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.