After our morning journal entry, reading the papers and completing postcards, today we started to study about the Industrial Revolution, and the role that Iron Bridge Gorge played. After class, we broke up into groups to start a scavenger hunt. My group's scavenger hunt took us to the University's Natural History Museum, and the Pitt Rivers Museum. Along the way, we ran into Woodberry teacher Mr. Ryan Alexander and his wife, Mrs. Mandy Alexander, who are living in Oxford for part of the summer. We chatted with them, and then continued our scavenger hunt. One of my favorite things that we saw while at the museum was a full skeleton of a T-rex. It was amazing to me that we were able to walk so close to it that we could almost touch it. The Pitt Rivers museum contained a collection of pottery, and many other pieces of artwork from ancient tribes around the world. One of my favorite artifacts in this museum was the giant totem pole that was the same height as the museum. Our next stop on the scavenger hunt was another college in Oxford, Keble College. Here we were able to find a painting called The Light of The World. This painting depicted Jesus holding a lantern, and it was located in a dark area of the college's chapel. Once you pressed a button, the lantern would illuminate, revealing the beautiful painting. During class after dinner we continued our reading and discussion of the Industrial Revolution and made plans for our trip Thursday to Iron Bridge Gorge.
William Hunt
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| Blog author writing his morning journal entry. |
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| Ryan and Mandy Alexander in front of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
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| Pitt Rivers Museum. |
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| T. rex in front hall of Natural History Museum. |
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| Various mammal skeletons in Natural History Museum. |
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| Trilobite from Carboniferous period. |
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