Movie: The Greeks

Today in West Civ we started a movie on the Greeks. For about the first 20 minutes of class we were having problems with the projector. No one really knows what was going on or how to fix it. After that happened we finally got the movie started. It is a lot more interesting then I thought it would be, and this really smart guy has the weirdest voice I have ever heard. The movie is really fun to watch. I am learning a lot of new things about the city-states in Greece. They were really smart to create boats, if it weren't for the boats they would have had to walk through the mountains and things would be a lot more difficult then they should have been. They also will be a lot more time consuming. If they wasted that much time on traveling for trade it wouldn't even be worth trading anymore.

Finishing the Test!

Today in West Civ we finished the test! I think that I ended up doing really well! I am so happy we got to use are text book. Even though I couldn't find all of the answers it was still such a big help. Thank you Mr.Schick! Even though I don't think I got a hundred I know that I did so much better from the test before this. Once we finished the test we were supposed to work on a study guide. I didn't really have time for that since i messed up on my test so much the first time. I finished everything though (thank God) and even had enough time to check it over. If we didn't get them back I probably would have just gotten a 50% with how much I didn't get done. Thanks again Mr.Schick for giving them back and letting us use our text books!

Open Note Test!

Today in West Civ we took an open note book test. We also had a sub, which was Mr. Bolden. The test was a lot harder that i actually thought it was going to be. The short answers questions were tricky and I couldn't find them anywhere. I am not even close to finishing. In the beginning I couldn't find the page that we were supposed to be on which was a disaster! Once i found what page it was on after being confused for so long. Then after I had to go and erase all my answers so I could write the right ones in. After all of this I didn't even have time to start my essay. Thank god a lot of other people didn't finish either cause I probably would have had to take the grade without the essay. Also the translators didn't seem to be much of a problem today. 

Translators.

Today in West Civ we had a discussion on weather the Chinese students should use the translators or not. In some sense I feel that it's fine if they do but in another I don't find it as fair. I feel this way because when Gavin showed us that he could look up the word and it would give him the word in Chinese, I had no problem with that. But next he looked up a vocab word just the word was in Chinese but the definition was in English. Why would they need it if the definition is in the book in English. I don't really get that part. But if they really need them then I guess that could use them. If you wanna come to America and learn though you would think that you would learn there language too. They have been taught it since they were 4. I think they know what most of the words will mean. If i went to France (I am taking French right now) I could pick out a couple of words and put them together and realize what the question would ask me. In a sense I guess that Chinese and English are completely separate languages and I hope they do good on the test.

Finishing Outline!

Today in West Civ we finished going over LO-2 and LO-3. Today was the longest class ever though since it was during first mod. I was so tired that this class just felt like it was never going to end. When Mr.Schick turns off the lights every time I just wanna go and fall asleep. I stayed awake to listen to the rest of the outline though because it got really interesting. We started to learn a lot of new vocabulary. A lot of people already knew this stuff from 6th grade social studies so it might not be that hard for them. It was a little challenging for me but i remembered most of the things that Mr.Schick was talking about. In 6th grade we just didn't learn as much as we are going to now. We learned some new words that had to do with the government back in Ancient Greece. We also learned that women had no rights back then, they basically had no say at all. I wonder what it would be like if it was still that way today.

Outline!

Today in West Civ we started looking at a outline which outlines LO-1 to LO-3. This is going to help so much when studying for the test because instead of reading everything over again we know the important things so we can just look at the outline. Its also easier because now we can print it out so instead of getting distracted we can just use this as a study guide to quiz ourselves. This also helps us because instead of studying every little thing we now know what is really important. This will help to save time and so you will know more about the topic. We also have to know now where certain locations are. This might be a little challenging but I think that it will be easy because there are certain ways to remember these types of things.

Presenting Powerpoints

Today in West Civ we started off by talking about the powerpoint that we finished over the weekend. After we finished doing that we started looking at some that were finished! The first group that went up was Nicolette, Gavin, Alex, and Joesph. There powerpoint looked really good with all of the pictures and the notes they had but the problem was that they it wasn't in order. After Mr.Schick got angry because of this, he had another group go up. That group was Maheer, Lexie, Parker, and Ricky. There powerpoint looked really good and it was in order and all of there points had really good and important information. They had really good info especially on the Minoans. Then after we finished looking at the powerpoints we found out that there is going to be a test Monday. One this one I am going to get an A and study really hard!