Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Party Theme
My theme for the party is Everyday Roman Life. Lining the walls, will be images of all kinds of Roman Entertainment. The dining room will be decorated to look like the Roman Coloseum. The chairs will be made of polished marble, and the table will be shaped like an ampitheater. The floor would be filled with sand, and the walls will have blood red stains to smbolize the many battles fought in the Coloseum. The walls would be decorated with clothing and pictures that are about the Roman Empire.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Dinner Invitation
Your Invited!!!!!
Come Join Me As I Host A Seven Course Dinner Party!
Theme: Everyday Roman Life
Where: My House
When: January 1st, 2012
Remember to dress up in Roman Themed clothes.
Guest List:
-Sextus Terwilliger-Pliny Hawkins
-Felix Ware
-Spartacus Scott
-Publius Poling
-Manius Swick
-Balbina Cline
-Octavia Gregg
-Serbius Stuart
-Priscilla Clevenger
Seven Course Meal
Included in each course is a special drink made of honey and wine.
Course 1: We will start the meal with rich fava beans, native to Asua and Africa. Added to that, are delicious vegetables steamed and cooked in salt for that extra flavoring. Finishing off this course are succulent, stewed snails.
Course 2: To start this course, we will be serving spicy grilled pork with tangy BBQ sauce mixed into the pork as it is being grilled. Along with that we will be serving delicious onions and parsnips that will go perfectly with the pork.
Course 3: This course will begin with a duck that has been hand picked for this dinner. We will be using a traditional Roman recipe, where we roast the duck and combine several different ingredients to make the traditional dasmon sauce to make the duck a little sweeter. On the side, we will serve cooked turnips that is another Roman side with a duck meal.
Course 4: For this course we will serve "porcus Troianus," (Trojan Pig). The pig will be prepared by stuffing it full off sweet fruit, and succulent sausage, and then roasted until it is fully cooked. The pig will be served standing straight up, just like in Roman times. Served with this, will be various types of fruit.
Course 5: For this course, we will serve a delicious roasted rabbits served with perfectly fried onions and mushrooms. Also, we will have hot, spicy peppers if you wish to make it a spicy rabbit meal. Added to this, we are serving salty, stewed snails that are flavored with a special sauce the Romans used named Garum.
Course 6: For the final course before dessert, we will serve up a popular Roman fish, the mullus. We will grill the fish to aquire that smokey flavoring. Siding with this, will be many different vegetables that we will sauté in butter, including onions and mushrooms.
Course 7: For the seventh and final course, we will serve a special Roman cake that was made of wheat and soaked in honey. Served with this, is an assortment of various fruits that the Romans had with dessert, including grapes and pomegranets. Also, we are serving figs and dates.
Course 1: We will start the meal with rich fava beans, native to Asua and Africa. Added to that, are delicious vegetables steamed and cooked in salt for that extra flavoring. Finishing off this course are succulent, stewed snails.
Course 2: To start this course, we will be serving spicy grilled pork with tangy BBQ sauce mixed into the pork as it is being grilled. Along with that we will be serving delicious onions and parsnips that will go perfectly with the pork.
Course 3: This course will begin with a duck that has been hand picked for this dinner. We will be using a traditional Roman recipe, where we roast the duck and combine several different ingredients to make the traditional dasmon sauce to make the duck a little sweeter. On the side, we will serve cooked turnips that is another Roman side with a duck meal.
Course 4: For this course we will serve "porcus Troianus," (Trojan Pig). The pig will be prepared by stuffing it full off sweet fruit, and succulent sausage, and then roasted until it is fully cooked. The pig will be served standing straight up, just like in Roman times. Served with this, will be various types of fruit.
Course 5: For this course, we will serve a delicious roasted rabbits served with perfectly fried onions and mushrooms. Also, we will have hot, spicy peppers if you wish to make it a spicy rabbit meal. Added to this, we are serving salty, stewed snails that are flavored with a special sauce the Romans used named Garum.
Course 6: For the final course before dessert, we will serve up a popular Roman fish, the mullus. We will grill the fish to aquire that smokey flavoring. Siding with this, will be many different vegetables that we will sauté in butter, including onions and mushrooms.
Course 7: For the seventh and final course, we will serve a special Roman cake that was made of wheat and soaked in honey. Served with this, is an assortment of various fruits that the Romans had with dessert, including grapes and pomegranets. Also, we are serving figs and dates.
Question for the blog
For the menu, do you want us to find a recipe for each food item in each course, or do we just describe the food to make it sound good?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Braziliian Educational System
The Brazilian educational system has qualities that make it similar to America's, but also has special qualities that make it different from the American educational system. First of all, Brazil has three levels of education. These levels are fundamental, intermediate, and higher education. In the higher education level, there are two parts that are undergraduate and graduate. Also, infant education is another level added to the educational system. The infant education level is for kids that are seven years old or younger. The next oldest level is the fundamental level. This is for kids that are seven to fourteen years old. This level is spread out into eight years. Once you finish that, you move onto the intermediate level, which is spread out over three years. If you finish that, you can move onto higher education, where you become specialized in a certain
field.
Some of these levels have specific requirements in which you have to meet to be allowed in. In fundamental schools, you have to be at least seven years old, and it is mandatory for all kids seven to fourteen years old. Fundamental school is also free for all of the kids in that age group. For intermediate schools, it is not mandatory to attend, but if you do, you have three years of that and intermediate schools are also free. Higher education is also free in Brazil, but you first have to take a competitive entrance examination for whatever they are pursuing.
The required classes in Brazil are similar to those in America. In fundamental schooling, students are required to take Portuguese, History, Science, Geography, Mathematics, arts, and physical education. In intermediate school, students are required to take the same classes, but they also have to take biology, chemistry, and physics. Recently, philosophy and sociology were added back as classes. For higher education, students take two to four years of classes that are part of the career that they are pursuing.
A typical school day in Brazil isn't really like it is here. In Brazil, a school day lasts from 7:00 A.M. to noon. If it is a full time class, it will go on until 5:00 P.M. At night schools, classes are from 7:00 P.M. to 10:10 P.M. Each classroom in Brazil has a television and a DVD player that is used for education. And now, the Brazilian Government is buying the students a laptop. In Brazil, all schools have uniforms that usually just say the name of the school on it. The grading scale in Brazil is A, B+, B, C+, C, D and E. And the schools have intervals between every few classes that are about 30 minutes, where students can do anything.
As you can see, the Brazilian educational system is similar to ours, but is also different from ours as well. One way that it is similar is that both Brazil and America is that we both have to take mostly the same classes consisting of History, Science, Geography, Mathematics, arts, and physical education. However, where we have to take English, Brazilian students have to take Portuguese. Another similarity is that we have the same levels of education, but ours is more spaced out than Brazil's. In conclusion, this is the basis for education, including, educational levels, requirements for the students, core classes, typical school days, and the similarities and differences between our educational systems.
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| A Brazilian School Uniform |
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Some of these levels have specific requirements in which you have to meet to be allowed in. In fundamental schools, you have to be at least seven years old, and it is mandatory for all kids seven to fourteen years old. Fundamental school is also free for all of the kids in that age group. For intermediate schools, it is not mandatory to attend, but if you do, you have three years of that and intermediate schools are also free. Higher education is also free in Brazil, but you first have to take a competitive entrance examination for whatever they are pursuing.
The required classes in Brazil are similar to those in America. In fundamental schooling, students are required to take Portuguese, History, Science, Geography, Mathematics, arts, and physical education. In intermediate school, students are required to take the same classes, but they also have to take biology, chemistry, and physics. Recently, philosophy and sociology were added back as classes. For higher education, students take two to four years of classes that are part of the career that they are pursuing.
A typical school day in Brazil isn't really like it is here. In Brazil, a school day lasts from 7:00 A.M. to noon. If it is a full time class, it will go on until 5:00 P.M. At night schools, classes are from 7:00 P.M. to 10:10 P.M. Each classroom in Brazil has a television and a DVD player that is used for education. And now, the Brazilian Government is buying the students a laptop. In Brazil, all schools have uniforms that usually just say the name of the school on it. The grading scale in Brazil is A, B+, B, C+, C, D and E. And the schools have intervals between every few classes that are about 30 minutes, where students can do anything.
As you can see, the Brazilian educational system is similar to ours, but is also different from ours as well. One way that it is similar is that both Brazil and America is that we both have to take mostly the same classes consisting of History, Science, Geography, Mathematics, arts, and physical education. However, where we have to take English, Brazilian students have to take Portuguese. Another similarity is that we have the same levels of education, but ours is more spaced out than Brazil's. In conclusion, this is the basis for education, including, educational levels, requirements for the students, core classes, typical school days, and the similarities and differences between our educational systems.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Christmas Day Page for Norway
How does Norway celebrate Christmas?
1. Families in Norway have a tradition to make baskets of colored paper to hang on a Christmas tree.
2. Every house has a Nisse, or a gnome that they put up around Christmas and the children bring it porridge.
3. On Christmas afternoon, children walk around, asking for Sand Kager, a special cookie.
4. A traditional Norwegian dinner consists of codfish, potatoes, porridge, gingerbread and punch.
5. In Norway, there is a gift-bearing little gnome or elf. Known as Julebukk, who appears as a goat-like creature.
Recipe For Krumkake
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs, beaten
3-1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt
Mix first five ingredients by hand or with a fork. Then add vanilla and salt. Mix thoroughly.
Chill dough for an hour.
Place a 1-1/2 inch round ball of dough in the center of an krumkake iron. Gently push top down. Cook on one side for about 1 minute. Turn iron over and cook other side until golden.
Roll warm cookie on a 1-1/2 inch wooden dowel or cool flat.
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