Rome Project

Since it was Friday Mr. Schick gave us the whole class to work on our Rome project. He said since it was the end of the week and we were tired because it was first mod, he said we could work on our project if we promised to get at least some work done. Since Hailey, Carly and I are baking food there wasn't much we could do. We couldn't do much except find more food online that we could potentially bake. Carly got a book from the library on Roman cooking also! We decided that Hailey is going to make Roman cookies, I will be making cheeseballs and Carly is going to find something in her book to make. I think that all the food were making sounds good! I just hope the class and Mr. Schick like it! It should be fun trying different Roman dishes that my classmates make. Not everyone is making food, but the majority of the class is. Baking sounded like the most popular topic for everyone, not only because it is probably the easiest, but because it would be fun!

Text Book Notes

Today in class before we all walked in, Mr. Schick was standing at the door with the text book in his hands. I was walking with Hailey and since we needed our text book we had to go to our lockers to get it. Hailey's locker is on the third floor and lucky for me my locker is on the first floor the same as the class room! Hailey decided to keep her book in my locker because her locker is all the way on the third floor. Once we got back to the classroom Mr. Schick told us to get out a highlighter or pen and to be ready to highlight because that is what we will be doing all class! He told us everything we needed to know. We went through a few pages and were talking about the Romans and the culture they had. I learned that women were not treated fairly when it came to women and men. I also leanred that men were so powerful that if they, for some reason, had to kill their child they could because they were the child's "owner". It is so much different now than it was back then! A lot of the Greek gods/goddesses and some buildings they had were copied by the Romans because they loved what the Greeks were doing! Like I said before, it is just so much different then by the way women were treated and the lifestyle than it is today.

Rome by Chi-Cago

- Etruscans and Greeks- first people to arrive in Italy- Latins very first 
- Mediterranean- "middle earth"
- Remus and Romulus:

•     two twin boys who were raised by a wolf
• Romulus- Rome
• get Rome from Romulus
• a mythological founding of Rome

- Tarquin "The Proud"

• last king in Rome
• got to angry "got a little loud"
• his town ran him out
• his town formed a new government 
• took 3 governments and rolled them into one
• democracy
• aristocracy 
• plus monarchy- some
• we (the US) model our gov like the Romans 
• Judiciary
• executive- monarchy
• legislative- Aristocracy/ democracy- house of representatives 
• respublica- the business for people- where we get republic 

Mr. Schick likes to rap!

Today was April fools day!! Not many of my teachers pulled tricks on us but Mr. Schick did something I did not expect! Once all of our class got into the class room Mr. Schick came in with sunglasses, a hat that was on backwards and a sweatshirt. He said his name was "Chi-Chago" and he was going to rap for us! I didn't really know what to expect! The whole class pulled out there phones and got into the back of the classroom and started to record Mr. Schick. He sang to the song "Low" by Flo-Rida but he changed the lyrics so it was about Rome! I was actually really impressed with his song because he wrote it by himself and it was really good! I had no idea he came up with it when I first started to hear him rap! But sadly the rap ended and we had to get back to class. Mr. Schick then explained a project that we will be doing before and a little after Spring break. We could work with a partner or in a group of two and we have a list of things we get to chose from. My group is Hailey, Carly and I and we are going to be making Roman food to bring into class. I think it sounds like a fun project! Overall, today was a really fun class!

Class Discussion

We didn’t have class on Friday because we didn’t have school so Friday was our last class of the week! Mr. Schick decided to make it like a college class so we didn’t use our laptops or took notes, we just had a discussion. We talked about the Greeks and some old stories that were told ages ago. The story was about prisoners that were kept in this cave ever since they were little kids and had chains around their legs so they couldn’t move. They had to sit and stare at a wall for their whole life! There was a big fire behind them but they could not see it because they couldn’t turn around. Some people, that weren’t prisoners, would use signs that looked like animals and people and walk across this bridge and carry the signs. The signs would create an image on the walls in front of the prisoners and the prisoners would try to guess what the image was. The images usually would tell a story. The prisoners would play games to try to guess what each of the sings were and would get a prize. We talked about how if those prisoners were given the chance to be set free and live in the real world would they? They know nothing other than what they learned being a prisoner in a dark cave! I say that personally, if I were the prisoner, I would want to be set free but I wouldn’t know what to do or how to live on my own! It would be very difficult. 

Took the test

We had our test today and I thought it went pretty well. Mr. Schick showed me the test in advisory and I thought it would be very hard but I thought it was alright! We got to use our blogs and luckily I had a lot of notes in my blog! It was very helpful because I think that I did really good! I really need a good grade in this class because I am only a point away from an A. I really hope to get straight A's by the end of the year. I have been trying my best to study as much as I can to bring up all of my grades. I'm really happy we got to use our blogs and I will be sure to put more notes in my blogs now just incase we are allowed to use it. We had a map on the test that I wasn't sure of where the places where ( the seas). I tried my best to remember what it was and I hope I got it right. I hop to get the test back soon so I can see how I did and hopefully it will bring up my grade!

Test Tomorrow

Today in class we watched more of the Greek video to review for the test. Tomorrow is our test which is on the people of Greece. We have a quizlet we can study, a worksheet, and we can also watch the video again. I get very confused when it comes to dates and people. It's hard for me to remember who is who. I've been reviewing the quizlet and I think I will do pretty well on the test. I really want to get straight A's so I hope I can bring up my grade in this class. I am one point away from an A! I need to do great on this test so I can get the A I really want. I am going to review the powerpoint a few more times to make sure I know all the vocabulary. There will be a lot of information on this test so I hope I can keep it all straight and come out with a good grade!