Movie about Greece

Today in class we watched a movie about Greece. We took notes on this movie but I left my notebook at school so unfortunately, I can't type my notes into this blog post. & we don't have class tomorrow and since there is no school on Friday, today was my last day for this week in west civ. But two people fell out of their chairs today. The first one was Makenzhie when Mr. Schick yelled "SOCRATES" and clapped his hands, Mackenzhie got shocked and fell out of her chair and yelled. The second time was Kelley. She was sitting in the back of the class by herself, and randomly, during the middle of the movie, herself and the desk flipped over. When I looked back she was laying on the ground with the desk on top of her. But Mr. Schick didn't even acknowledge that Kelley fell and completely ignored it.

Class Work All Class

Tona had to take her test so for the entire class period, we had to fill out the Chapter 4 study guide. I thought it was weird to do the study guide because we haven't even started Chapter 4. I didn't get to finish all of the study guide, but I got all of the timeline done, so if we work on it tomorrow, all I have to do is the important people information at the bottom of the page. I got most of my timeline answers online since there weren't very many of the answers in the book. We don't have to finish the study guide for homework because Mr. Schick said we had a productive class period today.

Test

Before class started the teacher was late and since we had the class 1st period and the door was locked, we had to wait like five minutes to go into the class. But once we got in we began the test. We could use the textbook and I'm glad we could use that instead of the blogs because a lot of the information on the test was not on my blog. But I think I got a high 80 to a low 90 on the test. On all four of the short answers, I had no idea at all what the answers were and I couldn't find them in the book at all, so I guessed. They were all together worth 20 points so it's not very good that I think I got them all wrong. My essay was very long though and with a lot of details. I also think I got all but one or two multiple choice right.

More Review! & Jail

So today in class we just reviewed more and more of the outline that we didn't get too wednesday. Somehow we got to a discusison about being brain washed by the government, I think Kelley brought it up. But anyways, we also talked about jail and how Mr. Schick got to go to the place where they keep the criminals for life or where they wait to be killed. He said it was scary but what surprised me was that the criminals weren't up against the cell bars trying to kill him and the other people he was with they where passing by. Also, since Mr. Schick won't be here Monday when we take our test, he does't trust us to use our blogs while he isn't there, so we have to use the textbook. I would prefer to use my blog though because I only have the information on my blog that we would need on the test and now I have to highlight a bunch of stuff in the textbook so I can find it for the test.

Review of Overview

Today's class was really boring. We didn't really do much, just went over the review sheet for the test that's Friday. Mr. Schick just talked the whole time. I sat in a different seat today and Kelley got Jokingly threatened to get a chair thrown at her because we kept talking, Mr. Schick didn't throw a chair though. We also found out it was Mackenzie's birthday. We sang happy birthday to her then she got a hat to wear. I never got to wear a hat for my birthday, even though it was on a Saturday. But I still would have liked to have worn that hat.
Here's the overview Mr.Schick made....

Chapter 3 Outline

 

I. The European Barbarians (LO1)
        A. The Earliest Europeans
                    1. by 4000BC, farming and village life had spread throughout the                                    continent
                    2. by 3500BC, increased population and wealth led to complex religious                          structures
                               
        B. The Barbarian Way of Life
                    1. common way  of life as result of migrations of Indo-European nomads                         (c.2500BC onward) from the steppes that bordered Europe on the east
                    2. languages
                                a. ancestor languages of Greek and Latin
                    3. elites of warriors
                    4. farming and village life
                    5. In this way, Europe came to be inhabited by peoples who spoke mostly                       Indo-European languages; who were skilled in farming, metalworking, trade, and warfare; and who were fairly well organized on the local level, but had no cities, written records, or fixed structures of government
                    6. c.2000BC-1000AD these barbarians came into contact with civilization
                    7. the first such European barbarian people to make contact with                                      civilization were the Greeks - their civilization, the first to emerge in Europe, was the first to definitively be labeled “Western”

II. The Aegean Encounter (LO2)
        A. Minoan Civilization
                    1. c.2200BC a distinct civilization known as Minoan arose on the Aegean                        island of Crete
                    2. Minoans drew wealth from control of the seas and trade with eastern                       Mediterranean lands, especially Egypt
        B. The Arrival of the Greeks: Mycenaean Civilization
                    1. when the Greeks made their way to the Aegean, they seem to have been                      a European barbarian people much like any other
                    2. eventually they came under the influence of nearby Crete
                    3. by c.1600BC Greek chieftains had established settlements along the                            mainland’s southern shore and on some islands
                    4. Mycenaean Greeks
                    5. struggles between Mycenaeans and Minoans for control of the                                     commerce of the eastern Mediterranean lasted until c.1400BC, with the                                destruction of Minoan towns, perhaps as a result of Mycenaean conquest
                               
        C. The “Dark Ages”
                    1. Mycenaean civilization lasted until shortly after 1200BC due to the conquest of the Sea Peoples
                    2. c.1150 BC Myceneae was sacked and all settlements deserted - in addition, the population dropped, and writing fell out of use
                    3. this led to the eclipse of civilization for almost 400 years, known as the                        Dark Ages (1150 - 750 BC)
                    4. but the Greeks themselves survived and even expanded their territory
                               
        D. The Renewal of Greek Civilization
                    1. c.800 BC the Aegean region recovered
                    2. population expansion led to founding of colonies, c.800-600 BC
                    3. the Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and                                  seafaring nation of the Mediterranean
                    4. a common religion
                    5. new developments
                                a. use of iron tools and weapons
                                b. coined money
                                c. borrowing of Phoenician shipbuilding and warfare techniques
                                d. writing and the alphabet formed the Greek language

III. Citizens and Communities: The Greek City-States (LO3)
        A. City-States and Citizens
                    1. notion of citizenship seems to have originated partly in geography
                    2. hoplites: Greek infantrymen equipped with bronze helmets and armor,                                    round shields, long spears, and short swords
                    3. city-state, citizens, tradition, and myth

        B. Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy
                    1. in the earliest times, communities were ruled by kings
                    2. monarchy then gave way to new forms of government that distributed                         power more widely among male citizens
                                a. oligarchy:  a minority of citizens dominated the government, and the                                                      power of the majority was limited in various ways
                    3. but other city-states gave more power to the majority (particularly those           that developed into large commercial centers)
                                a. in these city-states the common people were too numerous and                                 active to ignore,                                 
                                b. in these cities, social conflicts sometimes led to the emergence                                      of tyranny (rule by a dictator)
                                c. but tyranny was often only a passing phase on the way to                                         democracy (all government decisions were made by the majority                                      of male citizens)
                    4. although Greek city-states had many features in common, each was                             individual in character

        C. Sparta: The Military Ideal
                    1. Spartans were descendants of Greeks who had conquered part of the                           Southern mainland: Laconia
                    2. by 800BC they were a minority of landholders ruling over a majority of                       helots (noncitizens forced to work for landholders)
                    3. Messenian helots, however, frequently rebelled
                                a. this forced Spartans to accept a governmental system that put                                   them under almost total domination by a few among themselves
                    4. by 500BC, policy decisions had been taken over by a council of elders
                    5. thus the Spartan government was a leading example of oligarchy
                    6. Spartan male life was dedicated entirely to the service of the state
                    7. the relative freedom of Spartan women aroused both admiration and                           disapproval among other Greeks
                    8. to protect this way of life, Spartans tried to seal off their city-state from                              outside influences

        D. Athens: Freedom and Power
                    1. c.800BC many old-established communities in the Attica peninsula                              merged to form a single city-state that was known by the name of the most              important community: Athens
                    2. over the next 300 years, Athens grew to become the wealthiest and one                       of the most powerful city-states, largely as a result of overseas trade
                                a. produced and exported wine and oil
                                b. workshops produced weapons, pottery, and articles of silver,                                    lead, and marble
                                c. these were trade overseas for metal, timber, and grain
                    3. with a rising population and greater wealth came social and political                             conflicts
                                a. usually between aristocrats and increasingly numerous dēmos
                                b. in conflicts with the aristocracy, the dēmos could generally find                               aristocrats to lead them whom they respected and who wanted their                                support
                    4. as a result, Athens passed through several stages of political growth,                            beginning with monarchy and including both oligarchy and tyranny
                                a. eventually political power was extended to all adult male                                          citizens, with aristocrats becoming leaders instead of rulers
                    5. The Persian Wars
                                a. in the sixth century BC, the Persians had conquered a realm that                               stretched from the border of India to the Nile and the Aegean
                                b. now the empire was within striking distance of the Greeks, and                                Persia conquered the Greek city-states in western Asia Minor
                                c. when Athens aided a rebellion by these city-states, Persian king                                Darius sought to extend his empire into mainland Greece, c.494BC
                                d. the Persians lost the decisive battle of Marathon in 490BC
                                e. then in 480BC, the Athenian navy crushed the Persians at                                         Salamis, and the Spartans faced the Persians on land at Thermopylae and            then at Platea
                    6. when final peace was made with Persia in 445 BC, Athens was the                              controlling power of the Aegean Sea
                    7. after Persia’s defeat, Athenian democracy entered a “Golden Age”
                    8. the workings of democracy
                                a. a Council of Five Hundred and roughly one thousand public                                     officials were chosen annually by lot
                                b. chief military officers, the Ten Generals, were chosen each year                                    by vote of the male citizens
                                   c. adult male citizens were a minority of the population of Athens
                                            i. the rest of the population was composed of adult female                                            citizens, adult noncitizens, and children
                                            ii. adult male citizens probably made up no more than one-                                            fifth of the total adult population
                                            iii. the remaining four-fifths had no say in government
                    9. men and women in  Athens
                                a. women were highly visible in religious affairs
                                b. not much is known of women’s life lower down the social scale                                    or outside the city
                    10. slaves
                                a. were a diverse group; not all of them lived lives of total                                             subjection and powerlessness
                                b. most slaves were non-Greeks, or the descendants of non-Greeks
                   

Presentations w/ Notes

Today the first group went for presentations. They didn't get to finish though, or anywhere close to finishing. I suspect that these presentations are going to take forever to get through all three groups. But Mr. Schick would stop and discuss some of the facts on the slides and I took notes! The notes I got include that when people come in contact with other people, there becomes a mixture of cultures, the Barbarians are an example of this. The people of Greece were very good with using the water surrounding them to their benefit. Peloponnese Peninsula is where Sparta & Athens is located, the peninsula is almost a island. In 2200 BC: the Minoan were on Crete and the island of Crete was controlling the trade by the sea. The Minoans were destroyed by the sea people. City states are like current day counties. Hoplites are men at arms. A monarchy was a government by kings and was passed down by heredity. Oligarchy was ruled by a group of people (above the age of 60), it was no always passed down heredity. Tyranny was ruled by a tyrant and in the past, Tyrants were not always considered bad people and they held power by force, exploiting internal divisions, and by providing efficient government.

Powerpoint Again!

Mr. Schick wasn't her today so we had a sub. I think the sub was the library person. She didn't really talk to us much, she occasionally told us we needed to start working when we got sidetracted, but other than telling the class the directions, she didn't say much. Well anyway, today we had to add LO2 to our powerpoints. There were once again four sections so it worked out perfectly, except Drew didn't have his computer so Kelley had to type his work for him. I did my slide for the powerpoint on the Mycenenanan Civilization and read that section of the book. My group just talked for most of the class, but we did get all of work done in class, so we talked and had fun but were productive.

Powerpoint!

In class today we were supposed to finish our powerpoints but my group, Savannah, Drew, Kelley and I, aka best group ever, already finished our powerpoint last night. So today in class we just edited our slide show by adding pictures and stuff. We added a picture of Barbarians and when Mr. Schick pulled it up on the screen everyone started laughing. At the end of the class we took pictures of ourselves to add to the end of our powerpoint since we didn't have much else to do. But we did add a picture of Stonehenge and a map of Ancient Greece. So we have a total of like 6 or so pictures, which I think is good. But for the remaining amount of class, we all just talked for a while.

Notessss

Today in class we took notes from a textbook powerpoint then finished taking notes with a powerpoint Mr. Schick made. We finished class by getting into groups and beginning our project. Some of the notes I had included: the Acropolis is the highest point in town. Megalithic structures were structures made constructed in Europe around 35 BC, one of the most famous ones is Stonehenge. Around 2500 BC, Indo-European nomads from the stepes migrated to Europe and the European Barbarian way if life is created. Barbarians lived a life of nomads and were of European tribal descent, they were very war like and had central leaders of warriors or war lords. The Barbarians also had burial rituals and had tribes formed of groups with common interests. The first Barbarian people later formed Greece. Crete is south of Greece and to the east is the Ageian sea and to the west between Italy and Greece is the Ionian sea. Mountain peninsula, Mountains cover 3/4ths of Greece and there are about 1400 islands in the Ageian sea. The location of Greece shaped the culture- many sailors and poor natural resources. It was hard to unite Ancient Greece because the terrain formed individual villages.

Lo1

In the European Barbarians section of our textbook, some very important points in the section would include the Barbarians, Stonehenge, and the earliest Europeans. The earliest Europeans spread farming and village life by 4000 BC and by 3500 BC there were people in western Europe with large populations and organized. The earliest Europeans built megalith, huge rough-cut stones used to make monuments and tombs. The most famous megalith is Stonehenge. Stonehenge is an open air monument made up of 160 massive boulders. It was most likely built as a religious center. There are two upright stones with another stone resting vertically upon it. The structure is still standing today. It shows the level of wealth, organization, and skills of the earliest Europeans.  Barbarians were people who lived a life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization the spread across Europe around 2500 BC. The Barbarians spoke a language of Indo-European, distinct ancestors of Greek and Latin. When a warrior died, he would be buried with his belongings such as his horses and chariot, bronze, swords and daggers, and more. He would also lie next to his wife with her jewelry and textiles and utensils. The main way of life was farming. Villages formed tribes that were held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties. A tribe met everyone once in a while to discuss things and would form loose alliances under warrior kings. Europe became populated with people who spoke Indo-European languages that were skilled in various jobs, and were very really organized. The first European barbarian group to make contact with civilization was the Greeks who developed an individual civilization of their own. It was the first in Europe and western civilization. 

Chapter 1 Test

Today in class we took our first test of the semester. It was a shorter class so I didn't finish until the last seconds of class. Mr. Schick forgot to tell us we could use our blogs, but he remembered about five minutes into the test. Since I was running out of time towards the end and my hand was cramping, my closing paragraph for the essay is only two sentences long but. But the sentences are informative sentences so hopefully that'll make up for it. Also since I wasn't in class Tuesday, I did the pyramid challenge Wednesday night, it took me I think 26 years & 48 days to build, I'm not sure but I have a picture of it saying I completed it.

Continued Notes on Egypt

Today we finished the notes from the prezzy from a few days ago about Egyptian daily life, gods and goddesses, and pharaohs  Then we finished taking notes on the powerpoint about Egypt. We have a test Friday about all of Chapter 1. Chapter 1 includes Egypt, Prehistory, and Mesopotamia. In class, we also watched a movie about how the preserve the mummies. We also watched a movie about how Egypt that's made by the one author guy. The author guy actually made a few mistakes in the movie. For example, he said that the Nile flows North to South. In reality, it flows South to North.

Ravens Parade!!!

I wasn't in class today because I went to the ravens parade