celery experiment

                     

For my experiment  I put celery in a cup of water  with food coloring in it! I had four celeries and every two hours I would take one out. I was testing to see how long it took for the water to rise up to the celery. I kept each celery the same as much as possible. Each cup had the same amount of drops of food coloring and the same amount of water. Each celery was cut to the same length and had leaves on top. The only variable in the experiment was the length of time that they soaked. My question: how long will the liquid travel every two hours? 

  The first celery that I took out after two hours, the liquid only

 went up to one centimeter.

The second celery that I took out after four hours, the liquid went up to four centimeters.

 

The third celery that I took out after six hours went up to six centimeters.

 The fourth celery that I took out after eight hours went up nine centimeters.

My conclusion: The liquid travels up the celery stalk on average one inch every hour.  

India

I have been learning about India this week. I looked up pictures of the Taj Mahal and compared  them to pictures of  other muslim buildings. The similarities I  found were that they all have domes, spirals, and archways.

The basic Hindu religion is that they just think there's an all- encompassing  force. They personify this force into individual gods or goddesses. The force can never be fully understood, but personifying it into gods helps the people unify themselves with it more.


Three most popular gods are:


Shiva  known as the Creator and Destroyer. He destroys the old while bringing out the new.




Vishnu  known as the Preserver. 






Devi known as the Protecting Mother, and is the creative energy of the universe.




Taj Mahal images

Hindu Gods

Dress styles of Queen Elizabeth's time

Here is a picture that I drew of the type of dresses women wore back in Queen Elizabeth's time. I think it would have been neat to have a dress like that. The sleeves were long and the dresses went down to your feet. The collars were tall and wide often made of stiff lace.

Huguenot History

                                                       
                                                          Huguenots

The Huguenots were French protestants that followed the teachings of John Calvin instead of Martin Luther. Later they were forced to leave France because of their religious beliefs. Most protestants went to other countries, but some stayed practicing their religious beliefs in secret.

Martin Luther started the change of religion for the protestants in Germany 1517. It spread to France, mainly having effect on those angry with the order of the government. The War of Religions started in 1562 when 1200 Huguenots were killed. In 1598 Henry IV gave the Huguenots their own church.

http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/general/huguenot.htm

Shakespeare Timeline

For 7th grade through Oak Meadow, I am studying the time period of Shakespeare. I researched and created a timeline of his life. As a resource, I used the website from shmoop. I thought he was a bit of a scoundrel not to leave something of more value to his wife in his last will. 

April 23, 1564	William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon
April 26, 1564	William Shakespeare got baptized at Trinity church in Stratford.
April 30, 1569	William Shakespeare goes to school at King’s new school
November 28, 1582	William Shakespeare get’s married to Anne Hathaway
May 26, 1583	Anne has her first child and they name her Susanna
May 28,1585	Anne has twins! A boy and girl, they name the boy Hamnet and the girl Judith
May 31, 1590	Shakespeare enters his first play
Jan, 1693	plague closes the theaters
April, 1593	Shakespeare publishes a poem “Venus and donis”
1594	Theater reopens
May, 1594	Shakespeare publishes another poem “The rape of Lucrece”
Aug 11, 1596	Hamnet dies
May, 1597	New home
1598	Shakespeare is praised by Francis meres for all  his poems
1599	The globe theater is built
1601	Hamlet performed
March 24, 1603	Elizabeth dies, and the Jacobean age begins
1608	Shakespeare starts performing at Blackfriars theater
1609	sonnets are published
1611	Shakespeare leaves London and returns to Stratford
1613	Final plays
March 25, 1616	Last will, leaving his second-best-bed to his wife among other things
April 23,1616	Shakespeare dies from sickness
April 25,1616	Burial in  Holy Trinity church in Stratford