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During the past classes in Social Studies, we have been playing games that helped us learn about the Renaissance period. It is a board game, and there is an option of landing on a Stump or Blunder card. A stump card is where you have to do A LOT of research and type up a report or things similar to it. A Blunder card is when information is given on the card, but you have to find the mistake.

e.g  Blunder Card

You are in Florence, and you are having an intelligent conversation with a dignified man. You start talking about the theory about the Earth rotating around the Sun. The man’s smile disapears and walks away from you.

The blunder is that at that time, everyone believed that everything rotated AROUND the Earth, not the other way around. Also, that was also officially agreed by the Church, so it was a bad thing if you thought differently from the Church.

A Stump card would look like this:

e.g. You are trying to learn table manners like the Renaissance. Write a report showing what the rich and common people ate, and how a shopping list would look like from the Renaissance period.

You would have to write a list showing what rich and common people ate during that time, and also type up a shopping list of what an average person in the Renaissance would write out. You had to do a lot of research to find out what kind of foods they ate.

The one thing that made me think our group researched something wrong was that even commoners got to drink wine. I thought that only the rich could drink wine, but I guess I was wrong…

I learnt in class about all the famous people of the renaissance period. I learnt how some of the famous renaissance people had little encouragement from their parents (like Michaelangeo in his love of painting), or how they changed the way of how people lived in different ways. For instance, Marco Polo had made a big impact on the world (especially Europe) by travelling to China, and telling the world about it. While on the other hand, Marin Luther voiced out his own opinions going against the Roman Catholic Church teachings, and spread his vision of Christianity to others. What I found interesting is that if those people make a difference, it is a BIG difference, not just a small tiny one.

If I had to do the interview again, I would probably speak a bit louder, slower, and clearer so that people can understand me and what I am saying better.

Ahmed Hamid. “2 suicide bombings kill 20 in Iraq.” 2 suicide bombings kill 20 in Iraq. 7th May, 2007. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq. (7th May, 2007).

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Julia’s blog link: julia03.learnerblogs.org

URL: www.defensetech.org/images/IraqPSA.jpg

URL: www.theinterpretersfriend.com/indj/maps/iraq-map.gif

I feel that this is connected to Julia’s current event, as this also has to do with Iraq’s suicide bombings in Iraq. Also, a similar number of people were affected (more than 20 people were killed).

What did you find interesting about this topic?

Even though this might be a weird (and gross) to most people, what I find interesting is how much people are comitting suicide. I wonder sometimes if they know that it would harm others as well, but they still do it, or they only think about themselves and not realize how many people they are killing, just to kill themselves. Also, I am also interested to know if all the suicide bombers wanted to die because of the same reason.

What did you like about the initial blog posting?

 I liked how Julia mentioned all the parties of the Iraqi race that were being suspected by the government. Also, the picture in Julia’s blog protesting about the U.S army in Iraq makes me have a clearer picture why all these Iraqi people are committing suicide by blowing up bombs.

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Isabella d’ Este was known as the “First Woman of the Renaissance”. Isabella was borin in 1474, and died in 1539.  She was a great woman who was a political ruler, an inventor, the patron of arts, a mother of seven children, and a musician. Her parents were the Duke and Duchess of Ferrara, and luckily for Isabella, her father believed in gender equality, so she had royal education when she was a child. She was the eldest child of six children, but she was the most favoured. At the age of six, she was bethrothed to Francesco Gonzaga! At the age of 16, she could speak Greek and Latin fluently, play the lute, sing, dance, and debate with elders. Also at the age of 16, she  was married to Francesco. She had famous artists like Leonardo Da Vinci paint her portrait. She had her first child at December. She used to take care of the country and prevent it from getting captured numerous times when her husband was either captured or sick.

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