Saturday, December 11, 2010

M7-Time Travel Holiday (Due A-Dec 31; B-Jan 07)

Greeting Time Travelers. 

You have been doing a great job traveling around and exploring the Ancient World. As a reward for all of your hard work you get to take a Time Travel Vacation!

For this mission you can go anywhere in time. You can visit the Ice Age, the Dinosaurs, Medieval Europe, Modern Day Paris in the spring, Oregon in the 1800's, and even...THE FUTURE.

Please choose one destination in which to spend your vacation. Write a standard sized post (2-3 paragraphs or two screen scrolls) about what you see and do.

Specific Post Requirements:
  • Must clearly state where and when you are.
  • Must use and highlight Writer's Secret 1-4.
  • Must use the delicious word: SPECKLED

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

M6-Welcome to Greece! (Due A-12/10; B-12/17)

This Week's Mission: 
Time to head to Ancient Greece! For this mission you have a choice of options. Please choose one of the following:
  • Sail across the Mediterranean Sea and visit a Greek Colonies or City-State
  • Visit an Greek Farm and talk with a farmer
  • Travel around Greece using the modes of travel available to the times
  • Visit a Greek marketplace and buy some of the items available there
Specific Post Requirements:
  • Must contain two pieces of factual information.
  • No new Writer's Secret; instead I want you to include at least 2 lines of dialogue. Have 2 people speak in your post. Remember to put what they say in quotes and to give each new speaker a new paragraph. An example follows:
I walked up to the nearest merchant selling fancy pottery.
"How much for this vase?" I asked.
"That one," the merchant said gruffly. "That one is too much for you!"
  • Must use the delicious word: SUPERIOR.

General Post & Comment Requirements:
A reminder about the general requirements for each post can now be found at the top left of this blog.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

M5-Photo Safari (Due: A-11/26, B-12/3)

This Week's Mission: 
This is your last mission in Ancient Egypt. I need you to take some pictures of the wonderful things you have seen. 

You will need to post 5-10 images. Each image needs a1-2 sentence caption. You must use Writer's Secret 1.1, 1.2, & 1.3. As well as 2 of the five delicious words (conceive, enormous, paralyze, sandwich, groggy, bon apetite) An example post can be found after this one.

Directions on how to put pictures in your blog (using Firefox):
1-conduct a Google search for the specific image you want, for example: "Tutankhamen" will get you several pictures of King Tut.
2-browse through the thumbnails until you see one you like; click to open it
3-in the "Google Images" preview that opens click on "Full-size image" to the right.
4-right-click on the image and select "Save Image As"
5-make sure you are saving your image to the desktop, give it a title that makes sense to you, and press save.
6-in your "new post" window on blogger click the little picture just to the left of "link." If you hover over it, it will read "Insert Image"
7-in the window that opens make sure "upload" is selected; click "choose file"
8-search for your picture on your desktop, select "Open"
9-wait for the image to be uploaded, when it appears in the window click on it, then click on "add selected."
10-You can change the size of your picture and its alignment by clicking on it and using the toolbar that opens.
11-You will need a caption for each photo. For this mission you should write the captions in your blog. DO NOT use the "add caption" tool found in the picture tool bar.

Specific Post Requirements:
  • Must contain 5-10 images with captions.
  • Must use and highlight 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3
  • Must use and underline 2 delicious word.

General Post & Comment Requirements:
The general post requirements do not pertain to this mission. However, you are still required to read and comment on at least 2 other M5 posts.

M5-Photo Safari Example

Here are some pictures from my travels through Ancient Egypt.

 Looking at my map, I thought about my travels, wondering if I would ever return to Ancient Egypt.  It was a really wonderful country.




Tut ruled!  He was just a boy when he was Pharaoh.







Escaping the dam waters, this temple was moved.  It now sits in a fake cliff side.





These enormous statues lined the entry to a grand palace. I'm so impressed with the detail the artisans put in these temples.








We rode in this falluca. The Nile was an amazing river.





I'm a bit groggy when it comes to reading hieroglyphics. I think they are preparing a Pharaoh for his afterlife.