tuesday's class

Today in class, pretty much all I did was study for the test tomorrow.  Parker, Jeremiah, and I talked about our paper that also is due tomorrow.  That's about it, it is getting very boring without Mr. Schick around.  Well... I'll talk to you tomorrow, then after tomorrow i'll be off for a decent amount of days because of spring break!!!! woooooohh!!! cya

Friday's class

Yesterday in class people worked on their papers and I guess a couple of people might of watched the video on Ancient Greece.  Parker and Jeremiah finished their paper yesterday while I was watching the video because I already finished my part of the paper.  I watched almost all of the video, there's 12 minutes left in the video that I will watch on Tuesday.  Once I finish the video in class I will look over my notes because the test on Ancient Greece is the next day.  I will begin looking over the power point and notes that I took in class today to get a good start on the material. 

 Parker, Jeremiah, and I wrote a little bit over the 1,000 word mark for the paper.  Hopefully Mr. Schick won't mind to much.  

That's about all I have to blog to you about today, Cya Tuesday

Thursday's class

Today is the first class of the whole semester that Mr. Schick has not been here.  We're working on our paper that is due next Wednesday.  I finished mine so tomorrow and Tuesday I will be able to watch the video on Ancient Greece that will help us with our test.  Fun fun times... I'll blog back to you tomorrow.  Cya

Wednesday's power point presentation

Today in class we finally presented our presentation.  I did ok, i had expectations of doing better but I don't think I did as well as I could have, but oh well.  Tomorrow I believe Mr. Schick will be gone until next tuesday.  He is going to I think Amsterdam to visit his daughter in college.  Which is awesome.  Hope he has a safe plane ride and has fun over there, he'll probably be happy not having to see us all for a couple days.

tuesdays power points

Today in class a couple groups presented their power points.  They talked about the art and literature of the Ancient Greeks, The type of people in the wars and that's about it.  Tomorrow my group will finally present our powerpoint and I'm excited to present it.  It should be good.
That's about all I have today, I'll blog back to you tomorrow... CYaa

Friday's presentations

Today in class two groups presented their power point to the class.  The one powerpoint was on the war and difference between Athens and Sparta.  Also giving information about both cities and described their lifestyle a little bit.
The other group that presented had talked about Homer, who was a blind man that wrote and told a story called The Odyssey.  They also talked about what people thought of Homer.  Some people think that Homer is a mythical person that people made up, but most think that he was a real person, though he was blind.
That's all we did today, Mr. Schick said that he would look at our powerpoints over the weekend and grade them for the third quarter which in awesome.
I'll blog back to you Tuesday... Cya

Thursday's class

Today in class we looked over a couple slides on Cleisthenes and Isagoras.  They were both aristocrats and they were fighting over a position to run Greece.  Isagoras had support from fellow aristocats and he even had support from Sparta.   Cleisthenes had support from the Athenian people though.
Isagoras won the election but a couple years after he got kicked out of office from the Athenian people and from the help of Cleisthenes.
After that Cleisthenes took over Greece and people loved him.
After we took notes on the few slides we watched some of the video that Mr. Schick posted on his blog that will help us with the test.
That's all we did today, so I'll blog to you tomorrow... maybe from home because they are calling for 2-4 inches of snow haahaha fun.  Cya

Tuesday's Class

Today in class we took some notes on the Greek governments.  Aristocracy and Tyrannies.  Aristocrats seemed to gamble around and make deals for their government success.  They didn't really take things seriously because when they would have meetings, they would have lots of wine to get drunk and they would have women, to entertain them in sexual ways.  After that government was over there were people called tyrants.  Tyrants basically did whatever was best for them.  There was one tyrant ruling Greece at a time.  Nobody liked the rules of Tyrants except for them.  They are very selfish.  We talked about Hippias, but with my power point I was talking about Hippias so I have good information about him.  

I'll blog back to you tomorrow.  Cya

Tuesday's class

Today in class Jess brought brownies.  They were very good.  After we ate the brownies Mr. Schick let us work all class on our power point that we will be presenting Friday.  Parker and I pretty much finished our part of the power point, Jeremiah is still working on his.  Since I already had most of my power point done I started the essay that is due on April 1st.  I got almost a whole page done talking about Tyrannies.  It is looking good so far.  So that's all we did today I will blog back to you tomorrow.  Cya

Friday's class

Today in class Mr. Schick let us work on our powerpoint project with our group.  My group got a good amount of the power point done.  I'm pretty sure we only have a couple more slides to fill and then we'll just proof read it and make sure everything makes sense.  I'm glad that we got to work on it in class today that way we could be productive and get most of it done.
That's all we did today, so i'll blog back to you on tuesday.  Cya

Thursday's class

Today in class we goofed off for most of the first mod.  Mr. Schick's daughter facetimed him from France in class.  Today is her birthday so we wished her a happy birthday and then he talked to her for a bit.  After that was over, we went over our big project again because a lot of people were missing yesterday and wouldn't of known what to do.
In the second mod of class we got together with our groups and worked on our powerpoint.  Our group got set up and we are using google slides that way we can all work on it together and communicate together while working on it.  We all figured out which topic we would do.  I got the definition of my subject.
I'll blog back to you tomorrow.

Wednesday's class

Today in class we quickly went over the powerpoint of Greece and then we took a 10 question pop quiz.  It scared me because I wasn't prepared and I thought it would  be really hard, but it wasn't.  It was fairly easy and I am pretty sure I got a 90 out of 100.  After that Mr. Schick told us about a project that he is giving us to do.  In groups of three we have do make a powerpoint on a type of subject that we chose.  We also have to write out a 1,000 word paper.  He didn't give much detail on the paper today but he said he would tell us more about it later on.  The powerpoint is due a week from friday and the paper is due April 1st.
My group that I'm working with for the project is Parker, Jeremiah, and myself.

Tuesday Class

Today in class we took more notes on Ancient Greece.  Here are some notes I took

• The Ionian River is located south of Greece
• The workers of Greece are Sailors, Ship Builders, Farmers, Metal Workers, Weavers, and Potters
• Fertile valleys cover a quarter of the peninsula
• 20% of Greece is suitable for farming
• The main foods that they grew are grains, grapes, and olives
• they made very good wine out of all the grapes they farmed
• the lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
• Mycenaeans influence began around 2000 BC
• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 foot thick wall
• Mycenaean Kings dominated Greece from 1600-2000 BC
• Mycenaeans invaded Crete and Absor
• Around 1200 BC the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, burnt palace after palace
• Dorians moved into this worn-torn region
• They are less advanced
• Trade base economy collapsed
• writing disappeared for 400 years
• Homer
• Greek oral tradition - stories passed on by word of mouth
• He lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages"
• he was blind
• composed lots of stories from Trojan War
• The Iliad - one of last conquests of the Mycenaeans 
• The Odyssey - story of Odysseus winning the war, he wanted to get home but Poseidon was mad at him so he wasn't letting Odysseus get home easily

After we took our notes we had some time left in class so Mr. Schick decided to read some of the book Odyssey to us.  He was pretending to be Homer so he put glasses on and was acting blind, it was pretty funny.
Thanks for reading, I'll blog back tomorrow.

Cyber day

This is Aristotle, he is a Greek philosopher and a scientist.  He was born in Macedonian city of Stargira, Chalkdice, on the northern border of Classical Greece.  His father Nicomachus died when Aristotle was a child.  After his father died, Proxenus of Atarneus became Aristotles protector.  When Aristotle was 18 he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until he was 37.  The writings he covered were - physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aestheics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, and government.  After Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and went to tutor Alexander the Great.  Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-living life.  What we need, in order to apply that general understanding to particular cases, we must have, through proper upbringing and techniques, the ability to see which course of action is best supported by reasons.  Therefore practical wisdom, as he tells, cannot be given solely by general rules.  We must also have through practice, those deliberative, emotional, and social skills that enable us to put our general understanding of well-being into practice in ways that are suitable to each occasion.  That is his approach to philosophy.  Aristotle lived from 384 BCE to 322 BCE.  Aristotle is known for many writings, here are some: The Athenian Constitution, On Dreams, On the Gait of Animals, On Generation and Corruption, and On the Heavens.  That is just some writings that I picked out.  There are many more.  Besides Aristotle being a philosopher, he could of also been a scientist.  That was something else that he was pretty good at and had a good understanding of.  He is still important today because he laid the foundation of Western Culture, and his ideas and insights still dictate essential features of our world right now.
This is my cyber day assignment... again.  I'll blog back to you on Tuesday, because we don't have class Monday.  Hope you enjoy this writing of Aristotle.  

Cyber Day

The Parthenon is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Greece.  The construction the Parthenon started in 447 B.C. and it was completed in 432 B.C.  The purpose of it was to house a massive statue called Athena Parthenos.  It was made from ivory, silver, and gold.  Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art.  The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece.  

The Valley of the Temples is located outside the city of Agrigento, Sicily.  The remains of these seven Greek temples is called the Valley of the Temples.  The Temple of Concordia, built is the 5th centurt B.C. , is the best Temple Duric that has been standing and is still one of the largest. Other Temples in the Valley are the Temple of Juno, use for weddings, and the temple of Heracles, which is the oldest Temple at the site which today consists of only eight columns.   

Paestum is an ancient Greci-Roman city in southern Italy, not far from the beach.  The side shows three fairly well preserved Greek temples.  The oldest temple is Paestum is the Temple of Hera, it was built around 550 B.C. by Greek colonists.  Today the remainder of the ciry is found in the modern Fraizione of the same name, which is part of the comune of Capaccio in the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.  

Discussion day

Today in class Mr. Schick was going over what the plan for tomorrow is.  He thinks that we will be off tomorrow and maybe friday.  We talked about the cyber assignment for tomorrow.  Jayla shared a story of people finding a girl that died over 100,000 years ago in the snow and she still looked like us.  I asked Mr. Schick if we could go to the cafeteria but he said no... that's about all we did today.  I'm sure I'll be blogging from home tomorrow.

Notes on Greece

Today in class we went over some of the powerpoint that Mr. Schick presented to us.  Here are some of the topics and facts that we took notes on:

·      All great civilizations were located on a river. 

Here are some of the great civilizations that began on a river:

v Mesopotamia/ Tigris and Euphrates river

v Egypt/Nile River

v India/Indus River

v China/Huang He River

·      There’s about 1,400 islands off the coast of Greece

·      Mediterranean Sea means – the middle of the earth

·      Greece is considered a peninsula

·      Adriatic Sea is on the west side of Greece

·      Aegean Sea is on the east of Greece

·      Island of Crete is down in south/southeast of Greece

·      Athens on the water

·      Sparta is more inland in Greece

These are all the notes I took in class today about Greece and its geography