4/14/11

I was sick, I wasn't in class today.

4/13/11

In class today Amir finished his project. It was a very good project. I would give him a 98%. Then we watched the movie we always watch.

4/12/11

Today in class we worked more on presenting projects. Most people finished up. I wrote notes and gave everyone a grade. Then we watched the same movie for the 100th time.

Movie Notes:

• Socrates
• interested n the mind. 
• he used reason and logic to study people.
• Socrates was arrested and put to death.
• he was accused of going against the gods/ religion and corrupting the youth.
• Thales
• first man to measure the height of the great pyramid
• sailed by using the stars in the sky for direction.
• 
  

Madi Day: 95%
History of Greek Art.

• sculptures are made of marble, limestone, and 
• Myron is the Greek sculptures, sculptures of athletics. 
• Phidias- sculpted Zeus at Olympus. 
• Symbol of Athens: 
• Lysippus- realism art 
• Polyclitus- bronze sculptures of young Athens. Phidias's equal. 
• Praxiteles- school of art was contained of marble. he used marble to resemble the softness of his skin. 
• Scopas- Worked on temples.  
• Realism- trying to represent people as they really are. Try to get them as close to they way they look. 

Mark Michael: 98 %

Greek Drama

• the theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and 
• Tragedy, comedy, and styr were the three dramatic genres to emerge there.
• they used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human.
• comedy plays were derived from imitation.
• Tragedies always had a happy ending. Tragedy deals with love, loss, pride, abuse of power. 
• satyr plays- short plays that were performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the tragedy's characters.
• theater- buildings called a theatron.
• even with a lot of people  in the stands everyone could be heard. It was because of their masks. 

Jason Drager: 98%

Greek Army and Battles

• Peloponnesian war
• 431-404 B.C.
• Sparta was getting nervous about the growing power of Athens so they went o war.
• War caused Athens economy to crash.
• the ended with the Spartans capturing the Athenian navy and after 6 months of starvation they gave up. 
• Trojan War
• took place in many places other than Troy.
• The goal was to shorten the supplies that were getting to Troy so that they would have to surrender. 
• the war was also one of the greatest events in Greek mythology. 
• 1194b.c.-1184 b.c.
• They got into Troy in a huge wooden horse, some people say that its not real. 
• Greek Weapons
• Shield
• spear
• ballista- siege weapon that could fire. 
• dagger/sword
• catapult 
• Alexander the Great
• one of the greatest commanders of all time.
• his real name was Alexnder 3 of Macedon
• he was undefeated in battle
• took  over Persian empire and wanted to control all of the known world,
• Eudemus
• when Alexander the great left India he left his great general in charge.
• he was appointed by him to command the troops left in India.
• became a very powerful man. 

4/8/11

Today in class we talked about Amnesty Intentional. We buy a shirt for ten dollars and we can wear it. After that, we looked at more power points.

Emily Stasuk: 97%
Trial of Socrates

• He asked questions that angered people.
• He wanted to share his knowledge with the world
• Began sharing his knowledge with young followers led to philosopher Plato. 
• People did not like his forward thinking
• 399 b.c. people expressed their distaste for his teachings
• non democratic thinking made people angry. 
• Charges against him:
• Impiety (not respecting the gods)
• corruption of young men's minds
• by law they couldn't charge him with not being democratic so they came up with vague religious issues to charge him with.
• large trial in front of Athenian jury
• Puzzles historians because the Athenian society had been very free and democratic.
• sentenced to death at age 70.
• Socrates didn't like the Peloponnesian War.

Rachel Weskalnies: 100%

Greek Architecture 

• extinct in greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (1200 bc) until the 7th century
• began on the shores of the Aegean Sea around 700 bc
• temples, tonbs, public meeting places, and other.
• always had a statue of a god or goddess

Rachel knew a lot about her project and made it fun and interesting. 

Elena Fernandez: 96%

Greek poets

• Hesiod 
• Very little is known.
• Ascra in Boeotia is his native village.
• Pinder
• Greatest lyric poet of ancient greece
• first poem was in honor of the winner of the national game.
• Sappho
• Known for poetry but sang too
• first woman poetry
• head of a girls school
• wrote about her fight with brothers

Cole Alban: 100%

The Golden Age of Greece

• The Age of Pericles
• economic and military power of the world
• it lasted for 50 years
• began after the Athenians defeated the Persians
• ended when the Pelop. war began
• Pericles
• Was and aristocrat
• the man who led Athens into their Golden ge
• built the Parthenon
• gave people power to vote for the leaders of the state
• started the Peloponnesian war.
• Parthenon:
• built ontop of the Acropolis to show off Greece
• inside was a statue of Athen
• Many famous plays were written during this year
• comedies also came into 
• they looked more into volcanoes and earthquakes.

4/5/11

Today in class we looked at our powerpoints. We had someone peer review our powerpoint. I looked at Mark's and he looked at mine. Then I worked more on my powerpoint. My powerpoint is on Greek Philosophers.

Class 4/7/11

Today in class we looked at more presentations of Ancient Greece. I went and I have Greek Philosophers. Socrates said a famous quote The unexamined life is not worth living. If you don't think about why you believe the way you do then you're not any better. We can think and we can reason.

Amir's project on Hellenic Age:

• 323-146 B.C. 
• started when Alexander the Great died 
• Rome was trying to control Ancient Carthage. 
• Greece was conquered during the Hellenic Age. 
• Alexander the great mixed cultures and got his soldiers to marry women from different cultures.
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Class of 4/6/11

Today in class we looked at some presentations. 

Breakthrough in Math and Science:

1. What is zoology?
2. Why didn’t the Greeks want to learn Algebra?

3. Pythagoras is known for what?

Emily Waite's project was really good. She knew what she was talking about. And the pie was really good. 100%

Homer:

1. He was born in Greece, historians doubt Homer's back ground.
2. He was born blind court singer and story teller.
3. Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, he probably didn’t make up these stories by himself.
4. Poet have ben going around Greece telling these stories for hundreds of years.
5. Illiad the tale of Achilles and the Trojan War.
6. The Odyssey- about the travels of Odysseus.
7. There are so many different writing styles its hard to believe Homer just wrote them.
8. Compared to his other writings, none of his writing styles are found in the poems. We still believe homer rote them due to ancient letters and scribes.

How did he write these stories he was blind?

What are some of the writing styles in his poems?

Was Homer highly respected?

Rita did really well. Her project looked cool and she knew a lot about it. 93%