Ann: I got us into the castle show. Here is the ticket.
| COUNTY MUSEUM · Ancient Weapons |
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| Saturday, 10:00 to 17:00 |
| Student 80 · Under 6 free · Double price at Halloween |
| Guided talk 11:00 and 14:00, 40 minutes |
| No photos in Room 2 · Enter by the left-hand door |
Ken: Let us take the 11:00 talk. Then we can eat after.
Ann: Good. My little brother is five, so he does not pay.
Ken: Tell him about Room 2 before we go in. He will want to take photos of everything.
Grade 8 · Hand in at the beginning of March
Choose one building, road or bridge in this town and find out what was there before it. The principal will read the best three.
You may not use only what you find online. At least one of your sources must be a person or a paper you have held in your hand. If the person you talk to cannot remember clearly, write that down too; it is part of the answer.
Do not choose the old wall. Eleven students chose it last year, and the library has no more material about it.
Dear Sir,
I am a Taiwanese student at Sun Hill School. Our class is studying the old wall in the north of the county for a history project.
At the wall there is a sign with four lines about that particular king; you can point a finger at two dates on it. Two dates on that sign do not agree with the dates in the county history book of 1978, which we found in the library. The sign says the work started in 1420; the book says 1428.
We are not sure which is correct, and we do not assume the sign is wrong. Could somebody tell us where the date on the sign came from? If it is an error, many visitors read it every week.
Chen Li, Grade 8
Walk through any old town and count the stone figures. Most of them show men who took armies to war. Almost none are of the people who built the roads under your feet.
This is not because nobody thought those people mattered. It is because a stone figure costs money, and for most of history the people with money were the people with power. A town remembers what somebody had the money to have remembered.
Some towns now put up small signs: the name of the woman who ran the first school, the family who kept the river boat for eighty years. They cost almost nothing. But a child who reads one learns that history is not only made by the people on horses.