mondays class

In mondays west civ class we had a sub that moved us to her room we got to work on our project and watch the video. We finished our proect so i got to watch little of the video. I've gotten very distracted while i was watching so i didn't get a lot of it done

essay

Today in west civ my group and i finished our essay! The sub would not let us talk so it was hard to communicate  I ended up with 420 words according to word counter.com. It took time to finish and i had to go to multiple websites to get different ideas. but all together i feel like i explained the democracy of ancient greece really well. 

essay

Today in class we started our project. mr schick was not in class be causes he's visiting his daughter at the Netherlands. I have to to a paragraph on democracy. We split it up by three and working separate. Once were done our paragraphs then we will put them onto a shared google document. 

wednesday

• Its unique that the greeks interacted with gods and goddesses 
• aphrodite had lovers of both gods and men
• poseidon interfered with odysseus trying to return home
• dionysus was son of zeus and of semele
• zues- ruler of heaven and earth: father of athena: god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightening, law, order, and justice
• had a temper and was known to hurl thunderbolts
• athena- goddess of wisdom, skill, warfare, intelligence, battle strategy, and handicrafts
• she was born from zues head fully formed and armored
• a specail patron of heroes- such as odysseus
• she was the patron of athens 
• apollo- god of music, arts, knowledge, healing
• poseidon-god of the sea rivers floods earthquakes
• aphrodite- goddess of love, beauty, desire, sexuality
• demeter- goddess of grain, harvest, agriculture
• greeks were certainly a warlike people
• spartans were known for there infantry
• spartans boys started training at 7 
• athens had a great infantry but nothing could compare with there navy
• their most effective weapon was the trireme 
• looked to science and logic for explanations of how th world worked
• the socratic method fostered critical thinking 
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paper

Today in west civ mr schick told us that we have to write a 1000 word essay. we do this with our group that we did our google slide with. this is about the slides. we should also watch the video that is on his website. also the day that we hand in our essay is the day of our test. this will be difficult but we can do it. 

wednesday

in west civ today we went over what we already have learned. once we reviewed that we began to discuss new information. We took notes in our note book we focused on tyrants and now there is a different meaning to it. the accent greece meaning was: someone who simply seized power. now the meaning is someone who rules outside the framework of the polis. an example of this is Hippias. 

project

In todays class i found out that we are all working on a project. i got put in a group with nathan and reece. they had most of it done but i have to do the rest. its about the government in ancient athens. The group was mad that they had to do most of the work and all i had to do was 2 slides. 

friday

we won our first game on thursday night and last night we lost so we move on to the semi finals. we are all very glad that calvert hall has not won a game and is not playing today due to the fact that they haven't won and they came in last place. we play today at 6 30. 

thursday

Im not in school today because i am at the aclt for our varsity basketball team. We have study time before the game today so on my blog tomorrow i will let you know how we do tonight. We play Paul the 6th from Virginia. Hopefully the buys get the W tonight. 

wednesday

Today in class mr. schticks computer was really slow so it took a while to start the class. while he was doing that E finished his pyramid and everyone else socialized. we started to review what we already learned. This times is when iron was starting to get better then bronze. mycenae controlled trade. homer the storyteller was passed my mouth. lived at the end of greek dark ages. the llaid is the trojan war. odyssey is a story about odysseus attempt to return home. Most stories involve gods. There is a theory that homer is actually not real. 

greece

Today in west civ we started a new unit called ancient greece. Luke and gabi had to take there test first so that took a while. once we were done we started Watching the power point and then we also had to take notes while doing that. I have to do good on the next test to put my grade up to a B. 

socrates

Socrates:

~Born in classical athens 

~died 399 BC

~his wife was xanthippe

~he has three children named menexenus, lamprocles, sophroniscus.

~he was famous for being a greek philosopher

~ his motto was "an unexamined life is not worth living"

~this quote means that if you cant be different then everyone else and have our own opinions whats the point of living in a plain world

cyber day

The temple of athena nike:

~this is in the city of athens part of acropolis

~dipteral is refers to the two sets of columns 

~a chamber that houses the satue of apollo is surrounded by dipterous

the temple of zeus:

~in olympia

~dedicated to god zeus

~build by libon

~some styles of this building is classical architecture and doric order

odeon of herodes atticus:

~stone theater 

~located southwest slope of acropolis in athens

~161 AD is opened

~has 3 floors

~An amphitheater

wednesday

In class today we talked about how we are going to have off tomorrow. We got our cyber day assignment so we could understand it more. We talked a lot about how cyber days work. I like them because id rather be out of school in the beginning of june instead of the end. 

cyber day

~most of the great civilization were on a river

-mesopotamia with tigris and euphrates river

-egypt with the nile river

-india with the indus river

-china with huang he river

~ greece has the adriatic sea and aegean sea

~the cyclades and dodecanese are island sorounding greece

~there is the mederteranian