January 18, 2012
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Story of the World - Chapter Seventeen
————— The Return of Babylon —————
The Middle East has apparently ALWAYS been a mess.I’m starting to get this, though. Chapter thirteen was Egypt (Moses/Jewish slavery era). Chapter fourteen was the Exodus. Chapter fifteen was the Phoenicians, who were the squatters in the Promised Land during the Egypt era that the Judges had to fight. Chapter sixteen were the Assyrians, who were sent against the kings of Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. And then Chapter seventeen puts us in exile in Babylon, around the time of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar. Of course Bauer doesn’t exactly connect the Jewish periods to the empirical periods, but there ya go. It makes sense, and helps me know where to put stuff in our Book of Centuries.When I went to the activity sites I like to frequent (and always link to, below), imagine my surprise when Satori didn’t have a craft, and RunOfTheMill hung paper flowers from a sparcely drawn erector set as a ‘hanging garden’ of Babylon. Oh, come on…!! I can’t in good conscience do that ‘craft’… it’s not acceptable to me. So I thought maybe a Seven Wonders of the World lapbook would be kewl. But I wanted EXTREME pictures of the wonders. D’you know what I mean? If they were spectacular enough to have been called the best seven WONDERS of the entire world, the photos had to be AWESOME. I spent days looking, and found them… and did you know that there are seven new wonders of the world, too? Because only one of the original seven is still in existence, a few years ago the world took a vote and came up with seven new ones (well, six and the last remaining one of the ancient seven). So I thought, okay, I can do a lapbook with a fold-down of the ‘Seven Ancient’ and ‘Seven Modern’ wonders. Then I found out there are also seven natural wonders of the world. ((For our nature notebooks?))
This is getting a little bit… a lot. And in the end? I couldn’t figure out how I would want to put them together (or WHERE they would go… not in our Book of Centuries…). And more, when things get drawn out, we don’t get them done, and honestly… this chapter is only talking about ONE of the (seven? fourteen? twenty-one?) wonders of the world. So I decided to keep it simple.
Two architectural achievements were mentioned in this chapter about Babylon: The Ishtar Gate and the Hanging Gardens (which don’t hang, at all – it’s a man-made mountain complete with exotic plants, trails, and full irrigation). So I got pictures for our Book of Centuries:
Hanging Gardens: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ke9F19…2B5.jpgClick to enlarge these babies… they’re purty. I like.
And you should see the other pics I got!
Have I given up the idea of a ‘Seven Wonders’ lapbook? Not at all. I’ve got a third of it thrown (crappily) together, and I’ll continue to work on it, as time permits. The ‘how’ of it eludes me at the moment… ALTHOUGH…! I was looking for a pop-out card to make for our penpals this week, and found a castle (which is only relevant to me – I went YouTubing Sunday morning and watched the previews to the two Snow White movies coming out this spring. Have you heard about them? One is very ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with Julia Roberts and Phil Collins’ daughter, and the other is very ‘Lord of the Rings’ with Charlize Theron and Twilight’s Kirsten Stewart -who is in full armor and is being trained by the huntsman to wage war on the evil queen. So I was very into castles when looking for pop-out cards.) And when we put the castle cards together… I’ll be DANGED if it didn’t look like the Ishtar Gate! So I might get my pop-out seven wonders, anyhow!
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Comments (1)
:heh: It’s actually the “Overhanging” Gardens of Babylon, because..yeah, they didn’t “hang”, the plants overhung the pathways. Or something like that – we studied that a while back. The papercraft model is really cool, but fiddly. (If IAN says it’s “fiddly”, then it’s…a bit much.
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You’re right – the pictures are pretty!