Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex:

• in Greek plays
• Oedipus complex
• a son wanting to impress his mom and be the "favorite", sees the father as competition

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• a daughter wanting to impress her father and be the "favorite"
• married his mom
• murdered his dad
• was ashamed because he married his mom so he stabbed his eyes out 
• blinded himself so he could not see the looks people gave him because his relationship with his mom
• story is deep and has a lot of analysis 
• written 2500 years ago
• audience was shocked when in the play he stabbed his eyes out
• very famous Greek play
• shown at the theater 

Logan and Dominic slide show:

• pots were made to transport olive oil or wine
• everyone wanted Greek olive oil 
• decorated the vases 
• signed their vase 
• were impressed with their art work and liked to talk about it 
• the big ship:
• needed 172 people
• rowing in unison 
• used to ram into other ships 
• needed a person in the middle to yell out directions 
• tip of the ship was sometimes covered in bronze to make even more of a weapon out of it 
• Spartans did it to deprive themselves 
• Athenians did it to work hard and learn as much as they can 

Presentations

We did not do much in class today because we were presenting our commercials. Everyone went except one group who will be presenting tomorrow. Hailey, Carly and I did a great job performing our commercial! I think ours was one of the best out of the whole class. We added music to ours which no one else did. It was creative also and I think Mr. Schick liked it. We all contributed equally to the project and worked very well together. All of the commercials looked very good as well. We hope to get a good grade because we worked hard and it took a little while to put together! Making the video was not hard but the story boards we had to do were a little confusing. I think our commercial could have made someone want to come to Athens especially with our special Greek music! 

Finishing The Video

In class today we finished the Greek video by ourselves. Mr. Schick wasn't here so Mr. Perry was our sub. We had to finish the video and write down the answers of the questions on the paper we got earlier this week. Some of us did not have earphones, even though we were supposed to have them, so some people sat with another person so they could listen. We had two shadows today and one I knew! His name was Tyler and he went to my old school He was shadowing with Matt Battaglia. We did not get to talk at all because we had to finish the video today. Carly Hailey and I have to finish our commercial this weekend as well. We don't have that much left so it shouldn't take that long! We hope to get a good grade because we worked hard on it! 

Project time

Today instead of watching the movie on Greece Mr. Schick gave us some time to work on our commercials instead. Hailey Carly and I got a lot of work done today! There is still more to do but I think we will definitely finish before Tuesday! Were doing our best and making it very neat and were hoping to get a great grade! Tomorrow is senior retreat tso Mr. Schick along with 22 other teachers won't be there. Mr. Perry is our sub and we are supposed to watch the Greece movie with him. 

Greek Video

Today in class we did the same thing we did yesterday. We watched the video about ancient Greece. It wasn't too bad because it's a little better than taking notes all class. All the classes were shorter today because it was Ash Wednesday and we had church. We did not have much class time in any of my classes so we tried to do all we could. I'm not sure how long this video is but there are a lot of questions on the paper so it must be pretty long. Throughout the video Mr. Schick will stop it and explain things. He also likes to stop it and make fun of the professors voices which is really funny! The paper we are filling out is apparently a study guide so I have to be sure to make sure I have all the write answers so I do well on the next quiz! 

The Greeks

We got a worksheet in the beginning of class that we were supposed to fill out while watching a video about Ancient Athens and Sparta. We were talking a lot in the beginning of the class though because some of us were confused about the commercial project we have to do. The video was about ancient Greece and every once and a while after watching a scene in the video Mr. Schick would pause it and tell us to fill out one of the questions. I liked doing this worksheet because it was a change from taking notes every class. I like taking notes but sometimes it can get boring so the worksheet was fine with me! Mr. Schick's daughter Martha also came to visit today and she seemed very nice! We were reminded that we have to finish our commercials so that means Carly, Hailey and I have to get working! Our commercial will be great we just have to get started first!

Snow Day

Today we had no school because it snowed again! I am starting to get really sick of the snow because I hate doing all the extra work and I miss the warm weather! We did not have class today so we weren't assigned any work except to blog. On Friday we were assigned a project to make a commercial to either promote Athens or Sparta and we have to explain and convince our class why they would want to live in one of those places. We got to work with groups which I am very happy about. My group is Hailey Carly and I and I think we are going to create a great commercial! We aren't sure what place we are going to base our commercial about but it is due on Friday so we have sometime! Hopefully we will be able to work on this in class so we don't have to do it all outside of school! This project seems like it will be a lot of fun!