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media type="custom" key="23068596" This is Mustafa Mahmud and I am twelve years old. I am Bangladeshi and was also born here. I am a follower of the religion Islam and proud of it. Islam is the religion of peace where the word “Islam” itself means peace. Islam taught me to believe in one God, Allah. Islam also help me to become trustworthy, a hard worker, and faithful to all. In these informal paragraphs I will share with you momentarily are about my belief that I try to live up to.

Islam is the second most followed religion in the world no wonder it is one of my belief. Islam is a monotheistic religion this also means that their is only one God, Allah. I develop this belief from my parents that also means I inherit it from them. They showed me what to do and what not to do. Like they told my not to touch books with your feet. I also learned these values of my religio from watching. Like I learned to respect my elders when I saw my parents respect their elders by not talking back and by bowing down and touching their feet. I pray to show that I believe in Allah and it also helps me get rid of nervousness. Praying helps me feel better and when I am ill it heels my agony. I try to pray everyday and on Friday I go to Mosque with my father. I respect elders, behave well with relatives and neighbors. Even if I can not pray at the time I am suppose to or miss it, I always try to pray later. For example when I lived in america I couldn't go to the mosque because I have school Friday. Because I have school on Friday I try to pray after school. I have still a lot to learn about Islam and I believe I will be surprised by it.

For an individual hard work is one of the most important possession they can have. I develop this belief from my parents and from my religion. In my religion, Allah mentioned several times in The Holy Quran to become a hard worker. He also said that He helps those who help themselves. Fro example my dad practices this quality a lot. He hardly sleep around four hours a day. He sometimes says to me that without hard work no one can be successful. Hard work makes us better prepared to face difficult situation. For example, if I try really hard in a particular subject that I'm learning in school it will affect my grade in the long run. I try to give everything I have into my work and try not to take shortcuts that could destroy it. Hard work is a belief I will obey for the rest of my life and be might a important belief but trust is one of most valued.

 For a person trust is a very valuable possession an d i believe everyone should. I think it is also important for people gain others trust. I inherited trust from my also from my parents and religion. My Dad used to say sometimes that trusts is one of the most valuable things life. In the Holy Quran it says, “That Mohammmad our profit was nicknamed Al-Amin aka the trust worthy”. That was the inspiration that gave me the belief I have. Why I believe in it is a different matter. The thing is you know when we let someone down and it leaves a hole in our self. We get the felling that we just left some body down and that he or she is suffering because of us. that is why I try to be honest. I Keep this belief By being reliable and trust worthy.For example if I have to keep someone Item safe I give ever thing into it until I return it. Another thing is if I have a job to do in a project i will not rest until it is done. Trust can be a values that could save your life ad I will believe it forever an ever .

Lastly, my beliefs help me to become a good human being. I think I have the qualities to keep words, ability to work under pressure and most importantly be a peaceful person. As a proud Muslim, I practices my beliefs in my daily life to make the life easy and beautiful. These beliefs I hope people around me and beyond have learned something and I also hope that they are think about there own beliefs.

=Assignment # 2- We're all different our own ways= Essay I heard was written by fourteen years old teenager who lives in Michigan. He is a regular teenager who plays in the American football and clarinet. He has Asperger’s Syndrome that means he can only focus on one thing at a time. He gets teased about it. He believes that it is our difference that deserve respects. I chose it because I agree with his belief, everybody is different in their own way. I also chose it because my sister as autism and she is different form others and she sometimes teased by others. =

= =Assignment #1= I have a lot of beliefs most of them are religious. I believe in Islam, where there is one God his name is Allah. In my religion we pray five times a day, fast for one month from dawn to dusk. We have two annual festivals known as Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Adha. One is after the month of fasting and the other one is two months after Eid ul Fitr. I got these beliefs from my parents they showed me how to pray and what not to do and what to. I believe in equal rights for every human being. Everyone should be treated equally and should have the same rights. I hope that everybody should treats each other equally and don’t show off. I started to believe in this belief when one day I met a family friend who didn’t have the same education as over peopek and was treated differently by his job mates and that’s when I stared to believe in equal rights. I believe that with hard work anybody can overcome the impossible. I believe if you really give every thing into what you do you will always overcome the impossible. I hope that everybody does or will give everything into what they want to do or do. I started to believe this when I saw people give there dreams because that couldn't give enough effort to what they do.

__ ** Assignment #4 - Unit Review ** __ This assignment is to help prepare you for the final assessment. Copy the table into your wiki page. Write what you have learned about each Big Understanding and Essential Question. Support your answer by using examples of activities, lessons, materials, etc. from our unit that helped you to understand the concept/idea better. Can you make any connections to cultural diffusion/interaction today or to yourself? WMNWK-When My Name Was Keoko changes both cultures. ||  || When two culture are interacting they both get changed for example, when people traded on the silk road both Rome and China change Rome started to wear silk and China started to use glasses to drink in. With goods also came ideas that like the religion Buddism that started in India and sllowly missoinays brought it in to China and now Buddism thrives in China. I learned this from Ch 24. ||  || during the time when Bangladesh and Pakistan was one with india. Muslim and HIndus interacted with each other wearing each other clothes and that still goes on today. Most of the time when my dad go shopping for tradition clothes in Bangladesh for my mom like shari we find Pakistan clothes like salwar kamiz and when we go To India to find some fancy stuff sometimes we find Bangladeshi products like shari(most shari most shari's are manufactured in Bangladesh). || cultures come into contact. ||  || Yes trade and war are the main ways that cultures come in contact and they are also the the main ways cultural diffusion take place in. For example During the war between Korea and Japan they cultures colides the Japanese order the Korean to change there culture cutting off there top-Kott and making it forbidden them to write korean and learned their language Japanese. I learned this in WMNWK and Ch. 24 ||  || I don't come and contact with different cultures through trade and wars. I do come in contact with other culture through food. As my dad loves food, so when we visited other countries we tried a lot of different types of food as well as traditional food in different restaurants. For example, when me,my dad and some of his friends went to a restaurant to have breakfast in Chicago, USA. My dad had cheese omelet that was so good that he even asked the waiter if he may have the recipe. Even though he did not get the full recipe, everyday he cooked cheese omelet for me and himself when we were there. || cultures? ||  || You can identify somebody from the characteristic they show like I said above. Some of these can be what language can they speak or what do they believe, values and what do they wear. For example, you can identify a muslim lady by seeing her appearance. Most of them wear a scarf around their head and cover their whole body. ||  || When I was in Singapore during the brea I notice their was a lot of Malaysian people there I could tell because most of the spook there native language ( I remember how people spook Malaysian from since I went to Malaysia before ) and most of the women had a scarf around their head that showed that they were Muslim and Malaysian people are mostly Muslim. And Singaporeans are mostly Christian or Buddhist. || take place? ||  || Cultural diffusion can take place in war and trading like the silk road people traded different objects and ideas that added to different culture like I said before. For example, as our ancestor were mostly Hindus, so when the Muslim came and mix with them cultural diffusion happened. For example. Hindus show respect their elder by bowing done and muslims are not allowed to do, But now they bow and touch their elders feet. ||  || I grew up in USA and I was there for six long years. Since I was there for half of my life, most of my family members culture diffused. Me and my sister could not able to write, read Bangla. We never wore traditional cloths and we wore western cloths,I hardly ever went to the Mosque. || of diffusion? ||  || A historical example of diffusion is the silk road. A long time ago different people traveled the silk road bringing different ideas and good to their home. For example, missionary brought Buddhism to the silk road and china giving books and sacred scrolls. That made a great change in China. Most of them were converted to Buddhism changed themselves from what they belief, wear, think and values. ||  || When we went to America, he did not know western dances and American songs. He only knew Bangladeshi songs. When we used to go to parties, me and my friends help him to learn how to dance westen dancing steps. In contrary, he taught us about Bangladeshi songs and dances. || interact in positive, neutral, and negative ways? ||  || Different cultures can interact in negatives ways in war when they fight each other and they can also do it in a positive way by trading where they both gets something new to bring back to their homes For example, when British people came in India they start loving curry and make it a part of their culture, if you visit British restaurants you can see lot of curries. The British people showed Indians how to produce tea, and now their are thousand of tea firms producing tea today. ||  || My mom has a lot of western friends, so she learned many wester recipe like Mac and cheeses, salads, ravioli. And she also taught about our traditional dish. Rachel, a friend of my mom liked green chicken. It is made mostly with different types of green herbs and a lot of green chillies. And the chicken actually turned green. ||
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 * Essential Question** ||  || **What have I learned about this?**
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 * Interaction between cultures
 * Trade and War are the main ways
 * What is culture? ||  || Culture is characteristics that a person or group of people shows. Soem characteristics are what they believe in, values, there language, and their clothing. For example, in Hindu culture people do not eat beef because they think cow is a spiritual mother as they drink milk and they have thousands of gods. They think that there are many gods for every characteristics of their life. For example, the god of dance, god of wealth. god of death etc. ||   || In my culture and religion (Islam) we believe in One God, Allah. We prays five times a day, we do fasting during the month of Ramadan. We have two religious festivals, i.e Eid ul Adha and Eid ul Fitr. We sacrifice our favorite animal to show our love to Allah. We are not allowed to eat pork and drink. ||
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 * How does cultural diffusion
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__The Rise of Civilization Reflection__
There are lot of connections between the ancient world being with us. Like the Hominids we use languages to communicate with other so that we can tell them when we need help, and basic needs. Homo sapiens sapiens or the early modern human being use clothing for to keep warm and we still use clothes. Sumerians invented irrigation system which is a very important part for keeping stable food supply, without their invention we won’t be able feed ourselves. Ancient India were rich in education like language, math etc and without these thing we could not pass our information from one generation to the next. Without the education we would not know about the ancient world, history, literature and we can not even keep a stable food supply. All these connections between us and the ancient world will let us go through our day to day basis and survive. = =

= __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)**__ || 25# ||  || " Yellow tongues of flames" I liked it because the author describes the fire using a metaphor when he compared yellow tongues with the fire. 25# ||  || There was this phrase on page 29# "silver of bone" it didn't make any sense to me I even search it and it still didn't make sense. || 39# ||<  ||< "Tao looked at this old women whose eyes were still young and green like the willow leaves." I liked how the author used a metaphor when he compared the eyes with willow leaves. 46# ||<  ||< Page 35 vaulted: I know the meaning of vault but when I read vaulted did not make a sense to me."Tao found a narrow spot along the stream and vaulted across." I even search it on the web but it still didn’t make any difference || bent,twisted. ||<  ||< " the open valley was a sea of waving grass, with scattered clumps of birch, and willow trees, thick with new green and yellow and leaves." 82 pg. I liked it because she described the valley so well I could imangine the waving grass and willow tree's. ||<  ||< I thought it was the end of Tao when the mammoth had almost step on him but Ram saved him. || to [|hang] or be suspended over ||<  ||< "One afternooon as Tao was coming back form the Slough with Ram, he looked up yo see a rainbow of colors rippling the white cliffs." 100 pg. It was another descriptive phrase I could see the ripping colors of the rainbow on the cliff. ||<  ||< I thought that some thing had happened to Greybread when it took him so long to come in chapter 11. || mountainous andcold northern regions, ||<  ||< page 117 **"ghost of evil"** In the book Volt called Ram by this name I could feel his angrier. ||<  ||< When tao jumped and saved Ram when Volt through the spear I thought in when into TAo but when I reread it, he had caught. ||
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 * = **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** ||  || Tao went to hunt rabbit when he couldn’t stay at the camp. He found the wolf couldn’t eat because he had a silver of bone in his jaw, so he pulled it out. ||   || **Marmot:** any bushy-tailed, stocky rodent <span style="font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, also know as the
 * = **3 & 4** ||<  ||< Tao went to hunt at the Slough to get rabbits for the clan people even though it was prohibited to go there. There he met the same wolf dog that had help the other day. The wolf help him hunt. later when he got to clan Kala told him about his mother ||<   ||< **Glade** an open lace in the forest
 * = **5 & 6** ||<  ||< Tao saved Ram from the clan people and then told them to run off. Later he found a perfect cave which is not too far from the clan and he stared drawing animals. Tao saw a big deer near the Slough. After a while a blue eyed strange had come, he was the cave painter. ||<   ||< Page 60# **lithe** thin,supple, and graceful ||<   ||< Page 62# "Down near the glades a big glacier lake extended a long blue finger into the Slough" I like it because it is a metaphor when it compares the glacier with a blue finger. ||<   ||< First I felt nervous that ram might have been caught and kill when he didn't come after Tao but later he finally came out of the bushes. ||
 * = **7 & 8** ||<  ||< Tao was told that Volt does not like wolfdog because he beleived that a wolfdog had wounded him and killed his mother. When Graybeard saw the paintings, he got angry and erased them. later he taught Tao how to observe the beasts more carefully so that he could better picturized them. ||<   ||< page 69 **wailing**: mournful cry ||<   ||< page 74# **"The smell of a birch tea filled the little cave as the leather sack brewed over the open fire."**I like this phrase because they compare two comepletely different thing in a nice way. ||<   ||< I thought Graybearded erased the painting because he wanted to protect Tao from the clan people so that thay wouldn’t kill him. ||
 * = **9 & 10** ||<  ||< Tao saw a Saxon and drew it on a stone. Once the Graybeard visited Tao in his cave and told him that he would teach him how to draw, paint and making brushes. One day, Tao and Ram saw the beasts came to the swamp. Ram went near to them in stead of Tao’s warning. Tao was attacked by a giant mammoth and later Ram helped him to escape. ||<   ||< **"gnarled"**86 pg.
 * = **11 & 12** ||<  ||< Graybeard taught him how to draw many animals with few strokes on cave wall. The GrayBreard showed Tao how to mix colors and make brushes and use them on his painting, Graybeard said,”Maybe now you can call yourself a cave painter.” ||<   ||< ** "overhang" **101 pg.
 * = **13 & 14** ||<  ||< Ram was seen by the clan people and attaked upto the river. Later, he was captured by the mountain people and lastle freed upon the request of GrayBeard. ||<   ||< page 115 **Ptarmigan**
 * = **15 & 16** ||<  ||< Graybeard told Tao to go to the secret cavern to paint images because he was too weak to do so. Later, Volt with the clan people accused Tao of killing the old Shaman and took his pouch to paint. ||<   ||< Page 133 Nightjars

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">a <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">nocturnal <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">European <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">bird, ||<  ||< 133 PG "Slouched over, coughing badly,he disappeared into the dark oakwood forest" I could see him walking and coughing into the forest. ||<  ||< I think when Graybeard went to find the clan people, he might died as he was so weak. I also feel that when they put Tao infromnt of the Saxon, it will not do anything to him. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">portending <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">evil <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">or <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">harm; ||<  ||< page 156 "Finally they placed the shriveled body of a pygmy owl in his hands as a token of his wisdom and knowledge." ||<  ||< I was not surprized that Graybeard finally died as I already noticed if you saw my earleir comments. I amazed to know that Volt was the father of Tao. ||
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= __Assignment 1- Flight Reflection__ =


 * 1) Did you feel like you were in a race? Why or why not?
 * 2) Did you and other team members agree on what to do? Why or why not? Give an example of one agreement or disagreement.
 * 3) What parts of the flight activity were the most challenging? Why?
 * 4) If you were going to do a similar team activity again, what would you change?
 * 5) 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.

We finally finished our flight simulation at Morgan town. From my point of view, I personally think it did not feel like a race, as we were so busy with our flight plan and diary entry. I totally forgot about the race and my only goal was to get to Morgan town. In my team, we mostly agreed on every plan but sometimes we disagreed on diary entry. Because one our team member was doing the diary entry and she had a really good idea for diary but it didn’t hit us at first we didn’t agree with it because it was a little too silly. But later we thought it would be good because it brought more imagination to the entry. I feel that the most challenging part of the flight simulation was writing the diary entry because for it was really hard to get imaginative ideas. When I did my diary entry, I did not do so well and I got only thirty extra miles for my group but I saw this problem by sharing with my team mates and brainstormed for the next entry. If I would do a similar activity like this, I would prefer to have a longer trip to make it more challenging for us and may it would make little interesting to fly over not only land forms but also seas, oceans and etc. The two skills would be teamwork and time management. Firstly, I would like to talk about teamwork because our team help each other to reach our goal. One example was the diary entry. If our co-pilot would have travelled with the diary, we would always help him/her to share ideas to finish the diary entries. Lastly, time management is a essential thing on flight simulation, for example, if the co-pilot does not manage his time and finish the entry on schedule, we might fall behind. So it was important to watch on time and finish the entries properly so the rest of the group can check it and give feedback. ==

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__Welcome to Middle School Assignment 2__
1. What did you enjoy most about making the cube? I enjoyed the I am poem because you got to write about yours self and the format we did it in was fun. 2. What was the most difficult part about making the cube? It was putting it together because we had a limited time to finish. It really rested my organization skills. 3. What would you do differently if you were to do a similar project again? I would spend more time on making it more viewable and manage my time. 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 practice independence because I when through the project by myself with out any help from other people.

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