Test Day!!!

Today in class we took our test on Greece and I think I did pretty good, there were a few questions I had trouble with and I am a little shaky on but besides that I think I will get a good grade. The test wasnt really that hard, I mean I forgot about the test and I remembered most of the stuff on it. I think I got a B, I dont think it was good enough for an A but I definitely did better than a C. I was happy we were allowed to use our blog for this because without it I wouldnt have done as good, it actually helped me out quite a bit because some of the questions I was stumped on I had right in my blog so thats good.

Reviewing for test....again

Today in class we continued to review for the test tomorrow and i really think I am going to do good on this test. I am pretty confident in myself and I think i will do fine. At the beginning of class I had just opened my computer and saw I had an email so i checked it real quick and Mr. Schick got mad at me. He even made me go to the back of the room I don't think he needed to do that bu whatever.

Reviewing for the Test

Today in western civ we went over the handout. We got it like 3 weeks ago and we just went over it. It was based on the video that we have also been watching. That was what we did the entire time.

Reviewing for Test

Today in class, we went over our notes and corrected out answers from the work we had for cyberday. That was a really long sentence. I learned in class that the USA is part of the Western world. China is not because it isn't in the west. I also learned about oligarchies. Russia is an oligarchy that is taking over many countries. I also learned that Athens was the wealthiest city-state. I was wrong and put Corinth. Corinth is rich but not nearly as rich as Athens. Athens traded a lot and that is why they were so successful. I learned a lot in this class. Greece is very confusing with all of the weird names.

Have a Sub..... Again

Today in class we had another sub but this time it was because Mr.Schick had to go to the academic team playoffs. So we had had Mr. Del Puppo and we pretty much just sat in silence and did our work, all we really did by ourselves was review the quiz he gave us and just review any work that we have done. So yeah we really didnt do much today.

Cyber Day Assignment

1.  Many islands is not a characteristic of Greece
2. Approximately 3/4 of Greece is made up of mountains
3. barbarian means when  the Greeks first used this term to describe those foreigners that they could not understand, but seemed to be saying "bar bar" when speaking
4. A megalith structure is a massive  rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs
5.  the term tribe refers to all of these
6. tribes were governed by all of these
7.  Greeks were the first European barbarians to make contact with civilization
8. The US would not be considered a member of western civilization 
9. The Ionian Sea was located just west of the Greek mainland
10. The Aegean Sea was located just east of the Greek mainland
11. The major crops the Aegean people lived on was grain, vines, and olives
12. The Minoan  civilization arose on the island of Crete
13. The Mycenaean civilization established settlements along the Greek mainland’s southern shore and on some islands
14. the Mycenaean civilization built massive walls to protect themselves from attack
15. The Dark Ages was a period of Greek history in which the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use 
16.  Following this time period, the Greeks joined which group as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediterranean? The Phoenicians
17. The letter C is none of the above
18. By 600 BC, Greek city-states dotted the coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.  These were called Colonies 
19. City-states most resembled cities
20. This is a form of government in which a small group of citizens dominated, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways- oligarchy 
21. This is a form of government in which decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens- democracy
22.  This is a form of government in which a self-proclaimed dictator held power- tyranny
23. This is a form of government in which power is held by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son- monarchy 
24. Sparta had an oligarchy  government 
25. At age 7 Spartan males began their military training 
26. Athens was the wealthiest city-state
27. The acropolis was the religious center of an ancient Greek town
28. Peloponnesus was the name of the southern peninsula where Sparta was located
29. triremes  were massive fighting ships with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships
30. hoplite was a heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece

Short Answer:

1. the dark ages began in 1100 Bc and ended in 800 BC
2. They were called the Odyssey and Iliad.
3. Mediterranean meant middle of the land
4.  Aristocrats were land-owners in Greece 

More Projects...

Today in class we continued to watch the video projects, we actually finished all of the videos except for one which was devin's and he was absent, i think. But yeah we got through most of them today and they were actually pretty good. Mr. Schick really liked that some of them included the school of Athens and a few other things. Mr. Schick said there were some really up and down projects. Ma and aidens project was last of the day and I dont think ours was that bad but it the greatest. Honestly you pretty much just sat there and watched other peoples video the entire time, you even just sat there and watched yours so we really didnt do much except for the videos.

Watching Projects

Today in class we started watching some of the projects that were due today, only a few groups got to go because Mr. Schick wanted them to stop and explain parts of their video. They were all pretty cool videos I liked them all and thought they were cool. My group never got a chance to go since he wanted us to explain the videos so we are going tomorrow. I think my group will do pretty good on it and we should get a pretty good grade.

Watching the Video by Ourself

Today in class we had a sub so mr.schick couldnt play the video for us so we had to watch it by ourselves. Alot of people were just watching others screens so we didnt have that many computers playing the same video. Then some people plugged in their headphones and watched quietly, a lot of people also just listened and did the worksheet. I think this is a really interesting video because it is showing us what life was like back then and i really find it interesting. That was really all we did during class, we really didnt do much.

More of the video

Today in class we watched some of the video again. This time we got farther in though. We had once again another short class because today is Ash Wednesday! So we only got through like a couple minutes of the movie. We took some notes down and that kind of stuff. We only took a few though. One thing was like there were I think ten thousand slaves in Greece. I thought that todays part of the video was really interesting and helped me learn a little bit more about Athens and Sparta

Started Watching a Video

Today in class we really didnt do all too much because class was shortened a little bit due to being 2 hours late. What we did do was first we got there then we started talking about the cyber day and he showed us the video he posted on it telling us to work on our projects and to blog because it is still technically a school day. I thought the video was pretty funny because he went from talking about the assignment to a made up conversation with his horse. Then he handed out a paper that used to be a quiz but he now gives it out as a study guide and we started watching a video on ancient Greece and it was funny because to give people a look at what the actual people looked like they had actual people just sitting there motionless acting like statues. We really didnt get that far into the video and he said we will be working on it the next couple days of class.