A social studies project byWiley Ogburn

MY INDIAN LIFEINCAN

if you can read this, you don’t need glasses

My name is Cuntur, which means condor. I am 16 years

old and was bornon may 28, 1491 I am part of the Incaempire. My family and I live inthe mountains.This is…..

IN THE INCA MOUNTAINS

MY STORY… (And my boring journal.)

Oooooooh… its hard doing all this work. My dad is teaching me how to chisel a piece of stone. He says I should be an architect when I gr- oh wait…. I didn't see you there. This is my house. It has a straw roof and walls

of stone. If danger comes to our town, we hide in a big stone fortress that protects us.

Wait just a sec, no dad I don’t care if your stone is blue! Anyway… I should talk about our clothes. We make stylish tunics out of llama and alpaca fur. we dye and weave them together. We eat corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, beans, tapioca, peppers, peanuts, and quinoa. we grow them on things called terraces (the

structure not your cousin.)We eat cuy (that’s guinea pig) andalpaca (Yummy!) for protein. We drink llama milk and water, of course (just water, not llama water).

Journal entry #1: Housing and Food

no it isn’t, my sister was just messing with my journal.sorry about that.

We Incas live in 3 different regions: the mountains, the jungle, and the desert. If you can read,

you would know that I live in the mountains.There are a lot of bridges that go acrossravines, but when the enemy approaches,we burn them!! In the jungle,there is a lot of fruit and wood, but we don’t live there.In the dese- wait a sec, dad! I don’t care about your tunic!!!! Yes it looks nice, (like

a llama threw up

on it…) so be quiet!!!!! phew… now, about the desert, it is more than 2,000 miles long,

so don’t try to hike through it. It is very dry, but… it still has a few rivers in it.Wait, I gotta eat dinner. We have some friends coming over and I’d hate to miss

it.Be back in a few hours!!!!!!!!!

Journal entry #2: Geography

DERP

Whew! It is hot out! The weath- oh! you’re here again! I should talk about the weather.

Most of the time, it is just average. But sometimes, it can be snowy or rain just pours down on

us. When it snows, it can snow a lot, because we are up in the mountains. In the jungle, it is dry,

and rainy. In the desert……… I think you can guess. So mostly, we get average weather

conditions. So th- MOM!!! WHY THE HECK DID YOU SNEAK UP ON ME LIKE

THAT!!! Can’t you see I’m trying to write!!! Okay… we get perfect weather for farming and

now I am scared of my mom………… so we get sunny weather, and sometimes bad weather.

So I’ll see you next time!

Journal entry #3: Weather

Things aren’t looking to good for us. You know my uncle? The crazy hermit? Well he told us

that some people in weird helmets were coming to take us. Nobody believed him, but

he was right. The next day, weird people came on weird things they called horses.

I don’t trust them, and I am not going near them. They have more powerful weapons

and are messing up our farms. I noticed a lot of people are getting a weird sickness

that we can’t fix. I sense a dark future for us Incas. This is all I can write because I have a

thing that they call a gun pointed to my neck. I’d better stop now. Bye!!!!

REFLECTION #1, 20 years later

(Not that kind.)

Finally!! Last important slide! I shall now write my last reflection.I learned more about the lifestyle of the Incas and what there names are.My dad helped me learn that “Ozcollo” is not, in fact, Incan.I liked being creative and making Cuntur say stuff like “it looks like a llamathrew up on it…”. I didn’t like writing about weather because I couldn’t find good resources. To be honest, I would grade myself a B+. I don’t know what I would do differently if I had to do it again. I had to write the project all over again because the *** computer deleted it after I did 2 journal entries . I am thankful that my dad is anarcheologist because then I would not know all this stuff about the Incas. He took

me andmy family to Peru, and went to Machu Picchu and let us learn a lot of stuff. I hopeyou appreciate all this work I have done and I am sorry my person could not be anocelot.THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( P.S. yes, Inca do eat guinea pigs. )

REFLECTION #2

?, ?. (Photographer). (2012, 08 03). condor2 [Web Photo]. Retrieved from http://www.conservacionpatagonica.org/blog/2012/08/03/species-profile-andean-condor/

?, ?. (Producer). (?, ? ?). [Info]. Retrieved from http://www.ask.com/question/what-clothes-did-the-incas-wear

?, ?. (Producer). (?, ? ?). [Info]. Retrieved from http://www.ask.com/question/what-did-the-incas-eat Donn. (Producer). (?, ? ?). [Info]. Retrieved from http://incas.mrdonn.org/geography.html ?, ?. (Producer). (?, ? ?). [Info]. Retrieved from http://incas.homestead.com/inca_domestic_animals.html Hagen, V. H. (Producer). (1996, 02 28). [Web Photo]. Retrieved from

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/incas/collier.htm

Special thanks to my dad!!!!

SOURCES

PICTURES I TOOK IN PERUJust a little extra. ;)

Machu Picchu!

The 12 angled stone in Cusco.The curved wall in Qorikancha.

A cathedral in the town square.

Niches in Machu Picchu. Mountains over

Cusco.

My dad.

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