Wednesday's class

Today in class Mr. Schick gave us a 10 question pop quiz on Rome.  I got 7 out of 10 questions right.  After that he quickly graded and went over the quiz.  Once we did that he let us get into our groups and work on our Rome project which is due, I believe this Monday.  We got a good amount of work done which is good.  That's all we did today.. talk to you tomorrow.

Tuesday's class

Today in class we finished watching the rest of the movie about Tiberius and ancient Rome.  The rest of it was about pretty much one single topic.  This was, once Tiberius made a trus with the Spaniards, his city senate was very upset and mad at him.  They decided to not punish him though, but to punish the general who commanded him to talk with the Spaniards.
After that, Tiberius was very mad at Octavius for stealing poor peoples land.  He decided to be a tribune and give the people their fair share of money that the Senate took from them, and give it back to the people.  Eventually, after fighting with a lot of the other tribunes, he passed that law and all of the poor people supported him.
But it gets better... once he passed the law, Octavius and the Senate became very angry with him.  They decided to start telling the people that he was running just to be the king, which is a very bad thing to try and elect yourself as king.  They made the people so mad and the people began to stop supporting him.  Eventually it got so bad that he was beaten to death and that was the end.

Overall it was a good video and I enjoyed learning about what happened with Tiberius.

Friday's class

Today in class we got a break from the huge Rome powerpoint because Mr. Schick isn't in class today.  He told the sub that we have to work on our Rome project that is due two mondays from today.  We got a lot done on the Powerpoint today which is good.  After that I worked on other homework.  That's all we did today... talk to you next tuesday

Thursday's class

Today in class we talked a little bit then we watched a movie.  The movie was about Rome.  We only saw the first 30 minutes or so and it showed the part where Rome went into Carthage and absolutely demolished the city.  We also saw Tiberius junior take over the leadership role in the military.  He talked to one of his friends and then realized that he was a person that would take poor womens land and sell them it for cheap.  They would have to vacate to Rome once he did that and there was a lot of slavery in Rome at the time because of that reason.  I am assuming we will see more of the video tomorrow.
Talk to you tomorrow.

Wednesdays class

Today in class we went over more of the Rome powerpoint.  Mr. Schick really focused on the three big wars that Rome fought.  The wars were called Punic Wars.  These wars were against the people of Carthage.  The first war was all on water.  They used big ships with metal spikes on the sides and bashed into each other.  Rome came out with the victory in that war.  The second war, which happened almost two decades after was very strategic, and very very long.  The leader of Carthage had a plan to send all of his troops (including his elephants) all the way around Rome and into the Northern part of Italy, trying to come at them with a surprise attack.  This war was 15 years long... because of the such long travel the Carthage troops had to Italy.  Once they got into Italy, they made their way down through the country pretty easily, but the bad part was that they did not destroy the city of Rome.  They destroyed pretty much everything else in Italy besides Rome.  Which is a big break for the Romans.
The third war doesn't take place too long after the second.  Rome decides that they just want to be done with Carthage.  All they did was send a bunch of troops in and flat out destroy them.  Carthage burnt down to pieces in only 17 days.  With all the people that survived from Carthage, Rome took them back and put them into slavery.  After that Rome went on with their lives and didn't do much else... that I know of now.
I'll talk to you tomorrow... cya later

Tuesday's notes

Today in class Mr. Schick went over more of the Rome powerpoint.  Here are some of the notes I took today

Three governments into one

• the rule of the king is replaced by the rule of two consuls
• consuls were elected by people
• office term is one year
• they were always Aristocrats
• Patricians traced their descent from a famous ancestor called a pater of father
• Consuls jobs were: dealing justice, making laws, commanding the army
• one consul could reduce the power of the other

Challenge came from regular people

• 5th century BCE - patrician dominance of the government was challenged by plebs (people)
• plebs were 98% of the people
• couldn't hold office
• plebs were threatened with debt slavery
• plebs had no legal rights

No Legal Rights

• plebs were victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial 
• Rome had no written laws
• Patricians interpreted laws to their own language
• Plebs refused to serve in the military
• Laws, called The Law of The Twelve Tables were written out
• Laws on tablet were posted to public in 450 BCE
• Tribunes (tribal leaders) were elected

SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanum 

• designates any decree or decision made by Roman Senate and People

Peoples Affairs 

• res publica means peoples affairs
• democracy (peoples assembly and the Tribunes)
• Aristocracy - senate
• Monarchy - consuls
• not a tyranny

Ancient Rome/USA

• originally U.S. modeled their government like Ancient Rome
• both had 3 branches of government:
• executive
• legislative
• judicial
• both countries have a legal code

That's about all I can post for notes from today.  I'll talk to you tomorrow... cya

Friday's class

Mr. Schick came into class today and he said that our class is the most ahead of all of his other classes.  Once he told us that he let us work on homework for other classes.  That's all we did today is just do homework in class.  I'll talk to you on Tuesday... have a good weekend... cya