Ancient Egypt Imovie Reflection

My class (6B) has been studying the ancient Egyptians. We were then asked to choose a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and then create an imovie with information about architectural achievements, accomplishments, an introduction to the pharaoh and the time period and dynasty in which he/she ruled. My partner (Kennedy) and I chose to study queen Hatshepsut.

I believe we had most all of the requirements in the rubric included our imovie project. Our introduction about Queen Hatshepsut was relevant to the imovie and we included the time period and the dynasty in which she ruled. We gave background information such as the name of her parents, husband and her son.We also included other information such as how she became pharaoh and how she lost her power.My partner and I included information about Hatshepsut and her accomplishments. We included only 2 or 3 accomplishments she made during her reign. I think we should have included a few more. We were also asked to include information about Hatshepsut's architectural achievements. My partner and I had information about the statues,temples and monuments she ordered to be made. We then added information about what gods Hatshepsut showed loyalty to by having each building created.

I think that my partner and I co-operated well throughout this project. By sharing documents and notes via email when working at home, we were both able to see what had been done and what still needed doing. Unfortunately we missed a lot of work time as my partner and I both had to go and practice for an Chinese new year assembly.The only major problem apart from that was being able to send the imovie file to computers at school. Our emails were unable to send because it was 54Mb in size. In the end we used a web based site (www.yousendit.com) to download and send the file.

During this imovie assignment my partner and I both had to learn how to cite our sources in MLA citation format. Neither of us had done this before, resulting in us doing part of it incorrectly. Our citations for our websites and book sources were correct, but the citations for the images were not. When collecting the images we collected the image URL and not the website URL which we were also supposed to collect, therefore making our MLA citations for our images incomplete.

We were also asked to choose someone other than our partners and give feedback about their imovie. I choose to comment on Tem and Yu Ern's imovie on King Tut. They had a interesting and relevant introduction to the pharaoh. They included the dynasty and the time in which he ruled. They mentioned only 1 or 2 of King Tuts accomplishments during his reign. They included a few of the architectural achievements of King Tut and what gods he showed loyalty to by creating them. I really liked how they acted out the beginning and how the narration matched the images on the screen. I think that they could improve the speed of their narration, it was a bit too fast. Sometimes it was hard for me to understand what they were saying. Overall I thought it met most of the rubrics requirements.