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