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.