American Indian WebQuest-- We were there first!
Each 7th grade humanities class now has a set of web pages answering specific questions about the American Indian culture they studied. You will need to read/explore at least one web page from each class (one from Ms. Doyle's class and one from Mr. Nekrosius's class). Post a response to the webpages on my blog, including information about the following:
1. Write three things you discovered about the cultures explained in BOTH of the web pages.
2. Note at least one similarity or difference from the culture you studied for BOTH web pages.
3. Ask at least one question that you think should be answered about the TWO cultures you read about.
4. Make one comment about the design and layout of the TWO web pages you visited. Be sure your comments are constructive/helpful. Be polite but truthful.
* Be sure to sign your post with your first name, Humanities teacher's name and class period.
posted by Charlotte Jacobs at
9:21 AM
32 Comments:
To start, I would like to note that on Mr. Nekrosious's site all of the web quests are from last year, but I used them anyway.
1.) Woman had to pitch the tipi she was assigned. Also, Men and woman were not naked a lot they liked wearing deerskin and buffalo skin. Many believe that the religion of Cahokians was called Death Cult.
2.)From Daily Life on Mrs. Doyle's page, I learned that the NAs they studied gathered food from gathering, farming and hunting, just like in our web quests.
3.) What was the tribe's cheiftain's name?
4.)On Doyle's student's page the layout was very good and easy to understand. On Nekrosius's student's page the layout was more difficult to understand because there was a heading for a paragraph a few times, and I wasn't sure which paragraph they belonged to.
Jacobs period six
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Unknown, at 5:48 PM
Lily Z
Period 8/9
Mrs. Jacob
Anasazi: Time and culture for Period 3-4 Mrs. Doyle.
1)The Anasazi were hunter gatherers who then became farmers.
2)They moved around, but were not nomads.
3)They had irrigation systems for their farming.
The layout was pretty good, but Instead of putting the title all the way to the right you could have centered it...
Great Plains: Time and culture for period 3-4 Mr. Nekrosius.
1)They used buffalo skin for tepees blankets and cloths.
2)They were nomadic and followed buffaloes.
3)They had a strong connection to nature.
I think the layout was great, though red letters against orange was a little hard to read.
The great plains are nomadic and follow buffaloes while the Anasazi move around, but are not nomadic.
For both cultures: What kind of transportation do they have?
PS: NOTE TO MIRA AND OTHERS: PERIOD 3/4 IS THIS YEARS WEBQUESTS.
By
Anonymous, at 6:52 PM
Hello everyone,
I accidentally put the link to Mr. Nekrosius's webquest page from last year on the blog post, but it is now fixed and you will see Mr. Nekrosius's current page.
Blog away!
-Ms. Jacobs
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Charlotte Jacobs, at 3:21 AM
The things is noticed on both webpages that really jumped out at me were. (i used 3-4 doyle on daily life and 8-9 nekroius on daily life)
1 : That they had this religion, called the death cult
2. they had human sacrifices
3: that when baby boys were born they were expected not to cry, because if they did, they were considered weak. But if they didn't cry they were strong.
i noticed that each webpage talked a lot about festivals and partys that they had, and that only one mentioned the green corn festival.
over all i thought the layouts were nice. I liked the one from ms. doyles class better though, because it had more pictures and all the pictures were placed very nicely. Mr. Nekrosuis's students webpage was also nice, and i liked the color of the back round (blue) but it was a little boring. so it was pretty good over all.
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Anonymous, at 6:32 AM
Elyse
Ms.Jacobs
Periods 3 and 4
On Ms. Doyle's page, I used the page for period 8-9, on the city. The three things I discovered were
1. The city of Cahokia was a diamond-shaped city.
2. The city of Cahokia settled around 650 CE.
3.The Cahokians traded as far as 1000 miles away.
Also about the page the city,of Cahokia, I thought the webpage was very well designed. Since, instead of one page with a bunch of paragraphs stuffed onto one page, they had several different pages, and links with who designed them on each page. But, a question I would've asked that they didn't, was "How did the people who lived in Cahokia, use their enviroment?"
On Mr.Nekrosious' page, I went to period 3-4, encounters with others. On this page, the three things I learned was,
1. The native americans have lost some of their culture because the U.S. goverment tried to exterminate their culture in the 19th century.
2. The two biggest battles between the plain indians, and the U.S. were number one, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and two, the Battle of Wounded Knee.
3. In the later eighteenth century, the great plain indians traded beaver fur, bison skin, and horses.
Also about this site, I thought that the design needed a little bit more variety, but otherwise is was good. A question I would've asked that they didn't, would be, " Did the plains Indians have any encounters with the spaniards? and if they did, what were they like?"
Two things that were different between the two pages, was that I thought the page on the Cahokians, they ( in ms.Doyle's class) ovbiously knew a lot about web design, since theirs was the most orginized, and different out of all of them. Even though the one from mr.Nekrosious' page was not bad at all, it just seemed like the first one was more orginized.
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Anonymous, at 1:57 PM
Sophia
Jacobs 8-9
For this post I used Anazazi structures from Ms. Doyle 3-4 and Great Plains structers Mr. Nekrosious 8-9.
From the Great plains site I learned that the native americans were nomads and had to be able to move when they needed to. So they need a portable structure and the tipi was very covinient because you jusy take the poles out of the ground and wrap them in buffalo skins to move them. I also learned that the plains natives built grass and earth homes to keep them warm during the winter.
From the Anazazi site I learned that they had religious structers called kivas. And that they also built stokades out of logs and mud to protect themselves from different things like enemies.
A difference between the 2 cultures is one had to move around frequently and the other stayed put so they could build more permanent structures.
Who did the Anazazi need to protect themslves against?
Why did the plains natives have to move so much?
The backrounds in both websites were very colorful and drew your eye.
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Anonymous, at 3:16 PM
my post part 2.
8-9 doyle on daily life
The things i found interesting that i didn't know.
1. That they had human sacrifices
2. They had a game called “Chunkey”, one player would roll a polished stone disk down a court 100 feet long. Then he and his opponent would throw wooden lances to mark where they guessed the disk would fall over.
3. Wealthier people lived on hills, or mounds
Things i found interesting from Mr. Nekrosius's class, 8-9, daily life.
1. that some tribes of the American Indians were polytheistic.
2. that the chiefs feet never touched the ground.
3. when a boy was born he was expected not to cry, because he was considered weak and vice versa.
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Anonymous, at 1:15 PM
Ms. Doyle's class Cahokia: Daily Life per. 8/9
1a) The Cahokia believed that gender, kinship, status and age all mattered.
1b) The Cahokian people that were wealthy lived on mounds,the less wealthy lived in huts around the mounds.
1c) The tribe got food from hunting, gathering, and farming.
2) Unlike the wampanoag, the cahokians thought that gender, kinship, age, and status all mattered. however, both tribes had the job of planting crops and gathering food reserved for women.
3) Did the Cahokians have a form of money? what defined their status besides kinship?
4) There were a lot of pictures on this website and that made it look really good. however, the background was white and the writing was black which wasnt the most interesting choice. the writing was very easy to read though.
Mr. Necrosius's class Plains Indians Per. 8/9
1a) Many of the tribes split into clans
1b) socializing was a big part of the clans' life.
1c) the tribe ate lots of vegetables and buffalo
2) the Plains Indians thought that circles were very sacred. the wampanoag did have a sun dance (sun is circular) but didnt think that circles in general were very important.
3) did the Plains Indians have any rituals to honor circles or the sun?
4) the background color (orange) looked good with the navy blue writing, and was very easy to read. however, i didnt really understand why there was more writing after the bibliography. it seemed like that last paragraph was a summary of everything but it could have been placed in front of the bibliography. also, there could have been more pictures to fill in the blank parts but they werent really necessary.
Grace
Period 8/9
Ms. Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 2:25 PM
1) The anasazi were very crafty with clay. They made a lot of pottery and lots of it was used to trade. The native americans of the great plains used animal hides and fat for so many things other than food and clothing. They used the fat for paints and clay and the hide to make rope for their weapons.
2) In both cultures animals were greatly used for things that I would never guess they were used for.
3) I wonder what kinds of ways that they held and cooked their foods? Did they make pots and plates and cups out of pottery? Did they just eat out of their hands or right of the fire? Did they even cook their meat? what kind of crops did they harvest?
4) I think that the Anasazi website was made very nicely. I like the back round and the way the split up the paragraphs. I think that it was very neat and well done. For the Great Plains website, I thought that again it was very smartly designed. I liked the way they titled each subtopic and then put the picture immediatly under the picture before the paragraph. I also liked how they chose a suttle back round on the webpage.
I read Anasazi Products 3-4 from Ms.Doyle's class and I read Great Plains Products 8-9 from Mr. Nekrosius's class
Jonathan King
Jacobs 3-4
11/13/08
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Anonymous, at 8:04 AM
1. I learned from Ms.Doyle's class that the Cahokians were located near the Mississippi river. I also learned that during their free time the Cahokians would play games and build a lot and that they believed in a religion called Death Cult. From Mr.Nekrosious's class I learned that the Native American's diet was buffalo and a lot of vegetables. I learned that their would be elders in the tribes that taught the children how to do things, I also learned that they thought a lot of daily things were sacred like the sun.
2. Well, all the web quests had one thing in common and that was what the women did. All the classes basically had something like ours, but a bit different.
3. I would like to know who were the really important chiefs of their area?
4. I liked Ms. Doyle's web pages because they each had something different and it looked really good. Some of the backgrounds faded to a different color and some had a repeating background. Mr.Nekrosious's web pages were o.k. they weren't amazing. I liked how every single of the web pages were different and not like all the same style. The web pages in Mr.Nekrosious's class were kind of hard to read because the font was really small while Ms.Doyle's class had the a good size font.
Sabrina
8-9
Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 6:56 AM
I looked at Ms. Doyle's 8/9 City website and Mr. Nekrosious's 3/4 Products website.
Ms. Doyle's 8/9 City group
1. I learned that Cahokia was a great ancient city that was made around 650 CE and had about 20,000 people in it at one point. Cahokia because it used up to many trees, had epidemics and had no good trash disposal system.
2. In Cahokia had a wall surrounding it and was "diamond shaped" unlike the cities of New England.
3. How were mounds made, and who made them?
4. The layout was very nice, and I really liked the wasy the pictures were displayed.
Mr. Nekrosious's 3/4 Products Group
1. Native Americans made sleds, snowshoes,rakes and hoes out of wood. Some instruments they used were; drums, flutes, rattles, rasps, whistles and clappers. White buffolo, beavers and eagles were some sacred animals.
2. Native Americans in the Great Plains made teepees out of buffalo hide but Native Americans in New England made wigwams.
3. How did the Native Americans use plant rescources?
4. The layout was very nice and the paragraphs were well organized with good titles, but a few more pictures might have been helpful.
Sonia, 8/9, Ms. Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 1:21 PM
Ms.Doyle's class
1) The Cahokia grew squash, sunflowers, pumpkins, tobacco, and corn. Also a typical meal was corn that was served a variety of ways, a little bit of vegetables Also the city of Cahokia diamond shaped and one could see most other mounds from Monk’s Mound.
2) The people of Cahokia grey squash and pumpkins just like the people of the Northeastern native American tribes.
3) How was Cahokia, pottery used for rituals?
4) I thought that the layout of Ms.Doyle's classes webpages were very well layed out and very appealing to the reader
Mr. Nekrosius's class
1) The Indians of the Great Plains lived in a nomadic, hunting society. Also the Native-American tribes of the Great Plains are some of the best known tribes to present-day Americans. Last their diet consisted mainly on buffalo and vegetables.
2) The indians of the great planes grew rice which the Northeastern tribes did not.
3) If the children worked at the age of four what were their jobs.
4) I thought that the design of Mr. Nekrosius's classes webpages were very well layedout and not over done but they could of been a little more appealing.
Kaleb
8/9
Mrs.Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 2:55 PM
Rosie
Ms. Jacobs
8-9
1)
Ms. Doyle’s class, period 8-9, Daily Life:
A. The Cahokians spent a lot of time playing games like “chunkey,” in chunkey one player would role a polished stine sheped like a disk down a 100 foot long court. The player and his opponent threw a mark where they thought that the mark would fall.
The Cahokians had a very abundant source of food, so they rarely went hungry.
Nekrosious’s class, period 8-9, Daily Life:
B. When many tribes split into clans or groups, sharing a common ancestor. Since all the people in a clan or group was considered family, they did not marry eachother. One of the most sacred of things is a cirlce, it is sacred because life goes in a circle; people are born and people die.
2)
A. In the culture I studied, the Wamponoags, have a similarity to the Cahokians, both cultures made it so that the males did the hunting.
B. In the culture I studied, the Wamponoags, have a similarity to the cultures that were mentioned went to a council where they discussed the matters at hand.
3)
A. What did the children do?
B. Why didn’t everyone have a specific job?
4)
A. Although the pictures of the Cahokian mounds were cool, the pictures still made it a bit hard to keep your focus on what the group wrote.
B. How the group set up the website was good, but the brightish orange was a little distracting and made it hard to focus.
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Anonymous, at 7:13 AM
Ms. Doyle's period 3-4 Time and Culture
1. -The Anasazi domesticated turkey
-The Mollogon used human hair nets for catching fish
-The Anasazi were one of the first cultures to farm instead of hunt and gather
2. Like the tribes we studied, the Anasazi had specific jobs for men, women, and children within the family.
3. Are there still members of the Anasazi tribe around today?
4. The layout was pretty easy to read. The one thing I would suggest is moving the pictures into other places than just above or below the text on the left hand side.
Mr. Nekrosius's period 8-9 Encounters with others
1. -In 1830, congress passed the "Indian removal act"
-There are 3 sub- tribes of the Sioux
-To move the Indians out, the Americans first started killing buffalo
-The great Plain Indians were nomads
2. The tribes we studied and the tribes of the plains both had brutal encounters with the English
3. How did the plains Indians interact with their enviornment?
4. The layout was overall good. The pictures were nice and interesting to look at. I think the page would have been a bit more attractive and easier to read if the backround color had maybe been a little brighter.
Lindsey Aronson
Period 8/9
Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 12:04 PM
I used The Time and culture web quests for both classes.
In Mr.Nekrosious's class web quest period 8-9, I learned that
1)The Midwestern tribes used the buffalo for almost all of their needs. Because of this, The Buffalo was worshiped among the tribes.
2)The mountainous and rocky environment was very helpful to the Tribes because all they had to was chase their food over cliffs, which is helpful if you want to kill large animals like buffalo.
3)The Tribes would use this method to kill various plant eaters so that they would be able to take the plants that the animals ate for food and medicine.
In Ms. Doyle's classes web quest period 3-4, I learned that
1)the Anasazi, a tribe that lived in the area Near Utah and New Mexico, were one of the first Native American Tribes that farmed instead of hunting and gathering
2)As soon as the growing period ended, the Anasazi would hunt deer in the winter.
3) There was no division of labor, because The main philosophy of the Tribe was every family for themselves. However, there was some division of Labor in the Families, otherwise, the Families would never be able to survive.
Unlike the Anasazi, The Midwestern Tribes in America were hunter Gatherers.
Ms. Doyle's webquest: How were the Anasazi influenced by the Mogollon Indians?
Mr Nekrosious's web quest: hat were the Rituals that The Midwestern Tribes used.
The Web page from Mr. Nekrosious's could have been a little neater if the pictures were arranged so that they could match what was being talked about in the paragraph.
I was confused about what the pictures were in Ms. Doyle's Webpage.
Arjun
Jacobs 8-9
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Anonymous, at 1:07 PM
On Mr. Nekrosius's blog I found that
1. Tipis were made to be strong and to sustain bad weather. They could signify people of higher class if they were painted as well.
2. The Earth lodges were the most popular types of housing in most tribes. They were covered in soil, rather than wood or bark, hence the name earth lodgings.
3. Which structure was easiest to build yet most stable in bad weather?
4. On Mr. Nekrosius's pages, I found it easy to navigate through the pages, although it would have been good to make the next titles bold.
On Ms. Doyle's pages, I found that
1. The anasazi tribe used "pit houses" they were constructed with clay or stone, providing a much more stable figure.
2. People started making raised houses, as to prevent floods, etc.
3. Were the houses in the ground before they became more "advanced".
4. I found that the website I looked on did not make great use of the space that they had and did not describe their subject completely, but it was remarkably easy to find my way around it.
Hiroki
jacobs
3-4
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Anonymous, at 2:01 PM
Ms. Doyle, periods 3-4, Products:
1) The Anasazi's had many art supplies. They Made jewelry and pottery. Sometimes bones would be made into instruments.
2) From Ms. Doyle's class, I learned that the Cahokians built mounds, a downtown, and houses. They were also part of a religion called Death Cult.
3) How did the Anasazi's get the art materieals?
4) The design of the page was good and there was some good information, but two of the tree paragraphs were exactly the same. Otherwise, it was interesting to read.
Mr. Nekrosius, periods 3-4, Structures:
1) Native Americans used teepees. Earth lodges were made wood frame with soil and willow branches all over it. The grass loges looked like haystacks.
2) The Native Americans had jobs starting at the age of four years old.
3) What tribes used and/or built the earth and grass lodges?
4) The whole layout of the page was good, and there was a lot of interesting information. It was easy to understand.
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Anonymous, at 2:21 PM
The web quest that I viewed from Mrs. Doyle's 3/4 period class was Time and Culture of the Anasazi.
1) The Anasazi’s lived in the mountains for protection, they lived in house made of stone and rock with mud and leave roofs, they were hunter gatherers that became full time farmers.
2) One difference that I read about their culture and the one I studied was that the Anasazi’s lived in the mountains and the Wampanoag lived on solid ground.
3) Why did the Anasazi’s have to enter though the roof to get inside the house why didn’t they have doors in front of the houses?
4) The way the web page was laid made it easier to read and there were the right of pictures so it add to the words but did not distract from them.
The web quest from Mr. Nekrosius’s ¾ class period was Time and Culture.
1) Horses were introduced to the Native Americans in the Great Plains in 1750 which made it easier to venture into other areas and hunt. Many of the American Indians tribes sill exist today, they are called reservations were they are could practice the cultures. The earliest non-framing tribes was the Algonquian speaking Blackfoot and the Uto-Aztecan-speaking Comanche.
2) The tribes of the Great Plains also spoke the Algonquian language like the Wampanoag tribes spoke.
3) Since the native pasted down history though folk tales and legends were there any other forms of history passing.
4) The design of the web pages was just al little to bright. The way it was laid out was easy to read and understand there were captions to explain each photo which made it look like the pictures were not there to fill up space.
Portia
period 3/4
Mrs. Jacob
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Anonymous, at 7:29 PM
Ms Doyle 3-4 Time and Culture
Mr. Nekrosious 3-4 time and Culture
1. The web pages both noted the ancestors of the natives that the page was about. Both of the ancestral tribes migrated from the north
2. Both web pages mentioned the tribes relying on one or two animals for food, clothing, and in some cases shelter.
3. Both cultures mentioned a way of leadership. Some resembled a democratic republic while others seemed more like a monarchy
The people of the Great Plains had to be nomadic. The soil was not rich enough for many things to grow, so they could not have been farmers. The grasslands are so vast that hunting and gathering would require the people to follow the buffalo herd. There were probably not enough edible plants in one area to sustain a tribe. The Anasazi were able to settle in one area because they were on a plateau which provided water, rich soil for crops, and access to animals such as deer.
What were their religions? Mr. Nekrosious’s class touched on that briefly but I would like to know more about that.
Ms. Doyle’s class had many good pictures and very well laid out and informative paragraphs. My only suggestion is that they watch out for spelling
Mr. Nekrosious’s class could have used a few more bright pictures. And they should make sure the font contrasts well, rather than orange on orange.
Carah
3-4
Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 6:41 AM
Mrs.Doyle's class on Cahokian structures:
1) I learned that the Cahokians used Stockades to protect themselves. And that they also seperated themselves from the outside world. The Cahokians labored vigorously to build over 100 mounds of soil.
Mr.Nekrosious' class on structures:
1)The NA's of the great plains lived in Tipi's which were made to be strong and durable. Earth Lodges were large and had a fire pit in the middle, the earth lodge was recognized as an architectural feat. The Sweat lodges were very religious for rituals.
2)One describes the tribes in the Great Plains and one describes the Cahokians.
3) Who first came up with the idea of these buildings like Tipis?
4)Mr.Nekrosious' groups site was more compact than Mrs.Doyle's because their site had large spacings between paragraphs and Mr.Nekrosious' didn't. The Great Plains group had a simple design and layout and the Cahokian group had a nice picture at the beginning and good background colors.
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Jeff, at 7:00 AM
From "Time and Culture" period 3-4 in Mr. Nekrosious's class
1) The Native Americans usually didn't move into large spaces, the Native Americans used buffalo skin for many thing including clothing, another thing that was common with a lot of the tribes of the great plains was to have a strong connection with nature or at least to believe in that connection.
2) Both webpages(time and culture period 3-4) said that there were very agricultural tribes in the same area.
From "Time and Culture" period 3-4 in Ms. Doyle's class
3) What were the walls of their houses made of?
4) In a way both design/layouts were the same, although I thought that Ms. Doyle's class had a few more pictures.
Anoop
Period 8-9
Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 9:36 AM
1) From Ms. Doyle's web pages I learned that the Cahokians believed in a religion called the Death Cult. The Cahokians were located near the Mississippi River and the Cahokians played games in their free time. From Mr.Nekrosious's web pages that the elders would teach the children how to do things. The Natives would also eat a lot of buffalo and vegetables also the Natives thought that a lot of things were sacred according to their religion.
2) One thing that is similar between the two classes is how what the women do during their freetime.
3) I would like to know what the names of the chiefs and who were the most important chiefs?
4) Ms. Doyle's web pages look very nice, but Mr. Nekrosious's web pages were kind of hard to read because they used small font. I liked them a lot, but I like Ms.Doyle's better.
Sabrina
Ms. Jacobs
per 8-9
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Anonymous, at 3:00 PM
Cahokians - City - Ms. Doyle
1)a.In the year 1150A.D. Cahokia had a larger population than London.
b. There was a Monk's Mound in the center of the city.
c. The people suffered from tuberculosis and dysentry.
2)They had very unique buildings.
3)How was the city founded?
4)I thought the webpage design was very good and the pictures were very interesting and went well with their writing. I think they could've done without the "Who are we" section.
Great Plains Indians 8/9 - structures - Mr. Nekrosious
1)a.Great Plains Indians moved with the buffalo herds.
b.Teepees were well suited to nomadic life
c.Earth lodges looked like they were built into a small hill
2)They rely heavily on nature to survive.
3)Which specific tribes used teepees
4)The bibliography was a bit confusing and it would help if the spaced things out a bit.
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Anonymous, at 3:19 PM
Anasazi Time and culture Ms.doyle 3-4
1. The anasazi were a tribe from 2,000 years ago.
2. The Anasazi were hunter gatherers who then became farmers.
3. Before Anasazi were the Mogollan Indians.
I thought the layout of the page was alright, but they could've done a better job of centering things. Some things (titles) were all the way to the left others were all the way to the right.
How big were Pueblos?
Mr. Nekrosius's 3-4 Time and culture
1. The Buffalo was very important to the Great Plains Indians. Almost every part of the buffalo was used.
2. The Indians had mysterious beliefs in nature and a strong connection with nature.
3. The Indians practiced the Ghost Dance among other rituals.
What tribe are you even talking about?
The layout was good other than some weirdly colored titles.
Samuel
Jacobs
3-4
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Anonymous, at 3:51 PM
Anasazi Cities 3 and 4 Doyle
1. The Anasazi changed their architecture greatly in response to their environment rather than their attitude (as far as we know). These changes included: going from living in caves to pit houses, moving from pit houses to cliff dwellings, and adopting different kinds of obtaining water such as irrigation and tapping caves.
2. Unlike the Wampanoag, the Anasazi made abrupt changes in structure when converting from being nomads to farmers; the Wampanoag gradually adapted movable homes to permanent ones.
3. What sorts of refineries did the Anasazi have -- surely there must have been structures other than houses and storerooms?
4. The layout is a nice template, most likely from iWeb, but the pictures are arranged in very odd ways. Also, when they bent the template to their own use, they left that funny reddish bar on the right without any apparent use for it.
Great Plains Architecture 3 and 4 Nekrosius
1. Unlike the Anasazi, the Great Plains natives built their houses based on bent boughs with some material covering them rather than building up from a base. Their more permanent houses were slowly adapted from tipis, making the majority of them semi-nomadic and often without much plan to their towns.
2. Like the Wampanoag, the Great Plains natives seem to base all of their architecture on their original portable houses.
3. What farming system (if any) did the Great Plains natives use?
4.The layout is a bit chaotic, without margins, columns, much of a format when shrunken or an arrangement for the photos. The color scheme is pleasing and easy to read but a little bit on the cheesy side.
(Jacob, periods eight and nine)
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Anonymous, at 4:07 PM
Doyle (Time and Culture):
1. a)The Anazazi were hunter-gatherers to start, but eventually became full-time farmers.
b)They had irrigation systems such as dams and terraces (?).
c)The Anazazi were one of the first cultures to become farmers instead of hunter-gatherers.
2. a)The Anazazi grew corn as did the Wampanoag.
3. a)Were there any encounters with migrating colonists or other tribes? What happened? When?
4. a)Maybe split up the topics with row dividers or possibly links to the specific topic(s)' webpages.
Nekrosius (Structures):
1. a)Tee-pees were only painted if a person had a special, relevant reason.
b)The great-plains Indians had a type of insulation in their Earth Lodges.
c)The great-plains Indians would use buffalo hides to cover the tee-pees.
2. a)Tall pine trees were used for the foundation of the tee-pees, as did the Wampanoag.
3. a)Were the tee-pees durable if an enemy attacked? Was there a special, perhaps stronger and more permanent tee-pee for times of war?
4. a)I think a few uses of "Spell Check" could have made the webpage that much better, but the paragraph headers were very well done.
James Duran
Jacobs 3-4
Wampanoag Products Group
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James Duran, at 4:54 PM
Ms.Doyle's 8-9 Period, Time and Culture Web quest
1). Three things I learned about the Mississippian culture were these: (A) I learned that they cut down trees and then stacked them next to each other vertically to act as a wall. (B) I learned that Cahokia's population had about 30,000 inhabitants. (C) I learned that Cahokia was set on a very fertile land.
2). Unlike the Wampanoag, the Mississippians were set on fertile land.
3). Why did people bury families in the mounds?
4). Maybe instead of having questions for your title maybe a title that would drag a reader into reading your webpage, and also you should put a bibliography at the bottom of your web page.
Mr. Nekrosious's 8-9 Period, Time and Culture Web quest
1). Here are three things I learned: (A) The Great Plains was a great environment for hunter gatherers because they could chase bison off of cliffs and then get them and then eat them, (B) I learned that many Great Plain tribes are still existing today, (C) I learned that Great Plain Indians were located in the central U.S.A.
2). The Great Plain Indians lived a nomadic life-style when the Wampanoag just lived in one place for a while.
3). Why did the Great Plain Indians live a nomadic life-style?
4).I think overall it is good but it just needs titles for every question that was answered.
Max Rothschild Periods 8-9 Jacobs
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Unknown, at 5:11 PM
Mr.Nekrosious's classes did the Great Plains this is period 3-4.
1. from the web page about structures I learned that there are three kinds of buildings. Building structures was a very meticulous task all of the units are very precise. The people of the Great Plains wanted to make sure that they were clean of any evil spirits so they used sweat lodges.
2. A difference between the Great Plains and the North East tribes was that in the Great Plains there where houses that the people lived in year round instead of a summer home and a winter home.
3. Why was it important that tipis could be moved?
4. I liked that there was a picture of each of the building that they were talking about. I think that it would have been better if the paragraph about earth lodges wasn't half on one of the picture and the other under the picture it was hard to read.
Ms.Doyle's 3-4 period class did the Anasazi.
1. they built walls to protect them from others. They had homes of cliffs and homes in the ground. Some of the homes in the ground are called Kivas.
2. One difference between the Anasazi and the people of the North East was that some of the homes are under ground.
3. Why did the Anasazi move under ground homes to above ground?
4. The background color was kind of hard to look at but I liked that there was a diagram of the underground houses. (storage,living space ect.)
Akilah
Jacobs 3-4
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Unknown, at 5:27 PM
The Cahokia were a tribe that really lived off the land and used anything and any thing to make what they needed. Also the Cahokia had enough time to mike beautiful art work. Also the native americans of the plains were even more resourceful in the sense that they could make anything the needed out of buffalo. Both cultures are able to get what they need with the resources they have and are very resourceful. If these two tribes changed locations would they be able to compensate for the new and unusual resources. The article about the Cahokia was very good and kept each paragraph small and to the point. The article about the indians of the great plains had a lot of vey good information but was maybe a little too long.
Harrison 3-4 Jacobs
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Anonymous, at 5:32 PM
Priya Zylstra
Jacobs 8-9
Mrs. Doyle's class (Daily Life 8-9)
1. The men and women had very different jobs.
2. They enjoyed playing many games.
3. They practiced human sacrifices.
Mr.Nekrosious' class (Daily Life 3-4)
1. Children started working at age four
2 In some tribes the chief would be carried around.
3. Tobacco was sacred.
Doyle's Daily Life 8-9 webpage had interesting pictures and was not hard to read.
Nekrosious' Daily Life 3-4 had a calming color and had some interesting pictures.
F
or Doyle's I'd have liked to know more about religion and for both I'd have liked to know about transportation.
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Anonymous, at 6:09 PM
Mr. Nekrosius's 3-4 class
Time and Culture
1. a. The Great Plains is a large grassland area stretching south from central Canada to Texas, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
b.They were believed to come around about 15,000 to 30,000 years ago.
c.They favored and valued the buffalo.
2. They both were farmers
3. What crops did they farm?
4. I thing the webpage was worked on very hard and they organized everything very well, but one thing I notice was that the font could have been darker because they have a orange background which is kind of bright and the font is bright too. Except for that everything was nice.
Ms. Doyle's 3-4 class
Time and Culture
1. a. The Anasazi existed around two thousand years ago.
b. They were located where now southern Utah, northern New Mexico, and Northern Arizona are located now.
c. The Anasazi were hunters and gatherers who eventually became full time farmers.
2. They both were farmers
3. How many people were there?
4. I think they did a great job on making their webpage. Its nicely organized and has lots of information.
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Paul, at 9:48 PM
hi
I looked at ms Doyles page and I looked at Daily Life.
I learned that the Cahokians practiced human sacrifices using lots of different ceremonial objects.
I learned also that they were a religion called The Death Cult.
I also learned that the wealthier the people were the higher you got to live on a mound.
A similarity i saw between what i know and the webpage is that they practiced human sacrifices.
A question for Ms Doyles page:
Did the poor Cahokians eat the same food the rich did??
the design and layout was very good, clear and organized and had pictures to understand the reading.
Eira Nylander
Ms. Jacobs
8-9
to be continued.........
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