West Civ Class 4/30/13

Today in class we finished watching the 8 part series of videos following Tiberius (Rex) Gracchus and the fall of the Roman Republic. I personally think that Tiberius was misunderstood and he did not want absolute power, he just wanted to help out. The only reason he wanted more power is so that the senate could not stop him from helping the plebeians. The power that he got with Vetoing everything may have gone to his head a bit, but he was just trying to prove a point.

West Civ Class 4/29/13

Today in class we watched a series of you tube videos about the Gracchus brothers and the fall of the republic. Also I think that we should watch Ben Hur since we are watching movies now and Ben Hur deals with Rome.

West Civ Class 4/26/13

Well its that time of the year. The time where teachers and parents are getting on kids and students everywhere to "finish the year strong" and all the kids are fed up with work. Mr. Schick did not disappoint when his part of this as more of a pep-talk with a lot less yelling. Sometimes you just have to listen to them and work, however most kids just let everything go in the last quarter. Days are slipping through our fingers like sand in a tornado. I am trying to hold on but somethings are slipping. It seems so hard to balance all these subjects at once, especially when you don't like some of them. I intend to try and keep up with everything, and finish the year with A's.

West Civ Blog 4/24/13

Today in class we took a test/quiz on Rome. Other than some questions about their government, I'm pretty sure I got them all right. The hardest questions for me were all about the government and I do not know why this is, however I think it is because Chi Cago only briefly mentioned the government in his song.

West Civ Blog 4/23/13

So today in class we all looked at how much extra credit we got for our Rome videos and took some notes. Since I can,t use this for the Quiz/Test, which should be called a Tuest (Twe-st), I see no point in posting the notes here. So instead I shall go off topic of west civ, just like in class today, and talk about the extra credit projects. When we all presented our extra credit movies, Max and I (Hayden was in the group but he didn't do much) only had finished 1 minute of the 4 minute song so I thought "OK, I'll just present what we have and get less credit then everyone else". However that is not what happened , instead we got just as much credit as everyone else because we somehow squeezed 56 pictures into 1.30 of the song. Well some people weren't to happy with this and apparently I am know as "Maxwell's friend" to some people.

P.S. I like the word Tuest. That is all.

West Civ Blog 4/22/13

Today in class we took notes and watched the rest of the projects. Some people actually completed their project, but I was getting annoyed by the time Mr. Schick told us it was extra credit so that was good. The reason the Romans were better than the Greeks is because they took what the Greeks had and made it better.

West Civ Blog 4/17/13

Today in class Mr Schick announced that because of so many problems with technology we will no longer be graded on our "Rome" movie and it will only be extra credit. Holly, who finished hers at 12 in the morning was angered by this and forced Mr Schick to play hers to the entire class. Hearing that song again made my eardrums bleed knowledge (which is a good thing). I feel like this song really helped me studie and this test will be easy.