Period 2 – At Her Majesty’s Request WebQuest
Period 2 – At Her Majesty’s Request inspired WebQuest
Follow these steps in order to get this done in a timely manner (and to make sure you get full credit).
- Step One – Day 1 – Report Progress
- MOST IMPORTANT – Divide up the responsibilities for what needs to be posted and researched.
- POST RESPONSIBILITIES TO THIS THREAD.
- Pick a team of two.
- Pick a topic (below).
- Pick a tentative form for the final product. You are not tied to this, you may change this once.
- Pick a tentative grading rubric.
- Post all of the above (1-4) to this class thread. Remember the proverb, “The early bird gets the worm.”
- Report to Mr. Moshé. – GRADE
- Step Two – Days 2 to 3 – Report Progress each day
- MOST IMPORTANT – Divide up the responsibilities for what needs to be posted and researched.
- POST RESPONSIBILITIES TO THIS THREAD.
- Research and gather information.
- Begin creating the Bibliography.
- Post to the discussion any websites you find particularly interesting or full of information; especially websites appealing to children and young adults.
- Post vocabulary terms list (10-20 terms): Word, Part of Speech, Definition (with source).
- Post your team’s final decision on the form of final product.
- Post your team’s final decision on the gradig rubric to be used.
- Report to Mr. Moshé. – GRADE
- Step Three – Days 4 to 5
- MOST IMPORTANT – Divide up the responsibilities for what needs to be posted, researched and finalized.
- POST RESPONSIBILITIES TO THIS THREAD.
- Create the Final Product.
- Check to see if your product satisfies the rubric you have chosen.
- Give a blank copy of the rubric you’ve chosen to Mr. Moshé for grading.
- Present the product to the class/audience.
- Get feedback from the class and Mr. Moshé. – GRADES
Here is the list of topics for you to look over once again.
- Yoruba & Egbado
- Victorian Art
- Victorian Literature
- Victorian Games/Board Games
- African Art – Eastern
- African Art – Northern
- African Art – Southern
- African Art – Sahel and Savanna
- African Art – Central
- African Art – Western
- African Art – Egypt
- Victorian England
- Prince Albert
- Queen Victoria
- Victorian England Education
- Sierra Leone
- Walter Dean Myers
- Madeira
Rashaunna & I take ownership of ~ African Arts/Southern
1. Engravings ~ (N) ~ design or text carved in a surface.
2. Mountainous ~ (A) ~ abounding in mountains.
3. Ritual ~ (V) ~ established or prescribed procedure.
4.Underrated ~ (V) ~ to rate or evaluate too low.
5.Underreported ~ (V) ~ To report as being less.
6.Zimbabwe ~ (N) ~ a republic in South Africa.
7.Archiecture ~ (N) ~ practice of design on a building.
8. Terra-Cotta heads ~ (N) ~ earliest sculpture in africa.
9. Utilitarian arts ~ (N) ~ sculpture of a human.
10. Ceramics ~ (N) ~ made of clay (Sculpture)
http://dictionary.reference.com
backgammon
noun
1. a game for two persons played on a board having two tables or parts, each marked with 12 points, and with both players having 15 pieces that are moved in accordance with throws of the dice.
chess
–noun
a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard.
Draughts
noun
1. a game, popular esp. in England, for two teams of 11 members each that is played on a field having two wickets 22 yards (20 m) apart, the object being to score runs by batting the ball far enough so that one is enabled to exchange wickets with the batsman defending the opposite wicket before the ball is recovered.
Ancient Egypt
–noun
1. draughts, (used with a singular verb) British. the game of checkers.
darts
–noun
1. a small, slender missile that is pointed at one end and usually feathered at the other and is propelled by hand, as in the game of darts, or by a blowgun when used as a weapon.
Croquet
–noun
1. a game played by knocking wooden balls through metal wickets with mallets.
Cricket
A country of northeast Africa and the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. In ancient times it was a flourishing kingdom and one of the earliest known civilizations, known for its development of hieroglyphic writing and its achievements in agriculture, art, and architecture. It reached its height during the XVIII dynasty (1570-1342? B.C.) and declined after the seventh century B.C., falling to various conquerors including the Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, French, and British. Although nominally independent after 1922, it remained a British protectorate until 1936. A military coup in 1952 overthrew King Farouk I’s constitutional monarchy, and a republic was established the following year. Cairo is the capital and the largest city. Population: 77,500,000.
ancient africa
noun
the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
historical
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
2. based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg.
3. having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief: to doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed; a theologian’s study of the historical Jesus.
4. narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past.
5. noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics.
artifact
1. An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.
2. An artificial product or effect observed in a natural system, especially one introduced by the technology used in scientific investigation or by experimental error.
puzzles
verb
1. To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
2. To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study: He puzzled out the significance of the statement.