One more week before a little time off! Hopefully you are all refreshed and ready to wrap up Investigation #3!
Housekeeping (parents, please read):
We have a field trip to the Detroit Institute of Art on March 10th! This is a FREE and MANDATORY trip. Today I will pass out permission slips and we will need parents to chaperone.
PARENTS: If you can chaperone, please fill out the back of the permission slip, and attached a photocopy of your drivers license.
STUDENTS: Turn in permission slips TO ME by this Friday, 2/14.
Yall… they have mummies at the DIA… this is going to be very cool!
2/10 Quick Write:
Today we are going to try to get through the last two sources on the Silk Road. On Friday we started our annotations of Source #3; Receipts from a Pawn Shop. See attached slides below.
After we discuss whether these receipts are reliable or not, we will start (and perhaps finish!) our last source, a Khotanese-Sanskrit Phrasebook. Phrasebooks are used when people travel to places where they do not know the language. For example, if I were to travel to Mexico, I might use a English-Spanish phrasebook full of useful or common sayings to help me communicate.
Source #4 is from a phrasebook which used two languages: Sanskrit and Khotanese. More information about these languages can be found in the headnote and attribution. See Source 4 slides below.
With any luck, we can wrap up these sources today and tomorrow and move on to organizing our critique!
And remember, I need your DIA permission slips by this Friday! Cheers 🙂