Today's Class

In today's class, we focused on discussing our projects.  Mr. Schick asked each of us who was in our group and what we were going to do.  My group is Luke Ensor, Ryan Muhlenfeld, and I.  My group is going to be making a reenactment (video) of Jesus' crucifixion.  We all started to go over what parts we would have in this project.  So, we were able to come up with how we will do everything in class today.

Today's Class

In today's class, we focused on one main topic.  We talked about Baltimore and all of the terrible things going on there.  We all were able to share what we thought about it and have input of our own. We all talked about how bad this is for the city.  Everyone had very different opinions of what's going on.  So, today's class gave everyone a chance to speak and share their opinion on Baltimore.

Today's Class

In today's class, we spent time finding facts about Rome.  We looked up the colosseum, Circus Maximus, Roman Forum, and aqueducts.  So, basically we just looked up interesting facts about each of these things.  This helped me learn a lot about these ancient Roman buildings.  I learned so much more than I knew before we did this!

Today's Class

In today's class, we started on our Rome project.  Mr. Schick gave us a present and let us get in our groups and work on our upcoming projects.  Mr. Schick said he was going to post ideas on his blog for us to look at.  You are supposed to pick something that Rome may have done or invented.  You can either make a power point, a video, or a poster.  So, in this class we all decided what we were going to do for our project and then we started them.

Today's Class

Today's class was extremely interesting.  First, we kept working on the Rome power point.  After we were done taking notes and talking about Rome, it got interesting.  The office called the class and said someone was here for Mr. Schick.  He left the class and went to get him.  Soon after, someone walked into the class.  It was Chicago a rapper (Mr. Schick).  He started rapping in front of us about Rome.  It was a very interesting rap about Rome to the song Low by Flo Rida.  So, that is why today's class was so interesting.

Today's Class

In today's class, we talked more about Rome from the Power Point Slides.  We talked about the Roman Expansion.  We learned much about Rome's expansion.  We learned that Rome was a military culture.  Rome made a number of improvements to the older Greek tactics which made their armies nimble and effective.  When Rome conquered a neighboring territory, they often extended Roman rights and privileges to the conquered people.  This would absorb them into Rome itself.  Non-Romans in Italy, were anxious to become Roman citizens.

Today's Class

In today's class, we got back our 1000 word essay.  When we got the essays back, we talked about them.  We talked about what some of the things we did was wrong.  Some of the things we did wrong was grammar, spelling, and many more things.  Once we were done going over this, we started taking notes.  We started in class today talking about Rome.  We did not talk much about Rome today because of the amount of time, but I learned a lot about it.

Today's Class

In today's class, we discussed our upcoming project.  We are going to be talking about Rome and we are going to do a project on it.  For this project, we can make a power point, write a paper, or do a project (film something or build something).  On the project, you are supposed to make something that the Romans invented or make a war scene.  I am not to sure yet on what I am going to do, but I will probably do a group project.

Today's Class

In today's class, we finished the video on the allegory of Plato.  After the video, we talked about the video.  After discussing the video, we talked about one more main topic.  We talked about how we felt about marriage of the same gender.  Some people had different opinions about this topic.  People said that it should be allowed because America is a fee country and you should be allowed to do what they want.  Some people talked how they were fine with it except people kissing and everything in public.  After that, we talked about marriage of the different races.  We said how it is getting more common for people of different races to marry each other.  So that is what we did this class.

Today's Class

In today's class, we did two things.  We started to talk about Rob Lowe because a classmate mentioned him.  Then Mr. Schick told us that he has met him and worked on a movie with him before.  We all could not believe it at all!  Then Mr. Schick went to a website and searched his name, which showed all of the movies he has been apart of.  A lot of them were very cool to see he has been apart of because I have seen them or I really like them.  For example, two movies he helped in that I really liked were Home Alone and The Replacements.  This was very cool to see my Western Civilization teacher to be apart of such big things.  After all of the movie discussion, we watched part of an allegory.  The allegory was in a cartoon visual.  So, that is what we did this class.

Today's Class

In today's class, we did not do to much.  We mainly focused on one thing which was going over our test.  We had already gotten our quizzes back before break, but we got the question sheets today.  We wrote down the correct answer on the side of the paper.  This will be a big study tool for our final exam.

Today's Class

In today's class, we did not do any classwork.  We took our big test on Greece today.  Also, we handed in our big 1000 word essay.  Since we go on break tomorrow, we did not do much after the test.  We could write our blog once finished or sit and be quiet.  Our test was on everything he told us it was going to be on.  Other than the test, we did not do much.