feb 26

today while tona made up the test since she was absent yesterday, the rest of the class had to fill out the chapter 4 study guide worksheet. its really not that hard at all and i dont understand why some people were fussing. i really like this unit.

Feb 25

we had a test today. thankfully it was open book. we also had a substitute teacher. some of the questions i didnt know because since i was sick all last week i think i missed some important information.

ooooo feb 21

im still sick

still stuck in bed

i miss school

ill be back monday

sorry im missing class 

gomen

-Ali

Feb 20

I'm absent today because the doctor said i have sinus infection. i will not be in school tomorrow either because the doctor told me to rest.

sorry im not there!

Feb 19

Today im absent from school because i am home sick with some bug that ive had the entire weekend

im going to use this time wisely and make up my assignments in all my classes.

Feb 14

On friday we were told that we had to work on LO-3 of our powerpoint. i chose to do Athens WOOOO! I really love Greece but I've never actually had a chance to learn about it except their gods. this group power point is really fun and im learning a lot. we also got our tests back on friday AND YAY I WAS ONE OF THE FEW TO GET AN A!!! SO PROUD! HAHAHA!

Feb 13

On Wednesday we had a sub and and she told us that we had to do LO-2 of our power point to wich we all said "UHHHHG" cause we thought we were done. the class talked a whole lot until the last 15 minutes when we actually got stuff done. I really like these powerpoints cause they are fun.

Tuesday, Feb 12

I was absent again today. I think i caught some sort of stomach bug because i was sick all this morning.

I'm sorry i missed class.

Jan 25

I was still missing school because of the weird medication i was on was making me sick.

It seems on this particular day we finished the powerpoint on Mesopotamia and assessed what we knew about prehistory

our homework was to read LO-3

Jan 23rd

On jan 23rd i was absent from class because my meds made me sick but so yeah

it looks like we rewatched the john green video and disscussed LO-1 some more in class. Our HW was to read part of LO-2. we were heading into our Mesopotamiah studies :D

Monday, February 11

Today in class we started our intro into greece. I love greek things (ESPECIALLY BAKLAVA YUMMMMMMM). Mostly we ended up talking about Stonehenge and how in the world they ever got the stones on top of stones to create that megalith. Other than that, we took notes and we started making a powerpoint on google documents. I'm gonna post some important notes. wooo.

3500 BC - megalithic structures constructed
2500 BC - Indo-European nomads: Barbarians evolved
2200 BC - Minoan civilization roots in Crete
               - Greeks arrive in the south-east

Barbarians: tribal people, they eventually had contact with the east
They were organized enough to have rituals, tell stories, and build megalithes

Barbarians: warlike - warlords that grew to be kings later on
ppl moved to agean sea and they were the greeks later on

Agean sea to the east
Ionian sea to the west
Crete island to the south

Greece is mountainous
Apprx 1,400 islands
skilled sailors
poor natural recorces
difficult to unite
-small independent communities

Aboutr the test

i just woke up and i forgot to write this blog entry so yeah...
about the test...

i thought it was a really good test. i remembered some of the questions cause they were on the quizz so that was cool. i think i did pretty welll on the essay part even though i half-assed the ending paragraph cause it ended up being a sentence. i was happy with that test. yeah. wooo.

FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 6

Today in class we took a lot of notes to prepare us for friday's test. since thats what we did im basically just gonna put some notes in my post:

ranks bottom to top

slaves-helped in wealthy households
Artisans- carved statues and reliefs
merchants
Scribes- kept records with ink and papyrus(Nile reed paper)
Soldiers- used wooden weapons with bronze tips, chariots
Upper class- "white kilt class", engineers, priests, physicians
Pharaoh- religious and political leader, made laws, owned all land, "lord of two lands", 'high priest of every temple'

they invented sail boats
they had a 365 day calendar
temple of Amon at Karnak is biggest religious building.
scrolls were like books
they had plows and domesticated animals - especially cats: large cats like cheetahs
barter system before coins

best known lady pharaohs were Hatshepsut and Cleopatra VII

Tuesday, February 5th

Today in class we got to play a game. This game's goal was to build a pyramid. The king got angry a lot and fired you. you had to pick food (onions bread and fish id what i picked) and recreation (board games, free time, more beer, gangs? and gold and stuff) and also pray to the god Seshet : goddess of writing and measurement. you had to build on the west side of the river so the pharaoh could go to the afterlife. i built on the plateau (NOT THE DESERT) at a 52% slope using limestone. You also needed to pick what kinds of workers you wanted to build. *(there were no slaves, farmers were the majority of the group with about a quater of the workers being craftsmen to cut and shape the stone. overseers took up only a smalllll percent. the most difficult thing was the river game where u had to make it from one place to the other to carry supplies. THERE WAS A FINISH THE GAME BUTTON THOUGH THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL BUT NO ONE KNEW ABOUT IT. if you got everything right and the didn't fire you then you won the game and the pyramid gets built