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Below, watch an amazing 19 year old engineering student named Boyan Slat discuss his ideas for how to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Isn't this amazing that he is taking such initiative to solve the very problem we have been discussing? What would you ask him if you could meet him? Does it seem like he is asking all the right questions about how it could work? Is there anything that he's not considering that he should be? (Think like a scientist would). What is your reaction to the video? Leave your first name, last initial only and period. Due Monday, October 28.
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The Lost City of Atlantis. Did it really exist?
1. Read the Sinking Atlantis article first. 2. Watch the second chapter of Secrets of the Dead video about the lost Minoan civilization that preceded the Greeks. Begin at 11:42. You only need to watch from 11:42- 25:00. 3. Leave a comment here at the bottom about the video. What do YOU think happened to the Minoans? What is your reaction to the video clip? Leave your first name, last initial and your period. Watch the above video with Malala. What would you like to ask her if you could meet her? Give three words to describe Malala's actions since her tragic shooting last year. Leave your comment below.
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Is this Alexander's tomb?!It now appears likely that Ptolemy adapted a vacant tomb that had been prepared by and for the last native Pharaoh of Egypt, Nectanebo II. However, this Pharaoh had fled south to Ethiopia, when Egypt had been invaded by the Persians in 343BC, so he never had the opportunity to occupy his tomb. The site of the prospective tomb was a chapel within the temple complex of the Serapeum in the cemetery area of ancient Memphis at Saqqara. It lay at the end of a mile-long avenue of sphinxes. The Serapeum complex was rediscovered by Auguste Mariette in 1850-1851 by excavating the sands away from the sphinxes one by one. Guarding the entrance to the chapel of Nectanebo II, Mariette discovered an incongruous semicircle of life-size Greek statues of poets and philosophers, which appear to date to the time of Ptolemy. Some of them can be identified, including Pindar, whose house and descendants Alexander had saved at Thebes, Homer, who was Alexander's favourite poet, and Plato, who had been the mentor of Alexander's tutor, Aristotle. Could these statues have been erected to honour Alexander's tomb?
Ms. NobleWorld History, Hedrick Middle School, Medford, Oregon Categories
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