Friday

I was not in school on Friday.

Today's Class

In class today, we talked about a lot of things.  First, we started off class learning some of Mr. Schick's pet peeves.  We learned that Mr. Schick does not like when people hold the door for them and then stand in the doorway.  Another pet peeve of Mr. Schick is when he says, "thank you," but then the person says, "no, thank you."  Also, another pet peeve we learned was if he says, "thank you," and the person responds with, "no problem."  After we learned all of that, we started to review for our test this Friday.  Our test is on Ancient Mesopotamia.  We mostly went over the powerpoint Mr. Schick made on it.  We also talked about how everything used to work out.  An example is, "an eye for an eye," or "a tooth for a tooth."  So, in this class we mostly reviewed for our upcoming quiz.

Today's Class

In today's class, we just reviewed our notes for our up coming quiz.  We reviewed all of our notes from the power point.  We all just worked individually on our studying.  We did not work with a partner for our reviewing.  Our quiz is on the power point of "Prehistory to Civilization."  We learn all about the history of Mesopotamia in this unit.  So, for this class we just gave ourselves a better understanding of the ancient Mesopotamia.

Friday's Class

• Prehistory- human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
• Paleolithic Age (Stone Age)- At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period (about 2,500,000 to 200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools have been found in association with the remains of what may have been the earliest human ancestors.
• Neolithic Age- The term Neolithic or New Stone Age is most frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication was introduced. Because agriculture developed at different times in different regions of the world, there is no single date for the beginning of the Neolithic. 
• AgriculturalRevolution- a significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries,inventions, or new technologies that change production
• Cuneiform- Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.
• Ziggurat- (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerianorigin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
• Indo-Europeans- The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects.

Today's Class

Today was our first day of Western Civilization class.  We mostly went over how the class was going to work out.  Today we went over the terms and policies of Blogger.  We learned what all is involved with the Blogs.  We learned how to set up our Blogging account if we did not do it last semester.  We discussed how the class is going to go this year.  In class, we were told that we will be doing a blog every day that we have class.  We were told what we are supposed to post when we are absent or if we have an activity.  This class we were really trying to get a feel of how it will be like this year.