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.