done

Today in Western Civ, we completed our paper. I did what I needed to do over the weekend, so I just watched the rest of the movie. After we were complete, we worked on cited sources. It was very easy because Kendall found a website for it. I hope we can get a good grade on the test. The two videos were very interesting and helpful. I can't wait for Mr. Schick comes back because I don't like having all of these subs. The test is tomorrow, and I have been studying hard.

4 days until break

Today in Western Civ, we worked on the project some more. We are 700 words in, and is going very well so far. We just have to talk about the art, philosophy, and then a conclusion and we will be finished. I wish Mr. Schick was back, so that we could ask him questions about the paper and the upcoming test. I hope I can can get a B or above. It will be a hard test, and have to study more.

300 word in

Today in Western Civ, we worked on our research paper. Mr. Schick is in the Netherlands visiting her daughter in college. Me, Kendall, and Ellee worked on the paper for the entire class, and already have 300 words. I think we might be able to finish this tomorrow, or Monday. I actually don't like working in groups because then it's harder for us to think the same, and we usually have different ideas then each other. I think I'm going to do very bad on the test because I was very confused when everyone was doing their presentations. and didn't know what to write down. I hope I can figure something out to do well on the test.

i left early

Today in Western Civ, we did the last two presentations. The first group talked about Greek Mythology. They are polytheistic which means they believe in many gods. All the most important gods are called Greek Parathion. The important God's are; Zeus (god of sky), Poseidon (god of sea), Athena (goddess of reason, intelligent activity, and arts and literature), Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty), Hera (goddess of marriage and queen of olympus), and there a lot more important ones, but those are the most important ones.  The next group talked about gov't in Ancient Greece. I left early, so I didn't get to hear all of it. Aristocracy is a form of go't which the power is in the hands of small power people. The power is also hereditary which means it's passed from father to son. The last important thing is that they have a tyranny. A tyranny is when you have one ruler and that person made laws.

more presentations

Today in Western Civ, we continued to do our presentations. Our group went and I think we  did pretty well because Mr. Schick said we did a very good job describing it instead of just reading the slide. One group did their presentation of Hoplites and Triremes. 1/2-1/3 of men in ancient Greece estimated to have been able to fight and buy the needed materials for war. The Triremes were the battle ships that they used. They could plow right into other ships and destroy it while doing that. The next group talked about  Art & Architecture. The three types of architecture is Doric order, Ionic order, and corinthian order. They are all cool, and this is a fun coarse.

blog thursday 3/19

Today in western civ,  we learned more about the powerpoint on greeece. We learned many things about Isagoras and cleisthenes. Isagoras won power after Hippias, and then cleisthenes supporters rose up and Isagoras kicked out. In 508 BCE is when the democracy started to grow in Greece. At the end of class, Mr. Schick showed us part of the video that we are going to watch while he is in the Netherlands.

Transformation of gov't day 1

Today in West Civ, we learned about aristocrats and other topics. Aristocrats ran most of Greece from 6-7 BCE. Rich people influenced society. Aristocracy is ruled by Aristocrats. Symposiums were the meetings where elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, but it was bad because most of the people were drunk and say things they weren't supposed to, so certain aristocrats were excluded. The main word we talked about was ostracize which means to banish. More on this tomorrow

16 slides in

Today in Western Civ, we worked more on our presentation. Kendall wasn't there in class, so Ellee and I worked on it. We got a lot done with the time that we had. We now have 16 slides, and it is looking very good so far. I hope that we can get an A on this project, so that I can finish the quarter off with an A.

10 slides in

Today in western civ, we worked on our slides again. Our group got a lot done as other didn't because they were usually talking. It was a pretty fun working on it, and think we are going to get a pretty good grade on it. I hope we can get an A.

Today in Western Civ, we FaceTimed Mr. Schick's daughter who is in France. We FaceTimed her because it was her birthday. After that we worked on our power points a little bit. Our group already has 4 slides on pericles and the golden age. This is going to be a fun project and can't wait to get into it more. Here are the facts I gathered.

Pericles and his early years

• Pericles was born in 495 B.C.
• Xanthippus, his father was a hero of the Persian war.
• His mother was a member of a noble family.
• He started his career in the law courts.
• Born into a wealthy family, had good education.
• Lover of philosophy, art, and literature.

3.11.15

Today in Western Civ, we mainly talked about the upcoming projects. We have to make a powerpoint and write a paper in our groups. Mr. Schick let us pick our own group and I'm with Ellee and Kendall. We are doing a fun project. We also had a pop quiz and I got a 90%

Today in Western Civ, we talked a little more about Ancient Greece. We talked about the other sea called the Ionian Sea which is south of the Adriatic. They had Arable land which means it can be farmed very easily. The greeks diet consisted of  grains, grapes, olives, but that's not everything. They had nice weather all year round, and colonization was key. A group we talked about is Mycenaeans.  This group started in 200 BCE, located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 foot thick wall. Their kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE, and they controlled trade. 1400 BCE, they invaded Crete. Another group we talked about was the Sea people and Dorians. They invaded Mycenae in 1200 BCE. The Dorians weren't advanced and they had no writing and the writing disappeared for 400 years. We don't know who sea people are because of no writing. The last person we talked about is Homer the storyteller. They formed during the Greek Dark Ages, and taught people about this. The Lliad and the Odyssey are by Homer. There has been a question if Homer actually existed which is called the "Homeric question". At the end of class, Mr. Schick read us a little bit of the Odyssey.

Plato

Plato:
He was a very important Greek philosopher who lived from 427 BC and 328 BC. His approach to philosophy is about that ideas  aren't authentically know unless you speak them. The writing he his know for is mostly about dialogues, and this makes his reading way cooler in style. As a person he taught Aristotle, and was a student of Socrates. He is know today for all his ideas in his works which made him the kinda of guy he is.

Cyber day assignment 3/5/15

Temple of Hera
-Located on the coast of Sicily
-It was founded by colonists from Megara in the 7th centruy
-The colonists built it where it is because the land there is really fertile and ideal for agriculture.

Temple of Apollo at Didyma
-Built around 300 BC
-Located in Didyma, Turkey
-The design of this structure is know as dipteral, which refers to the two sets of columns surrounding the interior section.

The Parthenon
-Buit in 447 BC
-Located in Athens, Greece
-People consider this structure as their patron

Pre cyber day

Today in Western Civ, we talked about tomorrows cyber day. We talked about if we would have school tomorrow and Friday because of the potential snow. Mr. Schick also told us about what kind of assignments we should expect, and we also talked about plagiarism and how kids are doing this in school. Ellee and I got into an argument about ghosts and if they are real or not. They are not real at all, but she denied that.

Ancient Greece

Today in Western Civ, we talked about Ancient Greece. It was pretty interesting with all the things Mr. Schick taught us. I learned that Mesopotamia's river's are the Tigris and Euphrates, Egypt's river is the Nile River, India's river is the Indus river, and China's river is the Huang He River. More facts that we learned is that 1400 islands off the coast of Greece. It is considered a peninsula because it has water on all three sides. This is important because then you can trade, build ships, fish, etc. The most important fact that we learned was that Mediterranean means middle of earth. A cool fact we learned was that it was faster to sail around Greece that it was to go right across it. The Adriatic sea is west of Greece, and the Aegean sea is east of Greece, but these two seas are part of the Mediterranean, but just separated into two sections. The Island of Crete is south of Greece, and the capital of Greece is Athens.