Going over test

We had gone over the test we took yesterday and we had also talked about how we are going to write the essays for our final exam. We had also talked about what we need to know for the exams because we don't meet on Monday we have to review this week. 

Test

We had a test in West Civilization. It was on the government for the U.S. and Rome. It talked about how many people are in the U.S. senate and the Roman senate, and also talked about the story of Remus and Romulus, and how they were raised by a she-wolf. Also it talked about what the hill was called that Rome is built on. 

Class

I was not in class because I had a funeral to go to for my Great Grandmother.

Final day

It was the final day of project. We say a game, gladiators, and more pottery.

Presentations Day 2

We had 3 today. We had pottery, architecture, and a diary. The pottery was good I learned what they were used for. The architecture was  good it showed how temples were made to look like. The diary told me how the life of a Roman girl plebeian and a male partition was, and that they washed there cloths in pee.  

Presentations

Today we ate food and sang a song and look at a presentation. The food was good but the cheese cake was bitter. The salad and the pasta was a good mix and the apple juice was good but there was a lot of cinnamon in it. Our song was alright but we had some technical difficulty but we got it to work. Every one enjoyed it and the slides went well with the song. The last one was good it told me a lot about the the coliseum and the circus maximums that I didn't know about. 

Class

We had talked about Julius Caesar and he loyal army. The worriers of Rome we loyal to Caesar because when they deffeted a country they took what is called spoiles of war. Land, money, women, slaves, and other things. They would take them and distribute them to the soldiers and that would make them stay loyal to the army. 

Pop Quiz

We had taken a pop quiz in West Civ. It was on the video we watched and on the different branches of the government and what they are composed of. What part of the government had each thing like the senate and the consuls. 

Video

We had finished the video about Tiberius and the Roman's. The ending was brutal and it showed how the senate worked sometimes. They would sneak in people to throw off the vote so that new laws that went against the senate could be turned down. The movie at the end showed that Tiberius wanted to give the land back to the poor from the rich. The senate didn't like that Tiberius would be taking the land they used to get rich and for hunting and give it back to the poor farm owners. The senate at the end took the problem into there own hands and beat down Tiberius with sticks and chairs. There were people that had told the senate that Tiberius was calling him self king and that when they went to vote the signal for his body guard was interpreted the wrong way and they thought that he was telling his servants to bring him the crown. In Rome that was the most heinous crime you could committed was wanting to be king. 

Project day

Today we had worked on our projects. With my group we had to annotate the verses of our song to write a paragraph that explains every in of the song 

Rome again

Ya will are learning about Rome again and we have started watching a video on Ancient Rome and the after math of the Punic war. When the 50,000 slaves came in from Carthage and the other 150,000 from allover that flooded in to Italy.

Rome

We had gone over the big Rome power point and we had also went back over how there government is similar to our government. We had also talked about the Punic wars. They were fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians. Why it is called the Punic I don't know. They had come from the north down to try to attack Rome and have the element of surprise they did until word came down from the villiages that Rome controlled telling that the barbarians are attacking with elephants.   

Absent

I was not in class today.

Skill of being ahead

We have another free day to do home work because we are so far ahead of the other classes. That makes us the best class. We have the highest test average and we get all of our work done so we get days like this where we can just do our home work and we can do nothing if we are done.  

Grandparents day

I got to spend the day with my grandmother and go from class to class with her. We got to go to Spanish and west civ together. We also got to enjoy a great meal together and with the other grandparents. I just hope that there are other opportunities that I can hang out with her again soon.

Riots

We had disused the riots happening in Baltimore and what we thought about it. We had also talked about how they looting and things isn't about the death they just wanted an excuse to do it all. We had talked about what should be happening in Baltimore and what should the mayor and the governor do about it. 

Project Ideas

We had gone over what some ideas are for the Rome project and what can be in the project. We can not have anyone getting hurt or if we bring in a prop it can not be metal and it can not hurt somebody. If we do than we will fail the project and we will have disciplinary problems. 

Rome Presentation

We had gone over the song we heard yesterday and we had gone into depth about the song. We had talked about how Tarkin the proud's son had raped a highly respected woman who thought it was her fought and killed herself. Than his father says that there is nothing wrong.  

Free time

We had free time in class today. Mr Schick had to grade the last two papers so we had to be quite but we could do what we wanted. When we got our papers back I was not suprised that Evan got the highest grade he deserved it and he earned it by doing the longest part of the paper by talking about the The Iliad and The Odyssey. Both of those books are over twelve thousand line long and he had to write about those he deserved the highest grade out of the three of us. 

Rome

Mr. Schick had come in and talked to us but than her left and a singer came in and sang to us about Rome and the people that had settled in Rome. He also talked about the rulers and the way they were run and he told us the story of how Rome got its name. 

The death of Caeser

We are doing the death of Creaser for our project. We are doing a video to reenact the death of Caesar. We have to plan everything out and decide who will be who and how we and where are we doing it.

Project Again

We had talked about a project that we have to do on Rome. We can do all sorts of things such as a commercial, a video, a building, etc. There are many things that we can do and we have 4 weeks to do it and we can work in groups on this project. If we don't want to do any of those than we can just do another paper or power point. 

Video

We had watched a video about 4 guys that were imprisoned in a cave and that was the only thing they knew what was shown to them by reflections from a fire. One man was released from the cave and he had to get used to a new way of living in the upper world. When we had gone back down to the cave the others had made fun of him because he was not as fast as the others. 

Class

We had gone over the tests we had taken before break. We had gone over the answers and we had discussed the answers to some questions that we had on the test. We had got to keep the test so we can go over the answers when we have the final exam. 

Spring Break

We had taken a test on Greece. We had to watch a video and look through our notes to remember the notes we had taken. 

Finishing touches

We had to out the finishing touches on our papers. We also had a video about Ancient Greece and there culture.

DA paper

We had put the finishing touches on our paper. We are expecting to have 1500-1700 words on our paper. We have to explain the Iliad and the Odyssey and a summary of the two stories. We also had to explain his life and any other information needed by the reader about Homer. 

Paper

We had worked on the paper that we need to turn April 1st. It has to be 1000 words and uses all the information from our power points. It has to be made by every body in our group and has to give good information about the topic such as Homer and others such as the Trojan war.

Greek Gods

Today we had talked about the Greek gods and goddesses. How Zeus was the king of them all. The three main gods are Zeus, Posiden, and Hades. Zeus is the king of the Gods and the God of Thunder. Posiden, Zeus's brother and God of the sea. Then Hades the God of wealth and the ruler of the under world and also Zeus's brother.  

Presentation 2

Today we had talked about the hoplites and triremes. The hoplites were solders that had little training they had heavy armor and had long spears and short swords. They also controlled the sea with triremes. Large ships with a peace of metal on the front of it. They were controlled by 180 rowers.

Presentations

We had done the presentations on Athens vs Sparta in the Peloponnese war. We also did Homer the story teller. With Athens and Sparta they hated each other and but had more in common then one of then and the Persians. Athens treated there women with no respect and were put down. The armor they had was poor and the rich had the best and the poor were lucky to have a helmet and a side weapon. The Spartans were a very militaristic people. They were forced to train for the military at the age of 7 and actually start combat training at the age of 20 and don't get out of the army until the age of 60. Homer was thought to be a group of people that had told the stories and other believed that he was a single person that had composed the stories and told them by thought and had written them down over time. 

Isagoras and Cleisthenes

There were two people that were aristocrats that tried to take control of Athens. Isagoras and Cleisthenes. Isagoras had the vote of the other aristocrats and upper class. Cleisthenes had the vote of other upper class and lower class. When Isagoras had won to be leader he had banished Cleisthenes. His followers didn't like that so after a few years they had banished Isagoras and then a democracy was born in 508 B.C. 

My water

We had discussed the different gov't that ancient Greece had. Such as a Aristocracy and a Tiranny. There was a leader named Hippias and ruled with an iron fist. His brother was killed and he thought that they were going to kill him so he had the person responsible killed along with their family including the leaders responsible including their families also. Me.Schick was telling us how to say the different governments and with tyranny instead of tiranny and he had grabbed my water and tried to spill it on me because I would not say tyranny.

Presentation

We worked on the presentation of Homer the storyteller. There are many interesting and many useless facts about Homer.  There are many different thing that people think who Homer was. Some think he is a myth, some think he was a blind man that composed the stories and told them by memory and others believe that he was a group of people that went around telling the stories.

Presentation

Today we had started working on our presentations. Our group had found out that there are 15,963 line in the Iliad and 12,110 in the Odyssey. Homer was born in the 8th or 9th century and the Trojan was said to have started around the 12th century and Homer had wondered around telling the stories of Odysseus trying to get home from winning the war and Posiden was mad at him and made him go off course from Troy on to islands of monsters and women and other creatures.

Project

My group is David and Evan and we are doing the life and writings of Homer.

Homer the storyteller

Homer the storyteller was a blind man that had gone around wondering telling the story of Odyssey and the Iliad. Than a transformation accrued Mr. Schick transformed into Homer the storyteller and read a couple pages of the Odyssey to the class the same story he read to his daughter when she was 6. Homer (Mr. Schick) had walked into the class room acting like he could not see. Than he had walked over towards me and ran into the desks. 

Plato

Plato was a classic Greek mathematician and philosopher,
He was know to be Socrates's student.
In Athens he founded the Academy the first higher learning institute in the western world.
Born in 428 B.C. in Athens.
He said that good matters were a gift from the Gods.

Cyber day

Parthenon
Dedicated to Greek goddess Athena
Built in 447 B.C. to 438 B.C.
Used as treasury, church, and Mosque

Temple of Zeus at Cyrene
Cyrene was one of the most important Greek colonies
It was destroyed in 115 A.D. in the Jewish Rebellion and restored 5 years late

Temple of Poseidon at Sounion
Located at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula  in Greece
Constructed in 440 B.C. 
Only some columns still stand of this temple

Class

Today we had talked about the cyber assignments that Mr. Schick will give us. We had talked about frozen copses and about shoveling the drive our drive ways. We were talking about how our cyber assignment was going to be we have to describe 3 Greek architectural masterpieces.  

What color is the dress and we had a test

We had talked about what color the dress was that was driving every body crazy personalty I don't care what color the dress is all I care about is if they keep there craziness to them selves and not spread it around to others because all it is a dress how can it cause so much craziness. We had taken a test on Ancient Egypt. We had to identify what was used to build the pyramids and how used it and also what they were given for doing a good job. You had to use 75% Farmers 25% Craftsman and 10% offices. It was built out of limestone and were built in a plateau.  

Pyramid Challenge

Today we had to build a pyramid. The hardest part of the whole process was getting the work force right. The problem was that you could not use slaves and you had to navigate the Nile River that was hard because you would get the boat going fast then you would have to turn real hard and you would hit land or a crock or hippo or rocks and damage the ship and if it took you to long then you had to do it again and if your king died you had to stop and you had to do it in about 20 years or you would fail.

Egypt

We had talked about the daily life of Egyptians and there pyramids and the social ladder of society. We also talked about the Great Sphinx of Giza. How the Napoleon and his army had shot the nose off the sphinx and people tried to fix it but the people o Egypt wanted to keep it the way it was. We had also talked about how they learned to spread the water out so that there homes were not destroyed when the Nile flooded.

Quiz

We had taken a quiz on the 14 animals that were able to be domesticated and were over 100 pounds. We also had identify were certain plants were grow such as corn, rice and bananas. If we had taken notes from the movie we would have been fine. But if you had not taken notes and not studied then you were in trouble. We also had to pick some thing that Jared Diamond would say.  

Presentations

Today we did presentations. The only one we did was the presentation on animals. The animals that people were able domesticate. Such as the Llama, Horses, Pig, Sheep, and Goats. The Llamas were used for the meat and the fur. The horses were used for there strength and for their meat. Pig were used only for their meat because they were not big enough to pull a plow behind them. Sheep had many uses the were used for there meat, milk and fur and were the easiest to domesticate. Cattle were used for their meat, milk and strength to pull plows. 

Project

Today in class we had been assigned a research project topic. Then for the rest of the class we had researched our topics so that we could present them tomorrow in class. The topics were animals that were domesticated, crops grown, longitude and climate, smallpox and steel were the 5 topics we could chose from. You had to find information about each topic and we have to present it in front of the class.

Guns, Germs and Steels the ending

Today we had finished the movie Guns, Germs and Steel. At the end of the movie they had talked about the invention of metal tools and how the people in the middle east heated lime stone and made plaster of the inside of their houses. The people in the middle east when the over farmed the land they were smart enough to stay along the same longitude line so that they would could raise the same animals and grow the same crops. At that time they didn't know that if you stay on a longitude line then you can grow the same crops and it will have the same climate. Then at the end Diamond could answer the mans question about how Americans have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little the answer was that the people of New Guinea were dealt a hand that fit their environment.  

Domestication of animals and food

The people in the middle east domesticated wheat and barley for food and also domesticated animals such as goat, sheep, pigs and cows. In the middle east they showed the first sign of civilization and a permanent settlement and storing of grain and domesticated animals. In New Guinea they don't have the animals and the crops to provide for a large group of people and they had to collect the food they grew for them selves and they had to plant the food for them selves so they were not growing as much food as the other societies.     

Test

Lord today we have a test help us please do our best, lord today we have a quiz tell us what the answers is. We had taken a test to day we could use our blogs. I had nothing in my blog that could help me on the test. I had a whole bunch of nothing on my blog. We had questions on the test that came right out of my notes just I didn't put any of them on my blog.

Higher arkey

Today we had gone over who was more important in Babylonian society. The men were at the top they could do all the manly jobs like kill things and rule over the people. The women were seen as second class citizens the only job they had was to stay home to take care of the children and the house.The men made the rules and ran the people. Then they were separated into two different groups of people the partitions and the plebeians.  

Class discussion

We had picked out different laws in Hammurabi's code that stood out to the class. I had picked if a builder builds a house and if holds the owner pays him 2 shekels and if it kills the owner the builder dies and if the son of the owner dies then the son of the builder dies. If a man strikes a man of higher class than 60 blows with an ox hide, if you strike a patrician then you pay one mina of silver, and if you strike a man plebeian then you 10 shekels.

Hammurabi's code

Today in class we had gone over Hammurabi's code. The code was directed towards men. We had talked about Indo-Europeans like the Hittites. How the people of Mesopotamia had created the first form of writing cuneiform. How Hammurabi's code was the first written book of any law that was around that day and time. 

First Blog

Today we were fighting with our computers to get our new bloggers up and running so that we could do our home work tonight.