5/26/15

Today in class we took a test. I did very well on it. The test was very easy and focused on alot of the government. I got an 80 on the test

5/22/15

today in class we talked about the main points in the powerpoint that are important.

• it is very important that i listen to the song by chicago 
• prateors means fathers 
• they are the ones that look over everyone 
• rome had twelve tables 
• women did not have rights 
• we had teh bill of rights 
• roman legion did not fight just for the money 
• the fihght method that they used that looked like a phalenx was called a century 
• there were three punic wars 
• rome won all of them 
• rome bro0ught in slaves from every part of the area that they took over 
• this caused the regular people to not have any jobs 
• the rich would give plebs certain days so thT they would think they have a good life and not revolt 
• if someone tried to revolt they got crucified 
• julius ceasar was a sergant general that had taken over gaul 
• he wanted more power than he was allowed 
• he wad close to becoming the king
• he and three of his close friends that were very powrful became the triumviate 
• when he went to gual he broughyt in the full army which did not please the senate because they thougt that it made him look too powerful 
• he then became dictator of gual 
• he then was kiloled by everyone in the senate 
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5/20/15

today in class Delaney was here which is good since today was our last day to be able to present the project. The project I believe turned out very well. Mr.Schick tried to make it harder for us and yell at us alot while we presented but we made it through. I think that we will get a good grade on it.

5/19/15

today in class we did more projects. I was supposed to go however delaney was not here today so i asked mr.schick if i could go tomorrow. I am very glad that he allowed that because i believe it would have been much harder for me to be able to present today.

5/18/15

Today in class we had the first three projects. The first one was Kacey and Meredith they did one on food and pottery of rome. They made their own roman food and brought it in to school for us to eat. The next project was Avery and she made a fayum portrait every one said that it looked like me. Then after that it Jude, Stevie, and Pev. Jude was not here today and he had their power poinr along with the other half of their paper. But their project was on aqueducts

4/15/16

Today in class we worked on our projcts. Mr.Schick told the class that we had a paper that we had to write for it also. Many of the students were mad about tis . But we spent the whole class just writing the paper

5/13/15

Today in class we did a pop quiz. It was not very hard I got a 70 on it. I only did not understand the questions about who was in a government.

5/12/15

Today in class we had a shadow from calvert hall. Kelsey said to Mr.Schick that the students should be the teachers. Kelsey and Jude were our first teachers and we just reviewed some of the notes. The Mr.Schick said that they werent good and He taught again then Pev and Stevie tried to teach and then class ended.

5/11/15

Today in class we finished a video on the Tiberius. It was on Rome and their government. Citizens of rome at first thought that Tiberius was a hero then they thought he was a tyrant ad wanted him to be killed

5/8/15

Today in class, Mr.schick was not here today. So the whole class got time to work on their projects Delaney and I started and are close to finishing our power point on the mosaics.

5/6/15

• Roman legion
• 5000 soldiers and not a sigle one was paid they all did it ut of respect
• group of 80 is a century 
• horse back fighting is a calvary
• after math of punic wars 
• 50,000 carthaginians slaves brought to italy 
• 150,000 greek prisoners of war brought to italy 
• there are a million slaves in italy by second century bce 
• only time anyone has ever had so many slave 
• big forms of small farms bought by rich are called latifudia

5/1/15

today in class we started taking notes on the rome:

Etruscans-

• Came from north central penninsula 
• they were metal workers; helped build weapons
• cutlery & silverware
• artist: shows history
• architects: very important to build
• foundation myths: 
• virgils aeneid - similar to the odyssey
• romulus & remeulus

Greeks-

many colonies 

• romans took ideas from them

the latins-

• first
• descendants of indoeuropeans (nomads)
• on banks of tiber river 
• was made easy for trading ships that could go to rome 
• port was not good for war
• built on seven hills
• many streams flooded into tiber river 
• the land became marshes - they turned it into a grave yard 
• they turned the swamp into a drainage system (cloaco maxima- largest ancient drain)

lucias tarquinias superbus 

• seventh and final king of rome 
• tarquinas theproud- tarquin the arrogant 
• true tyrants 
• peopleshocked at his horrible behavior 
• horrible family made them never again want to have a king again this asted for centuries

4/29/15

Today in class we talked about who our partners will be. Mine is delaney and we decided that with our mosaic we will present it with a power point. we started the power point and will start adding more to it soon. We talked about our plans and when we can make the project

4/28/15

Today I will not be in class due to the fact that I was sick and left school early.

4/27/15

Today in class we just researched facts about the colosseum, roman forum, circus maximus and the aqueducts. We got 15 facts about each of them. I worked with Delaney. It was very easy to find these facts except some of the websites were not real. Mr.schick complained about that.

Coliseum:

• originally called the Flavian Amphitheater 
• covers area of 6 acres
• iconic symbol for Rome 
• capacity - 50,000-80,000 people
• in the center or Rome 
• construction started in 70 A.D. 
• height - 127 ft 
• perimeter - 1788 ft 
• largest amphitheater in Rome 
• underneath - rooms and tunnels
• covered in 15cm of sand 
• 287 ft long 
• 180 ft wide 
• estimated 700,000 people died in arena 

Circus Maximus 

• could hold 250,000 spectators 
• was built around 530 B.C. 
• first built by Tarquinus Riscus 
• 621m in length 
• 118m in width 
• located in valley between Palatine and Aventine hills in Rome 
• middle of it - spina - has statues and monuments on it 
• circumference was a mile
• arena was surrounded by canal - 10ft wide and 10ft deep 
• races - circle spina seven times - 4 miles
• races were ran clockwise 

Roman Forum 

• forum - latin word meaning open space or market place 
• public space in middle of Roman city 
• included Senate building 
• crossed by Via Sacra - Scared Way 
• place of business - justice was administered 
• also used for festivals and funerals 
• later became place of amusement 
• were many forums in Rome 
• housed many Temples 
• designed by Vitrueius 

Aqueducts 

• first aqueduct built in 312 B.C. 
• conveyed water from springs and streams to Rome 
• Multi-tiered viaducts - developed to cross low areas 
• Process: traveled to catch-basins --> sediment, mud, and dirt cleaned out of water --> free-flowing canals --> storage reservoirs --> people 
• built from stone and volcanic sediment 
• approximately 260 miles long 
• payed laborers and slaves to build the aqueducts 
• separate aqueducts supplied city of Rome 
• built over span of 500 years 
• capable of supplying 1 cubic meter of water to each person in the city (approximately 1,000,000 people) 

4/24/15

Today in class we talked about the projects. It is due on may 18. Delaney and I decided that our project will be on Roman art. We are going to do more research but do a mosaic. We have looked for all of our supplies. I really do think that we will have a good project.

4/21/15

I was not in class today because i had to go to a softball game at spaulding.

4/18/15

Today in class we talked about the upcoming project. It will most likely be a lot of work and it will be about rome. I will be partners with Delany and we are going to make a replica of the circus maximus

4/15/15

Today in class mr.schick tried to use the socratic method to start a class discussion. for his example he used same sex marriage. some people got more interested than others. I liked todays class.

4/14/15

TOdya in class we talked alot about how mr.schick used to direct movies. we also learned that he met many people that are famous. we also watched four minutes of a video that we will talk about tomorrow

3/13/15

Today it was our first day back to school. We got back our test that we took before the break. We also reviewed the whole test. We took notes on the test to make sure that we would do better next time for the exam

4/1/15

Today in class we took our test. It was 50 questions of multiple choice. As long as you pay attention in class you should've gotten a good grade except the dates were a little hard. And remembering some of the greek words. I did not get an 100 but i think i did pretty decent

3/31/15

Today in class we watched the video and did work that we were assigned in other classes. Some of us also finished our projects. I finished my project today in class and got atleast a hundred more words in the essay which was needed.

3/30/15

Today in class we continued our project. Mr.schick was still not back oday so Mr.Delpoupo was our sub. The whole class was very quiet. We only have two more days until our break ad our test and turning in our essay.

3/25/15

Today in class we talked about the fighting spartans. The greeks liked to fight people and were very aggressive. They started training boys to be fighters at the age of 7. Spartans were most feared for infantry. Infantry is when you fight on the land. They wore red so that when people would become wounded you would not be able to see the blood. The spartans were so focused on having warriors that if there was a child that would have a disability.  The spartans were very into them being one group.
Athens had the best army. They used a trireme greatest weapon at the time. Ir was very fast and long It had three oars and used many people. The trime could easily destroy other ships. Then there was the phalanx which was like a tank made of humans.
Everything that Socrates questioned he used science and logic. He was the creator of the socratic method. He was charged for coruppting the young minds of athens and disrespecting the Gods. He said that they got it wrong and that he should be rewarded and not punished because he was helping Athens. He drank hemlock and that was his punishment.
Plato was a student of socrates. Plato is the reason that we know so much about socrates. plato wrote the republic and the apology.
Aristotle was a student of plato. He had a school called the lysium which was focused on research. aristotle tutored alex the great. Aristotle wrote about many different topics.

3/24/15

Clash of the tyrants
Once Hippias was gone Isagores and cleisthenes (aristocrats) had a power struggle
No one in middle class was considered in charge material
Isagoris was a tyrant
he ostracized cleisthenes
the people that supported cliethenes revolted
first time someone threw out their leade in 508 BCE
Cliethenes gave normal people rights
everything got to vote on everything
Cliethenes was one of the elite
insulted hoipolli

Gods and Goddesses
the greek gods and goddesses actually interacted with people
posideon kept odyseeyus from going home
aphrodite had many diffeet lovers
dionysus always threw parties
zeus ruler of heaven and earth
athena goddess of wisdom and arfare
apollo zeus was his father
artemis was his twin
posiedon king of sea
demeter grain and harvest

3/23/15

Greek Philosophers:
Aristotle 384-322 BCE
He worked in the worlds  biggest library.
Thought that there was another element

Socrates 470-399 BCE
Born and died in Athens
Gounder of Western Philosphy
Socratic Method
stone masonnn
served in peloponnesian war
trailed for corrupting the youth
was executed
Charged for disrespecting gods and teaching young children. Socrates pleaded guilty and says that they should have rewarded him

Plato 427-348 BCE
Founded in academy of athens
he wrote the apology
the apology was about socrates
 

3/20/15

today in class most of the class presented the google slides prjects. i am learning alot from these projects. I think those students that went today did very well. They most likely will earn a good grade except they did make a few errors so that will mark them down.

3/18/15

Today in class we learned more about Greece again. We learned that they have an aristocratic government that all the rich people governed the city states. They had symptiums that were drunken official get togethers where they talked about what decisions they might want to make about the city state. The women had no rights. Some aristocrats would be ostracized from the club or even the city state. that is when we learned about hippias. he used to run the city state until he got kicked out and then to get back at the athenians he partnered with Persia and attacked them

3/17/15

Today in class we celebrated Kelsey and Pierce's birthday. We made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Kelsey brought in doughnuts and cookies. Mr.Schick missed our party though because the academic team had play offs. We had Mr.Kimble as a sub. We worked on our projects the people that were done the powerpoint worked on the paper that we have to write that is de before spring break.

3/16/15

Today in class we worked on our projects. Kacey and i almost finished ours we just have a few more slides most likely by tomorrow we will start our paper. meredith was not in school today she was out so she will be working on it tonight.

3/13/15

Today in class we received our pop quiz grades. My grade was like i thought it would be a 70. We started our project that will be due next friday. Meredith was not here today so Kacey and i started it and got 2 slides done and sectioned it out for who has which part. I do not think the project will be that hard especially since i am doing it with Kacey and Meredith.

3/11/15

Today in class we reviewed the greece unit. We talked about the rivers. We then took a pop quiz that we got 10 seconds for each question 10 questions. I got a 70 on the quiz it was hard but not that hard especially because of the review.

3/10/15

The Life and Writings of Homer:
Alayna Meekins
Kacey Newman
Meredith Engelhaupt


Today in class we watched videos of crying babies and listened to Mr.Schick go over the reviews he got for Human Geo.

3/9/15

Greece is a mountainous peninsula traveling places it is easier to sail and not go on land.
Greece has 1400 islands. The people in Greece are skilled sailors and shipbuilders. Greece was not gifted with a lot of natural resources. They did have olives and olives were used for many different reasons. Greece to get resources traded and had many trade post all over the land. Greece was colonized. Mycenaeans were in 2000 BCE located at a rocky edge. They protected themselves with a 20 foot thick wall. The Mycenaeans took over Greece for over 400 years. They invaded Crete in 1400 BCE and then took in the Mincan culture and language. 1200 BCE mysterious sea people in

3/6/15

For the cyber day assignment i choose Socrates.

Socrates had a very interesting life. He died from Hemlock Poising. Socrates father was a sculpture and his mother was a midwife. As a child Socrates only received a basic teaching. Socrates as a philosopher received payment. Socrates had three sons. Socrates was a soldier according to Plato. Socrates as a philosopher recognized that human choice was motivated by happiness. The socratic method is to help influence thinking and ideas. Socrates asks many many questions about a topic so that you would eventually knew more.

3/4/15

Today in class Mr.Schick talked about the cyber day assignment that we will have on Friday and that we would have if we had his class on Thursday. He also talked about what he will think the future will turn into and what the future will invent. Mr.wilson was in the room fixing Mr.Schick computer. We had a short class so we did not talk about Greece

3/3/15

i was not in class today because i was sick and got picked up from school early.

3/2/15

Ancient Greece:

All great civilizations have been located on rivers. Greece has a very important location. Greece is on the Aegean Sea. The areas closest to the sea had very fertile land.  This could affect their culture by helping produce food. There is an island located near Greece called Crete. Sparta is near a river and Athens is on the

2/27/15

today in class we took our Egypt unit test. It was not very hard, as long as you payed attention in class. Most of the answers Mr.schick kinda gave us before the test and he also gave us 20 minutes to study. I dont think many people failed i got an 85 %

2/25/15

Today in class we finished the unit. The Nile river was a major life provider for the egyptians. Upper Egypt was was 500 miles. Lower egypt was very wide. The pharaoh was a human on earth but was thought of as a God. The pharaohs could be fired however. Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they called maat. if they wanted ti do well i life you would be on the pharaohs good side. In Egypt woman had respect and a type of equality. Woman could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands. There were even a few women pharaohs. Heiroglyphs type of writing was like pictures. Hieratics were more like groups of letters. hieratics were origanilly written on papyrus. Papyrus was like a type of paper that was put in those huge scrolls. They made a 365 day calendar that followed the moon scale. Egyptians noticed things that should be planned out and prepared. Egyptians were very big on human anatomy. The used the dead bodies to find out remedies and cures. Wooden sail boats helped transport things up the Nile and you to go both ways on the Nile. Pyramids were very large they were covered in marble. Thousands of years later they are still standing and must have been engineered perfectly. stone sculptures and interior paintings in regulated poses in profile. people lived in adobes. slaves werent the only people to build a pyramid.

2/24/15

Today in class we played a game. This game is hard and continuously will send you back to the start. There is a hack to winning the game and mr.schick did not tell anyone until the end of class. But if you dont finish fast then you will fail the assignment. But Mr.schick told everyone in time to not fail everyone

2/23/15

in the first video it talks about the pyramids and how they have shiny plates over them. There was a big stone that if you moved led to the grave. but finding the stone that moved proved to be very hard so the leader decided to just cut open a hole in the pyramid to get to the tomb. There was no treasure in the pyramids when the royal got in and there was a sarchophogis that didn't have a lid. There are many passages and rooms in the great pyramid. especially since it is just supposed to be a tomb. there is a queens chamber and then another room and it called the subterranean chamber because it is underneath the pyramid. there is a corridor that has a gallery and at the end of the corridor there is a passage that leads to the grotto. There are also shafts an they point north and south.The entrance remains sealed to this very day.

in the second video it starts of with a mummy of a man named heiriclyties and he died in Egypt in the first century he was around 20 years old. Mummification is so that you can preserve the body and the internal organs are taken out except the heart. but in this man the heart was removed and the lungs were in tact. the body was put in salt until all moisture was eliminated. perfume oils were rubbed on the body. and thick layers of resin were used to glue the wrapping strips. there was a mysterious pouch placed on the chest and there was an ibis and the bird was mummified with the human. there was a arge linen cloth wrapped around the mummy and there were paintings on the cloth and his name was written at the feet. due to this mummification process the body is with us today.

in the third video it is john greene talking about egypt. ancient egypt was probably the most influencial on the ancient river valley. The ancient egyptian civilization lasted from 3000 BCE to 332 BCE. the nile was regular and navigable and left very good silt for planting season. egyptian civilizatuons only excisted on the nile. the nile used basin irrigation. So the egyptians got to mke surplus amount sof food and didnt have to do alot of work. the pharoh was very close to a god and was expected to act like a god. rhe pyramids show a lot of controll of the social population. The pyramids were built by alot of peasants and slaves. Since the pharohs were thought of as gods they deserved the best living places. but when draughts started pharohs started and an intermediate period. Hidden gods tend to do well because they are omnipresent and many people devoted their lives to these gods.there was a group that conquered all of egyptians and then they became parts of the egyptians and the the egyptians exiled them. there was on pharoh that was a woman and expanded egypt the most. there was a pharoh that is very similar to kim jung il and he tried to create a new god.

2/20/15 Cyber day assignment

The Egyptians have made many inventions. Part of being a great civilization was having technology. Here are some of the inventions in order from importance. I think the most important technology development was Egyptian medicine. They were the first to use magic and medicine men. The Egyptians had a document and talked about the organs. They did bisectimies and put all the body organs in jars, where they also preserved spices. Doing work like that they learned alot about the human body. Another Egyptian break through was the Egyptian Astronomy. The Egyptians developed a 365 day calendar. The calendar had the days divided into 12 months with around 30 days. The Egyptians also invented stone circles and sun dails that showed that they knew about time. The sundail was used to make days. The Egyptians also were very into astronomy. Many of their buildings were aligned with stars and constellations. The Pyramids were located to reflect constellations and monuments were to reflect the cardinal directions and important times of the year. The Egyptians also invented the bed. The first bed was a shallow chest with bedding placed over top and to try to make it soft consisted with ropes stretched across a wooden frame. In their bed they slept and entertained socially and ate.

2/18/15

Ancient Egypt 

• farmers raised wheat, barely, lentils, onions benefitted from irrigation of nile & control where the water went 
• the art was in perfect 90 degree angle to the viewer 
• a farmer used plows and whips
• clothing light color & fabric 
• there was alot of heavy eye makeup on Egyptians to minimize harsh effects of the sun
• artisans- decorate homes for the rich 
• thought of as historians
• carve statues & reliefs showing military battles & scenes in the after life 
• combinations of animals and people to make the perfect species in their art
• merchants
• went to a money system and not just a barter 
• money was made
• scribes kept records & were educated & told stories
• preformed any kinds of surgeries 
• wrote in hieroglyphs 

February 17,2015

Ancient Egypt
hateshepsut was a woman pharoh
Cleopatra VII was a pharoh 51-30 BC
there are over 2000 gods & goddesses
they controlled  the lives of human being
john greene has a video about ancient greece
the great pyramid was the largest building for 3800 years
no ancient Egyptian crown has ever been found

February 11, 2015

1 geography

• egypt is centered around the nile river
• it flows from south to north 
• 3 branches of the nile 
• nile is over 4000 miles long 
• this water was very important for Egyptians 
• used water for drinking 
• irrigating 
• bathing
• first people in the world to invent a sailboat 
• every july the river floods 
• every October it leaves rich soil called silt 
• the delta is a marshy triangular area of fertile soil ( the greek letter for d is delta and in the shape of a triangle )
• one most significant break through is irrigation 

2 Pyramids

• the great sphinx of Giza built 2555 - 2532 BC 
• sphinx is a recumbent lion with a human head 
• oldest monument in the world around 4500 years old 

3 Daily Life

• Pharoh - king 
• gov. officials - Nobles & priest -white kilt class 
• soldiers 
• scribes - knew how to write there are not many of them
• merchant- middle class, barter system
• artisan- make stuff 
• farmers - dirty poor 

Today in class we took the Guns, Germs and steel test. It was not very hard and i knew all the answers. I took down a lot of notes and studied them all so i think that is helpful for me passing the test. the test asked everything that was covered in the video.

friday january 6

today we finished watching the video. Mr.Diamond decided in the end of the movie that the only reason the new guineans have not evolved is because they were not geographically blessed; they do not live the fertile crescent with good farm land and alot of sources of food with good animals that could be domesticated. they live in the middle of the rainforest with very little food sources with food that you can actually have a good diet with. the only animals they have is pigs that are not good farm animals.

wednesday january 4

today in class we had a lock down and shelter in place drill. mr.schick went over all the guidelines and how if we didnt have drills we would not be in a good situation. That our class did very good with the drill and practiced it like it was a real thing. we then started class and class was not very long so we got closer to the end in the movie

Tuesday February 2

today in class we watched the rest of the video and we talked about animals that have been domisticiated and used as farm animals. there are only 14 types of animals that have been domesticated.

monday February 2 , 2015

today in class we watched a video about jared diamond. Jared diamond wrote a book called guns, germs and steel. this video was about papa new guinea and how many of the people there act like it is still the stone age. The people do not wear alot of clothes. and do not have a lot of material goods. one man in this video walks up to jared and asks him "why do you white men have so much cargo but us new guenians have none" and that question really got jared to start thinking. the whitemen that first started visiting when they came and realized they had much more stuff then people from new guinea they instantly started feeling more superior. Diamond noticed that all great civilizations have three thngs in common advanced technology, large populations, well organizd work fare. then the video started comparing new guinea to one of the first ever civilizations called draa

friday january 30,2015

today in western civ we took a test, on this test we were allowed to use our blogs. I think that that made the test alot easier. there was some information how ever that i did wish i would have added to my blogs

1/27/15

today in west civ we had a sub because mr.schick wasnt in class. so we used this class to study for a test tomorrow.
Prehistory to Civilization 3000-1200 B.C.

• a human species started in southwest africa
• earliest prehistoric age -Paleolithic age (stone age)
• people were hunters and gathers
• humans migrated around this time and were not advanced

• Neolithic age is the new stone age
• the neolithic age brought advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
• during the neotlithic age humans became sedentary group that didnt migrate
• humans bodies started to change 
• heads got bigger because there brains got bigger
• started to not be as hair
• wives stayed home and had kids and took care of kids
• the kids could be breast fed until they are 4 
• men had many different kinds of jobs
• this is when hierarchies
• the population started to rise
• the religion of villagers is polytheist they worshipped things of nature
•  they were located in the fertile crescent / Mesopotamia 
• in a village called sumer the sumerians started 
• jobs in the village:
• priest(most scholarly)
• tradesmen
• artisans
• politicians
• farmers
• kings , family dynasties and city states started
• invented earliest form of writing called cuneiform 

1/20/15

today in class mr.schick explained to us his blogs. that we need to do one every day that we have a class. the blogs will effect our grades alot. he also told us that when it comes to using our laptops in class we will not be using them as much as we did last semester.