Today in class, we worked on our Google document. We need about 300 more word. i hope the paper gets a good grade because i believe that we worked hard on this paper. I hope MR shick gets home safe and all of our class's papers do well and that its a good week overall. 

Today in west civ. we had our last class with Mr. Schick before he goes on his trip. I hope he travels safely, from now on we have subs which i'm happy about. In class we continued the powerpoint and here are some notes.

• Zeus- ruler of heaven and earth; father of Athena; god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice.
• Had a temper and was known to hurl thunderbolts.
• Athena
• Goddess of wisdom, skill, warfare (and peace), intelligence battle strategy, and handicrafts.
• She was born from Zeus' head fully formed and armored.
• Greeks were certainly a warlike people- especially the Spartans.
• Spartans were known for their tough ruthless infanrry who were soldiers who fought on land. 
• Spartan boys trained from the time they were 7 years of age
• Athens had a great infantry, too, but nothing could come compare with their navy.
• Their most effective weapon was the trireme.
• The Phalanx

Today in Western Civ, we listened to Mr. Schick teach us how to write a good essay. In class, with the same groups that we had for the powerpoint, we have to write a 1000 word essay. This doesn't seem to be that hard, but I'm sure it will be difficult considering my group. 

Yesterday in class, we presented our Google slides presentation. I think we did okay on it. We explained the slides well and moved at a understandable pace. I thought some of the groups did well also. Basically Luke and I did most of the work. Immanuel came late because he had basketball right as we were doing our slides so idk whats going to happen. 

Today in west civ we had our party. It was good but not too many people brought in things which was disappointing I guess but who cares. We started going over the powerpoint again and I learned some very interesting things.

• greece would ostracize people from the land and that was worst then being killed.
• Igoras came to power and then fell when athens trapped him in the acropolis for 3 days before he gave up and fled and was ostracized from athens
• Then Cleisthenes came into power and had a very successful rule. 

Today in west civ we started reviewing the powerpoint again since our slides are due friday. I hope I get a good grade on this project because it could really boost my grade up a lot. On our powerpoint slides I feel that the work was evenly divided. Tomorrow we have a class party and I'm looking forward to that. I hope the presentation goes well and I don't screw it up somehow.

Today in western civ we finished our project. Luke and I finally finished it. Quickely came back today from his basketball tournament. The rest of the class we talked and didnt do much because we finished our powerpoint of the project.

Today in western civ Mr. Schick sadly gave us a project today. My partners are luke and immanuel, i feel some what confident in my group. We have the topic of Pericles and the golden age of greece. This topic has a lot of information available on this topic. I hope this project goes well.

Pericles and the Golden Age of Greece is the topic the my group picked which was #5
Immanuel 
Luke

Aristotle-  Philosopher (c. 384 BCE–c. 322 BCE)

• Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, together with Socrates and Plato, laid much of the groundwork for western philosophy.
• Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. When he turned 17, he enrolled in Plato’s Academy. In 338, he began tutoring Alexander the Great. In 335, Aristotle founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing. Aristotle died in 322 B.C., after he left Athens and fled to Chalcis.

Olympia- Olympia was on of the most important sanctuaries in Greece. This place was also the birthplace of the first Olympic Games. An important temple in Olympia is the temple of Zeus. In the middle there is a 12 meter high statue of Zeus. 

Temple of Apollo at Didyma- It was built in 300 BC. 

It was made to have two sets of columns surrounding 

the inside called a dipteral. Only 3 columns are left there were thought to be 126. 

The temple of Athena Nike -  they built this around 300 B.C   The design of the temple was known as dipteral. Dipteral is two sets of columns surrounding the interior section. In the inner section there was a chamber that had a statue of Apollo. 

Today was a cyber day due to the tons of ice that we got. Mr. Schick assigned us homework to do and it was to start the powerpoint and answer the questions. I took some notes as well.

• The worlds greatest civilizations are located on rivers.
• Mesopotamia began on the Tigris and Euphrates River
• Egypt began on the Nile river
• India began on the Indus River
• China started on the Huang He River
• Greece is surrounded by water 
• Greece is mostly mountains including the islands
• the most important is the Pindus 

• The Ionian Sea is between Italy and Greece.
• The Aegean Sea is between Turkey and Greece.
• The Adriatic sea is located Northwest of Greece.
• The island of Crete is located to the south on Greece.
• This would all affect the culture of Greece because they would probably be a successful place because they could trade with many other civilizations by sea and land. Also they could import materials to build great big statues.