Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

Yes Ice Age 2 has hit theaters with a huge boom and all of the main cast is back: Scrat,Sid,Maney,and Deago,along with a new character and Maney’s new girl friend.Well, [I’m sure] you guys are wondering what’s the story line? Well, the ice age has ended and it’s time for it to warm up a bit. So the gang has to survive the new climate, falling ice, flooding ,and other obstacles.

Photos from http://mediazona.ru/video/asset/245874/

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown

and for more info go to http://iceagemovie.com

What do you usually think of a book compared to the play? For those of you that saw it, what would you rate it? Our class went on a field trip to see the play, The Giver and we thought there were some positives and negatives about it after we saw it. We had compared it to the book for accuracy, and for any parts missing. First, we found out that 15 out of 18 students liked the book better than the play. The National Theatre Club was on tour, and they had to fit a significant part of The Giver into an 80 minute production. As you know, you wouldn’t be able to fit every detail of The Giver into a play. However, they jumped right into the Ceremony of 12, and there was only 6 people attending. Even the little things, like braids not in Lily’s hair were caught. In the end, they were really rushed and they skipped all of the escape because they said he just left. He had reached Elsewhere in no time and people that never read the book wouldn’t catch on. Despite the negatives, there are positives, and one thing I found they did well was they had really good sound effects. The grabbing of emotion was well done by the Club. A whole play would be so hard to act that some parts are going to have to be skipped. When they took questions, they said sometimes they would alter plays, but most things can’t be changed even though they are. This was a good play to go to, but it could be better.

March, 28 2006, our school’s 6th grade went to go see a play as a field trip along with many more schools. The play was based on the book The Giver. I would say my favorite part of the play was when Jonas first saw color, because I thought it was really cool how just all of a sudden the color all around on the stage turned red. I also liked it because of the creativity the crew did with the lights. Just to shock people they changed the lights red for one second. The drama was great, the make up was great, [and] I loved it.

Jonas is a male, 11, growing up in a colorless, feelingless world. It’s December in his community and almost time for ceremonies throughout the community, but Jonas is worried. When he is skipped for assignments he is even more fretful! Then suddenly as the apology leaves the head elders mouth he began to relax. He was selceted to be the new Reciever of Memory. He goes through painfull, endless training.

It has now been a year and Jonas has witnessed many different memories, and his father releasing a newborn. Jonas is horriefied of this process and to comort him and put him at ease he stays with the Giver. They make a plan for Jonas to run away to “Elsewhere” and his memories will be transmitted to the community. Jonas is ready to leave the next day when a voice on the loud speaker tells [him] that Gabe will be released. Jonas steals Gabe, extra left overs from dwellings around the community and his father’s scooter. They reach the other side of the river and then walk and walk and walk. And then ahead of them in the distance is a community waiting for Jonas, and the newchild, Gabe.

The Giver Theater Review

Have you ever seen the play, The Giver? If you haven’t here is a review to get you prepared to see it.

The production starts with you entering the room. Then you see the set, which is made up of paintings for backdrops and there are two projectors to show the announcements made by the elders of the community. Then the theater part of the productions begins shortly.

The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who becomes the next reciever of memory. The story is an exciting one, you never know what will happen next.

There were many great features in the play. For instance, the acting and how the actors stayed in character even when it wasn’t there turn to speak. Also, the costumes were grand because they were grey to give a visual that the community can’t see color. Another good thing about the play was that, with the small number of props they had, the production was still very awesome. However, one bad thing about the play was that sometimes It was a little hard to hear what they were saying. Overall, the production was fantastic though!

Now when you go see the play The Giver, you’ll know what to expect about the acting, but the end of the story will remain a surprise!

Recently my dog Casey ran away and since then I have been looking at a collie rescue sight every second of the day(I’m serious!) Now collies are wonderful dogs and [many] would love to have a good home. There are so many dogs out there that need homes. but I can not take all of them even though I want too. So you have to help. Just go to google.com and type in collie rescue and you will get many pages of collie rescue sights all over the world. So just click on one and start looking for the dog of your dreams then when you have found one, go up to your mom or dad, go on your knees and start pleading for your new collie. It will not be a puppy but that is ok, dogs are the best you can get! They are always so cute! Now my computer will not let me put pictures in but that is all right because use the instructions that I gave you to use to get a collie and you can see pictures there.

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Today for a feild trip we went to go see The Giver.The book The Giver was writen by Lois Lowry.But we didn’t read the book we saw a play.It was so cool to go see it done out as a play.I couldn’t believe that they could put the book into a play. We saw the play at East Hartford High.The play was performed by theater workers,and they were really good.I loved all of the features of the play too. Like in this one part everytime Jonas saw the color red,it would flash red. It was so cool. Anyway it lasted for about a hour I think. So if you would like to learn more click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver

I got my picture at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver

The play was a lot different! They skipped a lot of parts although it was good and funny. Lily was the best, I think, and all of the cast were in the acting business. They all were in the same costumes, and at the end they had little triangles to show that Jonas saw colors. One was red,orange,and another color. They also had slides so they would show the memories. For example, they showed the twin getting “released”. The screen also showed announcements to the community. Overall, it was really good.

On Tuesday, March 28, 2006, our sixth grade group went to a play based on the award winning book The Giver. I’m about to tell you about what happened during this play and how the play was related to the book.

The play in many ways was similar to the book, but in many ways wasn’t. However I will start with the positives and how the play was similar to the book. The play followed the main story line fairly well and I would rate this part (1-10) about a 7.5. Also most of the characters were there like, Jonas, Fiona and Asher. BUT they left out one of the key players in Jonas’s finding out what a release was. They left out Larrisa who told Jonas of Roberto, the old man who was released in a glorious ceremony. But there was about only one other BIG problem I picked out and that was that the actors did not use bikes like the people did in the community. Insted they used scooters!

Overall the play was a fun experience, my favorite part was when the Giver was transmiting the memories to Jonas and they used a projecter to project the memories that he was receiving on a wall.

I would recommend this play to whoever loves a mystery type of story with suspense added.

     Did you know that India did not always have its independence? In 1619 the British took control of what we know today as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The British made India use English as their language and took away many Hindu customs. India tried to fight back in 1857, but the East India Company fell apart and the British maintained control. 

     Even though India was contolled by the British the economy continued to grow and prosper. Railroads were set up and trade increased. But one of the worse things the British did to India’s society was if something went wrong in India they blamed it on the Muslim population.  This caused conflict between the Muslims and the Hindus within India. 

      In 1885 India formed an Indian National Congress which was a group to fight against the British.  Even though the British ignored them the group received a lot of support from the Indian people and it reminded them to take pride in their country. In 1909 the Muslims won the right for separate elections. When Europe attacked Islamic countries, Muslims started to talk about breaking away from the British and forming a separate Muslim state.

     Mahatma Gandhi, an important leader in India, didn’t like the way the British were treating the Hindus and Muslims of his country.  He raised support to fight against the British by burning  identity cards, and making salt which was illegal.  When the British attacked the Indians who were making salt Ghandi told the people not to fight back. This made the British look bad.  Over the years Ghandi continued to fight for India’s independence from the British in non-violent ways.

     In 1945, after World War II, over 400 million people lived in India. There were 250 million Hindus, 90 million Muslims, 6 million Sikhs, and millions of Sectarians, Buddhist, and Christians. There were 23 main languages, 200 dialects, and 3000 castes. The British government could not control all the different ethnic groups. On August 14, 1947 the British gave power back to India.

     Since the Muslims were in the minority they were afraid there say would not matter.  The Muslims and the Hindus started fighting against each other. Ghandi went on a fast and was willing to die if the people would not stop fighting.  Eventually they stopped and India became two separate countries, India and Pakistan. Most of the Muslim population moved to Pakistan and the Hindus moved to India.  Now you know some amazing facts and incredible dates about India’s non-violent independence into two countries.

I knew that India was once controlled by the British. I did not know many of the important dates and events. I learned a lot of bad and good things that happened to India. My research really helped me find great information and helped me write my paper.

Gandhi was born on October 2 ,1869. But what his parents did not know is that he would be one of India’s greatest leaders in achieving freedom from England. Infact ,Ghandi had 4 children of his own but he had an arranged marriage,meaning,he and his wife were chosen for each other. He was married to Kastura Gandhi.They were both only thirteen years old. She was a inspiration to everyone.Especially when Gandhi was arrested for protesting English rule. She was a big factor on Gandhi’s campaign around Africa and India .When he decided to go on his journeys his goal was to see the pain and starving and the poverty of the people and try to correct it. What he wanted was to free India from English rule but without violance.He wanted to make every person safe free and peaceful. Well some of you are asking did Gandhi ever get the nobel peace prize? Well no he did not. One day on his journey he got assasinated and he became peacful and free from British power and as you can see Gandhi was a peaceful man and he helped free India by fasting and different protests of non-violence . I got my information at www.mkgandhi.org  and the movie GHANDI.

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 I have learned that Gandhi was a rich man but not material rich ,but character rich. His goal was not to have civil or aney kind of war. The only thing he wanted was peace and harmoney but some did not like that so India split up muslim and hindu religions into now India and Packistan.The majority of the Muslim people went to the new country Pakistan.The others, the Hindues stayed in India.This happened in 1947.

      (He was called Mahatma. Meaning Great soul or great one.)

Mr. Ghandi was an incredible man who changed the rights of many Indian people. This man from the country of India gained its independence in 1947. Mr. Ghandi was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbandar, Kathiawod. Some of Mr. Gandhis beliefs were in peace, fearlessness, love, nonviolence, and vegetarianism. March, 1922 Mr. Gandhi was pleaded guilty for the charge of writtings and was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in Yervada jail. on the day of January, 1924 Mr. Gandhi was operated on for appendicitis and then released from prison in Febuary. At the time of January, 30, 1948 at 5:13pm Mr. Gandhi was assasinated by being shot 3 times in the chest by Nath Vram Vinayak Godse. For last Mr. Gandhi was cremated on January, 31, 1948 on the banks of river Yamuna.

                     So thats what happend to Mr. Gandhi from whe he was just a normal man to a very famous man in a great country of India. In this biography about Mr. Gandhi I listed  the dates of the very important times like when when he was born on October 2, 1869.

I got my info from: www.Mahatma.org and www.mkGandhi.org

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Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. At age 13 he married 12 year old Kasturba Makanji. They had 4 sons. He studied law in London and returned to India in 1891. In 1893 he worked in South Africa. South Africa was ruled by the British. When he tried to claim his rights as a British he was abused. He saw many other Indians abused as well. He spent a total of 7 years in prison, often fasting to show his support. He became the leader of the Indian Nationalist Movement. Gandhi tried to secure the rights for the Indian people in the most nonviolent way. In 1915 he returned to South Africa with his wife and children. In 1948, at the age of 78, he was assassinated by a Hindu who opposed his beliefs. He will always be known to the people of India as Gandhi Mahatma, meaning Great Soul.

Buddhism started In India about 2500 years ago by Gautama the Budda. He grew up and married a young princess and had kids. He went into a town that he never knew or been in. The princess name was Karma. They believed in gods. Gautama is going to be the future religious leader. Buddah is a big person that is fat and was a religion for India. I have learned [alot] about India. India is a big country and Buddhism is their most [popular] religion. India is a crowded area and they have a river that is holy and they bath in it. Buddhism is a large religion [in] South Asia. Budda means awakened one. Gautama died at age 80 in Kushnara. Peopl believe that ther are two different kinds of budda. People also believe that he looked like a fat person and a skinny people. I found this information at Information-Enertainment.com.

Gandhi, A motivational speaker changed the world. He was born on October,2,1869 in Porbander. He went to London to study law. He accepted an offer by Indian businessmen in South Africa. He stayed in South Africa for over twenty years. He returned back to india in 1915. Gandhi was put in prison for burning goverment property. Gandhi was released from prison because of his sickness.In 1948 a terible accident happened. Gandhi died.What made him so great was he never backed down fom anything.

I picked Gandhi because I wanted to learn more about him and why he did all tof the stuff that he did.

I got my information from http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html

My teacher told everyone to pick a place in India, and I picked New Delhi. New Delhi is a city that defies a one-line description as the capital of the world’s largest democacy. Delhi is 32,87,267 sq. km of India’s fantastic variety compressed into 1483 sq. km. Delhi is true cosmopolitan city always on the move. Delhi is also a deram city for visitors looking for items of handicrafts. Many wildlife sancturaies, heritage sites, hill stations, and quaint little towns sorround Delhi.

The History on New Delhi is that the first person to find the city is a British person, and it was in 1911. New Delhi is the first city that had an independence war in 1857. The Delhi’s was [a] thorn in the eyes of the British. New Delhi is one of the oldest cities in the world.

Where I got my information was that I went to Google and typed in New Delhi, and I also typed in History on New Delhi. Then I looked around for good information on New Delhi, then I found this information.

Nascar News: Jeff Gordon Vs. Matt Kenseth

Recently, The race at Bristol raceway was held. The race went somewhat smoothly. Then It was about the last lap, this would decide the winners of the race, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth were all up front, as well as some others. Anyways, Jeff Gordon was fourth, while Matt Kenseth was very close behind him. Gordon and Kenseth had make some contact during the other parts of the race but not much, they finally were very close. Matt Kenseth got closer to Gordon and then he ended up bumping him and Jeff Gordon swirled some and got behind in the race. He went from fourth to twenty-first. Luckily, nor Matt or Jeff won the race, Kurt Busch won. I remember watching this race very intently, then I watched as they showed Jeff, as soon as he got out of the his car he went over to Matt and pushed him. How nice. Then the Security, or Driver Team people came over and seperated them. Later on they showed them both talking. Kenseth claimed that the whole thing was an accident, and that he would have just have beenmad If it happened to him. Gordon, cooled down, didnt seem to say much, but I know he wasnt the happiest camper. Do you think this will damage their friendship?

By Sara

I learned that the first civilization in India was that they were some what organized, and they understaned what to do sometimes. I also learned that they were good fishers.

http://www.indianchild.com/indian_kingdoms.htm

With no dirt tracks, no roads, no electricity, no schools, water supply, post office, or health care facilities, what would you do? Well, in ‘Old India’ there are none of those things, however, they live near thick jungles surrounded by hills. In four villages there has been an estimated population of 1,000 people. In ‘New India’ the economy has opened up approxamitely 14 years ago. There are roads, electricity, water supply, schools, health care falicities, and post offices. So as you can see there is a difference right there. Alot of people in ‘Old India’ have not been on a bus, seen a train or visited a town. Unlike ‘New India’ when teens ride a bus or train to school and live in a town. Also there is not as much murder or suicide in ‘Old India’ as there is in ‘New India’. Those are some of the reasons that tells you how ‘Old India’ is different to ‘New India’.

If you have never saw the original movie High School Musical then you probably don’t know much about it. Well, High School Musical is about a boy named Troy [starring Zac Efron] who thinks that he is all that. And this new girl named Gabrella[starring Vanessa Anne Hudgens]. Now Gabrella is a very intelligent girl. Troy and Gabrella are both at the same place.Because they were both going on vacation.At a ski Resort.And they end up meeting each other at a 4th of July party.The reason they met is because they both were picked to sing karioki together.And so of course the girl starts to like the boy.Then the next time they see each other is when Troy is at school. Because Gabrella’s mom had to be transford to Albercuky.To learn more about the movie go on this site: Zac Efron Biography and then scoll down until you see the movie High School Musical.:]

Video games, friendly fun and kind of exciting… well my favorite of the three leading video game company’s is, Nintendo. This company has been known for “Kid friendly”, video games. Right now they are planning to make a new console called, “Nintendo Revolution”, as the name suggests this will be a ,”Revolution”, for Nintendo. The most important thing about this is the controller of this will be a T.V. like control. This will also have a motion sensor. (talk about “Playing a game”), this is supposed to launch in the summer of 0′6. Who knows what’s next for Nintendo?

I got my information here

Photo from http://news.com.com/i/ne/p/2005/0916nintendopic1_500×387.jpg

On October 31st, 1984 a terrible thing happened,India’s prime minister, Indira Ganhi was shot. She died at the age of 67. After she had been shot, she was rushed to the All India Medical Hospital to try and remove the bullets, but an hour and a half later, she was pronounced dead. The two people who fired the bullets were guards that worked at her home. The two people who shot her were believed to be Sikh extremists. Five years later Satwant and Kehar Singh were hung for the killing of Indira Gandhi. When she was shot she was believed to be walking in her garden, in the morning. Although it was a great loss for India, it was an even greater loss for her family. She was married to Feroze Gandhi and had two boys, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi. You may say, “who cares, it’s someone who died,” you are wrong. She was an amazing woman, why, at the age of thirteen, she organized a “Monkey army” that was made up of teenagers. This was one thing that proved her intentions were to fight for her countries independence. In 1971, Indira Gandhi was honored with `Baret Ratna`. She acheived many things such as upliftment of the poor, nationalization of banks, and many more.

By researching this topic, it gave me a better understanding on where, when, and by who Mrs. Gandhi was shot by. I also learned a little bit about her family and a liitle about what she did.

I found this information at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/news-2464000/2464423.stm

picture and additional info from http://www.webindia123.com/personal/politician/indira1.jpg

Mohandas Ghandi was A great leader as you may all know. Infact, he even led the entire country of India to its independence from the super power of the 1800’s, Great Britain. But before he had done all of these amazing things he had to be born right?

Ghandi was born and raised in a town called Poorbander. He slowly became and there. Then he moved to London where he studied the art of law and became an attorney. After a while being an attorney he moved to South Africa where he finally decided he had had enough with all this crazy Brittan leading South African countries! One reason he had chosen this is because there was a lot of going on there. One example of this is, one of the train officials on a train he was riding kicked him out of his first class seat because he was black! He then protested non-violently by calling a meeting in the center of a town in South Africa he there burned the passes that showed that the citizens there were well.. citizens and saying that this is our first step of independance! He continued this defience until the guards that were there beat him senceless! Talk about guts. After this he continued protesting with a crowd that just kept growing and growing. FINALLY in 1947 after years of protesting Ghandi who was now in OLD OLD age finally won the non-violent battle.

Ghandi is now remembered through out the Indian country and has an everlasting flame memorial above his grave. Just recently George W. Bush visted them and threw flowers on his grave as a sign of respect to all the things he had done and to the country for following him.

I got this info from

This Site!

When I wrote this paragraph I learned belive it or not that Ghandi was not a female!hahaBut I also learned about all the amazing things he has done. I have only wrote a small portion of things he has done above in the post. Also when I was searching the web for info I dicovered what he looked like too. Overall this project allowed me to learn MANY things about Mohandas Ghandi!

Hampton And The Hampsters

Hampton and the Hampsters are a music band. There name are Hampton, Dixie, Fuzzy and Hado. You may have heard them sing the Hamster~Dance song. You may be wondering what they look like, Well…To be exact this is what they look like. (Below)

Credit To This Website.

How To Make A Pixel Guide

1) To start of you open MS Paint which most computers come with already downloaded in.

2) Take the Magnify glass in paint and on the Left Side Tool Bar a size thing manager will be there. Click Size 8, that way you pixel will end up being easier to see.

3)Next you make the outline of your Pixel. Using the Pencil, with any color you like, start outlining what will become the pixel like the following picture is.

P.S. Try not to get different pencil colors like mine did for the outline. I didnt mean to do that but It lost format when I saved it.

3)Next will be shading. Start with base colors. Then you can go in and add lighter and darker shades to get more of an effect. You can Darken the edges by going a shade darker by going to the top of paint-clicking color-next click Edit Colors-then Define Cutom Colors-then choose the color you want and click Okay. And you’ll have the color you picked. You can also add another outline thats lighter too, and just mess around with it and eventually It’ll look nice. Also, You can add a little white dot on top of the Cherry to add a little extra kick and you can add pink cheeks!

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4) Here is the Finshed Product.

All Images displayed here were made by me and were Uploaded here. Copyright to Sara. Do not Redistibute.

Scribbles

I can see it now, Your face looking at me with a confused expression. Your porbably thinking “What on earh is a Scribble?” No, I dont mean a Scribble on a piece of paper. I mean a Scribble as in a type of Graphic, that most people just make in MS Paint, I myself have never made one yet, but It’s on my list to do. Here is a really cute example of a Scribble.

So, Now you know what a Scribble is. Do you like Scribbles? Dont you think they are so cute? Would you want to give a go at making one? Ask yourself all these questions.  

Thanks to this website for providing the Mega Cute Scribble example.

Later this year, Will Wright, the creator of “The Sims,” will release Spore, a new game unlike any other. The game utilizes artificial intelligence allowing players to construct a universe one decision at a time. The games life forms, structures and atmosphere are designed by the player, and mathematical algorithms create the game actions based on the player’s designs. This system of game design is called procedural generation. In Spring of 2005, Mr. Wright presented a video of his game to the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference. Click on the link below to see the game video and hear Will Wright’s presentation.

Video - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore
What do you think? Do you like this game? How is this game different from your “average” computer game?

Have you ever been stuck studying for a test but don’t have anything to study from? Well here’s an answer for your problem.

http://www.sparknotes.com/ is a great website for just studying for anything, science, socialstudies, LA, and Math. You can type in a search and find almost anything.

http://www.lii.org/ is another website to study from and also has great information!

http://www.mathforum.org/ is a website were you can practice your problems for an upcoming quiz or test with Miss V. You can become a member and get the problem of the week for a little mind twisting.

Hope you have fun with these websites out!

Tamagotchi’s

Have you ever wondered what a Tamagotchi is? Well…I’ll tell you! It’s a virtual hand-held pet! You feed them, Play games with them, Give them Time-Outs (HeHe…), Buy items at the shop, Connect them and so much more! When you first get a Tamagotchi you get to set the time and date and then you wait for the Egg to hatch and see If you get a girl or boy. Then you name him or her. I named mine Abby and Alice. If you dont feed them for awhile they can even…Die! But you dont want to that to happen, so always do what the Tamagotchi needs, or else you know what… Eventually, Your Tamagotchi will even evolve and turn into a somewhat new creature (kind of like a Pokemon)! I would say more about Connecting with other Tamagotchi’s but I dont know how to do that exactly yet, because I’m still learning too! Ohh…I almost forgot, I just found out If you leave an older Tamagotchi alone for awhile (1 hour+), It may fly away and never return, dreadful, I know! By the way, there are some Tamagotchi animations below, however, the animations do not happen to all Tamagotchi’s, there are many paths a Tamagotchi could take in terms of evolving. Enjoy!

Information From My Mind.

Animations from here.

P.S. How do I link to my mind?

              Can you believe it? Eighteen year old Alan Webb ran the fastest mile known to man. He beat the world record fastest mile, [breaking] Jim Ryan’s 36 year olds national high school record of 3:55 min. once thought to be untouchable. Alan Webb beat it by 5 sec. It’s not a lot but you know what they say, a foot, a mile, winnings winning.  He practically stole the show from all those professional athlete runners’ even those who have made it all the way to the Olympics.  He really showed them who the best of the best was. I personally  think he should be in the Olympics and I think he probably will be in the Olympics sooner or later.By:Meagan T.Photo from: http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/ap_photo/20050808/all/l1516206.jpg

In 2000 B.C. the first civilization was formed along the Indus river. It was known to be the first earliest civilization in the world. The word Indus is the English name that came from Sinthos in Greek and Sindus in Latin.The Indus river is a natural boundary between Afganistan and Iran. The Indus river supplies many large industries and is the main supply of fresh water in Pakistan. It is considered very sacred in the Hindu religion. It is known to have 2 large cites called: Harppa and Mohenjo Daro, (which is now Pakistan). The river was supported by a base called the Indus Valley Civilzation. The Indus Valley Civilzation is where wheat and barley were grown. There were many animals that were raised in the Indus Valley Civilization. Cotton was grown there too. No one knows when the civilization ended. But it is known that Mohenjo Daro was attacked and destroyed in the mid 2nd millennium bc.

So the first civilization was at 2000bc and the Indus river was very sacred. Also the river had a base and it was called: Indus Valliy Civlivization. My source was:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Indus+river

I got the picture from:http://static.flickr.com/9/16388427_e98ea7006a.jpg

I got this picture from:http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/geography/images/indus_r.jpg

This project enhanced my thinking and google searching skills. I would never have known how important this river was if I had not done this project. The most important fact about the Indus River as I told you was that it was one of the first civilizations in the world. And that is my history of India project.

Buddhism originated in India. Did you know that Buddhism was from a hindu priest named Siddhartha Gohtama and he lived to be 80 years old. He was born in North India and his followers were called sanghas at the time. Buddha taught that there is no god at all and his teachings were passed thru-out Asia. I found this info at www.arcworld.org and it is a good source to use for looking up the history of Buddhism. I think this religion is superb there and is nice to know.

You might be wondering how one of the oldest religions in Asia (Buddhism) came to be what it is today.

Well, it all started with the prince of Kapilaunst (now Nepal), Siddharta Gautama. This magnificent prince’s birth place was Limbini (now known as Nepal), and he was born around 563 B.C. Siddharta realized the great amount of hunger and poverty in the world, and he wanted to help out his people. He began to help by first achieving perfect peace, which is also known as Nirvana, by sitting under the Bodhi tree and meditating so he could become one with himself. By the time he was 35 he achieved his goal and this triumph began the Buddhist religion in about 525 B.C. Due to his accomplishment he received the title ‘Buddha’. The title means one who has been awakened to reality. Then ‘Buddha’ felt the need to spread his newly obtained knowledge of meditation to others. He believed that meditation made people calmer, it gave them wisdom, and that meditation was the heart of Buddhism. In order to inform people about his ‘vision’, ‘Buddha’ traveled to the remote area of the Ganglic Plain, and he taught the people who were willing to learn about his revelation. Soon this religion was practiced all over India. However, about 200 years later, Buddhism had only about 4 million followers out of the billion people in India because Buddhism made its way to China and other religion moved into India, like Hinduism.
Buddhism has stayed very similar to when it first started, but it has had a few things added to it. For instance, now there are two branches of Buddhism. The first of which is Theravada which means “Path of the Elders”, and this is the oldest type of the two. The second is known as Mahavana which means “The Great Vessel.” In the Buddhist religion, the most important holiday is Wesak, which celebrates the birth, the achievements of ‘Buddha’, and his tragic death that took place around 483 B.C. due to an unknown cause. The inspiration to thousands of people was deceased, but his accomplishments and achievements would live on forever.
When I researched Buddhism I learned many things about how it evolved from one man obtaining oneness to over 4 million people taking part in the practices. Also, I learned what an important man Siddharta Gautama was. This man helped many people by teaching them how to gain wisdom, awareness, and to gain concentration through the calming art of meditation.

I got my information from the following sites…….

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/religions/buddhism

www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/religion1.html

www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/faith/buddhism.shtml

I got my picture from http://www.india-crafts.com/images/big/buddhist_art.jpg

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was also known as Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in Porbandar which is currently Gujarat. Gandhi went to the University College in London to study law. In 1891 he went back to India and started a law practice in Bombay, which is currently Mumbai. He went to Durban. He was in Southern Africa for about 20 years. When he was in South Africa he got beaten for throwing out his I.D. that showed he was an Indian. He taught about the nonviolent resistance movement too. During The Boer War Gandhi controlled the Red Cross Unit for the British Army. On January 20, 1948 there was an attempt to assassinate Gandhi but it didn’t work, but it worked on January 30, 1948. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the “Indian Leader” was assassinated. That was the end of this great man’s life. During this project, I learned how to make a hyperlink and how to skim Internet websites. I also learned how to copy and paste from a Word Processor.

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I’m sure you know some of America’s history, but do you know about India’s history? In this post you will be learning about some of India’s history.

About 4000 years ago in 2000 B.C. the first Indian civilization built cities along the Indus River valley in present day Pakistan. There are three different names for the first Indian civilization. The first one is the Harappan Civilization because it was named after the city of Harappa. The second one is the Indus-Sarasvati civilization because a lot of the features of it were discovered at the banks of the Sarasvati River. The last name is the Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization because of the Sanskrit name of the Indus River, the Sindhu. This civilization was also along the Ghaggar-Hakra River as well as the Indus River. The people of this civilization could read just like us and they spoke in Dravidian language. A lot about this civilization is still unknown. Archaeologists only have deciphered a small portion of this language. They traded with Mesopotamia, Southern India, Afghanistan, and Persia for gold, silver, copper, and turquoise. They were the first people to grow cotton to produce cloth. Also they grew wheat, barley, peas, melons, and Sesame.

Doing this project added to my previous knowledge because I learned a lot about the first civilization of India. I learned that researching online is easy as long as you use the right key words. I learned how to get back into a post if you haven’t finished it. I realized that learning about other places around the world can be more interesting when you learn about them online. Finally I learned how to put in a picture because I wasn’t exactly sure how to.

So now you know about some of India’s history, about the first Indian civilization. I hope you enjoyed it.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization and http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/India/Harappa.html

The Indus Valley civilization

Photos from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Indusvalleyexcavation.jpg/350px-Indusvalleyexcavation.jpg

Born November, 19, 1917 Indira Gahndi’s political career started when she was just twelve years old. At this time, the British were controlling India, they would regurely arrest members of the Indian National Congress and search their homes. Because of this the Monkey Birgade was formed, this was actually a group of children who warned Congress members in they were to be arrested. Being the Monkey Birgades leader, Indira gave speeches while other children ran messages. People figured the British wouldn’t suspect children to be doing the dangerous work. Finally in 1938, Indira accomplished one of her life long goals and joined the Indian National Congress Party. Four years later she married a journalist, Feroze Gandhi. Shortly after they were married, the couple were thrown into jail by the British, they were charged for rebelling against the British. Indira’s first and only punishment lasted eight months at the Naini National Jail in Allahabad.Indira was released from jail in 1947, when India became independent from the British. During this year, Indira’s father became prime minister of India. Since Indira’s mother had died, Indira usually traveld with her father to meet very high ranking political leaders. This gave her an advantage, because in 1959, Indira became the fourth woman to ever be elected president of the Indian National Congress. Later in 1964, Indira’s father died, a new prime minister, Lal Bahedur Shastri selected Indira to be minister of information and broadcast. This was the fourth most important position with in the Cabinet. When Shastri died unexpectedly two years later, Indira resumed his position as prime minister for the remaining of her term. Amazingly at the next election, Indira became the first ever prime minister of India. Things went pretty smooth for Indira’s first term as prime minister, and when elections came again, Indira was elected once more. Unfortunally in 1975 Indira was found guilty of breaking election laws, she was orderd by the High Court of Allahbadto resign for office. But Indira didn’t give up easily, she declared that India was in a state [of] emergency. This act was basically making herself a dictator, she thought she was helping Indians. But they hated her for it and when elections were held again in 1977 Indira was voted out of office. Many said that her political career was done, but three years later she resumed her ob as prime minister of India. Sadly, on October 31, 1984 Indira’s body guards assasignated her. They said they were avenging the damage done to the Sikh Golden Temple, Indira had orderd the invasion last June because there seemed to be terrorist activity from some of the more extreme Sikhs.

“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:”Indira said once “those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” And Indira did work hard, leading India to be one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Even though Indira was hated by many Indians, she has earned their thanks, leading India through some troubling times, she deserves to be honerd.

This project added to my previous knowledge by informing me of Indira Gandhi’s life, the obstacles she had to overcome in her political career and the reasoning behind the assasignation of Indira Gandhi. It was a very intresting topic and if you want to learn more, check out the websights where I got my information.

More quotes from Indira Gandhi

“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Picture from http://www.fuenterrebollo.com/Indira%20Gandhi.jpg

Resources here and here

Buddhism was founded in ancient India about 2,500 years ago by Buddah, Shakyamuni who was born in Nepal. Their god is Buddha wich means the enlightened one. In Buddhism the sacred book is the tripitika. Today 359.981,000 people practice buddhism. In Buddhism there are three teachings the Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana teachings. Buddhism attained realization in about 531 B.C.E, the Buddah taught Buddhism untill he passed away in 486 B.C.E. Before the Buddha passed he taught all of the Buddhist teaching’s. When I was writing this paragraph I learned alot of new things about buddhism and how people practice it. That is all I have  to tell you. I got my info at this website. below are pictures of buddhas.

Indira was born on November 19, 1917 in Allahabad. Her fathers name was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mothers name was Kamala Kaul. Inspired by her parents Indira worked for freedom her entire life. She lived in India but they were considered a minority as the British ruled them at all times. When she was younger she was a very courageous girl. Her family could never know when to expect the next inspection of the British police. At the age of 12 she was already the head of the children’s group. Their purpose was to end the British control of India. And they soon formed what was called the Monkey Birgade. As she delivered speeches the other children’s went around and told the people when they were to be arrested or inspected. Of coarse the British never suspected that children would do such a thing. When Indira got older she married Feroze Gandhi.Her mother died in 1936. In 1947 her father became the prime minister and she became his hostess, 17 years later he died in 1964. In 1959 she became the fourth woman ever elected to be India’s president. In 1966 she was elected prime minister. Then in 1967 she became the first woman ever to lead a democracy. In 1971 she was reelected to campaign with the slogan “Abolish Poverty”. But in 1975 Indira was found guilty of election laws. And in 1977 she was voted out of office. In 1980 she was realected prime minister,at 67 she unfortunately, in 1984, was assassinated by two of her own body guards.

If I had never been assigned this project there would be no way for me to know that Indira Gandhi was even a person let alone only the fourth woman ever elected president in Indea. I never even new there was such a thing as the Monkey Birgade. And I could never have known that she was born in 1917 and sadly killed by her two of her own body guards in 1984. 

My resources were

http://www.answers.com/Indira%20Gandhi%20Quotes

and

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/gandhi.html

Indira Nehru was daughter of the prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. She was born on November 19, 1917, and would one day be elected prime minister herself. At a very young age, Indira was already interested in politics. During the time of British rule, Indian National Congress workers from Allahabad, never knew when or if the British would arrest them or search their houses. At the age of twelve, Indira lead a group called the Monkey Brigade, a group of kids that worked to find out when and where the British were planning their searches. The Monkey Brigade alerted the peo