Mowing and the “Flat World”
I just spent the last two hours cutting my lawn and listening to Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat on my iPod.
You never know when and how people will be WANT to learn. So maybe we should make the explanation of the Pythagorean theorem in podcast form.
Next time I might listen to David McCullough’s 1776.
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:05 am
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Julianna M.
What I remember
Think what you saw. That is the saying on the outside of the Holocaust Museum. I will always remember what I saw. I will remember the concentration camps that they had to stay in. I will remember all the kids and adults that died just because they were Jewish. I will remember all the kids that are still alive that had to watch this happen.
This museum was so sad. I went through an exhibit called Daniel’s Story. It put me through what actually happened and what life was like before the Holocaust. It took me through the camps and what Hitler did to the people in the camps. When I was researching it, it didn’t seem that bad but when I went through it, it was awful.
It was terrible what Hitler did. I feel so bad for all those people. I would never want to be one of those people. We went to the wall of kids. Our group or at least me and my mom, were in tears. We couldn’t believe how many people died. One block even said that my parents and family were killed because I was born Jewish.
The exhibit we went into told a story of a kid’s life and how he went through the Holocaust. This was called Daniel’s story. His life was excellent, it was actually just his birthday and he got a bike, a suitcase and a journal. Every night he would write in the journal and the whole story was told by his journal. His life started out great. He wrote every night that he would sit down and eat with his family. His mom, dad, and sister. Then sometimes on weekends they would bake cookies and the sister would print her name on hers. Then it took us through the Holocaust and what happened to his family and his life.
After the Holocaust we went to the Natural History Museum, that was so cool. In this museum there was so many animals every time you turn the corner. I love animals but I didn’t know very much about them. So going to this museum really taught me about animals. It taught me who founded birds and it taught me what used to roam the earth. Like this is something I would always remember. There was a bug that was one foot long and a dinosaur like ten feet tall. I would not like to be alive in that time.
Then we went to the air and space museum. I wasn’t to fond of it but there was an exhibit in there where they put a little piece of history. It was from the American History museum. I will always remember how cool it was. There was Lincoln’s hat, the first light bulb, the first Kermit the frog, the scare crow, the script and Dorothy’s shoes, and so so much more.
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