Cambodia

Web Quest #1:
1. The name "Cambodia" derives from the French Cambodge, which comes from the Khmer word Kâmpuchea, meaning "born of Kambu."
2. Khmer as a noun or adjective can refer to the Cambodian language, people, or culture and thus suggests an ethnic and linguistic identity more than a political entity.
3. The Khmer Republic

4. The economy is dominated by wet rice agriculture.

5. The ancient capital was Khmer Empire, close to present-day Siem Reap. 

6. Khmer

7. The Austroasiatic language family and is related to Vietnamese, Mon, and a number of other Asian languages.

8. Ancient Khmer temple Angkor Wat

9. The staples are rice and fish. Breakfast typically consists of rice porridge or rice noodles. Lunch and dinner may be a combination of a spiced broth with fish or meat and vegetables, fish, fresh vegetables eaten with a fish-based paste, and stir-fried vegetables with chopped meat.

Web Quest #2:
1. The Khmer New Year is the biggest holiday of the Cambodian calendar. 

2. Squatting is a particularly Asian posture, not seen so much in other parts of the world but very common in much of Asia.

3. During the two weeks before the water festival, large barges are decorated with symbolic images outlined with hundreds of colored lights.

4. The have funerals in the dirt streets infront of their homes. 

Web Quest #3:

1. Map of Cambodia and it's surrounding countries. 

2. Image of the ancient capital

3. Most important ancient Khmer symbol.

4. Common food staples.

5. Cambodian flag.

6. Cambodian wedding. 

 

   I think that I would leave and go somewhere else. I think that I would probably go to Canada because it's close to Maine. I think that I would be able to drive there. I would get all of my family, drive to Canada, and start a new life there.
   If I was in the plane alone, and some of the people I was with weren't able to go into the same as me, I think that I would talk to some of the other people on the plane and try to become close with them. So that maybe we can help each other because maybe they don't have anyone anymore either.
   I would probably be with my family, and if I wasn't with them I'd be with one of my friends. I wouldn't be alone. If I had my first choice I would go with my family, and leave my friends behind. If not everyone would go I would choose to stay with my friends if I was given the choice. I would rather be there with my friends, than go to some new, different place alone. If I wasn't given the choice I would leave behind my friends, and go with my family. If I ended up somewhere I've never been before and they didn't speak English, I would be really scared. I wouldn't know what to do, because no matter where I went I would still have no idea what was going on. Also, I would become really frustrated because I wouldn't know what anyone was saying.
   I think that if I landed in China my life would change because their lifestyle is different than ours in the United States. I would have to meet new people, and learn a whole new language just to get a job and be able to live. I think life would be harder because I'd have to learn a whole new language, and also it would be hard to meet new people, and actually start a new life because you won't understand what that person is saying half the time.

Genocide

I know that genocide is a mass killing of a certain group of people.
I want to know about genocides that have happened in the past.

Citations:
To Cite A Book: Title, author, publisher, date of publication, where it was published.
To Cite A Website: date you went to the website, author
Title: Out Of Bounds
Author: Jeff Benedict
Publisher/Company: Harper Collins
Location of Publication: USA
Date of Publication: 2004


Valid Sources:
This is not a valid source because it says, "This site is not associated with any school or educational organization" at the bottom of the website. 


Comma Rules: 
1. Today for lunch I had pizza, fries, and a hot dog.
2. Cree, should we go to the library. 
3. No, I do not have Latin today.
4. Today, I believe, is a red day.
5. Today it was sopost to snow, but it rained instead. 
6. I live in Maine, "vacation land". 
7. I have small, arched feet.
8. I was born on August 11, 1995. 

Sources

Valid: Information that is correct based on facts, useful, efficient, relevant, current.
Reliable: Information that is current and pertinent to today. Sources to back it up. Dependable.
Accurate: Finding it reliable in more than one source. (.edu, marvel)

One source I am using right now is a book, Out of Bounds by Jeff Benedict. I know that this book is valid, reliable, and accurate because it is written about real life cases, and the author did lots of research before he wrote the book.

Research Step 1

The past two days I have done research in English, I searched online about justice. I chose money and power does influence justice. I choose this topic because it is the one most appealing to me. 

     What do you think about when you hear research? When I hear research I think finding information about something using books, and the internet. 
     What are the steps in the research process? The steps in the research process are getting a topic, and finding information about that topic, and finally writing about that topic.
     Discuss a research paper you did in the past. One research paper I have done in the past was when I did a project on the Holocaust, and I needed to find information about that event. 
     What were the positive and negative aspects of the experience? Some positive aspects were that I used books and they gave correct information. On the other hand, I also used the internet and some of the websites did not have correct information.
     Describe  your final product. My final project was on the computer and I had to record myself talking about the most important events in the Holocaust.