Feburary 14th Scribe Post
Today in Social Studies we took a map test on South Asia. It was a country and capitals on it, the ones that we have studied. When you finished the quiz you had to read an article in our textbooks about the Taj Mahal. This magnificant building is located in India. It was built by the Muslim emperor Shah Jahan of India. He wanted to build it to put the grave of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal who sadly died in the year of 1631, a short time after having their 14th child. But this building holds much more including a mosque, rest house, beautiful garden, and an arched gateway. Her tomb is located in the central part of the building. When Her husband died in 1666 he was buried right next to Mumtaz. Their caskets are facing East towards the religous capital called Makkah. This follows Islam tradition. After reading that article, when everyone finished the quiz, the whole class reviewed a worksheet we did for homework called India part 2. Although India has many awesome places, they also have some enviormental problems. For example, acres of forests have been cut down, water and land hav been badly polluted, the worst river that is polluted is the Ganges) and all this commotion is harming the animals resulting in many species going extinct. Some species incude elephants, tigers, lions, panthers, monkeys, and leopards.
February 24th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Joslin, we didn’t have school on February 14th! We had a snowday! =DDDDDDD