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