3/27/15

Today in class my group and I almost finished our paper. I think that we only have one paragraph left to write, which Evan is going to do at home. On Tuesday our group is gonna watch the video and prepare for our test on Wednesday. I hope the test is relatively easy and that I get a good grade on it.

3/26/15

Today in class we started our 1.000 word paper. We have most of our paper done. Since my computer is broken, I had to type my stuff either at home or on someone elses laptop. We only have 3-4 more paragraphs left to write and then we can relax during class and watch the video. For our project, we split up the parts randomly and gave each person in our group 3 paragraphs. I got the introduction, importance of Homer and other works. I think that we are going to do really well on this paper.

3/25/15

Today was the last day for the presentations on Ancient Greece. Veronica and Adam went first and did their presentation on Gods & Goddesses and their role in Mythology. They did a good job and had a lot of information each God/Goddess they talked about. After they presented Dylan, Jeremiah, and Parker presented on the governments in Ancient Greece. They did a somewhat good job but I think that they read a lot off the power point. After we finished the presentations were started to go over Mr.Schicks powerpoint. 

3/24/15

Today in class we continued presenting our presentations on Ancient Greece. The first group that went  presented on Pericles and the Golden Age. I thought they did pretty good explaining things instead of just reading off the slide. After them the next group presented  presented on Hoplites & Triremes: Warfare. I think that they also did a pretty good job at not reading of the slides. The last group to go presented on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. I think that all of the groups did a good job presenting.

3/20/15

Today in West Civ class we began to present our power points to the class. Each presentation was only supposed to be 5 minutes but the first group had a lot of info and ended up taking up half the class. The next group to go was my group. I think that we did very well and I hope tat I get a good grade. Mr.Schick said for the groups that didnt get to present, he would look at their power points and just grade them off of that.

3/19/15

Cleisthenes and Isagoras

• After Hippias, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both aristocrats) engaged in a power struggle 
• Isagoras had support from aristocrats and Sparta 
• Cleisthenes had support from most of Athens 

Isagoras

• Ostracizes Cleisthenes 
• Cleisthenes's supporters and Athenian citizens revolted against Isagoras's tyranny
• they trapped Isagoras on the acropolis for two days- on the third day he fled and was banished 

Cleisthenes 

• Cleisthenes was a member of the elite 
• very rich
• insulated from the "hoi polloi"
• a crafty politician 

3/18/15

Today in West Civ we talked about aristocrats and other topics. Here are the notes i took:

Aristocracy is rule by aristocrats
They attended Symposiums, meetings where elite men would enjoy win and poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and the company of hetaeras while discussing politics.

Aristocracy
No Women
No Middle Class
No Slaves
Even Certain Aristocrats were excluded

Tyrants seize control
-sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites (well-armed soliders) and set up an alternative form of government called tyranny
-Tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
-modern meaning of tyrant: an abusive or oppressive ruler
-The Greek meaning of tyrant: someone who simply seized power (usually with hop-lite help)

Clash of the Tyrants
-Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 B.C.E.
-His brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh
-Eventually he was expelled from Athens (ostracized)
-In revenge, he began working with the Persian King Darius I, helping them invade Marathon

3/17/15

Today in class we continued to worked on our power points that are due Friday. My group and I finished our project in the middle of class so we spent the rest of class playing on our laptops. Today was also Jess' birthday and she brought in brownies for the class. I thought that they were great and I liked them.

3/13/15

Today in class we continued working on our powerpoint projects that are due on Friday. We spent the whole class time working on it so we got a lot done. We have about 12-13 slides done on our powerpoint. After we are done with the powerpoint we have to write a 1000 word paper on the same topic as our powerpoint. I don't think writing the paper will be that hard because we have a lot of information on the powerpoint.

3/12/15

Today in class we started on our power points. My group is doing a power point on homer. We got a couple slides done today. We have to have atleast 18 slides in our power point. We also talked about what we are going to do when Mr.Schick isn't here. We are either going to watch a video or work on our paper.

3/11/15

Today in class we took 10 minutes to review over the Ancient Greece power point. Then we took a pop quiz on it. We had to answer 10 questions and we got 10 sec to answer them. I thought that the quiz was really easy and then I ended up getting a 100. After the quiz we talked about our upcoming project. We have to make a power point and a 1000 word essay on our topic. My group is Evan and Steven. We have to do our project on the life and writings of Homer.

3/10/15

Here are more notes on Ancient Greece:

Ionian Sea - South of the Adriatic Sea
Fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only 20% arable
Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, and olives
Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization.
Temperatures usually ranged from mid 40s in winter to low 80s in summer.

Mycenaean
Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20ft brick wall.
Mycenae kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BC
- controlled trade in the region
1400 BC - Mycenaean's invaded Crete  and absorbed Minoan culture and language.
1200 BCE- mysterious "sea people" invaded Mycenae and burnt many palaces (the sea people also invaded Egypt)

Dorian's

where far less advanced

the trade based economy collapsed

writing disappeared for 400 years

Homer

Greek oral tradition - stories past on by word of mouth

Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"

He composed stories of the Trojan War 750-700 BC

The lliad - probably one of the last conquest of the Mycenaeans ( the Trojan War) 
The Odyssey- Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon (won a war, was trying to get home to his son and wife) 
The Odyssey is 12,110 lines of rhyme

Cyber Day 5

Plato

Plato was born somewhere between 428-427 BC in Athens and died somewhere between 348-347 BC in Athens. Plato was no only a Greek philosopher but also a Greek mathematician. Plato was influenced/taught by Socrates and Pythagoras. Plato was a superb writer and wrote many dialogues. In his dialogues he conveyed and expanded on the ides of Socrates. Plato influenced most of western philosophy that came after him.

Cyber Day

Ancient Greek Architecture

The Parthenon
The Parthenon was built in 447-432 B.C.
It was built on the Acropolis.
The Parthenon is a Doric design with lonic features.
It is made of ivory and gold.
The Parthenon has a statue of Athena in golden armor.


The Theatre of Dionysus
The Theatre of Dionysus was built in the 4th century B.C.
It was built on the South slope of the Athenian Acropolis.
It was made of stone.
The shape of a semi-circle.


The Temple of Aphaea
The temple was built around 500-480 B.C.
It is on the Greek island of Aigina
Built of limestone
Dedicated to the goddess Aphaea

3/4/15

Today in West Civ class we talked about up coming Cyber Day assignments that we were probably going to have in the up coming snow days. It is supposed to snow tomorrow and we most likely wont have school tomorrow and Friday. Im looking forward to it snowing a lot and cant wait to get out of school for awhile. The only problem is that I have to shovel my drive way and a lot of snow makes it harder.

3/3/15

Today in West Civ we started to talk about Ancient Greece. Here are the notes I took today:

The greatest civilizations in the world were all on rivers:

• Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Egypt - The Nile
• India - The Indus River
• China - Huang He River

Location and Geography

• By the Mediterranean Sea which means middle of the Earth
• Made up of more than 1400 islands
• Topography - Very Mountainous
• Peninsula
• They have the Adriatic Sea to the West and the Aegean sea to the East
• Crete is a big island off the south coast of Greece

Mr. Schick showed us 2 maps in class. Here they are: