last day of essay

Today in class we finished our essay and citations, i started watching the video on Greece for the test tomorrow, and studied more off the power point and took key notes.

Essay

Today in class we finished our essay, we just have to complete the work cited page. We have a little over a 1000 words, making our paper 4 pages long. Tomorrow we will watch the video in class to prepare for the test on Wednesday on Ancient Greece.

First day on essay

Today in class we started working on our essays that are due next Wednesday. My group is almost done and, we just have to organize the paper better and add a few more main ideas about the Hoplites. We should be able to finish up on Monday.  

Presentations

Today we finished presenting our power points.

Three great Philosophers
ARISTOTLE
-384-322 BCE
- taught Alexander the Great
- lived to the age of 62
- Thought of an element known as "Aether"
SOCRATES
- 470-469 BC
- founder of Western Philosophy
- Socratic irony, Socratic method
- father was a stonemason and taught him
-died from Hemlock poisoning
PLATO
- 427- 428 BCE
- lived to be 82
foinded the Academy of Athens
- Wrote "Apology" about Socrates

presentations

Today in class we started presenting our power points. 

Pericles and the golden age 

- hubris: Greek term/ meaning full of yourself 

- Pericles was the most prominent Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens.

- strong economy and city-state

-golden age: peace and happiness; thriving times. 

Athens, Sparta, and the Peloponnese war 

Athens - capital

            - dependent on trade and agriculture

            - men had all rights 

            - education 

            - Women had little rights

            - household duties

Sparta  - capital 

            - dependent on farming and trade

            - men had all rights 

            - physical education 

            - army/ solders 

            - Women had more rights than Athenian women

            - had physical education do bring up healthy children

            - did more physical activity 

Peloponnese War - Sparta and Athens 

                             - Spartans won!

                             - ships brought people in with the plague and killed more than 1/3 of citizens

Athenian Art and Architecture - pottery used as decorations and in everyday life  

                                                  - doric: 1st plain style 

                                                  - lonic: 2nd scrolls at the top

                                                  - Corinthian: 3rd elaborate designs wit leaves on it (stone)

 

  

notes on Greece

Today in class we spent some time answering questions that the academic team would answer. The questions were pretty hard. Then we went over some more of the power point on Greece which i already took notes on yesterday in class.

IMPORTANT TERMS
aristocracy - rich people
Symposiums - meetings the men would attend to drink and watch performers, while talking about politics.
Tyrants - an abusive or oppressive leader.
 

more notes on Greece

Transformation of government
- artisocates ran the show in most of Greece
- Rich people held the society

Aristocracy
- attended symposiums
- enjoying preferences while discussing politics
- no women
- no middle class

Tyrants: an abusive or oppressive ruler.
- Hippias was a Tyrant who ruled from 527 to 510 BCE
- Brother was murdered
- He was ostracized from Athens
- for revenge, worked with the Persian King to invade \

Project day 2

Today in class we had time to work on our power points that we are presenting on Friday. We finished ours today, we included many pictures on each slide to make it more appealing. So nex class we will start wiring our essay ass a group.

Project day 1

today we started our power points, we collected some information about The Hoplites and Tiremes and once we get a rubric for the information that we need then we will organize it into different slides according to the group.

Pop Quiz

Today in class we took a pop quiz, I knew all the answers i just mixed up the two seas. After we took the quiz Mr. Schick told us more into detail about our project. We have to make a power point by the 20th and share it to the class and write a 1000 word essay as a group. This will be due April 1st.

Project

Project Partners - Dimitra Conits and Kelsey Boyle 

Topic - Warfare on the Land and the Sea

Today in class Mr.Schick read comments that we wrote on our survey. Then we watched some videos about babies crying. it was very comical. 

 

Greece

Greece is covered with mountains (3/4) and islands (1400). Greece has many shipbuilders and skilled sailors, this made it possible for them to trade better than other countries. They also had limited natural resources due to the mountains so they traded a lot and did it well. Only 20% to be exact is suitable land for farming. They grew grains, grapes and olives. Olives were great to grow because you could use them in many different ways. Mycenaeans is located on a rocky ridge with a 20 foot wall protecting it, they influenced around 2000 BCE and started to control trade in the reign. Then the "Sea People" came and trading collapsed in Greece and so did writing for 400 years. Lastly Homer, Homer told stories during the "Greek Dark Ages". An example of two of the books are The Odessy and The lliad. 

Cyber Day Assignment

SOCRATES 

Socrates was a Greek philosopher, he is one of the founders of Western Philosophy. Socrates was born in Athens around 470 BC and died in 399 BC. Socrates used the Socratic method as his approach, this concept was asking questions and by doing so you'll find your answer in those reposes. This method was designed to examine your beliefs. People accused Socrates of teaching the young of Athens and disrespecting the Gods. They sentenced him to death by poison (hemlock). One of Socrates famous quotes says "The unexamined life is not worth living" he says this because he wanted to teach people things that they did not know and by doing that he was killed.      

Cyber Day talk

Today in class we talked about cyber days and what is expected of us when we are not in school. We should be doing 45 min of work at home for each class that we have that day, the work is supposed to be turned in the next class and should be a graded assignment. Since we probably will not have school tomorrow, our class will not have a cyber day because we do not meet.

Greece day 1

Today was the first day we started talking about Greece, we went over the powerpoint which was our cyber day assignment. The first part of class we went over out Ancient Egypt tests, this way we would have the correct answers for our final exam.

Cyber Day - Monday March 2

Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates
Egypt - Nile
India - Indus
China - Huang He










Greece
Located: in Southern Europe, on the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea
Topography: Greece is made up of mostly mountains and islands, the most important range is the Pindus. This range is 8,700 ft in elevation.
Surrounding: Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Mediterranean Sea
        All of this affected Greece's culture in many ways. First since most of the island was mountains, your space was limited to grow crops. Second, having the Mediterranean Sea available to them it was easy to transport goods.

A closer look 
-Rhodes is the large island that is southeast of Greece.

• Sparta is located in the center of the  Peloponnese 
• Athens is the capital and the largest city of Greece 
• Athens allowed girls o education while Sparta did 
• Sparta is dependent on agriculture while Athens is dependent on agriculture and trade