Today in class we reviewed the last test of the quarter but not the last grade. I didn't do so well on the test :( We each read a question and said the answer. He gave us the tests back so we can use them to study for the final exam. He also handed back some other papers from a while ago and we went over those tests and papers. On the test that I got back I got an 79. I am happy with that grade. It is better then failing. We went over the short answer and essay questions on the test.

Well today in class everyone was being wild and annoying including me :) After everyone settled down and listened to Mr. Schick we figured out that we have a project to do over spring break :( My topic is The Trial of Socrates. I guess it should be easy but I am not sure. Everyone was arguing on I want this and I want that but I am okay with my topic. I am okay with my topic. I am going to do what I can to figure out what I need to finish this project no matter what it takes. 

Today we took the hardest test of my life and of course I did not pass :( it cover early Greek civilization and we got to our blog. It was worth 58 points and had 29 problems. Athena is the goddess of the patron capital city of Greece. The Greek's living in a arete life.

They are looking for a new leader

Pericles

Glorified Athens

Create a city with greatness that everybody would admire

Wanted Athens to be the most rocking city in the whole untied states

Memorial to those killed there

Massive reconstructive

Parthenon

A billion dollars now a days to build

Tribute to Athena

Put everybody to work

20,000 tons of marble

Pericles treated this like it was part of his own project

15 years to build

Gold and ivory is what Athena was build out of

Frieze

Carved marble on the inside of the temple

You saw regular people

2 and a half inches thick

If you were to look up it looked like the were higher than they really are

On top of the Acropolis and when people would look at it they would say wow!

Aspasia, not from Athens, prostitute, 

Pericles divorced his wife and married Aspasia

Pericles treated her as an equal

He totally fell in love with this lady

She was in on all the conversations

Worlds first theater

It was really noisy

Greeks invented drama

Comedy and tragedy

Oedipus

Fell in love with his mother and killed his father

Stabbed his eyes out

He brought Athens to death and destruction  

Hubris

Athens takes war with Sparta

Pericles convinced all Athens to abandon all around the

Peloponnesian war

Themistocles

 He does know how to make a city great

Trireme

To ram the enemies ship

Fast and very slick weapon

480 B.C.

Discovered a huge grain of silver

Darius

Xerxes

480 B.C.

The Persian Empire set out for peace

Second attack from the Persians

Oracles

Delphi

Salamis

Burn temples to the ground

The Greeks win the war against The Persian Empire again for the second time

Straits of Salamis

The Persians have lost 200 ships at the end of the battle

The Athenians are going to have a navy

Delian League

Athenian Empire

Vote once a year to get rid of someone from the place

Themistocles was ostracized from the country

He spent the rest of his life wondering from state to state

Pisistratus:

• Cleisthenes brother in law
• he reduced taxes

Hippias

• brother was killed
• he got really annoyed easily
• He didn't trust the normal people
• He was going crazy

510 B.C.

• Cleisthenes was one of the most power fullest people

40,000 people have come to watch the Olympics

• Rich people use to only fight against rich people
• when Cleisthenes came into power anybody could fight against anybody

Isagoris

• he is going to try to take over Cleisthenes
• good friend of the Spartans 
• 800 houses were casted out

Athens stoop up and kept rule over Isagoris and Sparta
Agora

• anybody could go up to the agora and explain what they wanted to do next
• every nine days they voted
• a white pebble was for yes and a black pebble for not

Pheidippedes 

• The Persian Empire is going to try to take over and destroy Athens
• ran 140 miles in just 2 days

Hoplites

• soldier
• these soldiers were prepared
• they had armor and swords
• Greece killed 6000 Persians

Themistocles 

We reviewed the video that we watched on Friday while Mr. Schick was on retreat. I didn't take notes really in complete sentences.
508 B.C. ordinary people turn on their rulers
Cleisthenes
Govern themselves
Aristocrat- member of the ruling class
Acropolis- out cropping of rock
Reading and writing was a rare skill
These people were not slaves but they were treated as badly as slaves
Aristotle - greek writer
Greece was divided into city states
Greece was not one big country
Athens
Sparta
If the food looked nasty it tasted nasty
Spartan life style- no frills
Spartans were a threat!
Their stories inspired the Greeks
The Odyssey and The lliad
Homer wrote both of these great books
Tyrant- somebody who comes in and seize control
Pisistratus-  Cleisthenes brother in law

Peloponnesian- little island

Geography of Greece:

• Mountainous peninsula
• Mountains cover 3/4

• Approximately 1,400 islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas
• Location shaped its culture

• Skilled sailors
• Poor natural resources
• Difficult to unite the ancient Greeks because of the terrain; developed small, independent communities
• A lot of people that didn’t get along
• Easier to get around with ships

Geography continued:

• Approximately 20 % of Greece is suitable for farming
• Fertile valleys cover 14 of peninsula

• Because of the geography (mountains) the Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives
• Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization

• Temperatures range from 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
• They don’t have to get use to different weather changes
• They don’t have massive snow storms, or a lot of rain
• They also eat grapes
• People were athletic, it was your responsible to keep yourself in shape
• Good wine makers
• Colonization- they colonized on the water and ocean

Mycenaean:

• Began around 2000 B.C.

• Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 ft. thick wall

• Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 B.C.
• Controlled trade in the region

• 1400 B.C. Mycenaean's invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language

Culture in Decline:

• Around 1200 B.C. sea people began to invade Mycenae and burnt palace after palace
• The Dorians moved into the war-torn region
• Far less advanced
• Economy collapsed
• Writing disappeared for 400 years

• They were like body builders
• They are very big and get people away

• They didn’t know how to read or write
• They don’t trade, don’t interact with people

• They told stories but didn’t record anything else

Homer and Myths:

• Only stories were kept and passed on by word of mouth

• Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"

• Recorded storied of the Trojan War in The lliad and The Odyssey (written 750-700 B.C.)
• Trojan war was probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans

• Homer was blind
• He wasn’t a rich man
• Wrote the two most good books people wanted to hear

Greek Concepts:

• Arête
• Virtue and excellence

• Epics
• Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds

• Myths were created to explain creating
• Zeus: leader of the gods
• Hera: Zeus' wife
• Athena: goddess of wisdom 

While Mr. Schick was on retreat we watched a movie. The movie was pretty good. Some notes are: 

508 bc Athens pandemonium ruled the streets

A small settlement called Athens

Reading and writing was a skill there

Aristotle was a greek writer

So today's class was interesting, well not  really. We reviewed our power point on the book we read and it was pretty interesting. Rita kept changing my slide and Elena kept writing on Emily Waite's slide. But anyway, Mr. Schick will not be in class tomorrow and we will be watching a movie with a sub.

So today's class was interesting! Mr. Schick read us part of a book and we all got an individual thing to work on. We are to add slides to a power point on our topic. My topic is the Persian Empire. My topic is very interesting. It covers a lot of countries!

Today in class we took a test on Egypt. I also sung the Egypt anthem. It was really funny and I didn't know the words to it.

Today in classed we went over a power point that is going to be on the test on Tuesday. We got to have Mr. Schick for about 25 minutes of the class which was good because we could ask questions if we needed to.

Today in class we had tow subs. Mr Schick is in the play so we did not get to have him with us for class today. We finished looking at the prezi on Egypt. I learned that scribes wrote in hieroglyphs and hieratic. Soldiers used wooden weapons with bronze tips. The upper class people were known as the "white kilt class."

We had a little fun in the very beginning of class. We learned some new facts on Egypt :

Geography

• Life is centered around the Nile River
• Delta -the delta is a broad marshy triangular area of fertile silt

• Transportation

• Water for drinking for bathing and irrigating

• Every July it floods

• Every October it leaves behind rich soil

• Flows south to north

• Managing the river requited technological breakthroughs in irrigation

Great Sphinx of Giza

• A recumbent lion with a human's head

• Built 2555-2531 BC

• 4,500 years ago it was built

• Oldest monumental statue in the world

SO, today we reviewed the PNG, and GGS test while raping the question and answer. We also learned why Mr . Schick calls Mark, Marky Mark, because of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. I think todays class was pretty fun! I was the only Emily in the class today which I thought was pretty cool!