Test Revision

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Sooner or later every teacher decides to foist a test on weary students who have just finished an assignment and might naturally expect some rest. To make the experience less painful, I am giving you all the topics that will be on the test. If you revise thoroughly, you will ace the test.

Topics:

  • BC, AD, BCE and CE
  • The Stone Age (use the quiz on this blog to revise)
  • The Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age: differences between the two
  • The hunter-gatherer lifestyle in contrast to the farming and herding lifestyle that began to develop in the New Stone Age
  • Ancient Egypt
  • The common people of ancient Egypt and their lives
  • Farming, the Nile and the Nile’s seasons
  • The power of the Pharaoh and the social hierarchy of ancient Egypt
  • Writing – why it is important in a society
  • Hieroglyphics
  • Ancient Egyptian beliefs and religion
  • Mummification

The test will be quite bearable, I promise!

Kind regards from Ros.

Some Hieroglyphic Help…

CLICK HERE to go to a site that explains the different kinds of signs used in hieroglyphics.

(http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiero1.htm)

It lets you translate your name and send an e-postcard to a friend.

 

 

A Notable Night

Get dressed up! Show off your knowledge! Impress your friends and fill your parents with pride and joy! Make your teacher glow with happiness (that’s me)!

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On the Night of Notables you get to do all this. There are two great points about this project: you choose your own person to study (with conditions) and you choose your working partner (if you want one). This means you have the perfect excuse to have researching weekends with your best friend; and your teacher can’t tell you what to do (but she can influence you, veto your choice and be critical – after all, what are teachers for?).

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I’m pretty easy-going really!

♦ All I ask is that your notable person is admirable and memorable. He or she should have inspired other people and contributed something of value to human life or human beings. That’s not much to ask, is it? 

♦ I want no mass murderers, no violent criminals, no brutal dictators and no vicious tyrants: just great people who have given us hope, remedies, knowledge, understanding, music, ideas, new ways of thinking, inventions, plays, books and so on. 

♦Your notable person might have saved us too – from poverty, tyranny, injustice, slavery or suffering.

♦You could choose a musician, a poet, an inspirational gardener, an environmental campaigner, a great cook or a brave leader who stood up to oppression.

♦Don’t forget Australians. Don’t forget women!

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There are some sites below to give you ideas…

CLICK HERE to go to a site about notable Australians…

(http://teachers.ash.org.au/aussieed/reference_famouspeople.htm)

CLICK HERE to go to a site about inspirational people, including great humanitarians:

(http://www.biographyonline.net/)

CLICK HERE for some inspirational quotations:

http://www.biographyonline.net/quotes/inspirational.html

CLICK HERE for more brainy and interesting quotations:

http://www.brainyquote.com/