Today in Western Civilization
class a friend of mine named Gianna had a shadow that seemed happy enough to be
there as a shadow in Western Civ class.
We started the class with a pop quiz, that consisted of 6 different questions
that asked about the Papua New Guinea people.
One of the questions on the test asked how British people saw them as when
they first arrived, the answer was they saw them as not as intelligent or as evolved
as them. The Papua New Guinea people saw
them as their superiors and even carried them over streams and other bodies of
water so as not to get their dainty feet wet.
Another question was how Jared diamond saw them as, the answer was he
saw them as intelligent and very creative people. He even said at one point that he could be
dropped off in the middle of the forest and not know what to do at all, but if
the Papua New Guinea people had that happen
to them then they would be able to get a small shack built in a few hours with
the provided materials.
Today in Western Civilization class I witnessed other groups present their Greek Civilization projects, the first group talked about the different governments that were created, they did this by becoming the leaders that created the different governments and discussed it as if it were a meeting and there were sides; I thought that it was a fun and playful twist to the project. The next project was performed by Ben and Will and they did the Olympics, they discussed how they started, the traditions, the events, and even reenacted some of them (they were poorly done), but they were able to get the events for the most part correct and they were also fun to watch how they were performed.
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