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 * The one good thing I could see was that the water was so shallow where the Narwhal went down that, once I broke clear of the ship, I didn't have far to go to reach the surface. It was long enough, though. ** By the time I broke the surface, I had almost given up hope, but I found myself in the air and took a huge, gulping gasp. I splashed around, happy just to be alive. That's when the hand reached down and grabbed me. Before I had a chance to think, I had been hauled into a small boat and dumped there like a load of fish. I opened my eyes and was surprised--and happy--to see Jeremy staring down at me. "You made it," ** he said. I nodded. ** "Did you get the map?" ** he asked. ** I sat up, outraged. "Is that all you can think about?" I demanded. "No. Of course not. But did you get it?" I pulled the map, now waterlogged, from the folds of my shirt and tossed it to the floor of the boat. ** Jeremy looked visibly relieved.  ** "Are you all right?" **  he asked.  ** "I--I think so," **  I said.  ** "What happened to...uh, to Diablo?" **  I shrugged.  ** "I don't know. I didn't see him." There was a pause.

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 * 1)  I'm someone who takes religion and family customs very determinedly, and I don't like to joke around about poverty-stricken people. My name is Mohammed Aman Abrar and I am twelve years old. People take me very seriously with my beliefs and I respect them. I'm not always a serious guy, but I take my beliefs very seriously. Born in the fastest growing city in the world, Dhaka, I am a U.S citizen as well. The next few beliefs will give you a better understanding of me and where I come from.
 * 2) Nature is a space where trees should be treated well and animals should be free to roam around. This is one of my strongest beliefs because of what my religion, Islam, has taught me. Islam insists in peace beyond everyone and that means too much killing or violence is prohibited. I remember watching people on the news chopping off tree's to slam them on elephants. My mom was really furious, when she heard, and she told me that nature was the biggest creation for Allah(Muslim God), and it should never be hurt. Knowing this has really influenced me, by being calm and being peaceful. I have learned that having inner peace can lead to a healthy and better sustained life. This is why I strongly believe that nature is a space where trees should be treated well and animals should be free to roam around.
 * 3) My second belief is related to poverty and helping the needy or as I said earlier, the poverty-stricken people. I believe in helping the needy and I think everyone should belief this as well. This is one of my beliefs because I believe in sharing and giving money or helping the needy in anyway, because then I will learn not to be greedy with what I have. Also, connected to my religion Islam, one of the 5 Pillars of Islam is that Muslims need to "help the needy in their own given ways." My development over this belief has been progressive and I have shown it almost everyday. On Friday's, when I come back from prayer in the mosque, I give money to the needy and I feel bad for them so I smile at them too. My family also follows this belief because in the winter when it's cold, we give out blankets on the street and maybe even two blankets to the ones who need it more. This belief has influenced me because I know that I can help in the lives of others, and especially the ones who need it. I believe in the needy people and I think even helping a little bit can make a big difference.
 * 4) Finally, a belief that is very common in this world, my next belief is about my religion Islam. I believe in everything that has been said by Allah, the almighty and merciful, but I truly believe in one saying. I believe in praying and praising Allah for help and forgiveness. Obviously, I have this belief because of my religion but I choose to especially follow this one because our religion also says, who ever prays the most will get the best afterlife. Also when I make mistakes in life and I feel forlorn, so I pray to Allah to make it better and I have faith in Allah to make it happen. I have developed this belief by making praying five times a day a priority into my life. It's not required for little one's to pray five times a day, but I would like to make our lord happy and go in the direction of our prophet, Muhammed. I have been influenced by my religion and this strong belief I have, because now I have gotten to know the commandments and rules of Islam and I have become more religious. Islam is very important to me and I would like to live my life knowing that I have been a worthy Muslim.
 * 5) I would like to conclude talking about my beliefs by talking a little bit more about the three beliefs I have about nature, poverty and religion. These beliefs connect to who I am because if I was never Muslim, I would have never learned about nature and understand what we shouldn't do to nature. All of my beliefs stated here are tied into Islam, and that is what I am. I would always like to be loving and caring to others, and I think that is one of my real attributes. So connecting to my poverty belief, it shows that I care about the other people and also for the needy people. I hope you got to know a little more about me and my background. What do you think? Do you think my beliefs are agreeable and approvable and how do my beliefs differ or compare with your beliefs?

= __Exploring Beliefs__ =


 * 1) I listened to an essay on "This I Believe," called "America's Beauty Is In Its Diversity" by Alaa El-Saad. This essay talks about how being different and standing up for what you believe in is OK. I strongly agree with this belief because I think that no one should change who they are to fit in, and Alaa shouldn't shouldn't either just because she wears a hijab.

=__//"This I Believe" Essay// Review__ (Josh Rittenberg)=

The title of the essay I listened to was “ Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day” by Josh Rittenberg, from New York. Josh is a junior(16 years old) at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhattan where he plays baseball and guitar, and sings tenor in an a cappella group. One night, Josh overheard his parents talking about, what the future held for him and his generation. Josh’s parents were very worried and upset on what the future held for Josh in “a world they fear has a dark and difficult future.” I chose to review this essay because of how the title “hooked” me. I could relate to the title of this essay because sometimes I tell myself, “Tomorrow will be a better day.” I was really interested to see why he believes this statement. It turns out when he was a kid,whenever he had a lousy day, his dad would put his arm around him and promise me that “tomorrow will be a better day.” He had challenged his father once, “How do you know that?” Josh said, “I just do” his father said. Josh believed him. His great-grandparents believed that, and his grandparents, and so does he. He listened to his dad talking that night, very worried about what the future holds for him and his generation, Josh wanted to put his arm around him, and tell him what he always told him. “Don’t worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day.”

**(Beliefs-Pre Unit Reflection Aman)**

I have many personal beliefs, some are very common like the ones that relate to religion. But as I said, I have many more personal beliefs and one of them relating to nature. I believe nature is a space where trees should be treated well and animals should be free to roam around. I don’t believe in unnecessary killing of animals or destroying trees or bushes and other “greens” in nature. I believe that nature should not be destroyed but should be kept alone. I believe in this personal belief because of what my religion has taught me. My religion that I follow,Islam, says that killing is violent and not peace. Our religion highly insists Muslims to be peaceful in life like our prophet Muhammed. Islam also says murdering or shooting animals for the “joy of it, “ is Haram. Haram means taboo which in our religion is taken very seriously. Another belief I have is related to religion. Like many other personal beliefs, I believe in one god, who is the creator of the universe. In our religion, god is Allah and Allah should not be compared with no one else. Allah is the most almighty and merciful. I have gotten this belief from my parents who taught me to be Muslim. So this belief is that, I believe in Allah and Islam is the religion I follow. Finally, the last of my important beliefs is connected with love. I believe that everyone should be loved by someone, and everyone should have someone to support them. I believe in this the most, after my religion Islam. I feel that people should not feel lonely and should not be left out. No one should be unhappy for no reason. If many people come together to support each other, everything would be more peaceful and everything would be so much better. Again, connecting to Islam, the Holy Quran says that everyone should be loved and everyone has a “good side.” The Quran also says that everyone should be loving to everyone around them, to make people feel wanted and special.

changes both cultures. ||  || In the Silk Road, people exchanged ideas and items which affected and changed cultures. This changed both cultures because the idea or item must have been taken very seriously into the life of the trader. If the trader trades with someone who he trusts or a friend/relative, he can be persuaded to take the trade very seriously. I learned this from the "Silk Road Activity" in Ms.Johnson's room. ||  || My parents met from two parts of Bangladesh which have many different types of culture. You may not believe it but different types of people in Bangladesh talk in a different tone or accent. This all comes from their cultural language. Now my family has a lot of customs to follow and rituals to celebrate and many more combined parts of culture, in my family. || cultures come into contact. ||  || The occupation on Korea was a slightly peaceful war. Even though this war was very negatively forceful from the Japanese, there was not too much violence for no reason. The Silk Road provides many opportunities to trade and make contact with different people. These different people come from different cultures all over the world. I had read about this from "WMNWK" and learnt this from class discussions. ||  || In the liberation war of Pakistan and Bangladesh, cultures came into contact and now most Bengali's are Muslim, including myself.(religion has to do with culture) || cultures? ||  || The people need to know how to speak the language of the culture, eat the food of the culture, know more about the details in the religion and need to know the cultural customs. I learned this from different events in the novel, "WMNWK." In the book, I remember reading about a rule in Korean culture. The rule was that woman were not allowed to listen to "men's business." ||  || I know all the things about my culture and why we celebrate different occasions and eat the food we eat, etc. I identify with my culture by asking about our own cultural customs or things I need to know so I don't create taboo in the future when I'm an adult and expected to know all cultural vows,rules and customs. || take place? ||  || From Ch.24 and class discussions, I learned that cultural diffusion took place in the Silk Road when people talked about it over a "cup of coffee/tea" in caravansaries or during trade. Cultural diffusion can also take place during war. For example, in "WMNWK" Korean culture and Japanese culture was diffused during the occupation, still leaving some Japanese culture in Korea, which changed their culture. ||  || I remember eating in an Italian restaurant called "Bella Italia" for my birthday. The restaurant serves only Italian food and in the menu I remember seeing Italian names and words for different ingredients. The idea of Italian food must have been traded or brought into Bangladesh by someone. || of diffusion? ||  || Romans started wearing silk from the Chinese. After trading on the silk road, the part of clothing in Roman culture was changed as they started to wear silk from the Chinese. Another example of cultural diffusion is the Silk Road. In the Silk Road, traders traded goods and ideas for other goods and ideas. The different items or ideas effected different parts of culture. For example, the idea of Hinduism was traded and effected religion in cultures. I learned this from Ch 24. ||  || The Korean restaurant served Japanese soup. Korean culture was effected when the Japanese occupation took place, so now Korean culture has a new food introduced into their culture. || interact in positive, neutral, and negative ways? ||  || The Japanese interacted with Koreans peacefully during the occupation. Even though there was not much violence convicted by the Koreans as their country was being ocupated, the Japanese took total control over Korea. I learned this from "When my name was Keoko." ||  || During a food activity, I could connect to the "chapatti" in a positive way to the similar Bengali dish. When Bangladesh was a part of India, a long time ago, the Indians who lived there would have probably eaten chapatti, so the idea "stayed" in Bangladesh. || = =
 * **Big Understanding/**
 * Essential Question** ||  || **What have I learned about this?**
 * What from the unit helped me to**
 * understand this?** ||  || **Connections to today or to self** ||
 * Interaction between cultures
 * Trade and War are the main ways
 * What is culture? ||  || Culture is everything a person must learn to live as a member of a group. For example, the foods we need to adapt to eat, the rituals and customs we need to follow, the language we have to speak and importantly the same religion we have to obey. There are lots of more aspects in culture but I think these are the important one to keep in mind. I read this from the Cultural packet. ||   || In my culture we have many days that we celebrate as members of a group. Even if it's from religious purposes or celebrating important days in our culture relating to culture. For example, we have a language day, a day that celebrates the death of a very influential Bengali poet and many more dates. ||
 * How do people identify with their
 * How does cultural diffusion
 * What are some historical examples
 * How do people from different cultures

=__//**Culture Poster Aman**//__=

=__** Rise of Civilization Unit Reflection **__= Making connections

My life has been affected a lot by the past. For example, hominids and early men have affected me because if they had not been able to hunt and gather but be scared and hungry, we would not be able to have stable food supplies later in mankind. The hominids and early men have also affected my life because they started farming. Farming is probably the best invention of all time and if they had not developed from hunting and gathering to farming, we wouldn't even have stable food supplies. Also the Sumerians have affected me because of how they made canals and reservoirs and many more technologies to have a stable water supply. If they had not created these ways, we would not have access to water or clean water. Finally, the Ancient Indian's have affected my life because of religion. As said in history, Hinduism was the first religion in the world and was born in India. According to history, if religion was not here for all of us, we would all be doing the same things everyday, eating the same things as everybody. We would never be unique or we would never believe in anything. These connections are things that eveybody has been affected by and we can thank the past

=__Boy of the Painted Cave Table__= Copy the heading above and following table on to your own wiki page and fill in the information for all the chapters. __**Chapter Summaries**__ ||  ||= __**Vocab Word(s),**__ __**Page #**__ __**& Meaning**__ ||  ||= __**A Descriptive Phrase**__ __**You Liked, Page #, and Why**__ __**You Liked it**__ ||  ||= __**My Reaction/Comments/**__ __**Connections to this Chapter (Maximum of two sentences)**__ || Marmots are generally large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, of which there are 15 species. ||  || "Except for a few grubs and a handful of dried berries, he had not eaten since early morning, and he felt a dull emptiness in his stomach.", page 25: This phrase really tells me about how he is feeling and how he would approach the further challenges in searching for food. ||  || In this chapter, I think Tao is very unlucky to not have real parents. I feel bad in specially this chapter of how well the author describes Tao's feelings on pages ||
 * = __**Chapters**__ ||  ||= __**One or Two Sentence**__
 * = **1** ||  || Tao forgot the rabbit and had to hunt for another one. ||   || **taboo,** page 15: something in a culture that is not allowed or unacceptable ||   || "lumbering shapes of the mountains-that-walk, the mammoths", page 16: This phrase gives me a very clear image in my mind of the true size of the mammoths. ||   || This was a good introduction to Tao and his desire to be a cave painter and how he is questioning the taboo. ||
 * = **2** ||  || In this chapter, Tao finds himself dreaming about him inside a tunnel then to huge cave. In the cave he is breaking a taboo and he paints a herd of bisons and mammoths. ||   || **marmots**, page 25:
 * = **3 & 4** ||  || In most of this chapter (4) Kala told Tao about his mother and she told him what she did, how she looked, what happend to her, and they discussed about Tao and his mom's, Vedra, similarities.

In this chapter (3) Tao on a heavenly morning, with his wolf dog find food, alot of it! They hunt for eggs and the wolf, with his senses, finds two rabbits. Soon after, Tao looks to head back to the camp with one rabbit. But his new-named dog, Ram follows him. Tao threw rocks, stones and sod on Ram to make him leave. Soon enough the poor dog did.... ||  || **vaulted**, page 35:a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings. an opening that allows air, gas, or liquid to pass out of or into a confined space. ||  || "But he was older, it did matter." This descriptive phrase tells me about the next chapter since this is the last sentence of chapter 3. Also this phrase tells me he has a good reason to know what happend to his parents and who they are.
 * sodden**, page 35: Wet or soaked
 * ​vented**, page 37:

"It was Ram. The foolish wolf dog had followed him." This phrase can give you two things to think about. Firstly, Tao will now try and keep Ram safe and get him out of the clan, or now the hunters in the camp will now kill it. ||  || Wow! What a great chapter. (3) I really enjoyed the ending because Tao stood up for himself, making a statement about him hunting and getting food.

I can connect to this chapter (4) because sometimes, like Tao did, I also ask about things about the history of my family.But sometimes, my parents tell me what had happend and what had happened to who, and everytime I am amazed to be in a great family. || In this chapter, Tao is faced with a mammoth. The "mountains that walk" had literally took him by his hip with it's trunk and had dropped Tao from up above. He had lots of pain and blood. ||  || **broiled, page 87:** cook fish or meat by exposure to direct fine-grained metaphoric rock that can be split into layers. ||  || "Small bands of horses grazed alongside saiga antelopes as they wandered across the open fields." I can really picture the horses running side by side with the antelopes on the open fields. It feels very free and natural. ||  || My reaction to the end of this chapter is that, Tao is seeming very confident about him becoming a image maker. **What will happen, if the opposite occurs?** ||
 * = **5 & 6** ||  || Tao saves Ram from the camp and finds himself in the forest, with hunters. ||   || **crevices,** page 55: a narrow opening or fissure in a rock or wall ||   || "Stumbling, lurching through the forest, Tao heard their pounding feet as the hunters picked up the trail." This is very descriptive because I can picture in my head that the hunters are coming and how they are pounding their feet and lurching through the forest. ||   || It was really nerve-wrecking in the last chapter, to keep reading because Ram had entered the clan and to find out in the very beginning that Volt caught the wolf is very shocking. ||
 * = **7 & 8** ||  || Greybeard tells Tao that he is sorry, and says his father was a cave painter and thats why he is now one. Also to end the chapter he remembers five summers ago, he remembered a story about Greybeard and how he shouted out about the beasts and how they are coming. Lots of men in his journey cam back some even as brave hunters. Also the day after there was another ceremony and this time it was sad and there was crying and wailing. ||   || **buckthorn, page 68:** a shrub or small tree of the buckthorn family. ||   || "It is only that I would like to be an image maker. I have thought about it for a long time. Even when I sleep I dream of it. I wish to be a cave painter, as you are." (Tao said on pages 71 to 72) This is descriptive because he's telling Greybeard his passion by expressing it in a desperate way. ||   || I am really just waiting for the next chapters to find out about this ceremony. Was it because of this ceremony, that Greybeard is now like the way he is? I JUST CAN'T WAIT! But for this chapter Greybeard and Tao talked alot and we found lots of information about Greybeard. ||
 * = **9 & 10** ||  || In a part of chapter 9, Tao and Ram are faced with a sacred bull. Tao get's a good sketch of the bull from a rimrock and soon finds out it's his best painting.
 * ​slate, page 87:** ​
 * = **11 & 12** ||  || In the chapters, Greybeard shows Tao how to paint, Tao learns how to pain and now he is happier then ever. ||   || **overhang, page 101:** hang or extend outward over. ||   || "Tao watched the golden eagles soaring on the warm updrafts, their sharp eyes searching for rabbits and marmots." This phrase gives me a very clear image in my head about the eagles and how they are thinking and what kind of environment they are in soaring high and in warm updrafts. ||   || What a way to start Thanksgiving with a great mood of the story! Tao being happier then ever & cherishing thanks to his old friend who actually made him believe he (Tao) has a good cave painting future ahead. ||
 * = **13 & 14** ||  || In this chapter Tao & Ram are chased by Volt, Garth and the other hunters through the forest. Once they make it through, he makes Ram swim across the lake. Now Tao is alone with the hunters right behind him.

In this chapter(14), Tao is caught on the other side of the land by hunters over there. The hunters take Tao & Ram to the Shaman, Greybeard. The poor old man is now skinny and sick as ever. ||  || **​lichen, page 116:** ​ a plant occurring in crusty patches on tree trunks or rocks

​**ibex, page 127:** wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns ||  || "He looked back and saw tongues of yellow flame licking up into the sky." (page 119) With this descriptive phrase, I can picture the yellow tongues licking up and high as it can into the sky.

"Tao helped the old man down through the spruce forest." (page 129) I think this sentence gives me a clear image of the forest and how it was. If they had not said the spruce forest, I would not have imaged how the condition and the forest is like. ||  || **What's going to happen to Tao?** **Where is Ram headed to? __ It's intense and the next chapter says it all!!! __**

I am very proud of Tao and excited for him because now he is a cave painter, hopefully. But in my mind, I can sense that Greybeard will die of sickness or he will have lots of health problems. ||
 * = **15 & 16** ||  || Tao has to face Saxon, the sacred bull, because the hunters thought he had killed the shaman. Tao had been caught painting in the tunnel by Garth and the hunters and soon by Volt who decided that Tao would face Saxon. ||   || **groping, page 137:** ​acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence ||   || "His heart was pounding furiously." (page 135-136) This descriptive phrase gives me a description of how his heart was pounding. It was pounding furiously so I knew it was intense. ||   || I feel very sick, I can see the end of Tao's life here because of the low possibility of him living after facing Saxon. We just have to wait and see but in this chapter I felt Tao was doing great with his painting and his life would change from here on out. ||
 * = **17 & 18** ||  || In the last part, Greybeard dies of sickness, Tao is the new Cave Painter, and Volt reveals that he is Tao's father! ||   || **reluctant, page 153:**unwilling and hesitant

a long deep slash, cut, or wound ||  || "He watched as the gruff leader walked away, and his heart pounded fiercely as he shouted the words, "You are my father!" (page 155) This phrase is very descriptive because I can imagine Volt walk away mad and stiff as Tao is just there with his heart pounding as he shouted the words, "You are my father!" ||   || I am shocked that Tao survived the bull and that volt is his dad! This book was awesome and I had lots of reactions to the big reveal. || = __Assignment 2__ = Directions: Now that we are finished with our personality cubes, I would like you to reflect on your own cube. Please answer the following questions clearly and in complete sentences **on your own wiki page**.
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 * __//Welcome to Middle School Assigment 2//__**

1. What did you enjoy most about making the cube? I enjoyed making the cube about my myself. I enjoyed because I wanted to show what my personality is to the class. Also writing and presenting informaton about myself on a cube was very fun and exciting.

2. What was the most difficult part about making the cube? The difficult part was, catching up to the class as I was absent on a Thursday. I missed making the cube, so on Sunday and Monday, I really had to work hard. Everything else about the cube I was making was very easy because I focused after the Thursday I missed.

3. What would you do differently if you were to do a similar project again? I would have taken some homework home to do so I could finish the cube on time easily. Maybe to do some of the sides at home would have helped me do everything smoothly.

4. Which life skill (time management, independence, organization, etc.) do you think you practiced while you made this cube? **Explain** how you practiced it. I think I had to practice independence, because for this "project," it was all about myself, so I really didn't have to ask for help. Also, we had a choice of taking homework home or not, so we really had to be independent thinkers and workers so we could finish this. I think this skill will be often used in middle school.

= __Assignment 1- Flight Reflection</range id="379953690_1">__ = __ Did you feel like you were in a race? Why or why not? __ Sometimes, the pressure of catching up and trying to quickly write a diary entry felt like we were actually in a race. But otherwise it felt like if was a total slow and time taking task. For example in our down time we played games and it didn't feel like a race at all.

__ Did you and other team members agree on what to do? Why or why not? Give an example of one agreement or disagreement. __ In a disagreement we had on Day 2, we all wanted to go to different locations in Andorania. We all tried to prove the location we wanted to go to was the best one. Georgie and Sanskar proved using the maximum miles we can go to where they want to go. I never realized we could go that far!

__What parts of the flight activity were the most challenging? Why?__ For me it was writing the Flight Diary. I was the first to write it so I had no experience organizing and formating the diary. I gave it my best shot and used lots of imagination. It was a good start for us, we had got 40 bonus miles. I was proud of my hard work and achievement.

__If you were going to do a similar team activity again, what would you change?__ I would really take advice from my team members and ask how to control the jobs. For example if I'm being the one who writes the Diary entry, I can ask the person who wrote it before to help me and give me an idea of how it looks like.

__Name two life skills (e.g. teamwork, problem solving, time management, independence, organization, communication, etc.) you worked on during this flight simulation. For__ __**each** life skill you chose, give an example of how you worked on it during your flight simulation experience. __

TEAMWORK- I think everyone in this Flight Simulation worked on teamwork and working together to make something better. In this case it was when the whole team helped me write the Flight Plan and helped me understand what to do.

COMMUNICATION- This skill was showed in my experience was when Sanskar called me on the holiday and wanted some help writing the Diary entry. I had knew a lot of information that he needed because I had a FLIGHT packet with me. So I made sure everything was done carefully and that he could understand. We came to a situation when we both didn't know something. I gave him an idea of coming early to school and working.

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