For this benchmark, I had to work with a partner to research the works and life of a single scientist that was on the board of scientists my class and I thought up. We had to research the things the scientist achieved and studied for the greater good of the world. We had to take this information and create an application for the SLAward (an award created in our school) including our findings. We also had to create a profile for a timeline we would create after the project’s completion and a presentation to persuade the audience (our classmates and teacher) that our scientist was the best nominee for the SLAward.

    For this benchmark, I had to join a group of five people and study the six social institutions found in ancient Egypt’s society. We had to research religious, educational, governmental, judicial, domestic, and economic institutions in ancient Egypt. We then had to design a dinner around a festival in the pharaoh Tutankhamen’s time. We had to create a ritual for the religious institution, and a script discussing the other five social institutions. We, as a group, also had to create a press release for the event, an invitation to the actual event, and a seating chart telling where the guest would be seated.

history benchamrk

Erik Duarte and Ed McAninch

This is our cartoon on FDR and Obama and how they both had similar yet different thoughts on what to create with their "New Deal Plans"

This is the link of the Cartoon:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32126129@N06/3099788834/

The King Tut Diner was a skit that me and my grouppreformed. It consisted of 5 different pieces, the script, seating chart,invitations, menu, and the press release. Each had to be very detailed and haveresearch and time put into it. The main characters were the Bureaucrat (Noble),Priest, and Farmer. Any extra characters that were consistent with AncientEgypt.

            Thecharacter I played was the scribe. He is the official documenter and advisor tothe King. My part in the project was to collect, edit, and add onto thedialogue from each individual character. I liked working in teams. Its great tocollaborate and bounce ideas of each other.

Mr. Baird assigned us a difficult but interesting task. In a group of our own decision, we had to organize and create a festival for Per-Wadjet’s (village now known as Buto) 3000th Anniversary for its Summer Solstice. But to make this festival even more special, the king at the moment, King Tutankhamun (King Tut) is the royal guest. We are not only satisfying His Royal Highness, but also the villagers of Per-Wadjet, who will also be attending.

The reason for the history benchmark was to plan a visit for king Tut to a town called Per-Wadjet. We were given groups for this project then we had to come up with different plans for the weekend visit of king Tut.

The project includes a cost sheet this shows exactly how much money was spent on each event, we also had to include a seating plan for the grand dinner, prayers for the ceremonies, logo, etc.

My main part for the project was to make a logo that would represent king Tut’s visit to Per-Wadjet.  But I mostly worked with the technical things within my group. This project was a little hard, but I had a fun time completing it.