Today we had our Ancient Roman test. After we study for 10 minute, the test started. Mr. Schick told us the answer of question 14 because he made a mistake.  Generally the test was not hard but i'm stuck in the numbers of senates and representatives of Rome and US for a while. I think i can get at least 80 on this test, hopefully

Today is our third day of presentation. The first group is Jessica's group. They made a very pretty Roman pottery. It feels really good when you touch it. The next group is three boys. They told us some specific information about the gladiator which is very cool.

Today after Jayla's pottery, it's our turn for presentation. I was a little bit nervous when i standing in the front. But luckily, everything goes pretty well and every one was amazed by our LEGO Roman Temple model. After our presentation, we had Caitlyn and Thresh's diary which is also pretty good. At the end, Mr. Schick keep our model in order to take a final picture of all the project. I'm looking forward for the final picture!

Today is our first day of presentation. We had three groups presented today. First group brought us some amazing Roman foods! Like salad, pasta, cookies and apple juice with omen inside. I love the apple juice so much! The second group rewrites the lyric of an Iggy Azalea song. It was pretty cool and i like it. The third group is actually only one people. He gave us a very good presentation about Colosseum. For my group, we are going to present at tomorrow. I'm so excited about it!

On the Friday we watch a classical music video on Youtube. For me, classical music is not my favorite. But I was pretty enjoyed about that video. After that, we continued working on our project. We still have not finish our paper and PPT. Hopefully we can finish them up by the end of the weekend. Me and Alex are going to present on the Wednesday. I'm pretty excited about this!

Today the start class late because Mr. Schick was late. After class begin, we talked more stuff about the Ancient Rome. However, I fell asleep during the middle of the class. At the end of the class, Mr. Schick slap and shake my table in order to wake me up. I was shocked and wake up immediately.

Today at the beginning of the class, we had a pop quiz and everybody just freaking out right after they heard about this. Luckily, the questions in the pop quiz are ridiculously easy. I still got an 80 Without review my note. After this, we continued work on our project.

Today we continued watch the BBC ancient Rome movie. On the second half of the movie, at the very beginning, Tiberius made a oath to barbarians in order to save his people. As the result, the conflict between Tiberius and the senates are more intense. Because of Tiberius's heroic behavior, most of the plebs are supported Tiberius against Octavius during the election. But eventually under the support of the senates, Octavius veto the Tiberius and win the election. After that Tiberius got killed by the senates and they threw his body into the river. I like this movie very much because it demonstrate the true historical event in Ancient Rome history. The only thing i feel bad is the British accent :(. It confuse me a lot during the movie.

Today Mr. Schick was absent. Our assignment is working on our Ancient Roman project. We almost finish with our LEGO 3D model. I'm very excited about the presentation at 5.18!

Today we watched a BBC movie about Ancient Roman called " The rise and fall of an empire". Generally this movie is about the third Carthage war between Roman and Carthage, also talk about how Roman officers seize power by bully poor people. Personally i think the movie is very good because it mostly covered the stuff that we discussed during the class.

Today we continued talking about Ancient Roman. I was very tired at the end of the class, since this is mod 10. As the result, Mr. Schick keep saying:" wake up Arthur" to me when I almost fall asleep.

Today we talk about the government and the plebs of the Ancient Roman. Here are some notes:

• Roman government is similar to US government, but not exactly.
• They both have three branches: executive, legislative and judicial.
• Plebs had to serve in the army but could not hold office.
• Plebs were threatened with debt slavery
• Plebs had no legal rights. 

Today we were working on our other homework, since we are ahead from other section. Unfortunately my computer is dying and I can't work on my homework. As the result, i was playing game on my phone for whole class. 

Finally i did not missing any blog for this week! 

Today is grandparent day. Our small classroom is full of grandparents and everybody seems happy! Mr. Schick is very excited about having class for grandparent. We talked about the Rap by Chi Cago. However, I fall asleep at the very end of class because the room is too dark. Hopefully I won fall asleep next time.

Today we continue working on our Roman project. Finally, Alex and me decided to make a Google slide to explain the Roman Temple. I'm very excited about the presentation after three weeks! Let's do this!

Today we didn't talk about Rome and our project. Instead, we spent a whole class on discussing the protesting in Baltimore. I'm having fun by listening Mr. Schick talking about this. Hopefully the riot would not happen next time in Baltimore.

Finally I remember to write a blog before I go to bed. Today we continued talked about stuffs about Roman. We took some notes about the Roman.

Today at the beginning of class, we took some notes about Rome. At the middle of the class, there is a guest call "Chicago" walked in our class and perform a awesome rap about Rome! That was a really big surprise to whole class and everybody is very happy!

Today we watched a video. Unfortunately I wasn't watch the video. Instead, I felt asleep for the whole class. The reason is I'm totally confuse about that video, plus that mod was the last mod which I'm very tired.

Yesterday, due to the Internet problem, I did't write blog. So this blog is for April 14th. 

Today, we did go over the Ancient Greece test. Most of my wrong answer is about the Ancient Greece Philosopher. I'll have to review these stuff later because we may have same questions on the final exam :(

Today we had a test about the Ancient Greece. I got 76 which is ok. In my opinion, this test is not totally fair, because it does not cover the topic that me and Alex research. But anyway, i still feel ok about the test.

Today we start working on our paper. It's a huge paper for us. Hopefully I can finish half of my part on tomorrow and complete it during the weekend.

Today we continued to present our works about Ancient Greece. Me and Alex did the presentation to everybody. I was very nervous when I presenting our works. But it actually better than I thought. Hopefully I will get a good grade on this. And we also need to write an 1000-words essay on the topic we research . My life is so tough!

Today we presented our project. Our plan is go through all presentation in this class. But we only go though 2 presentation today. The first presentation by Caitlyn and Thresh took about 40 minutes. Their presentation was just awesome! I learned a lot of stuff from it. I'm very excited about my incoming presentation. I'll try my best to give everybody a good lesson!

Today we continued talked about the tyrants. After we finish, Mr. Schick told us we might have a day off on Friday due to the snow. This is a absolutely good news because we can have a 3-day weekend if Friday is off!

Today we spent a whole class working on our project. Our project is almost done. Also, I check the weather during the class and it said we might have snow on Friday!. If it does, then we won't have to present our project on Friday!

Today we continue work on our Ancient Greece project. One interesting thing mentioned by Mr. Schick is our project is " Art and Archtecture " , and my and my partner's name are all start with A. It's like AA do AA. What a coincidence! At the very end of class, Mr. Schick show us two videos about kid's crying, which are funny and all students laughed. I finally understand why Mr. Schick is saying" Are you crying?" all the time.

Today at very beginning of class, we had a shout video talk with Mr. Schick's daughter, since today is her birthday. Everyone seems have fun talk with Mr. Schick's daughter, especially Alex. After that, we start make our google slide with partners.

Today we did a review about ancient Greece. After review, Mr. Schick give us a quiz. Only 10 multiple choice questions but we have to answer each question in 10 second. It sounds really tough but actually the question is very easy. At the end, I got 2 question wrong. I feel sad because most of people get them all right. After quiz, Mr. Schick let us find 2 partner for our project. My partner is Alex and our project is about the Athenian art and architecture. This project is due on next Friday.

     
 Today we talked about the geography and culture about Ancient Greece. Here is the note:

• Greece is a mountainous peninsula. Over 3/4 of its territory are mountain.

• Greek diet consist of grain, grapes, olives.

• Lack of resources mostly led to Greek colonization.

• Humer is a storyteller live at the end of the Greek dark ages. 

• Dorian move in Greece and take over it. They 

          Dorian were far less advanced

          The trade-based economy collapsed

          Writing disappearing for 400 years

          Talk about culture in decline

This is Aristotle, a famous ancient Greek philosopher. He was born in 384 BCE and died in 322. He is one of the greatest philosopher and scientist in western history. His writing covered many subjects: physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics and politics. He represent the highest point of philosophy and science at ancient Greece. Even though he is died, we are still study about him. 

Cyber day homework March 5th

This is the Temple of Hera in Greece. It was built in the middle of the sixth century BC. Like most of  Greece temple, this temple is rectangular and peripteral. It has fifteen columns in the side and 6 columns in the front. The building material of this temple is marble. This temple is famous for it's step level. The multiple of stair case create a system of levels successfully.

 

This is the Greek theatre built on 4th century BC. It is a raked auditorium for watching performance of theatre. Greece also invented "theatre" in literary form. The shape of theatre is sami-circle. The rising level of the seat separated by the aisle, provide a perfect vision to the audiences. 

This is the stadium built in Greece. It is one of the lasting Greek archtectural contribution to world culture. The water-pipes are surrender the stadium to drain off the water from rain. The stadium provide a perfect condition for Olympic games. 

Today we talked about our cyber day homework for Thursday, since we probably off on Thursday. Our cyber day homework is find a picture of Greece building and find some interesting thing s on the picture.  We also talked about shovel snow.

Today we talked about a few thing about Ancient Greece. Here is my notes.

• Greece has thousand of Island. The biggest one is in the southern part called Crete. 

• Greece is surrender by sea. On the east side is the Aegean sea, west side is the Adriatic sea. The Mediterranean is on the southwest. 

• Greece has a lot of mountain. 

• Athen and Sparta are the two rival in ancient Greece. The have something in common and something different. 

• Ancient Greece people good at fishing and building ship. 

Cyber day homework on February 20

Egyptian Astronomy - Astronomy helped Egyptians to record the time of year for agricultural periods, and may well served a navigational purpose, a common practice in the desert. These observations became imbued with religious significance and became incorporated into their architecture

Hieroglyph - Hieroglyphic writing was in use from about 3200 BC until the lath 4th century AD and changed very little during this period and is very well preserved.

Papyrus - The ancient Egyptians used papyrus to make paper. baskets, sandals, mats, rope, blankets tables, chairs, medicine and clothes. Papyrus was an important "gift of the Nile".

Medicines - The ancient Egyptians had a wide variety of medicines and cures. Many of their medicines were accompanied by spells to ward off the evil spirit making the person sick.

Shipbuilding - With the Nile River playing a major role in the live of the Egyptians, building ships was a big part of their technology. They originally built small boats form papyrus reed, but later began to build large ships form cedar wood imported from Lebanon. 

Cyber day homework

5 questions for Ancient Egypt test

1. Does women have right in ancient Egypt society? If it does, give some examples. 
2. What happen if the God in ancient Egypt doesn't bring happiness life to his people?
3. Why Egyptians mummify the body of dead people and how?
4. What is the precursor of paper invented by Egyptians?
5. What's the purpose of Egyptian in building the wooden sailboats?

Today we learned a bunch of staffs about Egypt. Here is the notes.

• Pharaoh was all powerful. worshipped as a God and intimately connected to other major Egyptian and Goddesses

• Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power. 

• God were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies.

• Egyptians believed in an afterlife and mummified bodies to preserve them for his post-death journey. 

• Earliest Egyptian writing formal C. 3100 B.C and were small pictures knowns as hieroglyphs

• Papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books of ancient Egypt. 

• Egyptians astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better senses of seasonal cycles.

• Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile. 

• The Pyramids were massive stone tombs, originally covered in marble but the marble was later shipped off during the Muslim conquest. 

• Stone sculptures and interiors painting depicted humans and Gods in a series of regulated puses, often in profile and without perspective, but were highly effective. 

Today we played a game call" Building your Pyramid". In this game, you are in charge of building pyramid for King. You have to make decision for every step. For example: material, food for workers, location, the proportion of different workers, angle of your Pyramid, etc. This is a pretty challenge game because one wrong decision can mess up the whole project. My first try and second try are all failed. Fortunately, I successfully build the pyramid in the third time. I'm so proud for myself!

Class on February 19

Class on February 19

  Today we studied a chapter about the ancient Egypt. Egyptian's life is centered around the would's longest river, The Nile river. One of the unique thing about this river is it is flow from south to north instead of north to south. Egyptians use water from Nile for drinking, irrigating, bathing and transportation. Nile river flood every year on July and leave behind rich soil on October. In the Egypt,
there is a huge statue called" The great Sphinx of Giza". This is a statue with a lion head and human's body. It is build on 2555-2532BC, more than 4000 years ago. It is the oldest monumental statue in the world. Egypt have a hirachy social form. The slaves at the bottom of pyramid serve rich people with household and child raising duties.