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