lots and lots of essays

So today in Western Civ, we had a sub again because Mr. Schick is still in Amsterdam. We all worked on all the stuff me needed to get finished. Karson, Jayla and I made a plan to spilt up the essay that we have to do for this class because it would be easier and we all got a part in it. I think it's really working out! I finished my part a few days ago, Jayla finished hers last night and Karson is doing hers right now. I hope we get a good grade on it because we worked really hard on the power point and the essay also. Now all I have to do is go over my part of the essay and then study for the test tonight. I'm a little nervous for the test tomorrow because it's kind of a lot to study because I have all of these other projects for all these other classes. But I think I can do it! Hopefully... SO always, it was a boring class basically because we didn't really have a teacher and we had to silence the whole time so, yeeeeaahh

See ya

this probably won't count.. :(

I wasn't in class Friday (27/03)

03.26.15

Today was a hard day because of the announcement about Zayn Malik leaving One Direction. Anyone who knows me knows that I love that band a lot and that news is very hard.

But  in Western Civ, Mr. Schick was not here because he's visiting his daughter in Amsterdam at her school. We had the options to either study for the upcoming test in April 1, work on our 1,000 work essay, or watch the video that he left for us in his blog yesterday.

Our real sub ditched us, or maybe they forgot, so Mrs. Zurkowiski had to sub us. Karson, Jayla, and I were going to work on our essays together today but she didn't want us to be in groups because it would get to loud, so we decided to just work on it when we get home. I'm going to be working on the Hoplites part, Karson the Trireme and Jayla is doing the Phalanx Formation. I'm sure we will find over things to write about in our essay so that we reach the 1,000 words.

I watched the video that Mr. Schick posted on his website, and that was all that happened in Western Civ today.

Today we finished up the power point presentations, and took some notes from Mr. Schick's power point.

gods and goddess:

- Greek Mythology:

• fully developed by 708 BC
• had human characteristics
• names of some gods: Zeus, Poseldon, Athena, Aphrodite, Hera, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Herme, Hestial Dionysus.

Zeus:

• god of sky and thunder (Lord of Justice)

Poseidon:

• god of the sea

Athena:

• goddess of reason, intelligence, arts and literature
• Zeus' daughter; spring out of her father's forehead

Aphrodite:

• goddess of love and beauty

Hera:

• goddess of marriage and queen of Olympus; wife/sister of Zeus  

Demeter:

• goddess of agriculture fertility, sacred law, and harvest

Apollo:

• god of the sun, the light, music and the prophecy
• rules over- music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, medicine, plague, sun, light and knowledge

Artemis:

• Apollo's twin
• goddess of hunt, forest and hills, the moon, archery
• protector of childbirth and labor

Ares:

• god of war - unpleasant aspect of war
• son to Zeus and Hera (both hated by his parents)

Hermes:

• god of trade, eloquence and messenger of the gods.

Hephaestus:

• god od fire and metalworking
• son of Hera and Zeus
• the only ugly god among the gods and was lame
• worshipped mainly in Athens where he had a temple
• made all the weapons

Dionysus:

• god of fertility and wine
• patron of the arts
• son of Zeus and Semele
• only god with a mortal parent

Hades:

• god of wealth
• ruler of the underworld
• one of the three major gods
• unmoved by prayer and sacrifice
• not death himself

Governments in Ancient Greece:

Aristocracy:

• a form of government in which power is in the hands of a small, privileged, ruling class
• can enjoy political power
• honoured titles: Duke, Duchess, Baron and Baroness
• children would inherit this job
• didn't care about lower class
• solon broken the form of law

Solon:

• removed for Aristocrats who succeeded him in power.

Tyranny:

• started in mid 600's BC
• new form of government
• ruled for short periods of time

Hippias:

• 510 BC

Greek Democracy:

• 508 BC democracy was born
• Ekklesia - executive branch; held 40 meetings/yr
• Boule
• Dikasteria - Judiciary
• 460 BC - end of democracy

Socrates:

• looked to science and logic
• Socratic Method fostered critical thinking

Plato:

• The Republic - most influential book
• Socrates student was Plato; Plato's student was Aristotle
• Aristotle put together a school called the Lyceum
• Aristotle also tutored Alexander the Great





Presentations Cont.



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Today in Western Civ, we continued with our presentations. So here are my notes:

Pericles & the Golden Age:

(picture 1)
- started in law courts
- born in wealthy family in 495 BC
- father was in the Persian work
- general, supporter and speaker of arts
- brought democracy to Athens
- gave citizens ability to vote
- passed laws in favour of the poor and middle class (not only the upper rich class)
- Pericles and Athens were very powerful
- strategy of seaborne attacks
- it paid off, when he attacked Sparta's alliance during the beginning of war
- died: 429 from the Plague ending the Golden Ages
- lasted: 449 to 431 BC
- grew in and around Athens
- Athens and Sparta lived in peace
- Greeks invented drama
- the Parthenon; Temple of Athena Nike
- Erectjeion: Architecture
- drama: most famous - dramas and tragedies based off religion and myths
- Socrates: could get you thinking by asking questions


- Plato: Had to think about things in the bigger picture (logic/science)
- Golden Age ended: Sparta and Athens wanted to both gain power so the Pelapesian War ended the peace and the Golden Ages

Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle:

Socrates: (picture 2)

- lived: 470-339 BC

- classical Greek philosopher

- his method influences the scientific method

 

 

 

 

Aristotle: (picture 3)

- had a strong relationship with Plato

- Aristotle walked around teaching

- systematic concept of logic

- his theory: two people had an idea and they would come up with a conclusion

 

 

 

Plato: (picture 4)

- studied music and poetry

- met Socrates and he became his mentor

- traveled to Egypt, studying religion, geometry, and astronomy

- Socratic Dialogues: his findings during his time

- composed Meno, Euthydemus etc. (books)

- these philosophers encouraged democracy and thinking for yourself

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art & Architecture:



- ancient Greece arts

- doric, ionic, corinthian: three main architecture (main orders)

- Doric: simplest, amount the three columns (commons)

- Ionic: more detailed - thin and slender

- Corinthian: most decorative- most common style in history and modern

- if it was a fancy building they used Corinthian  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sculptures:

- major material: bronze, made from marble

- was inspired by Egyptians

- skill level went up during the classical period

Hellenistic Period: they added more emotion and detail to the sculptures

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today my group also went and I think we did pretty good, I was a wee bit nervous but I had my notes and I tried my best to explain it well. We had Hoplites and Triremes which was actually very interesting. But anyways, I hope we do well on the paper! :)

Presentations

Yesterday in West Civ, we started to present on our topics we had. We didn't get to all of them because it took longer to present for the first teams but here are my notes!

Athens, Sparta and the Peloponnesian War:
Athens:
-capital of Greece
-name came from the god of Athena

Athenian Social Structure:
-aristocrats: large estates

Athenian Diet:
-two means a day, ate simply

Boys Education
-reading, writing, math
-music, poetry, sports, gymnastics (5-14 some from 5-18 for)

Women Education:
-where focused more on household
-husbands were chosen for them.

Weapons
-Doru, Sauroter, Xiphons

Sparta
-Lacedaemon: means "self-restrained"
-they were forced to be in the military

Top Class
-Spartiates, Women

Middle Class
-Farmers, wanderers

Lower Class
-slaves (obviously)

Spartan Males
-forced to be in the military until they were 60 (ages 7-60)
-women were "borrowed" and had affair with other men other then their husbands. then would also have children with them.

-Sparta had the most deadliest weapons
-Kopis: most feared weapon in Sparta

Peloponnesia War
-started - April 4th
-Sparta won


Homer
-Born: 800 BC in Smyrna, Turkey
-told stories
-brought Greeks out of the Dark Ages
-some people think he's one person, a group of people and someone who wasn't blind.
-the Odyssey ad Iliad were the most famous stories about Odysseus about Achilles
-died in 701 BC

Continued....

today we continued the notes from yesterday, so here are my notes:

-with Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (before aristocrats).
-engaged in a power struggle Isagora had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta.
-Cleisthenes had support of majority of Athenians.

-Isagoras Wins:
  -Isagoras becomes archon eponymouse (tyrant)
  -the people rose up and threw out Isagoras
  -was only in power for a couple of years
  -trap him on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he was banished.
  -he ostracized Cleisthenas



-Cleisthenes and Democracy:
  -He was definitely a member of the elite (that was all the people that got invited to those "political discussion parties")
  -very rich
  -insulated from the 'hoi polloi'
  -a crafty politician

03-18-15

Here are today's note:

- Transformation of government:

• During the seventh and sixth centuries BC, aristocrats "ran the show" in most of Greece.
• The rich held more influence in society and held governmental power.

-Aristocracy:

• Aristocracy is ruled by aristocrats.
• Attended symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, dancers, acrobats, hetaeras.

The clean version

-An exclusive Party:

• No woman were allowed (besides the entertainment)
• No middle class
• No slaves
• Sometimes, even certain aristocrats (the ones that didn't have the right connections or fell out of favour)

-Tyrants Seize Control:

• Sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with Hoplites (well-armed soldiers) and set up an alternative form of government called a tyranny.
• Tyrant - someone who rules outside the framework of the polis. 
• The modern meaning of tyrant is: an abusive or oppressive ruler. (Example: Kim Jong-Un leader of North Korea)
• the Greek meaning: someone who simply seized power usually with Hoplite help. They set their own army and gain power. (Example: Hippias)

-Class of Tyrants:

• Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527-510 BC.
• His brother was murdered and his rule became harsh.
• He was expelled from Athens also known as ostracized
• In revenge, after being ostracized, he began working with the Persian king Darius, helping them invade marathon.

Why the frowny face?

TO BE CONTINUED......

yesterday

yesterday I wasn't in class because of sickness.

today

Today in west civ we had a surprise visit from Mr. Schick's daughter in France! She told us the interesting story of how her class went to a restaurant and NO ONE spoke French besides this one girl that was there. So it was very interesting part of the class. OH and it was her birthday!!

Soooooooooooooooooo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNWqo5__Ow   : from me (:


So for the rest of the class we just went in our groups for the power point, and Jayla and I made the slides for our power point and started it. It was a "easy" class today so that's it!

pop quiz

Today in West Civ, we didn't take any notes on the power point but we took a pop quiz on the things we have already taken notes on. I kind of knew about before hand....so I looked over my notes before class and that review that we had in class was helpful too. But it wasn't like it was a really hard quiz, it was really easy if you pay attention and take notes in class. I got a 100 :)

Next, we went over what we are going to do as an assignment once Mr. Schick goes to visit his daughter in Amsterdam. We got into our groups today and we are going to be doing a project together. So we get a subject and then we have to make a power point about it on google slides together giving information on it and everything. My group is not "confirm" if you'll say yet but the plan is Karson, Jayla, and myself.

We also picked our subject today which was Hoplites and Triremes: Warfare on Land and Sea. We also have to do one paper that has to have a 1,000 words which I'm sure won't be that hard because it's three people contributing to that one paper. So it's all going to be good. *inserts thumbs up emoji*

:)

anicent greece cont.

Today in West Civ take notes from the power point Mr. Schick has provided for us. It literally seems like forever since we've been in West Civ because of all the snow/cyber days! So here are my notes:

-Ionian Sea: the river of the bottom of Greece (south of the Adriatic Sea.)

The Adriatic, Aegean and Ionian Sea

-Greece is a mountainous peninsula (3/4 of mountains cover Greece)
-The Greeks had many skills: sailors and shipbuilders, farmers, metal workers, weaver potters.

-Fertile valleys cover a quarter of the peninsula.
-Arable: 20% - this is good farming.
-Ancient Greeks diet: grains, grapes, olives
-Lack resources led to colonization. ** IMPORTANT

-In Ancient Greece, the temperature ranged in the mid 40s in winter, and 80s in summer. This is very important because it led them to go outside more and that made them athletic, healthy and fit. (this soon would lead to him creating the Olympics.)

Mycenaean:

• their influence began 2000 BCE.
• located on the rocky ridge and they were protected but a gigantic 20 foot thick wall.
• their kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE (about 800 years!)                                       - they controlled trade in the region.
• In 1400 BCE - they invaded Crete (the island South of Greece) and absorbed Minoan culture and language.

"Sea People" - Dorian's:

• in 1200 BCE, the mysterious 'sea people' began to invade.
• they attacked Egypt too.
• burnt palace after palace.
• Dorian's weren't as advanced, they didn't care about trade or writing.
• one of the reasons the Dorian's were called the mystery "sea people" and they were kind of mysterious, because they didn't care about writing, when they took over they completely ditched the practice of writing.
• writing disappeared for 400 years.
• there's no record because of this.

Homer the Storyteller (No, not Homer Simpson):

• Greek oral tradition: stories passed on by word of mouth.
• He was alive at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages".
• He composed stories about the Trojan Wars.
• This is around the time writing and or stories passed down to family generations were coming into practice again.
• Two of his stories were: The Ilad - the last conquests of the Trojan War  (750-700 BC); The Odyssey - odyssey attempt to return home being thwarted by the god of the sea because he's jealous ( 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter - in rhythm )

This Homer!

Not this Homer...

         
-The Greek gods 'interacted' with humans and had human character traits.

-Cyclops: gigantic beasts with one eye in the middle of their head that was talked about in the great story The Odyssey. ( see the picture below )




Homer didn't exist?!:

• The Homeric Question: people don't know if he actually existed because it was the Greek Dark Ages.
• For the longest time, historians thought that The Trojan War didn't happen, but they found that it was real, the ancient Greeks just made it sound more epic and cooler.

Also today in class we had a special visit from Homer himself! He was kind of blind though (just a little bit). All he did was smash into a table.. no biggy. But he read us his story The Odyssey. It was pretty nice and full of brains and stuff you know.

The End (:

Another Cyber day.. lol

"What's up, I'm Aristotle!"

So for our cyber day assignment today we have to look up one Greek philosopher and give their background. I'm doing to choose Aristotle because it's an interesting name :)

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/aristotle-9188415

Aristotle:

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher that was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. It was a very little place on the northern part of Greece. Nicomachus, Aristotle's father was a doctor to King Amyas II of Macedonian. After the death of his father when he was a small boy, Aristotle still stayed under the influence of the Macedonian court. Proxenus of Atarneus, Aristotle's brother-in-law took him under is wing until he was old enough to fend for himself. At the age of seventeen, Proxenus sent Aristotle to Athens to get an education. He got put into Plato's Academy, also being a student of Socrates. In 338 B.C., he went home to tutor the son of King Phillip II, Alexander the Great! Aristotle opened a teaching place called Lyceum. Right after it opened, Pythias, his first wife, died. Later after that he married a woman named Herpyllis who borne him his children.
In 323 B.C. when Alexander the Great suddenly died, Aristotle was charged with impiety which means that he lacked grieve for his death for Alexander the Great. This was a serious crime because they viewed him as a god. Not wanting to go to jail, Aristotle, his wife and children fled from Athens to the island Euboea.
Aristotle's philosophy was mainly focused on logic. He wanted to show people a "universal process of reasoning that would allow man to learn every thing about reality". How he did that was by describing certain objects based on their qualities and actions. Through describing this object, men would discover more about the object from deduction and reasoning.
After having escaped from the charges he got back in Athens, Aristotle caught a disease that infected digestive organs and died in 322 B.C.
After this, his writings and work came out of use but was picked back up again in the first centuries.

Cyber Day.......... YUP AGAIN!

Today it is in fact a Cyber day, and Mr. Schick did in fact predict it (so did everyone else). So, this is our cyber assignment via Mr. Schick:


"As we discussed yesterday, your Cyber Day assignment is to discover the wonder and splendor of ancient Greek architecture.  Find three terrific examples of ancient Greek buildings, post pictures of them, and write a short paragraph about each one.  Feel free to mention details like when and where they were built, what style they were built in, what materials were used to build them, what architectural details were included, and why the Greeks built these particular structures."


The Greeks were big on their buildings and architecture work. It was very important that their buildings and creations were unique. So Greeks came up with three orders, each with their own set of uniqueness and detail. The three common ones were called: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.


This first type of building above was called the Corinthian. It was used in Greece but mostly seen in Roman Temples.This was one of the very complex structures to build and the very last kind of structure the Greeks made, being developed in  4th century B.C.  The oldest known building built out of this was the temple of Apollo at Bassae (in the picture above.) Apparently, the Greeks did not put much effort or use in perusing this kind of structure.


 
This next type is called Ionic. This styles was in Eastern Greece and some of the islands! It's described as "more thin and elegant". The temple above, The Temple of Athena Nike, was built in the style of Ionic. It was built in 300 BC. The design was known as "dipteral" which refered to the two columns around the interior space of the building. This building was built to protect and keep the statue of Apollo.

 
This last type of order is called Doric. It was described as "sturdy and plain". Doric was used in mainland Greece and the colonies in southern Italy and Sicily. The temple above, Temple of Athena Parthenos , was built in the style of Doric after the Greek goddess of Wisdom. It was built in the 19th century BC. The structure of the building has weathered away but it's still known for the harmony that order brings.

 

: )

03-04-15

Today in Western Civ, Mr. Schick was getting his computer fixed today in class so we didn't take notes from the power point. We talked about how we probably aren't going to be at school tomorrow because we are suppose to get rain that's going to freeze and then it's going to snow over top of that.
For the Cyber Day homework tomorrow we are going too have to do 45 minutes worth of work :(
But I think I'll probably be able to get it done fast.

So there wasn't much less so GOODBYE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ancient Greece

Today in West Civ, we started our topic on Ancient Greece. So here are the notes I took today:)

- all the world's earliest greater civilizations were river.

- great civilization/ key river
  Mesopotamian / Tigris + Euphrates river
  Egypt / Nile River
  India / Indus River
  Hung He River / China

-1400 islands off the coast of Greece
-Supported by water: fishing, food, drinking water

-Mediterranean: 'terran' means: earth
  means: middle of the Earth

-Greeks were good at building ships
-Adriatic Sea: west side of Greece
-Aegean Sea: east side of Greece


-Athens: the capital of Greece
-Island of Crete below Greece
-The places Sparta and Athens did not get along
-Athens was named after the goddess Athena
-Greece has so many myths that we can't tell what's true and what they wish were true.