Friday May 22

i was not in class today because i left early from school.

Wednesday May 20

Today in class, we shared projects for the last time. The first group was Delaney and Alayna. They made a mosaic. They also had a PowerPoint to go with it. The second group was Ariana, but no Dimitra. They built the Pantheon. The last group was my group. We built Hadrian's Wall and had a PowerPoint. I thought we did well and I think we should get a good grade on this project.

Tuesday May 19

Today in class, we shared more projects about Rome. The first group was Kelsey, Jake, and Kyle. They built a diagram of the Roman baths and had a PowerPoint about the rooms in the bathhouse. The second group was Ryan, Luke, and Pierce. They did Crucifixion and built a cross and put notes on it. Ryan showed us what happened while being crucified. Overall, both presentations were good and learned a bit about each from the info we were given.

monday may 18

Today in class we shared projects. The first group was Kacey and Meredith. They did pottery and food. They had a food that was a cheesecake dipped in honey. The second group was Avery. She did a painting of a woman that was related to a mummy. It looked like the woman. The third group was Stevie and Hunter. They built an aqueduct and it worked fine.

Friday may 15

In today's class we worked on our projects

Wednesday May 13

Today in class, Mr. Schick had us work on our projects for Rome.

Tuesday May 12

Today in class, Mr. Schick had Jude, Kelsey, Stevie, and Hunter teach the class. Their objective was to teach us more about Rome with the PowerPoint Mr. Schick made. They completely failed.

Monday May 11

Today in class, we watched a movie about Tiberius Gracchus. It was called Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. It was a good movie. It gave great information. Maybe I can watch this before the test.

Friday May 8

Today in class, we worked on our projects for Ancient Rome. My group is building Hadrian's Wall and making a PowerPoint.

Wednesday May 6

Today in class we took notes on Ancient Rome. Later on, we watched a movie about Ancient Rome.

Tuesday May 5

Today in class, we took more notes on Ancient Rome.

Monday May 4

Today in class, we took more notes on Ancient Rome.

Friday May 1

Today in class, we took notes from a PowerPoint Mr. Schick made about Ancient Rome.

Wedenesday April 29

During class, we had a fire drill. This took up most of the classtime. When we got back, we just worked on our Ancient Rome projects.

Tuesday April 28

Today in class, we talked about the riots in Baltimore City and how bad it was.

Monday April 27

Today in class Mr. Schick gave us four major things that the Ancient Romans invented: aqueducts, the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and the Circus Maximums. We had to go on to the internet and find out a few facts about them. Once we did that Mr. Schick called on us to read some of the things we found and then he would ask us what website we found them on and then he asked if the website was good or bad.

Wednesday, April 22

Today in class we took notes on Rome. We stopped in the middle of class because Mr. Schick had a "guest." Then a "rapper" came in and started singing "Rome" by Chi Cago. Then Mr. Schick told us to memorize the lyrics and they will help us on the test. I laughed during this presentation.

Friday project day 1

Today in class we worked in our small groups on our project. We finished 2 slides and started working on the third. We also got back our pop quiz test results and I got a 100%.

test

test number 2

wednesday

Today in class we took notes on Ancient Egypt.

From Pre-history to Civilizations

Land of Pharaohs- The Nile and the "Two Lands"

• Upper Egypt was a 500 mile land of strip of fertile land along the Nile 

Socrates- Cyber Day Assignment

friday

test blog

tuesday

Today in class we did the project Pyramid Challenge. You had to choose the right order and props to be able to build the pyramid. Our group consisting of both Adams and me, we got 20 out of 20.

2/23 work on three videos

1st Video

• Ancient Egypt lasted from 3000 B.C. to 332 B.C. 
• Nile shaped world view for Egypt
• Nile- one of the safest and richest agriculture areas in the world at that time
• planting was very easy
• Egyptian communities existed ONLY along the Nile

2nd Video

• Pyramid of Giza 
• stone at the top of the pyramid
• built tunnels inside pyramid 
• the inside of the pyramid was greatly studied by many people 
• the people inside tried to find a subterranean tunnel but couldn't but a secret entrance is known but is still secured.

3rd Video

• mummy of a young man 
• died at 20 years old 

Process of Mummification

• all internal organs removed 
• body was covered with salt to dry up
• poured oils on him
• layers of rosin were laid
• then covered with wrappings
• then put a wooden board under him and cover again
• a poach was placed on chest and then mummified Isis was put on the lower chest (was placed as offering to the gods)
• then covered again
• then a portrait of the deceased man was put on the area near the head
• then wrapped him in linen cloth and then took off the part covering his portrait
• put Egyptian symbols on to protect him

his body is safe because of mummification

cyber day

The categories on the Prezi are geography, daily life, Pharaohs, gods and goddesses, and pyramids.

Geography

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• water for drinking, irrigation, bathing, and transportation
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil.
• the delta has a lot of fertile silt
• managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation

Pyramids

• the Great Sphinx of Giza- 2555 BC- 2532 BC
• a lion body with a human head
• oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily Life

• slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and children
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onion. They benefited from the Nile
• artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• money/barter system was used- merchants would accept bags of grain for payment- coinage came later.
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments
• they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows-arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• upper class known as "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, and engineers
• religious and political leaders

Pharaohs

• the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people. Holding the titles "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple"
• as "Lord of the Two Lands" the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt
• he owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as a pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51 BC to 30 BC) we will study her more when we study Greece

Gods and Goddesses

• over 2,000 gods and goddesses
• they "controlled" the lives of humans

February 9

Today we had a test on the video Guns, Germs, and Steel. I think the test was pretty easy and I think i did pretty well but i know i got the first question wrong.

Friday

On Friday we finished watching Guns, Germs, and Steel. In Papua New Guinea, they never had advanced technology. Nothing has changed for centuries. People lost food when a drought happened and people started to move to get food. Any two points that have the same climate, will have the same growth. 

TEST QUESTION maybe: Is wheat native to the Americas?

today 2/3/2015

Today in class we continued to watch Guns, Germs, and Steel. I learned that people in China grew not wheat or barley but rice. In America, they grew corn, squash, and beans. In Africa, they grew sorghum, yams, and millet. In Papua New Guinea, people have farmed there for 10,000 years. In the Middle East people evolved 10,000 years ago. They eat giant spiders for protein because they didn't have much protein. If you had the most product able crops, you had the most productive resource. It also depended on where you are in the world. Wheat is 1/5 of calories people eat. 9,000 years ago villages got bigger and had a good source of food. If you wanted meat, you had to hunt it. People raised animals like goat and sheep and ate them.Goats and sheep were also the first animals domesticated. In other parts of the world people used the the wheel and plow to farm. In Papua New Guinea, they didn't used the wheel and plow because they had no animal to pull it. There are 14 species of animals other 100 lbs have been domesticated. They are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, Bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and Bali cow. Only the llama is from South America and the rest are from Africa or Asia.

Today 2/2/15

Today we watched the video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. There is a book of the same name written by a scientist named Jared Diamond. They begin in Papua New Guinea. People live like it is the Stone Age. One man, when Jared came to the island a couple of years ago, asked him why white men have so much cargo and we do not. That got Jared thinking. He thought that if lived like they did we would not survive and if they came to like New York City, they would not survive. Power was determined by race, white people have more power than black people. All great civilization have three things in common: advanced technology, large population, and a well-organized work force. In the New Stone Age and Middle East, humans were thriving. In Papua New Guinea people are still hunting and gathering. Wild sago is a main source of food to the New Guineans. In the New Stone Age, barley and wheat are found and then eaten. A village named Draa is found in the Middle East. There they found a grainery. The town is 11,500 years old. The plants in the grainery were wheat and barley. This proved that people have started to domesticate.

today

Today we had a test. I think I did OK for the first test. I wish I would have had more on my blog.

notes from class

200,000 years ago a human species emerged in southwestern Africa

14,000 years ago, a worldwide human race existed

Earliest prehistoric age is the Paleolithic age (Old Stone Age)

Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) was marked by advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture

Initially, humans were parts of migratory groups which hunted, fished and gathered

• the district known as Sumer occupied the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Population increased dramatically due to new irrigation techniques
• Cities and towns were founded, some with as many as 40,000 inhabitants
• better food storage allowed for diversity in professions: priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians, farmers
• Kings emerged, as did family dynasties and the concept of the “city-state”
• Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing, known as “cuneiform”

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• a pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged, with many of the deities representing the natural elements of the world
• the world’s first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian “Epic of Gilgamesh,” which told of a great flood
• Sumerians first divided the hour into sixty minutes and the minute into sixty seconds; they also organized a calendar based on moon cycles
• the Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a “mountain” of earth

• Wandering nomads drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia
• Sumer was conquered by the Akkadians c. 2350 B.C. - their gods took the place of previous gods and all were forced to worship them
• King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as “Hammurabi’s Code” - laws that included “an eye for an eye” and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes

Today in class, I studied the PowerPoint and notes for the test on Friday.

First Day

We learned basics of what you will teach us. Today, we started setting up our blog to do homework. Each post should be longer than 2 sentences and one sentence if you are absent. If you are absent, you should post in your blog why you are absent. If you have homework one the weekend, you should post it by Midnight-Saturday. All homework should be completed by midnight of the day assigned.