Ch. 6: The Early Missionaries & Pioneers

In ch. 6, the things I’ll remember most is about the Treaty of Oregon. What I learned is that the Treaty of Oregon was a treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain, in which the treaty determined and settled the dispute over where the Northern border of the U.S. should be. In the end, the boundary line was at the 49th parallel. This is an important part of our state’s/ country’s history b/c this action gave the U.S. the would-be states of WA, OR, and ID.

~Natasha

Chapter 5: The Fur Trade Era

In chapter 5, the things I’ll remember most are the fur trade companies. What I learned is that there were four main fur trade companies: the Pacific Fur Co., the NW Fur Co., the Hudson Bay Co., & the Rocky Mt. Fur Co. This is an important part of the state’s history b/c the fur trading companies started the migration of the white settlers hoping to seek land in the NW.

~Natasha

Chapter 4: Sea & Land Explorers

Yeesh, I’m awfully slow at this…but that’s probably the case b/c unlike the S.S. textbook, I don’t have a copy at home. Oh well.

In ch. 4, the things I’ll remember most are of the sea explorers. What I learned/remember best are about John Meares, George Vancouver, and how the countries in Europe were trying to claim as much land as they could before the U.S. got there:

 ”Hey, it’s empty land. Let’s claim it!”

This is important to our state’s history b/c in one event, where the Spanish officials got angry at  Meares  for violating their rights to the Pacific NW region, the Spanish had to lose their claims on the land in order to avoid bloodshed with the powerful Great Britain. As of this, the Spanish lost their hope of claiming the NW region. Simply put, this removed Spain out of the equation in the rush to claim as much land as possible.

~Natasha

Review on Chapter 2 & 3

In chapter 2, the things that I’ll remember most are the some of the seven reigons of WA. What I learned is that some of the seven reigons- my memory’s a bit sketchy right now- are the Willapa Hills, Okanogan Highlands, Columbia Basin, and the Puget Lowlands. This is an important part of our state’s history because it describes the reigons of WA, and gives the reason on why the vegetation and animals are able to flourish in that certain reigon. For example, marine life inhabitants can be found in the wetter reigons, such as the Willapa Hills and the Puget Lowlands, instead of being found in, say, the Columbia Basin.

In chapter 3, the things that I’ll remember most are the two types of Native American tribes living in WA. What I learned is that there were two types of tribes- the Coastal Indians and the Plateau Indians. Both the Coastal and Plateau Indians, surprisingly, ate salmon sometime during the year. This is an important part of our state’s history because it explains how the different areas of where people live can affect their way of life. For example, the Coastal Indians traveled by canoes, but the Plateau traveled by foot.

~Natasha

What I Learned in Chapter 1

In chapter one, the thing I’ll remember most is about the Glacial Lake Missuola.

What I learned is that J. Harlen Bretz proposed the idea that the lake was created by a mega flood, even over night. This took place during the 1920s. Scientists didn’t believe him, because their belief was that the lake was created by some geological process over millions of years. For 40 yrs, Bretz’s theory seemed ridiculous. Finally, after 50 yrs, his idea was proven to be correct.

This is an important part of Washington’s history because glaciers weren’t the only cause on how the state was created. Glacial Lake Missuola was created by a massive megaflood, and at the same time, Mt. St. Helens erupted, covering the entire state of Washington, even the area washed out by the ice dam that broke. Another reason why it is important is because it shows the reality of Mother Nature. Not everything is around the things of Mother Nautre that we see occasionally today.

You just have to open your eyes, and explore the world around you.

Okay, that sounded really poetic.

Natasha

The Crusades Research project

Caution: this is going to be a short post.

I think my best part of the Crusades Research project is the heapfull of information I typed up. I got my info from four websites, and yet it helped me lots.

But if I had to do it again, I’d have less info. I think that it’s a bit much…bt I didn’t really like using diigo.com . I liked using edmodo.com , but I didn’t really enjoy Diigo that much. It was a bit confusing.

♣Na+a5ha

$’N0+ F@lr !

In case you’re not able to read my wonderful title, it says “S’not Fair!” Just in case.

And no, I’m not talking about nose snot.

That’d be really cool though…..

ANYway,

Why do I say not fair? I mean, don’t get me wrong, but I liked doing the simulation. It was fun, but, then again, I love it when we don’t have to sit down for all of the hour and 4 minutes of the period. Yet I still have something to complain about.

So in SS2, there was the pink team, the lime green team, and the lavendar team. Not fair- lime and pink got their own chances to get to the white space by them and them only. We blues didn’t get to. We won though ☺!

I have to agree with everyone else- within a few minutes, we turned into wild people. Huh. Mr.T-

 ”…All over a piece of paper!”

If he hadn’t told us that it was for points and we weren’t getting competitive, I don’t think we would have ended with a crumpled piece of paper. It’s a funny story to tell, however- 

 ”Mom! Dad! Guess what? My class, we all fought over a white piece of paper! Can you believe that?!”

Yup, tell that to your friends not in our school. What’ll their reaction be?….

Back to homework….

Over and Out.

Not.

 ☺☼♠■

Dabbleboard

What was using this website like for me? Well, I can honestly say that it wasn’t that clear, and it is a bit disorganized. I mean, no offense, but I didn’t really find it that helpful.

What was good about this, though, is that if we ended up doing the poster in real life on the paper, at least we wouldn’t have to do all that coloring! Other than that, though, I didn’t really enjoy using dabbleboard.com

What I learned about the 5 pillars of faith, however, was that shari’ah was islamic law. I don’t really know how to describe it, but I can say that islamic law is fair enough- or, well, in my opinion.

Comparing modern day to back then, some people don’t even pray once a week. Think of it if you had to do it 5 times per day! That’d be 35 prayers in one week. Yeesh.

Over and out.

Nice hair, Mr. T. New trend, anyone?

What did everyone think about Mr. T’s hair style? (It’d be cool if he had it everyday.)

Over and Out.

Reflection on Muhammad Book

Hm….well, I can say that, despite the fact that it was a lot of coloring (in my case), I liked the Muhammad Book project. It was quite fun, actually.

I think I did best on the decorations of the pages of the summary and titles. The drawings, if I had to rate them on a 1 to 5 scale, I’d rate it a 3. ‘Couse, it’ll be different than how someone else rates it, but I’ll be rating it a 3. I kind of did the drawings in a rush job, so it wasn’ t that neat or tidy. Either way, it still looks good enough.

Something that I’d improve on, though, is the title page. It’s very dull-ish, and there’s a lot of negative white space. The white space doesn’t really look that great, but it’ll do.

If I had to do something similar to this, I’d hope that there’d be less chapters. But if it has less chapters, it’d be a really short book that’s quick to read with simple designs. Huh. Well, I’d work harder on it- divide the project into an equal amount of work per day. Procrasinating- not fun!

Over and out.