Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Oh brother....

George Santayana, an American philosopher, once said "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 

Analyze this quote by addressing the following questions:

    a.  What do you think Santayana means?
    b.  Do you agree with him?  Why or why not?  Include examples to back up your answer.
    c.   How do you think this quote is related to today's lesson?

~a. I think Santayana means flower
b. I do agree with him because he is right. Example:Like my brother,he keeps on making the same mustak over and over,and that`s why he is going to be stuk in the same place over and over until he larns his lesson.
c. It is related to today`s lesson by what hapend in the past
affects the present.

Monday, October 3, 2011

How do you say the word....

immigrant?

My own son read this as "mammogram"

Too funny!!  I don't know where he got that word from anyway!!

Themes of Geography- really??

Some of the themes of geographay are a tooth for a tooth. Another one is payment for destroyed crops. The last one is the hanging gardens.

Ummmm....

What is a civilization?

~A civilian is someone who makes or goes in to a history book.It could be someone who discovered land and any other.the last thing i think it is it could be someone who is a king or a slave and the worked hard to become a king.

Where do they get this stuff from??

What is a civilization?

~like a civil war