1. Why do you think the ancient Egyptian pharaohs create monuments?
It depends on what type of monument they're building. Let's say they're building a pyramid for example. Some ancient Egyptian pharaohs built pyramids to house there tombs when they've died. Take king Khufu for example. King Khufu; or Cheops, is known as the Pyramid builder. Mainly because he built the great pyramid at Giza in which his tomb is located. Though, some Pharaohs commanded others to build Statues in honor of themselves. A famous ancient Egyptian monument called the Mortuary temple was built by yet again, the famous pyramid builder also known as King Khufu. This monument was specifically built to hold a series of festivals including the Sed festival, and the white hippopotamus festival.
2. What monuments in our society are similar? (be sure to provide explanations and graphics).[Image]A monument in our society that is similar to the monuments in our society would be the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas. At a height of 30 stories, the Luxor hotel is the second biggest hotel, from which the MGM grand hotel is the biggest. As seen in the picture, the hotel has a sort of Pyramidal shape that stands at an impressive 350 ft. Though, comparing this to the great pyramid at Giza in Egypt, which is 450 ft, the Luxor hotel is like a pebble compared to that.
3. How did the using Google docs as the main portal for collaboration help you with this assignment? The using of Google docs helped me in many ways. Ways such as how me and my partner, Olle could work on the same thing using separate computers. It was also very useful because whenever Olle forgot a little piece of information essential to our project, I could have just got on to Google docs myself and type it up. That way, if we lose anything, we can just rely on our partner to help us out.
4. What did you learn from this assignment?I learned many things about King Khufu. Though, one of the most fascinating things that I've learned is the famous monuments that he's built. One of them however, is actually part of the seven wonders of the ancient world!! Though some of his monuments include the 3 queens pyramids just linked right next to the great pyramid at Giza. Just like King Khufu's tomb inside the great pyramid, the 3 queens pyramids were specifically built to house the tombs of the Queens from which King Khufu ruled Egypt with. Another famous monument built for king Khufu was the "Solar Boat". The solar boat was created to transport King Khufu's "Ra" (Which means soul" to heaven when he would die.
5. What was challenging?In my opinion, I think that the most challenging part of this assignment was when we tried recording our voices for the I-Movie part of the project. This was because me and my partner Olle couldn't find a suitable place to sit down and record because the entire school was very noisy. After walking around the middle school corridors for the fifty billionth time, me and Olle finally decided to record at some picnic tables with my good friend Alex Yusof. This also was very challenging because my friend Alex also had to record, and me and Olle couldn't record whenever their was noise around, so we had to problem solve in order to fix this problem.
6. Which school-wide learning results were evident in this assignment?One of the school-wide learning results that were evident to this assignment was "Collaborate Constructively". This was because me and Olle had to do a lot co-operation within this project. Mainly because me and Olle had to gather some research so that we could create an I-Movie and that took-- lets say....two days? We also had to create a script that tells the audience about King Khufu and figure out what transitions we should put in between the slides.
LINKZZZ
"File:Luxor Hotel.jpg." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 09 Feb. 2011. .
