Wednesday

Today in class we chose what we wanted to do for our project. Megan and I decided that we are going to make a poster board and built the Roman forum. We had to tell Mr. Schick who was in our group and what we were doing. We started looking up what to use to build the Roman Forum.

Monday

Circus Maximus: 

• In the Circus Maximus, attendance was free.  Anyone could attend.
• The Circus Maximus was not the only place to race chariots in the Roman Empire, but it was the biggest and best. 
• The Roman Place to race chariots and horses
• Almost 250,000 people could be seated in the Circus Maximus.

Colosseum:  

• The Coliseum in Rome has over 80 entrances and can accommodate about 50,000 spectators.
• 500,000 people lost their lives and over 1,000,000 animals were killed during the making of the colosseum. 
• was used to events, and was also fed throughout the show
• The Ancient Romans would sometimes flood the Colosseum and have miniature ship naval battles inside as a way of entertainment.

aqueducts: 

• they still stand today, even a thousand days later
• Aqueducts enable many cities in the United States to obtain water from a considerable distance.
• The flow in aqueducts is ordinarily by means of gravity, although pumps are often used.
• The great and highly advanced Roman waterway system known as the Aqueducts, are among the greatest achievements in the ancient world.
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  Roman Forum:

  • one of the most visited sites in the world today
  • political, administrative, religious centre of ancient rome
  • the roman forum shows remains from several centuries, due to roman practice of building over earlier ruins
  • there were actually many forums in ancient rome however the inclusion of the senate house to the site made roman forum the most  important of them all. 
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Friday

Today in class we talked about our projects. Megan and I aren't exactly sure what we are doing, but we think we might make something. Either make food or build a coliseum. We looked up some food to make and looked how up how to build a coliseum.

Thursday

Today in class we we went over the rap lyrics and what they meant. We took a lot of notes on Tarquin and the Punic War. We then talked about our projects a little.

Wednesday

Today in class we started taking notes. Then he phone rang and said that Mr. Schick had a guest. He left the room and 5 minutes later he came back. He put a sweatshirt on and started rapping. He changed the lyrics of a song to information about Rome. I enjoyed him rapping. It was funny and amusing.

Monday

Today in class we took notes on Rome. We talked about the two brothers Remus and Romulus. One of the brothers killed the other brother. Greeks, Etruscans, and Latins were settles on the peninsula. The Greeks had some colonies along the Tiber River.  Two Babies were found in a river and the "she wolf" saved them and nursed them. The two brothers Remus and Romulus.

Friday

Today in class Mr. Schick told us that have project coming up. He said we can do almost anything we wanted, but it had to be about Rome.  He told us that we could do a powerpoint or a paper, but we wouldn't get a A or a B. Megan and I are thinking about doing a tri-fold poster board, but are not sure yet. Im kinda happy we have this project because it will raise my grade.

Thursday

Today in class we watched a video. The video was very odd and confusing. It was about people who were chained in caves. All of the men were used to being in a cave there whole life, so when they were released they were so confused. At the end of class we talked about this video. Everyone agreed that it was odd. Today was an easy day in Western Civ.

Wednesday

Today in class we talked about our one thousand word essay. Mr. Schick told us that there were run ons, spelling errors, and that we did not proof read our paper. He used to be an English teacher, but he likes being a social studies teacher better. Megan,Gabi, and I got a 91% on this paper.

Monday

Today in class we went over the answers to the test. We went around the classroom and everyone answered a question. Mr. Schick was getting irritated because some people were laughing and taking while going over the test. We then got back our 1000 word paper. My group did very well, we got a 91% on it.

Wednesday

Today in class we took the test. Some parts of the test were really easy and some were not.The hardest part was remembering which year stuff happened. Remembering which kind of government it was was hard to. Hopefully I will get a good grade.