Practice+Geoffrey

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/mesopotamian-mythology.php http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.html

Message to parents and advisors: 1. A little behind 8 ball. Didn’t find books over weekend, did not read websites & take notes on sources already found. 2. Has some good general ideas. Needs to do enough reading to get enough ideas to narrow focus. 3. There are several good sources in beaver library and online, so it is not like he will need to discard topic and start over. 4. Do Gale and Britanica searches. Follow instrctuions on “Research Tools” on class wiki.   No books or research organizer; was getting sources, a lot from the internet, this weekend was busy, the library wasn’t open during the hours I had to do my homework; didn’t have much time to do homework; a lot of family stuff;  Topic: mykthology; comofrotable with that topic; found resources and read through them. Didn’t realize until late Sunday that had to do this book stuff; Good that put some stuff on practice page Skimmed through, but taken no notes; Looked online at Brrokline card catalogue on line, but had troiuble searching. Didn’t succeed online search for Boston;  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do you know what you want to focus on withing mykthology and gods? I’m notsure, maybe gods and purpose <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Get a big, general book on Mes, with a chapter on religion. Read the chapter. Come back and tell me what you’re interested in:

<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">9/29 still struggling, parent email <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Want to focus on characters of mes. Mythology: what symbolize, what they mean; a little bit of background on their stories; Went to Wikipedia, found stuff, but not much else <span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t have many resourfes. When asked for research organizer again, did not have it electronically or on paper version. Do this:

1. copy and past new version of research organizer from resaarfch tools to here. 2. fill it out. think of key words and look for information. 3. follow the instructions I gave you above, about britanica & website for webquest. 4. find a big book on mesopotami, and read the chapter in it on religion. this will give yo a jump start.a 5. follow the directions on ther resartch orgznier page for focusing your search. 6. go through research organizer tutorial with a parent to make sure you understand.



1. the early roman republic was a stable society because of these three institutions. The //family// of ancient Rome was very different that today. the father would be the head of the family, who resembled the work of the king for the family. the father could sell or kill his children as he pleased. //Clientage// was the system of the patronage. The patron would have bodyguards who take care and protect him. the plebians and the patricians were groups of people. The plebians were more wealthy, and if a plebian had any relation to a patrician they would no longer be accepted into this plebian circle of exclusion. The //education// is also quite peculiar. the education is taught by father, and received by thehes sons and maybe daughters. greek teachers came and taught all of these laws, and society and how to be moral members of society.

2. rome expanded gradually, city by city by city. The romans established permanent colonies of veteran soldiers in kands that they conquered. this provided stable colonies of people that would protect rome but were outside of rome. then through the punic wars between cathage and rome. rome conquered carthage and expanded it's empire. in their relationship in greece they were seeking power and security, thoug they did end up with wealth and fame.

crisis [|http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/business/19bush.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=financial%20crisis&st=csae&oref=slogin] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/politics/20adbox.html?scp=9&sq=us%20financial%20crisis&st=cse

there is a connection between the martin luther king speech and the plebeians and patricians of ancient rome. the patricians are like the whites because they have power and money and are overall more privileged. the plebians are like the black people because they were less priveled and given much less power. in ancient rome the plebeians would have to do so much work to be respected like a partrician which is mainly the same for african americans in the 60's. it is still even a little true today. blacks in history were given a lot less respect than whites which is very similar to ancient rome.