4/29

I was at my baseball game.

4/26 Class

Today in class we did a worksheet that went over the pages we read yesterday and we did a blog on. The question weren't that hard and some of them like the definition of dictator was just common sense like some of the questions. But today was a easy class and this didn't take the whole time to do which allowed me to get other work done which I am very happy about.

4/25 Classwork

509 BC- Rome becomes a republic
264 BC- First Punic War begins
218 BC- In the second Punic War, Hannibal invades Italy
31 BC- Octavian defeats the forces of Anthony and Cleopatra
284 AD- Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome
476 AD- Western Roman Empire falls

Ancient Rome was founded in 753 BC. Mars and a Latin Prince were stranded and raised by wolfs. They choosed the location because of the soil and location. three groups settled in Rome between 1000 BC to 500 BC and they were Latins, Greeks and Etruscans. Between  \


Early Republic

600 BC Etruscan became king of Rome. Rome covered 500 square miles. The last king of Rome was Tarquin ]the proud and was out of office in 509 BC. Republic is a form of government in which power is given to the citizens.

Government under the republic

balanced government. consuls commanded the army. The senate was a branch of the government. dictator leader of a government. A large military units were called legions.

Rome spreads its power

Romans took over Italy and beat the Etruscans. Rome's location made it easy access for riches of the land ringing the Mediterranean sea. Traded wine and olives. 264 Carthage and Rome went to war. This started the Punic Wars. Between 264 and 146 BC. The mastermind of Carthage was general Hannibal. He assembled 50,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry and 60 elephants.

Rome Triumphs

Scipio lead the Romans to victory over Hannibal in 202 BC. Rome victories gave them power in the western Mediterranean. Then they conquered the east in 70 BC.

4/23 Class

Today in class we learned tat we are going to start to learn about Ancient Rome and it seems pretty interesting. And I think this will be more interesting then Ancient Greece but not better than Ancient Egypt. But we also learned Mr.Schick is having surgery and will be out for two weeks and we will have different subs everyday and there is a paper that has what we do for that day and all of his papers are on his desk. And that we will be doing independent work and we are going to use our computer and our blog for everything we do. And we can listen to music.

4/12

Today we took a test and it went alright. The things I was stuck on was the who am I questions because I didn.t really study that much of that and focused on Ancient Greece and Alexander the Great. But beside those questions I feel like a I got a decent grade like a B maybe. But those questions probably messed me up. There were questions about what the plays were about and what kind of plays they were. And surprisingly there were very few Alexander the great questions which really surprised me and it really focused more on Ancient Greece and they were very specific questions that could trip you up if you did not read it right.

4/11

Today in class we went over and reviewed questions that would be on the test. People would ask questions and Mr. Schick would answer them. Some questions were about like what was the plays about and what type of plays were there and there was two and one was a comedy and one was a tragedy Also Alexander the Great was a ruler at the age of twenty and ruled till he was thirty-five. And counquered Persia, India and Egypt.

4/9

Wasn't in class today

4/8 Class

Today in class we read and learned about Alexander the Great. I learned that Alexander was a smart man by taking most of Europe as his kingdom. Alexander became the king when he was twenty years old and died at a early age. In my opinion if he didn.t die so early in his life he might of counquered the whole continent and maybe the Western hemisphere. Anyway Alexander is known as the best king to ever live and personally I think that is definitely true for what history shows us what he did in a small amount of time.

4/4 Class

Today in class we watched a rap and I thought that it was good not just because it was a rap. The lyrics were actually relevant to the Ancient Greek society. They rapped about Homer, Greek Gods and Godsees and some other stuff. And that took the majority of the class. But my only complaint was after the rap they talked about the lyrics and after that they conducted a interview that asked questions about the lyrics so they basically repeated the same thing twice. But other wise this presentation/ rap was the best that I saw including my presentation about the ancient Greek Olympics.

4/1 Class

Today in class we watched presentation go on and saw some really good ones and some not so good ones. But the majority of the time it was good but one group didn't prepare as much as they should of so I took points off for the presentation, but the facts I thought were really good and relevant to the idea that the group had done. But the other presenations were very good and showed us demonstrations of there project which led them into getting a good grade. And the fact that they presented it well by looking at the class and engaging with us.