Today in West Civ class learned all about Rome and who settled there. The Etruscans came from the north central part of the peninsula. Metal works, artists, and architects. There were two myth foundations, and they were Virgil's Aeneid, plus the story of Remus and Romulus. The Greeks also settled in Rome, they has many colonies around the Mediterranean sea. Romans borrowed ideas from the Greeks, such as religious beliefs, alphabet, a lot of their art, military techniques, and weaponries. The Latin's were the first to settle on Rome, descendent of Indo-Europe's. They settled on the banks of the Tiber River, situated so trading ships but not war fleets could navigate as far as Rome, but no further. A commercial port, but not attack and built on seven hills.

Today in West Civ class we continued to work on our project. Sammi and I are going to get together outside of school to do our part of the project. We are in charge of doing all of the research and then make a poster board with all of our information on it. I enjoy this project so far because I am already learning a lot about Rome.

Today in class researched Circus Maximus , Coliseum, Aqueducts, Roman Forum.
Coliseum
-Fire in 31 BC, destroyed the wooden structure, three fires
-Used for events such as processions of gladiator combats, but most days only chariot races
-Last race was held in 549 AD
-Located between the Aventine and Palatine hills

Circus Maximus
-Known as the Flavian Amphitheatre
-Located east of the Roman Forum
-One of the most famous monument
-Built nearly 2000 years ago for hosting violent gladiator games
 -620 by 513 feet

Aqueducts
-Basically a water bridge
-A water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water
-Built from a combination of stone and brick
-special volcanic cement pozzuolana
-Hard to build

Roman Forum
-People first began meeting in forum around 500 BC
-Central area of city
-Site was originally an Etruscan burial ground
-first developed in the 7th century BC

Today in West Civ class we got the whole class period to work on our group project. Sammi, Tucker, Luke, and I were very productive because we broke the work up into two groups. Sammi and I are going to do the researching and typing part of the project then Tucker and Luke are going to do the building part of the project. But this does not mean we are going to leave the boys and let them do it all by themselves, we are all going to work on it all together. We finally decided that we are going to build the Coliseum then do a presentation on it and tell the class about it.

Today in West Civ we continued to go over the Rome power point. I learned that the Latin's first came to the shores of the Tiber River, they drained a swamp. The tyrant named Tarquin Proud was like a kind, he pushed all of his people around. He told everyone what to do and exactly how to do it. They combined a democracy, aristocracy, and Monarchy. Roman legion, improved pllalapx, century 80 men. Punic wars, conflict of passage and trade, three different series of battles. Rome won the first battle against cartage. Got 100's of elephants and found men along the way to attack Italy.

I was not in West Civ class today because I came into school late do to a doctors appointment but I will get the notes from another classmate.

Today we started the Rome powerpoint and took notes on it. Etruscans, Greeks, and Latins were the first ones to settle on the pensisula. The Greeks had a lot of colonies along the Tiber River. There were twin brothers named Remus and Romulus and there mom was named Realasiva. She had the twins with the God named Mars, but they abanded the babies in a river to die. The river carried them to safety and a "she wolf" found them near the river and took them in herself. She raised both of the twins and even breast fed them. When the brothers got older, Romulus was trying to make a city but in the process he killed his twin brother so he would win the city. He ended up getting the city and naming it after himself.

In West Civ class today we found out what our next project is going to be on and it is one Ancient Rome. Mr. Schick did not give us direct guidelines for this project, he is letting us decide what we want to do but it must be about Ancient Rome. He gave us some ideas for the project, some examples are, power point, building something, making a video, re an attacking a war from the past, and more. Then we got to pick our group and who we want to work with and I am in a group with Sammi, Luke, Tucker. We discussed what our plan was for this project and we came to a conclusion that we are either going to dress us and explain the Roman God and Goddesses or build something then make a tri-fold explaining it and why it is important.

Today in class we watched a video clip from You Tube then we had a class discussion about what we watched. Everyone said there opinion on the video and explained if they liked it or not. Then Mr. Schick asked the class what was the true meaning of that video and what the symbolism meant. For the remained of the class we went back and forth to try and decide on an overall message from the video.

Today in class we discussed our Ancient Greece essay that we turned in before break. Mr. Schick explained to us what his red pen markings meant so we would understand what we got wrong. People asked questions on how to make their essay better or next time. Then we talked about how we are going to watch a video in class tomorrow then have a whole class discussion which will be counted as a grade. In order to get a good grade in the group discussion you must participate factual information from the video clip we are going to watch.

Today in Western Civilization we got our test back and had time to review them. Then we went around the class to answer the right questions. We discussed the whole test and if anyone had any questions. Then we got our Ancient Greek essays back and had the time to look over them and discuss your final grade with your group members.

Today in West Civ class we took our Ancient Greece test, over the past couple of weeks we have been learning all about their culture and their history. We turned in our essay we wrote after we presented our power point. Over all this whole unit has been a very fun learning experience, I have enjoyed it very much.