MISSING BLOG FOR MAY 22ND

On May 22nd we did some more presentations. I thought that everyone did great. I hope that everyone ends the year strongly are so ready for next year. I mean summer first of course! What would we do with out summer? I for one have no idea. 

Thanks Mr. Schick for a great year!! Especially with all the help that you have to me when i really needed it!! I have to say you have been the best so far!!! I'll come and visit next year during advisory!! Have the best summer!!

THE LAST DAY OF FRESHMEN YEAR !!!

IT IS OFFICALLY OVER !!! FRESHMEN YEAR CHECK OFF THE LIST !!! CANT WAIT FOR SUMMER TO START !!! 5 EXAMS LETS GOOO !!!

Class // Blog 2 of the three day week

In class today we wrote our essay for our exam coming the following week. I feel really sold about my essays. 

Class // Blog 1 of the three day week

In class today we took a test. I got a the test back and I got 73%. I studied super and hard and didn't do very good obviously..... 

Class // Blog 3

In class today we finished up the presentations for Rome. 

Class // Blog 2

Today in class we watched more presentations. We watched Reece, James and Nathan. Also Sydney, Nicole, and Chris. The Jack and Colin showed us theirs.  

Class // Blog 1

In class today we watched presentation for Rome. The groups that went today were Gabby and Megan, Skylar, Gabby and Immanuel, and Cali, Sammi, Tucker and Luke. Everyone did a really good job!

Class // Blog 4

Today in West Civ we watch the end of the video of Tiberius Gracious. 

Class // Blog 3

In class today Cali took the test that we missed yesterday. Then we took some notes on Caesar. Finally we started finishing up the video. 

Class // Blog 2

In class today we took a pop quiz on what we are learning in Rome. After the pop quiz because it was only 10 questions we got to work on our projects. Sophia and I feel really confident about our project !!

Class // Blog 1

In class today we watch a video on Rome. 

Class // Blog 4

In class today we went to the Ceramics Room and worked on our projects. 

Class // Blog 3

Today in class we watched a video on our own. 

Class // Blog 2

In class today we went over more about Rome and the Roman Empire. We talked about all three of the Punic wars. Also we talked about how there where over 100 slaves in Rome at one time. 

Class// Blog 1

In class today Mr. Schick went over more on Rome. We talked about my allergies and how attractive I looked today. That was fun...😝😝😝. Hope for more Rome and allergies tomorrow. lololol

Blog 4

In class today we went to see some of the junior dressed up as people from the 1920's. It was really cool to hear about all there different stories. Thanks Mr. Schick for letting us go take a visit! 

Blog 3

I missed class today because I had to attended a funeral. 

Class today//Blog 2

In class today Mr. Schick let us start our Projects. My parent is Sophia and we can't wait to get out trifold finished. 

Facts Ancient Rome and Architecture

• Circus Maximus
•  Largest Stadium in ancient Rome 
• Popular chariot races where held there for almost a thousand years
• Used for events such as gladiator combats 
• It was used for processions 
• The last race was held in 549 AD 
• http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/circusmaximus.htm
• Colosseum 
• Located east of the Roman Forum 
• The largest amphitheater in Rome
• Used for four centuries 
• By the 20th centuries, a combination of weather, natural disasters, neglect, and vandalism has destroyed nearly 2/3 of the original Colosseum 
• Measuring from 620 feet by 513
• http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/colosseum
• Aqueducts 
• Its a water way systems 
• First evidence of Roman engineering 
• Built from stone and brick 
• Built to carry the flow of water to Rome
• There were 30 miles of arched structure 
• http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php
• Roman Forum 
• Roman showpiece center 
• Developed in the 7th century 
• Fell into disrepair after the fall of the Roman Empire
• Known as the the "cow field" in the middle ages 
• Distract of temples and basilicas 
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/italy/rome/sights/historic/roman-forum

Blog 4

I missed class on Friday because i had a chorus concert. : )  

Class Today // Blog 3

In class today we went over a power point on the words in Chi-cago Rome Rap. We went over and took notes on what was important. 

Class Today // Blog 2

Rome:

• Rome is in the middle of Italy 
• Italy is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea
• Mind set in Rome is when Rome needs you to help you go no matter what
• The father figure in the house is always in control "pater familias"
• Rome was military culture Rome made their army more nimble then the Greeks
• Rome would take over places and then they would included the people in the Roman culture 
• They would make the people their allies not enemies
• Traquin the Proud 
• he treated his people horribly 
• New form of government was Republic 
•  Republic/ Democracy, Aristocracy, and Monarchy 

Class Today // Blog 1

Ancient Rome 

In class today we talked a bunch about how Rome was founded. We discussed how the Romans followed the Greeks and that we followed the Roman in the way we govern America. 

Class// blog 4

Mr. Schick told us about the up coming project. Sophia is my partner!

Class today // blog 3

In class today we watch a video. I really enjoyed the video, it really made me think about what it was saying. Its crazy how old that thought was and it was right on track of whats going in the world now. I really liked class today!! 

Class// Blog 2

In class today we went over the skills on paper writings. 

Class Today//Blog 1

In class today we went over the Greece test. Mr. Schick was not very happy about the income of the grades. I think my class was the class that did the poorest. Hope we can do better next time. Also some people in our class need to stop talking while Mr. Schick is talking because for some people that is very distracting. 

SPRING BREAK

Mr. Schick was back in class today. We walked in and my group turned in our paper on Art and Architecture. I really hope that we do good. TODAY WAS OUR LAST DAY OF SCHOOL UNTIL SPRING BREAK, I CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE!!! HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT TRIP MR. SCHICK, ENJOY YOUR BREAK!!!

Class today

Today in class we went over our papers. My groups paper is looking so much better. Hope you having a great time Mr. Schick we all can't wait for you to get back. 

Class

We all worked on our papers. I think ours will be great. I cant't wait for Mr. Schick to be back!

Class today

In class today all the groups tried to start writing our papers. It was 

kind of detracting. I think some of the groups got a good head start.  

Class

In class today we went over Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Greece. I had a little bit of background with Gods and Goddesses before I came to JC. At my old school we did a whole unit on them and at the end we dressed up. Just like Mr. Schick said today in class. Some of the Gods and Goddesses we talked about where Posieden, Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Afridite, Athena and many more. Mr. Schick didn't go into crazy details on the Gods and Goddesses because we know a little bit about them our self. We also went over Socrates life and trial to death. We all know Socrates story pretty well because in every unit we do he always makes his way in there some how. Its definitely not because he Mr. Schick favorite or anything. : )

Class

 In class today we went over how to write a paper. My group is writing a thousand word paper on Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece. My group people are Sydney and Sophia.   

Presentations

In West Civ on Friday everyone presented there power points on our topics. Everyone got there done in the time before class ended except one group. My group was second to last to go. Sydney and Sophia were a little nervous, but I knew that we did a good job so i wasn't to worried. I thought that everyone did a great job. I hope that everyone gets the grade that they wanted. 

Class today

In class today we went over the power point on Ancient Greece. 

• We went over that Hippias was gone.

• Isagoras and Cleisthenes enaged in a power struggle 

• Isagoas had support from the other rich people so he won

• Then Cliethenes is astracized from Athens 

• Clithenes people over rule Isagoas 

• 503 BCE!

• Clithenes come back and starts to rule 

• Clithenes is a good ruler 

Class today

We went over some more Ancient Greece. I left my book at school so I can't really go into great explanation. 

Project

TODAY IN CLASS WE WORKED IN OUR GROUPS ON OUR PROJECTS ! 

Working

In class on Friday we worked on our groups on our projects.

Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece

Today in class we went over what we are going to be doing for the rest of the month. I am in a group with Sydney and Sophia. Our topic for the project is Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece. I think it should be fairly easy to finish. 

Pop!!!

To day we finished going over the power point on Ancient Greece. Then while we are sitting there he decides to give us a pop quiz. Everyone complained and took the quiz. I got three wrong....sadly. Then we left.

Ancient Greece

• Mesopotamia/Tigris and the Euphrates River 

• Egypt/ Nile River 

• India/ Indus River 

• China/ Huang He River 

• Tera-means earth 

• Medi- means middle (Mediterranean)

• Greece (grain, grapes, olives) 

• Greece is very mountainous (3/4)

• This combination shaped Greece's culture they had many skilled sailors 

• They had poor/limited natural resources

• it was difficult to unite ancient Greece because of the terrain    

• Fertile valley 20%

• arable- good for farming (20%)

• Greek diet lead to Greek colonization 

• Olympics!! 

Plato

Writer, Philosopher (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE)

Born circa 428 B.C.E., ancient Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Plato's impact on philosophy and the nature of humans has had a lasting impact far beyond his homeland of Greece. His work covered a broad spectrum of interests and ideas: mathematics, science and nature, morals and political theory. 

Three Examples of Ancient Greek Building

The Coliseum 

By the 20th century, a combination of weather, natural disasters, neglect and vandalism had destroyed nearly two-thirds of the original Coliseum, including all of the arena’s marble seats and its decorative elements.

The Porch of the Maidens:

 better known as Caryatids, is on the southwest side of the Erechtheum. The Maidens hold up the top of the           buildings like Columns. 

                                            

  

Temple Concord was founded in 1839 by German immigrants drawn to upstate New York by the new Erie      Canal.  The group incorporated under the laws of the State of New York on February 24, 1942, first took the name  “Comrades of Peace” and shortly thereafter Keneseth Shalome, which they translated in formal English as Temple Society of Concord 

Class today

In class today Mr. Schick told us about how cyber days work for the teachers. He told us how we are supposed to have at least 45 minutes of busy work. 45 minutes is a long time and a little outrageous to me. I see it being more like 20-25 minutes but 45 is longggggg. He also told us about how he kind of created cyber days, but he didn't want them to be like they are now. He really doesn't have a say now.  

Ancient Greece

What bodies of water surround Greece?

Ionian sea, Mediterranean sea, and Aegean sea.

What large island is to the south/southeast?

(you may need to go online to find out)

Cyprus island

Describe where Athens and Sparta are located relating to the sea, and to each other...

Athens is North East of Sparta. Athens is closer to the Aegean sea. Sparta is closer to the Mediterranean sea.

Test

So we took this test on Ancient Egypt. Mr. Schick said that everyone was going to do well. The we all took the test. He graded the test. We all didn't do very well. Mr. Schick wasn't very happy.

Cyber Assignment 5 Test Questions

1. If you where the pharaoh and you wanted to build your own pyramid, what materials would you use, how many times a day would you feed you people, which God or Goddess would you pray to to keep your people healthy? And Why? 
2. Pharaohs wore the most_________because they are always supposed to look like a God and always looking better than anyone else. 
3. Calender are very important in the world, if the Egyptians never made one what do u think the world would be like today??
4. If you had to draw your life story on a wall with just a few symbols what would choose and what would the symbols mean to you?
5. How where pyramids used, and Why where there chambers inside?

Class today

In class today we played this game. The first 2 people got a 90. The next 2 people got and 80. The rest got 70. Unless they didn't finish then they got an 0. I was 1 of the 2 to get the 90!!!

Videos on Egypt

Video 1: Egyptian leader son has a son that set camp the base of the Pyramid. Came with a bunch of his people so that he could get inside and get the dead pharaohs treasure. They had to look for a certain rock to open the door of the pyramid. Opening the door leads to a winding passage that leads to the grave. There was many different rooms and passages inside the pyramid and there was no treasure inside.

Video 2: They told us about Heraclities. Then they showed us the step by step process of rapping a mummy. The way they rapped him was different than most.

Video 3: John Green told us about Egyptians ways on basins and irrigation, sail boats with food transport.  Egyptians where berried with their things so they could use them in the afterlife. 

5 AMAZING INEVENTIONS IN EGYPT

1.   One of the more obvious ones are the Pyramids. They are one of the most amazing and different structures on the face of this Earth. Inside the pyramids are so many crazy passage ways and rooms. 

2.   Eye makeup is one of the best inventions that the Egyptians made to me. They wore eye make up all the time. Even the men wore it. It was just so great that everyone wanted to have it. The Pharaohs wore it the most. 

3.   Egyptians started writing message and stories on their walls. They would have their own little stories about how there people would work and get things done. Somewhere about the Pharaohs and some were about the lower class. 

4.   The Egyptian people where the first people to make a big deal about their hair. Everyone had to be in style with the Pharaoh. Their hair, there facial hair, there make up had to be perfect so they all look in style. 

5.   The world would be very hard to live in without a calendar. Without the calendar for the Egyptians wouldn't know when the Nile River was going to flood over. They would know when it was going to drain so they could get the rick soil that they need for their crops. 

Class

In class we went over what was on the rest of the Prezi.

• ·      Scribes/ kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatment, wrote in hieroglyphs and in hierarchic they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hierarchic  
• ·      Soldiers/used wooden weapons with bronze tips and might ride chariots, upper class, know as the “white kilt class”
• ·      Pharaohs/ the political and religious leader of Egyptian people, holding the titles: lord of two lands the Pharaoh was the leader of upper and lower Egypt, he owned all the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners, hat sheep was a women who served as the Pharaohs Cleopatra VII also served as Pharaoh, but much later more on her when we study Greece   
• ·      Gods & Goddesses/ over 2000 gods & goddesses, they control the lives of the humans and now a word or several words actually many many words from John Green 

Blog

In class today we went over the test. I didn't do as well as I wanted to. We went around the room and went over the questions. We had little discussions about each one. Mr. Schick was disappointed with some of the results, but i know that I'm going to try so much harder next time because today wasn't good at all.

Ancient Egypt

• Geography/ Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River (the river flows south to north), goes into Mauritanian, the water in for drinking irrigating for bathing and for transportation, every July the river floods every October it leaves rich soil (perfect) the delta is a board, triangular are a of fertile silt, managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation 

• Pyramids/ the Great Sphinx of Giza, built 255-2532 BC, a recumbent lion with a human head, oldest monument statue in the world

• Daily life/ Pharaoh, Government officials, Soldiers, Scribes, Merchants, Artisans, Farmers, Slave & Servants  

• Slaves & Servants/ helped the wealthy with house hold and child raising duties

• Farmers/ raised wheat, barley, lentils, onion - benefited from irrigation of the Nile

• Artisans/ would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the after life

• Merchants/ money & barter system was used - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later coinage came about  

Class

In class today we studied. Then we took a quiz. After that we went over the test we took last week. 

Blog

In class Mr. Schick told everyone that we were getting assigned seats. He put the names and rows up on the board. everyone started to complain but then they went to there seats. I'm in the same seat as before. After everyone was in there seats he called us up and we looked at our test scores Then we some of the other kids in the class had questions so Mr. Schick went around the room and answer some of there question then the bell rang and we all left. 

ALL THE NOTES FROM THE VIDEO!!! WOO HOO!!!

Guns, Germs, and Steal

Jared Diamonds 

Papnewguinea is where Jared is traveling. Why do men have so much cargo? We Newguineans have so little?

1. Large civilization population

2. Advanced technology

3. Well organized work force

Papnewguinea still living like cave men. Sego major food product in that area. Barely helped start archaeologist is discovering. Certain places started to have more of certain things. Granary place for the grain. China place for rice. Americas place for corn. Africa place millet. yams, and sorghum. Most productive crops make fro the most productive civilization. It came down to geographic luck. Middle East had wheat and barely.

There are 14 species of domesticated animals. They are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactria camels, Arabians camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and Bali cattle. Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats were native to the middle east. People of the fertile crescents were geographically blessed. 

Test Tomorrow

We are having a test on everything that we learned since the beginning of the semester. I feel like i should be ready, but you never know until you actually take the test. 

Blog

We went over what we learned about cave men. we asked some questions. Had some debates. and went over the power point. Then we looked up Hammarabies laws. and wrote down some that we thought where weird or interesting.

Bloggy

We are going to be beginning to study the prehistory of civilization. The the time period being 3000-1200 B.C. Southwestern Africa is where the first people came from. 14,000 is when the world had a full human race. Beginning of Agriculture was a VERY important time for the whole world. Population started growing like crazy 

Western Civilization

Today we got to all the people in our new class. I hope West Civ is as fun as Human geo.