March 31

Today for class we were in Mrs. Smith's room.  I watched the video because my group is finished our 1000 word paper.  I did my English homework too.  We were in the room that Chesca ran into a desk in when she was getting the tape for Ireton.  That was funny.  Tomorrow we have a test.

March 27

Today we worked on our paper.  My part about Socrates is almost finished.  I think Chesca is almost finished with her section about Plato.  Jessica still has more to write about Aristotle.  When we are finished, we will watch the video to prepare for the test.

March 26

Today in class we started working on our 1,000 word paper. I am writing about Socrates, Chesca is writing about Plato, and Jessica is writing about Aristotle.  We haven't gotten much of it done. We will hopefully get it done soon so we can watch the video that Mr. Schick is going to be teaching us from.

March 25

I was not in class today.

March 24

Today we presented our power point on Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato.  I read the slides about Socrates so I had to read first.  Jess sat in the back of the room and clicked the button on the computer so she wouldn't have to stand in front of the class.  After she read her part, she said she kinda freaked out which was pretty funny.

March 20

Today we started presenting our power points.  The first group that went used more then five minutes.  Only two groups got to present today so Mr. Schick is going to look at our power points over the weekend.  He will change our grade based on our presentation on Tuesday.  I hope our presentation goes well so our grade goes up.

March 19

Isagoras and Cleisthenes
with hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both aristocrats) engaged in a power struggle
Isagoras had support from fellow aristocrats and Spatra
Cleisthenes had support from Athens

Isagoras became tyrant
ostracized Cleisthenes
Cleisthenes' supporters revolt
they trap Isagoras on the acropolis for 2 days - on the third day he fled and was banished
508 BCE

Cleisthenes was a member of the elite

• he was very rich
• crafty politician

March 18

Aristocracy
ruled by the Aristocrats
they attended symposiums - meeting where elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, entertained by women
Exclusive Club
no women (except entertainment)
no middle class
no slaves
sometimes aristocrats who didn't have the right connections were excluded
ostracize - to exclude from a group

Tyrants Seize Control
sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites - well-armed soldiers and set up an alternative form of government called tyranny
tyrant - someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
modern meaning of tyrant - an oppressive leader or ruler
Greek meaning - someone who simply seized power

Hippias - tyrant who ruled from 527 - 510 BC
his brother was murdered and his rules became harsh
eventually he was expelled from Athens
in revenge he began working with Persian King Darius I helping them invade Marathon

March 17

Today we worked on our power point again.  I think we are almost finished.  We just need to add the transitions and more pictures. We have a total of 23 slides.  It was Jessica's birthday today.  She brought us brownies.  They were good.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kA2hVK5nFaHQTJWS53NTUi2HF3FtPA7AToRioI6guxU/edit?usp=sharing

March 13

Today we worked on our powerpoint for the whole mod.  Jessica forgot her computer so she helped me.  We were working on Socrates and Aristotle.  Chesca was making the slides on Plato.  We are then going to take all the information that is in the powerpoint and write a thousand word paper from it.

March 12

Mr. Schick's daughter turned 20 today.  We facetimed her in class for the whole first mod.  Then Chesca, Jessica, and I started working on our powerpoint.  We got about 3 or 4 slides done.  We talked about what we are going to do when Mr. Schick leaves.  We will either watch a video or work on our paper. It is recommended that we watch the video because Mr. Schick will be teaching from it.

March 11

Today we took a pop quiz on Ancient Greece.  It was on a scantron and we had 10 seconds to answer each question.  It was really easy and I got a 100.  We then picked groups for a project that we will be doing using google slides. My group is me, Chesca, and Jessica.  We are doing our powerpoint on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

March 10

Greece notes

• 20% of land is suitable for farming 
• Greek diet consisted of grains, grapes, and olives
• Good at making wine and traded this wine
• A lack of resources led to Greek colonization
• Temperatures ranged from mid 40's to 80's

Mycenaeans

 influence began around 2000 BCE

protected themselves with a 20 ft thick wall

dominated Greece and controlled trade from 1600 - 1200 BCE

1400 BCE - Mycaeans invaded Crete and absorbed Minoan culture and language

"Sea People", Dorians

1200 BCE mysterious "sea people"

invaded Mycenae and burnt palaces

Dorians moved into this war-torn region

• far less advanced
• trade based economy
• writing disappeared for 400 years, no records of what happened with "sea people"
• they didn't trade and isolated themselves from everyone else

Homer

Greek oral tradition - stories passed on by word of mouth

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

composed stories of Trojan War c. 750 - 700 BCE

The Illiad - one of the last conquests of the Mycaeans (Trojan War)

The Odyssey - Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by angry god of the sea, Poseidon

The Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter

Did Homer actually exist?

"Homeric question" - Homer may have been a mythical creature

Cyber Day 3/6/15

Socrates

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.  He was born in 470 BC and died in 399 BC at the age of 71.  Socrates's approach to philosophy is known as the Socratic Method.  He would ask people a series of questions that would force them to question their own beliefs and the validity of those beliefs.  The Socratic Method is still strongly felt today and is called the Scientific Method.  The first step is forming your hypothesis which is very similar to Socrates's method.  The development of the Socratic Method is one of Socrates's most enduring contributions to the development of Western philosophy.  It is not known if he had any other jobs other than philosophy and he is not known for any writings.  We know about the existence of Socrates through the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon.  Socrates is still important today because of his many contributions in the field of epistemology and because of the many influences he made to western philosophy. 

Cyber Day

Temple of Hephaestos

The Temple of Hephaestos was built in the north west side of Athens, Greece during 449 BC.  It sits on a hill and overlooks the Agora of Athens.  It was the first temple in Athens that was built out of marble. It is believed that the temple was built as a hero shrine dedicated to Theseus.  The Temple of Hepheastos was built in a Doric style and consisted of many different columns and pillars.

The Parthenon

The Parthenon is a temple located in Athens, Greece that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Construction began in 447 BC and ended in 438 BC.  The Parthenon was built out of ivory and gold to show the dominant power of Athens.  It was built in a classical style and contained many pillars and columns.  The Parthenon is one of the most important surviving temples from ancient Greece because it was built during the high point of Greek art.

Temple of Athena Nike

The Temple of Athena Nike is located on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.  It was built around 420 BC and is the earliest ionic temple on the Acropolis. The temple was built because Nike means victory in Greek and the citizens hoped for a prosperous outcome to the Peloponnesian War.  It was made out of Pentellic marble and was built in a classical style.  It was very small and was eventually destroyed by the Persians.

Ancient Greece

Word's greatest civilization located on key rivers
Mesopotamia / Tigris and Euphrates
Egypt / Nile River
India / Indus
China / Huang He

Greece
- has a lot of islands
- Mediterranean Sea - means "Middle of the earth"
- lots of mountains
- West - Adriatic Sea
- East - Aegean Sea
- Island of Crete - South