that they can buy things that they need because I dont think stores will be selling stuff for free because those people that work at those stores are probably trying to get money too. When they invented money other countries started noticing and saying wow thats a great idea the mesopotamians were very smart to invent money because than we can buy things so than other countries started iventing money and using money.

Mike Tyson

2/13/2012 01:21:33 pm

Wheel- wheels are used to move things such as bikes, skateboards, cars, roller blades and other cool stuff. If the wheels weren't invented we wouldn't have transportations and we would be living a hard life. It can also help wagons to load heavy materials.

Mary poppins

2/13/2012 01:25:38 pm

I will be talking about the very famous wheel and the wheel helps to this day with transportation. Also if the wheel was never invented there would be no bikes or cars or scooters or anything that can roll and carry hevy loads. Who knows how the wheel was created was it just a fluke or did they do it for a reason this is what is one of the very many questions that are mysterious about the wheel.

Greg Heffley

2/13/2012 03:36:34 pm

I'm going to be talking about CUNEIFORM, Mesopatamians believed in education. Record keeping was very important to them. They wanted their children to learn how to read and write. Their written language began as pictures of things that acted as words. Pictures worked, but they were sort of awkward.

Soon, the clever ancient Sumerians started to use wedge-shaped symbols for objects and ideas instead of pictures. Now, we call this written language of wedge-shaped symbols cuneiform. We know a great deal about the ancient civilization from the written records they left behind in stone and clay. The also kept excellent records and lists of things. They listed their household goods. They listed their court activity. They listed their sales and purchases. They even kept a list of their kings that was updated from time to time, as new kings came to power.

SpongeBob

2/14/2012 12:13:11 am

I will be talking about transportation because it's amazing if you look back and you compare early transportation with the current means of transportation, these days we have electric trains, electric cars, and even a plane that can carry over 825 passengers

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