Tuesday, March 31, 2015

today we are officially done with our paper. we have to study alot for this ancient greece test. i have a feeling it is going to be very hard but i will definetly be prepared. i really need to get a good grade on this test. i think that we have done a very good job on our 1,000 word paper and should we should relaly get a good grade on it.

Monday, March 30, 2015

in todays class we finsihed our 1,000 word paper. we have been working very hard and have lots of details and lots of words on here tocover our entire thing. it has taken awhile and i think we will get a greta grade on it. i had to finsih some of it over the weekend and put alot of work in so i hope we do well

Friday, March 27, 2015

today in class we had Mr Fendryk as our sub and we worked on our ancient greece 1,000 word paper. our project is on athens and sparta. our paper is going really well so far and we are almost finished. it has taken while but i think we will do well

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

ancient greece

today in class we took more notes on ancient greece.

  • infantry- is the soldiers on land in battle 
  • spartans started to train at ht eage of 7 
  • athens had good infantry so did sparta 
  • athens was know for there good navy 
  • they had the fastest ship in the world at the time called the tireme 
  • this boat could smash into everything and destroy anyting in its path 
  • phalanx was a close- rank of large groups of soldiers 
  • they were armed with heavy, long speares 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

today in class we took notes on the greek gods. we learned about all of the gods and and about the two men who kept going back and forth with each other. we learned about all of the gods and what each one stood for. it was all pretty cool but its all fake so it dosnt matter. one thing cool is that zeus is in someway related to all of the gods in someway shape or form

Monday, March 23, 2015

today in class we finished the powerpoints. he powerpoints were very good but some of them were very short. we got our grade on our powerpoint, we got a 91, we did very well. i am very happy and content with this grade

Friday, March 20, 2015

in todays class we did not do much, we did 3 of our power-point presentations on ancient greece. we did pretty well except mr Schick got on me for having the wrong numbers. we took notes on other peoples projects. adn we had to tell mr shick on a piece of paper how much all of the work we did. i think we all did the same amount of work

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

in todays west civ class we took more notes on ancient greece. we talked about how they became a tyrany and all of them were tyrants. i forgot what the name of the guy was but he had all of the power in ancient greece but than suddenly was not even aloud to come back into his own country. he left with his family and joined up with the persians. than we talked about the mock trial questions and we actually got alot of the questions correct.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

today in class we took more notes on ancient greece. mr kimble was our sub. we had peanut butter an jelly sandwiches. muhlenfield brought the peanut butter kelsey had the jelly, and pierce brought the bread. class was pretty fun but we had to take notes.

Monday, March 16, 2015

powerpoint on athens

today all we did was worke don our powerpoints. the people in my group are hunter and jude. we are pretty much done our powerpoints we just need to do all of the finishing touches and grammar. i have learned alot about athens through this powerpoint. and as i said in my last blog i am dong athens, jude is doing the pelopenesian war and hunter is doing spartans. this project has been very interesting so far.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

in class today we took a quiz, we went over ancient greece of what we learned in the past day. we took a pop quiz on the rivers the stories and where the seas are. i only got one of the ansers wrong so i am okay with that. the quiz was fairly easy and fair. than we started sharing some stories and went over the project and the paper we have to write

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

the people in my group are myself jude brown and winfield peverley
we are doing athens vs sparta and the pelopenisian war
we watched babies cry and mr shcick went over the semster one survy of his class

Monday, March 9, 2015

anceint greece notes

very mountanous peninila
they cover 3/4 of greece
1400 islands of greece
skilled sailors nd ship builders
poor recources
lots of olives
fertile lands cover the peninsula.... 20% of it is good farming area
arable- good farming land
temp ranged fro,m the 40's to 80's
invented the olympics
myceneains took over
they had a controlled trade
mycenans started to get along with the people of crete
than the dorians took over
so callled "sea ppl
they awere farless advanced
did not trade at all
wrote nthing down for more than 400 years
the only thing we know about them are some stories that could be made up or could be true about how the lived and what they thought back than

Friday, March 6, 2015

today in class we worked on our project about athens and sparta. jude and hunter are in my group. i am doing athens. hunter is doing sparta and jude is doing the pelopenesian war.
PlatoPlato, was a Greek philosopher born 428-7 B.C.E and died in 348-7 B.C.E. he had agreat trio with aristitole and socrates. they laid the fundamentles of philosiphy. he was into a very wealthy family. he two older brothers and a sister. plato was just his nick name, his real name is aristicoles. he studied in egypt and italy. he was one of the first philosephers who actually found most things out. he was also a mathmatician. he is considered "THE PHILOSOPHER "

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

today we did nothing. our class was very short because of the 2 hr delay. we talked about the waether coming and the cyber day work and all that stuff. than we started talking about technology and ow mr shick knew somebody who has a pacemaker nd his doctor gets a signal of when his heart is not doing okay.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

greece

today we learned about the notes that we took yesterday for the cyber day homework. we went over the test that we took on ancient egypt and i did alright. we learened that every great civilization that was succeslful had a  river or water on their sides.

Monday, March 2, 2015

ancient greece


  • the world greatest civilizations were all on rivers
  • meapatomaia had the euprhaties and the tigris 
  • egypt- nile river 
  • india - indus river 
  • china- uang he river 

greeces geography 
  • the significance of Greece's location 
  • greece's topography 
  • greece's surroundings 
a closer look 
what bodies of water surround Greece? - medditeranean 
what large island is sout/southeast?-roheds 
where is sparta and Athens? - in the center of pelopeneese and athens is the capital and the largest city in greece 
aprta is dpendent on agriculture and athens is dependent on agriculture and trade