Plato's Allegory

Today in Mr. Schick's class, we had a very intense conversation about Plato's Allegory. It is about these prisoners who were chained up in a cave their entire life. Behind them, was a fire and there were people who would make shadows on the wall in front of them. During the story, one of the criminals is freed. He is not used to seeing the fire and being able to leave the cave so he doesn't know what to do with himself. He leaves and asks himself "why am i put through this" basically. He doesn't like it. He thought he was being tortured by having to leave and he wanted to go back. He wondered why all the other people got to stay and he wasn't allowed. Mr. Schick also related this to real life, this is basically life our television. We see all of the characters on tv with perfect lives and we think that's what its like. Most people would rather sit in front of the television then go outside and make something of themselves. I actually really enjoyed this class and tying in our lessons of Ancient Greece along with the modern day touch.

Test Today-

Today we took a test on ancient greece. I thought that the test was pretty easy, and it was helpful to be able to use our blogs because of all of the long and confusing names and places. Other than taking the test, we did not do anything else in class. 

Test Tomorrow

Tomorrow, we are having a test on Ancient Greece. today, we watched the Ancient Greece part 2 video again just to review. There are a lot of people in the stories of Greece with pretty weird names so some of them are hard to remember. They have some pretty amazing stories and we do not really know which one is the correct version of the story and we may never know, but it is very interesting to think about. Some of the stories are so great and magnificent that you know they must have been stretched to things that did not actually happen.

Test Wednesday

-Aspasia- influence in the government, Pericles got rid of his wife for her, she wrote some of Pericles speeches

-Odysseus- trying to return home from the Trojan war

-Isagoras- last dictator before democracy, Athenians started "people's revolution", people ran his out of town in 3 days

-Cleisthenes- people looked to him after Isagoras, aristocrat, smart enough to tap into democracy, giving regular people power, and a say in government, first time of democracy,

-ostracize- be cast out or sent away from Athens, every year they would get together and kick someone out of Athens, eventually kicked Cleisthenes

-Xerxes- Strait of Salamis, son of Darius, new invasion plan, says 1 million men will attack, by land and by sea, plan to abandon the city of Athens, burning everything in sight, setup golden throne,

-Darius- battle against Sparta, leader of the Persians

-Pheidippides- sent to go get help, ran 26 miles to go get help, some myths say that he runs to Sparta, tells he needs help and dies on the stop, another one says that they ran 26 miles to warn them of the Persians

-Salamis- strait, tried to get ships into the straits, engage in a small area, sent as a traitor,

Wanted all the ships to get in the Strait, during the day attacked and won, built the Parthenon after this war,

-Pericles- in charge for 30 years, golden age, Athens rises from the ashes and has dominance, want to take out Sparta,

hubris- arrogance, think that you can not go wrong and ignore all advice

-Delian League- all city-states that give money to be protected

Wanted in invade Sparta, thought that they would surrender, the ships that were bring things, brought people that were sick with the plague,

Plague- 1/3-1/2 of the people died from the plague

Pericles got the plague and died

Oracle of Delphi- people who could see things we could not, gave good advice, 

My birthday,

Today, Mr. Schick made me wear a glittery hat and then he got glitter all over me. we also watched a video on close calls and it was pretty funny, so we really did not do anything this class

In- School Cyber Day

1. Greece is a very dry land, so therefore making the answer to number 1 D. mostly fertile land. Mostly fertile land is not a characteristic of Greece.

2. Approximately 3/4 of Greece's land is covered by mountains.

3. The term Barbarians came from the Greek work which meant barbaros, which originally means "not Greek"

4. A megalithic structure is massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs.

5. The term tribe refers to a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions and real or mythical ties of kinship.

6. Tribes were governed by warrior kings and queens, chieftains and tribal leaders chosen by warriors.

7. The first European barbarians to make contact with civilization were the greeks.

8. The country of the United States would not be considered a member of the Western Civilization.

9. The name of the sea located west of the Greek Mainland is the Ionian Sea.

10. The name of the sea located east of the Greek mainland is the Aegean Sea. 

11. The major crops that the Aegean people lived on are grain, vines and olives. 

12. The civilization that arose on the Island of Crete is the Minoan Civilization. 

13. The civilization that established settlements along the Greek mainland's southern shore and on some islands was the Mycenaean civilization.

14. The civilization that built massive walls to protect themselves from attack was the Mycenaean civilization. 

15. A period of Greek history in which the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use, is called the Dark Ages

16. The Phoenicians joined with the Greeks as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediterranean. 

17. The 'c' mean around, about and circa. 

18. The colonies are the Greek city-states that dotted the coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea.

19. Ancient Greek City-States close resemble the modern day geographical feature of counties.

20. The form of government in which a small group of citizens dominated, and the power was limited in many ways in the oligarchy. 

21. The form of government in which decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens was called a democracy.

22. The form of a government in which a self-proclaimed dictator held power was called a tyranny.

23. The form of government in which power is help by a single ruler, and is often passed down from father to son is called a monarchy. 

24. Spartans used the the government system democracy.

25. The Spartans began training males in military when they were seven years old. 

26. the wealthiest city state in Greece was Athens. 

27. The highest fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town was the Parthenon.

28. the name of the southern peninsula where sparta was located was called Crete

29. The massive fighting ships with 3 banks of oars were called the triremes. 

30. A heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of Greece was called a hoplite. 

Short answer.    

1. You recall the time period when the Greek population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use.  What years did this period begin and end?
1. This period called the Dark ages began in 1100 BC and went through the years of 750 BC also. 

2. During the time period when writing fell out of use, the poet Homer is said to have told stories of the Trojan War, and of a war hero attempting to return to his home.  What are the titles of these two stories?
1. The two stories that Homer wrote of the Trojan war were called the Illiad and the Odyssey

3. The word “Mediterranean” originally meant "middle land" 

4. What were prominent and long-established Athenian land-owners called?
1. The prominent and long-established Athenians landowners were called the aristocrats. 

Test Friday

Today in class, we went over the quizlet, Mr. Schick also explained that he wouldn't be here tomorrow so we would be going over the 30 questions and 4 essays that we are supposed to do tomorrow. He also announced that we would have a test on friday. Most of the questions for the quizlet will be on the test. Other than this, we didn't go over anything else. Tomorrow we are supposed to do the assignment that was originally assigned to be the cyber day assignment but we did not have class yesterday so we did not have to do it for a cyber day assignment. We also talked about the different drinking law for many different countries, and how in other countries they were allowed to have alcohol on the student lunch tables. And how in America they banned alcohol in the 1920's so people made it themselves.

Sub

Today Mr. Schick is sick so we had Ms. Stall as a substitute teacher. We watched the 2nd part of the video we started last week and we finished the worksheet which we were assigned. The video talked about the war with the Persians and how they won the first part at Marathon, the again by using the trireme, this time at Salamis. It also talked about the Parthenon and Athena's statue inside. They also brought up the topic of democracy and how they would vote for the leader and also vote for who they wanted to be expunged from the city of Athens.

Study Guide

Today we basically just went over most of the answers of the study guide which we had to answer through the video even though Carly just googled the answers. we also learned that google is a number not just a website . we were very talkative today and it was pretty fun. we had a two hour delay so the class was pretty short and we didn't have a lot of time to finish going over the questions.

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek Plays 

• two kinds of plays
• comedy 
• tragedy
• One famous tragedy- Oedipus Rex
• fate was killing his father and marrying his mother
• tried to escape this but fate came true
• finally, he took two daggers and plunged out his own eyes   
• take place in theater
• fits about 4,000-5,000 people 
• rest of his life was about shame 
• so many different elements of the stories
• Greeks were so advanced
• incredible art forms 
• always wanted to do there best in everything

Pottery

• mostly used transport olive oil 
• had to be durable and able to transport 
• paintings and inscriptions 
• entire was life was about heros and worshipping them 

Ships

• 172 people in unison- trireme 
• covered with bronze to make a weapon

Aristotle basically started the Internet- all knowledge and wisdom together

Presentations

Today in Mr. Schick's class, we watched almost all of the presentations. my presentation wasn't the best, i was hard to work with the pictures i had. everyone else's looked pretty good. Only Dominic and Logan weren't about to go because of the email not working.  i hope that i get a good grade on the commercial. it took me a long time to get working. so thats really all that we did in class today,

Mr. Perry's Class

Today, in west civ class, we had Mr. Perry as a sub because Mr. Schick was on the senior retreat. We went up to Mr. Perry's room before class and  we just finished watching the video on our own and completed the quiz/study guide that mr. schick handed out a couple days ago. From the study guide, we learned more about the city-states of ancient greece and their people and battles.

Commercial

Today, we just worked on our commercial. i worked with Jesseca and we got two of our story-boards done and some of the commercial and music. we did pretty well. we have to have the music and have narration at the same time so it might be difficult

Video again....

Today in Mr. Schick's western civ class, we continued watching a video and filling out a study-guide looking paper. The video was all about ancient Greece and the aristocrats and the helots. Also, in the beginning of class, mr. schick kept asking seniors what the meeting was about and every time they gave the same answer. Our homework is to continue working on our commercial. i have started mine and its looking pretty good so far. i'm hoping we have time in class to work on it one day this week..

Video and Quiz

Today in west civ, we didn't have a whole lot of time because of the two hour delay, with the time we had, we met Mr. Schick's daughter and watched some of a video and started to do a worksheet. our homework is to keep working on the commercial that we were assigned last Friday. it is due this friday. I am hoping for mine to be good and to get a good grade on this assignment.

Cyber Day- Yay?

Today,  it snowed. not as much as we thought was going to come but enough to get us off school for another Cyber Day. I am ready for spring. I want it to be warm. Mr. Schick told us to just work on our story boards and commercials for our cyber day assignment. He also sent us a very interesting video of him and his horses.  We already have a two hour delay for tomorrow and it may snow more tonight so we could have another cyber day tomorrow, we get more work on the cyber days than we do on regular days, so i hope we are in school tomorrow.  I have completed my story board already and i am hoping to make a real commercial to get some extra points.

Sub

Blog 2/27/14

Today in class, Mr. Shick wasn’t there so we had Mr. Gaudreau as our sub. We worked on a PowerPoint assignment comparing Athens and Sparta. Most people worked in groups and completed the PowerPoint in class. 

Not the real teacher

Ancient Greece

            Today in Mr. Schick’s class, instead of Mr. Schick teaching the class, Phil and Matt reviewed the LO3 section:  The Greek City-States. We learned about all the different kinds of governments and went over Phil’s notes. 

  

Athens

Ø  Trireme- three sets of oars, large sail boat, more than 150 people

Ø  City-States were known as polis

Ø  Hoplite- a heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece

Ø  An Athenian owl,  the slang name

Sparta

Ø  The military ideal

Ø  Descendants of the Greece

Need to know for Test:

Location of: 

o   Aegean Sea- east of Greece

o   Ionian Sea- southwest of Greece

o   Adriatic Sea-

o   Crete- Greek Island

o   Athens

o   Sparta

o   Peloponnese

Mediterranean means Middle of the Earth