5/27

Today's class a shorter class because of the senior award assembly. Due to that, we had a shorter class that was 30 minutes long. In that 30 minutes we had to write two essays for our final exam. Originally we were going to have to do three essays but thankfully Mr. Schick only made us write two. I feel like I did very well on both essays so hopefully I did do well.

5/26

I left school early because I had a doctors appointment.

5/22

I will not be in class today because I am sick.

5/19

Today in class Kelsey's group presented their project along with Luke's group. Both groups did very well. Some of the stuff that Kelsey's group were teaching about I had never heard of. It was actually very interesting. I knew there were outside baths and hot springs but I didn't know that there is a "facility" of baths with all different kinds of baths. Luke's group taught about Crucifixion. That is also another I didn't know was some what common. I know about Jesus being crucified but I didn't know that it was an option for punishment.

5/18

I was not in school today because I was not feeling very well.

5/15

Today we finished up our projects that are due Monday. I also found out that we have to include a paper that talks about our project and the research of our project.

5/13

Today Mr. Schick surprised us with a pop quiz. The quiz was not very hard but I got two dumb questions wrong that I should have gotten right.

5/12

Today in class Kelsey and I taught the class. We were doing a great job but a few students including Bob Schick was being very disrespectful and disruptive to the class. So we gave up the job to Stevie and Hunter. They did horrible.

5/11

Today in class we finished the movie we were watching. After the movie, we talked about the movie and also talked about the election and how nasty it really gets.

5/8

today we worked on our project

5/6

Roman Army:

• 5000 soldiers, not in it for pay (yet)
• had a very heavy infantry 
• recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
• slaves started pouring into Italy 
• By the end of the second century BCE, there were over a million slaves in Italy
• Latifundia- big farms that were taken over by someone with more power and the farms became massive estates.

5/5

Rome and USA's government is very similar
- 3 branches of gov
- executive, judicial, and legislative
Rome:
- 2 consols
- one year term
- have veto power
-300 people in the senate
- aristocrats- members for life
 USA:
- President
- 4 year terms
- commander in chief
- senate- 100 senators
- 6 yr terms
- House of Reps. - 435 members
- supreme court
- nine members

5/4

Today we took four and a half pages of notes. We talked about consuls and their jobs, patrician dominance in the 5th century BCE, plebians, the SPQR, respublica, democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, Roman Legion, the three punic wars, Marcus Port Cato and so much more. It is hard to summarize the notes we took today because we took so many but those are the topics we covered. Today we went over a lot of things but I understood everything so I feel pretty good about it.

5/1

Etruscans
-Came from the North
-metalworkers, architects, and artists
-foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (similar to the Odyssey)and Remus and Romulus

Greeks
-had colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea
-Romans borrowed ideas from them such as: their alphabet, religion, art, military techniques and weaponry

They drained a swamp...
-many streams flowed into the Tiber
-marshy area called the Forum between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills
-Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain) which channeled water into the Tiber
-Urban Legend- DC was built was on a swamp...only 2% was actually swampland

Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
-7th and final king of Rome
-known was Tarquin the Proud/Tarquin the Arrogant
-true tyrant
-The people's shock at his behavior and this horrible family made them NEVER want to be subject to the rule of kings EVER again- this was an attitude that lasted centuries

4/29

Today in class we had a very unexpected fire drill. Once that was all over we went back to the classroom and worked on our projects.

4/28

I was not in class today because I had to leave early for a lacrosse game

4/27

I was not in class today because I had a doctors appointment

4/14

Today's class was very interesting. First, we were talking about how Mr. Schick worked in some very well know famous movies. Almost everybody in the class didn't believe him. He worked on the set of "Uncle Buck" and "Home Alone." Then we started a movie about Plato's Allegory.

4/13

Today in class we went over the test we took on Ancient Greek. I was very happy with the outcome of my test.

3/31

In class today we finished our paper and then we watched the video.

3/30

Today all we did in class was finish up our paper. Tomorrow we are going to look for punctuation issues and grammar.

3/27

Today my group worked on our paper. It is coming along a lot faster than I thought it would. We already have about 700 words and that is without the intro and conclusion. I was stressing a lot more than I needed to over this paper.

3/25

• Greeks loved fighting
• Nothing compared to Athens navy
• most effective weapon was the trireme
• fastest ship at the time
• rowed up to 170 men on three levels
• could be used as a battering ram
• phalanx- close-rank, dense grouping of warriors
• armed with long spears and inter blocking shields
• Socrates looked to science and logic for his reasoning's 
• the socratic method fostered critical thinking
• he said, "the unexamined life is not worth living."

3/24

I will not be in class today because I leave early for my lacrosse game.

3/23

Today we finished the rest of the powerpoints in class. Some of the stuff I learned was actually very interesting and most of the stuff I learned, I would never know about without the kids teaching it.

3/20

Today in class we presented our powerpoints. We didn't get to finish all of them but Mr. Schick said we will finish them on Monday. I'm glad my group just got it out of the way.

3/17

I was not in class today because I had to leave early for a lacrosse game.

3/16

Today we finished our Powerpoint on our project. All that we have left to do is the finishing touches and put a few more pictures here and there. We also have to go over it a few times so we know the material even better so we are ready to present.

3/13

In class today we worked on our projects. The project my group has is Athens, Sparta, and the Peloponnesian War. We split the work up evenly and I got the Peloponnesian War. There are a lot of very interesting things about this topic. I am honestly kind of glad I got this topic because I have already done projects before on Athens vs. Sparta. The Peloponnesian War was something different and I really enjoyed it.

3/11

Today in class we took a pop quiz. The quiz was not hard at all because before we took it we reviewed the Greece powerpoint. Even if we wouldn't have reviewed the powerpoint, I feel like I would have done pretty well. Also, Mr. Schick told us about what we have to do for our project. I wasn't very happy when he told us because we have to not only do a powerpoint, but we also have to write a 1,000 word paper. It won't be that hard because it is going to be divided between three people.

3/10

Jude Brown, Stevie Lutche, Winfield Peverley is my group and we are doing Athens vs. Sparta and the Peloponnesian War. Today in class, we watched YouTube videos of babies crying. Also, Mr. Schick talked about the survey we took in the first semester.

3/9

• Greece is extremely mountainous 
• they cover over 3/4 of Greece 
• about 1400 islands in the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Sea
• many very skilled sailors
• limited natural resources
• olives were a huge thing in Greece
• they were used for a bunch of different things
• only about 20% of the land was good for farming
• arable- good farming land
• Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
• the Greeks invented the Olympics

3/6

Plato, was a Greek philosopher born 428-7 B.C.E and died in 348-7 B.C.E. He had a great trio with aristitole and socrates. They laid the fundamentals of philosophy. He was in a very wealthy family. He two older brothers and a sister. pPlato was just his nick name, his real name is Aristicoles. He studied in Egypt and Italy. He was one of the first philosephers who actually found most things out. He was also a mathmatician. He is considered "THE PHILOSOPHER "

3/4

today in class we began by talking about the bad weather we're supposed to have which somehow led to talking about the future and chips in our heads. It was actually really fun talking about possible future inventions that'll be made up by the time we're grown ups. Mr. Schick seemed to have some pretty cool ideas and assumptions on future inventions including chips in our heads, being able to look someone in the eyes and they'll know what you're saying, and so much more. 

3/2

The world's greatest civilizations were all located on rivers...

Mesopotamia / Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Egypt / Nile River

India / Indus River

China / Huang He River

Greece's geography
- Note the significance of Greece's location
- Describe Greece's topography
- Look at Greece's surroundings
- How would all this affect their culture


A closer look
-Rhodes is the large island that is southeast of Greece.
-Sparta is located in the center of the  Peloponnese
-Athens is the capital and the largest city of Greece
-Athens allowed girls o education while Sparta did
-Sparta is dependent on agriculture while Athens is dependent on agriculture and trade

2/27

Today in class we took a test on Ancient Egypt. The other class go an average of 70 something but I thought I did lot better than that, I hope. I didn't know we had this test because I didn't look at Mr. Schick's blog yesterday. I didn't look at it because we don't have class on Thursday's but hopefully I did okay.

2/25

• around 3100 BC the two lands were united under a single king or Pharaoh
• Pharaoh was all powerful worshipped as a god and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian god and goddesses
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "maat"
• Pharaohs had multiple wives
• women could inheret money and land and could divorce their husbands, though ony a tiny few every wielded real political power
• earliest Egyptians writing formed c. 3100 BC and were small pictures known as hieroglyphs
• hieroglyphs represented religious words, or parts of words, and most commonly adorned temples
• hieratic script was a shorthand developed by scribes and priests
• papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls 
• Egyptians astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycle
• wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile
• the pyramids were massive stone tombs originally covered in marble but the marble was later stripped off during the muslim conquet

2/24

Today in class we played a game. It was not just a normal game, it was a game that took my brain and turned it inside out. In the game, we had to build a pyramid, choose the workers, choose the food they were going to be fed, the angle, and the land we were going to build on. This game made my brain hurt, literally. But at least I got a B!

2/23

Today in class we watched three videos about Ancient Egypt. The first video was about the pyramids and what was inside of them and the different passage ways in them. Scientist have been studying these pyramids for a very long time and have found every room and every passage way. The pharaoh's wife's room was very small while the pharaoh's room was quite large.

The second video we watched today was about the mummification process. First you soak it in salt for 40 days. This mummy was named heraclities. the heart was removed from the body, but the lungs stayed. Second step was different oils, than thick resin, which stuck the strips of linen to the body. He was placed on a wooden board. Then more resin and more rappings bounded them together. Then a pouch wa splaced on the chest. Then a mummifies ivus was put on the abdomin. Then strips covered those two things than a pannel of himself was placed where his head would be than rapped him in linen. Then the rare treatment of red cloth on him. this means he was very special and would keep him safe.

In the last video, the guy pretty much just talked about the daily life of Egyptians. The Nile River was the best thing to ever happen for the Egyptians. It gave them water to drink, to bathe in, great soil to plant crops, etc. Farming was extremely easy for the Egyptians. Every July the river would flood and then after the flood the soil would be amazing for farming. There was an old kingdom (2649-2152 BCE), the middle kingdom (2040-1640 BCE), and the new kingdom (1550-1070 BCE)

2/20

The Egyptians were the first people to do/invent many important things. Below are  a few of them:

The Egyptians had great breakthroughs in medicine. they were the first to have physicians and doctors. They found out that you cant be healed off the god you believed in and couldn't be done by magicians.

The Egyptians were the first ones to discover a plow. They would connect it to some sort of animal and a heavy weight on it to dig in while the animal is plowing the soil.

The Egyptians were one of the first people to start telling time. They knew the time because of the even shadow lengths which they called noon, meaning half of the day. When the sun was straight up in the sky it was noon.

The Egyptians contributed to a lot of the discoveries in astronomy. Astronomy was a part of their system of keeping time. They would use the stars to help them out also.

They were the first ones to invent the calender. They were so technical on their time period and wanted to be the first ones to start the real time of the world. they would have seasons and different months

2/18

In class today, we went back over the Prezi that we had to go over yesterday and take notes on for Cyber Day. All of the notes are on my last blog, but when we were going over it today I knew almost everything and felt very comfortable with the material. Mr. Schick cleared up a few things for me and explained a bunch of stuff that I didn't pick up on when I was going over the Prezi by myself.

2/17

Ancient Egypt
Geography-

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• Nile flows south to north which is abnormal
• longest river in the world- 4000 miles 
• EVERY July the river floods

Pyramids-

• the Great Sphinx of Giza- built 2555-2532 BC
• a recumbent lion with a human's head
• oldest monument statue in the world 

Daily Life-

• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onions
• benefited from irrigation of the Nile
• money/ barter system was used
• scribes kept records, told stories, and wrote poetry
• they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic 
• soldiers used wooden weapons 
• the upper class was known as the "white kilt class"

Pharaohs-

•  pharaoh was ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt
• owned all land
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh

 Gods and Godesses-

• over 2000
• they "controlled" the lives of humans

2/11

Ancient Egypt
Geography-

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• Nile flows south to north which is abnormal
• longest river in the world- 4000 miles 
• EVERY July the river floods

Pyramids-

• the Great Sphinx of Giza- built 2555-2532 BC
• a recumbent lion with a human's head
• oldest monument statue in the world

2/9

In class today, the class took a test. I did not take the test because I was absent all week last week but I am taking the test tomorrow because I got notes and I am watching the YouTube video tonight. Hopefully I will do well on the test.

2/6

I was not in class today because I was sick

2/4

I was not in class again today because I am still sick. Hopefully I will be in school tomorrow and Friday.

2/3

I will not be in class today because I am still sick. Hopefully I will be there tomorrow!

2/2

I was not in class today because I am sick.

1/30

Today in class we took a test. I felt like I did pretty well on it because I studied for a very long time. I don't know what I got but hopefully I did decent.

1/28

Class today started off pretty interesting. Mr. Schick started off the class talking about his pet peeves. It all started because I "held the door wrong," so he went on about how if you are going to hold the door for somebody, hold it right. Another one of his pet peeves he talked about was when somebody says thank you and the other person says no problem. Other than talking about his pet peeves we reviewed for our test that we have on Friday.

1/27

Today in class, Mr. Schick wasn't there so all we did was review our notes and the powerpoint for our upcoming test on Friday.

1/23

I was not in class today because I wasn't feeling very well this morning so I didn't come to school.

1/20

In class today, we started our Western Civ unit. We didn't really get into the unit yet because the new people in the class needed to set up their blogs. So Mr.Schick taught them how to do that. Also, we went over the class rules and what was expected of us. The last thing Mr. Schick went over today was what we needed for class. Last semester we were aloud to take note right on our blog, but now we aren't aloud to do that because to many people get distracted with other things on the computer.