Preparing for test

Today in class we went over some review cards for the test that is on Friday. Mr. Schick found a quizlet from a kid in the school (who is now a junior) and he showed us and quizzed us. We found out that tomorrow we will be in the auditorium for class because there is a workshop going on and a lot of our teachers will be there. We have an assignment to do tomorrow while we are there and it is a few review questions and short answers. While we were reviewing on the quizlet not a lot of us knew the answers. I think we will have to study a little more to be prepared for the test. I copied the link of the quizlet and saved it in my favorites tab on chrome so i will be sure I have it to study. I got a very good grade on my last quiz so I hope I can prepare as well as I did last time so I can get another good grade. We did not do much in class today other than study. That is okay with me because I need to be sure I have enough preparation to do well on this test.

Greek Movie cont.

We continued with watching the Greek movie to fill out the rest of the worksheet. We had a sub today because Mr. Schick wasn't here. Our sub was Mrs. Snook. The movie took up about the whole class but it was a little boring. I still think it is better than taking notes though. We need to finish filling out the worksheet for homework if we don't finish the video. I think we are going to have a test on this so I need to make sure I have all the correct answers. 

Review Paper

We did not do anything too important in class today. Since all of the commercials were finished we just decided to go over the paper we got when we had to watch a movie. We went through most of the answers but did not finish all of them because class was too short. We had a two hour delay because this morning because we could not get the heat working so all of the classes were short! We got to the back and up to the last couple questions but still did not finish. We did not have all of them filled in either because we aren't that far yet in this lesson! Tomorrow we will probably move a little further in the lesson and finish going over the paper.

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.