Blog Post #16 -Review Day-

     Today in class for like the first 35 minutes we took notes on a powerpoint. I could actually see the board but I didn't take any notes this time because I missed like the first five minutes. I just really tried to listen to and understand what Mr. Schick was saying. After the powerpoint we just had like 20 minutes of free time. On Monday we have a test and I'm not excited about that but oh well it is what it is. I did really bad on the last test so I literally have to get a 100 on this test coming up to bring my grade up. I really need to study. Anyways, we have a 2 hour delay tomorrow so thats cool. I love those cause I can actually sleep and I feel so much better. It weird how 2 extra hours of sleep changes your mood.

Blog Post #15 -Ancient Egypt-

     Today in class we completed a sheet on ancient Egypt. On the front side we had to define some of the main terms in the chapter. On the other side it was fill in the blanks. Here are some of the fill in. the blank questions we had to complete: I was the British archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamon's tomb in 1922. My name is Howard Carter.- The Nile River provided Egypt with a reliable system of transportation and with an annual deposit or fertile soil.- In about 3100 B.C. a strong willed king of Upper Egypt named Narmer united all of Egypt.- Asian nomads known as the Hyksos ruled much of Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C.- I was the linguist who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone. My name is Jean Francois Champollion.- That is all we did for class today and we also went over it. It was a fun class to be honest.

Blog Post #14 -Test Today-

     Today in class we took a test that I literally just actually failed. I'm so disappointed in myself because if I would've read one of the paragraphs I wrote I could've gotten more answers right. This makes me geniually so mad right now. Anyways we got an assignment to do which is what I guess I'm going to do right now.

1.
Delta- a broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river
Narmer- the king that united the 2 kingdoms of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
Pharaoh- the Egyptian god kings
theocracy- when rule is based on religious authority
pyramid-m the resting place after death
mummification- royal and elite Egyptian bodies were mummified
hieroglyphic- a more flexible writing system
papyrus- a better writing surface

3. The desert provided good defense and protection from invaders
4. To the Egyptians the kings which would be the pharaohs, were gods.
5. They mummified them because they didn't want them to decay. They wanted them to live omg but in a better world.

Blog Post #13 -Pyramids on the Nile-

     Today in class we took notes from the book for the time. We're on a new section called Pyramids on the Nile. Here are my notes: The nile river flows northward across Africa for over 4,100 miles making it the longest river in the world- A Delta is a broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river- Cataracts are churning rapids- By 3200 B.C. the villages of Egypt were under the rule of 2 separate Kingdoms, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt- A king named Narmer united the 2 kingdoms and he established the first Egyptian Dynasty- The history of Egypt had 31 dynasties- Pharaohs were Egyptian God Kings (which were the center of their religion)- Theocracy is a type of government in which rule is based on religious authority- pyramids were the resting place after death was on immense structure (Ka-eternal life force)- they were polytheistic- most important gods were (Re- god of sun) (Osiris- god of the dead) (Isis- represented mother and wife)- Egyptians worshipped more than 2,000 Gods/Goddesses- Royal and Elite Egyptians bodies were preserved by mummification which involves drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying, their tombs were filled with many valuables as offerings to the Gods with the body.

Blog Post #12 -I'm the Judge-

     Today in class we only had 40 minutes since we had a 2 hour delay today. We had off yesterday which was good and today the snow was still on the ground so we had to have the delay. Anyways, in class we got a blue worksheet that had Hammurabi's code on it. There were 6 scenarios that were crimes. We had to be the judge using our minds from today and go back in time and write down would the punishment would be. The, we had to decide according to Hammurabi's code what the punishment would be. After we did the worksheet we went around the room having discussions on what we said our punishments would be and we compared them. I didn't end up saying mine because apparently mine were wrong but ill fix them.

Blog Post #11 -Laser Pointer-

     Today (well yesterday) was a pretty fun class. I'm writing this blog on Saturday which I've never done before because usually I do it on Friday but last night I got a little busy. Anyways, yesterday at the beginning of class Mr. Schick showed us his new laser pointer and was flipping through slides for like 10 minutes. After that I went to then use to get chapstick cause my lips were super chapped. I really should've stayed and took notes but I can't really see the board anyways. When I got back everyone was taking notes only for like 5 more minutes and then we were done for the day. We had like 30 more minutes of class left so some people just did their blogs and then everyone started drawing stuff on the board and we were having a great time. Then after that we got to go home so that was a great way to end my Friday and start a 3 day weekend.

Blog Post #10 -The earliest cities: Mesopotamia-

     Today in class we took more notes off off the powerpoint. The title of this slide was "The Earliest Cities: Mesopotamia". Here are the notes: The fertile crescent now is in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq but mostly Syria and Iraq./ In Mesopotamia was the district Sumer, toward the Southeast. Sumer was situated on the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers/ With new irrigation technologies, the population size, cities and towns with up to 40,000 inhabitants were starting to emerge/ Better food storage led to the creation of other jobs, such as priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians, and farmers/ Kings and family dynasties emerged along with the concept of "city-state"/Sumerians invented "cuneiform" which is the earliest form of writing./ Pantheon-large number (of something) of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged/ The world's first (surviving) epic story was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" (told of a great flood that destroyed the world, similar to the story of Noah and the Great Flood)/ Sumerians then divided an hour into sixty minutes and a minute into sixty seconds; also then an organized calendar based on the moon cycles/ The Great Ziggurat of Ur is a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth.

Blog Post #9 -From Prehistory to Civilization-

     Today in class we took more notes by starting a new powerpoint. The title of the powerpoint was called "From Prehistory to Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt". The first slide was called Prehistoric Era- Origins and Ages of Human Beings: 200,000 years ago, the human species (homosapiens) emerged in Southwestern Asia/14,000 years ago, worldwide human race existed/The earliest prehistoric age is the Paleoithioc Age also known as the Stone Age/ The neolithic age aka the New Stone Age had advanced tool making and beginnings of agriculture/ Initially, humans were part of migratory groups that hunted, fished, and gathered plants to serve as food. The next slide was called Agricultural Revolution. Also called as the Neolithic Revoltion was the shift in human lifestyle from hunting to permanent settlement/ The population rose due to the increased ability to produce food surplus, thus feeding and caring for young children/ Hierarchies appeared, as the status and woman lessened due to the confinement toward more domestic duties/ The wheel and plow made enough food for storage possible/ The villages in early communities were polytheists meaning they worshipped multiple nature, human, and animal gods. That is all the notes we took for today.

Blog Post #8 -Continued to take notes-

     Today in class we took notes for the entire class. I didn't mind this considering I really wanted to finish my notes of this section of the chapter. My notes ended up being 4 pages long. On my notes it basically just included everything about the Sumerians and at the end it got into Hammurabi's code. Ive decided I'm probably not going to put my notes in my blog only because I don't think typing 4 pages of notes would be a good idea. In the last blog I mentioned how I like the guided notes better. I still think they're better but this way is growing on me only because in class today we actually had time to do the notes. When I'm rushed and can't get all the notes in thats when I don't really enjoy it. We also found out our grades from the objective part of the test and I'm pretty happy about my grade so hopefully the essay part bring up my grade even more instead of lowering it.

Blog Post #7 -New Chapter-

     Today in class we started a new chapter. We had to actually open up a hard textbook and take notes out of it. Personally, I like taking notes except I'm a little excessive with mine and they end up being 5 pages long for just one section of a chapter. In this chapter it is on early Mesopotamia. I would put my notes in my blog right now, but I want to wait until I have some more notes done. I really like the way we had notes for human geography where we used a powerpoint and they were more guided though. I like that way better because I feel like with this new way I'm missing information and we will start discussing notes in class and I don't have the correct information and it stresses me out since I can't really go back and add them in anywhere. I like my stuff being organized and with this way its just not which bothers me. Hopefully the new stuff we're learning gets more interesting because at the moment it isn't.

Blog Post #6 -Test Today-

     Today in class we took our test. The test was on the guns germs and steel video. What did I think of this test? I thought some things were easy and some things made me mad because I remember one question that we never talked about which made me mad. I definitely did not get an A on this test but maybe a B. There was an essay at the end of the test that I may have done well on. I honestly do not know. I knew the answer to the essay I just had trouble putting what I wanted to say into good paragraphs. Also for one of the questions I asked Mr. Schick what the Fertile Crescent was and he ended up giving me the answer and I didn't even know that he did. He ended up not letting me change my answer which makes me so mad cause I was asking for the answer but whats done is done I guess. Overall the test could have been way worse.

Blog Post #5 -Test Tomorrow-

     Today in class we finished watching the Guns, Germs, and Steel video. We took more notes on this video so here are my notes from today: Communities start to advance by stopping hunting and gathering and start to make a community; The Gwar is 9,000 years old and is the first place to have a functioning community; Many other places that developed were along the Fertile Crescent and had the same latitude meaning they had the same vegetation style and climate; About 500 years ago there were no cattle or wheat in the America's at all and now there is over 100 million cattle and over 20,000 tons of wheat. We have a test on this material tomorrow and I'm really hoping I don't fail cause I have a C in this class right now so I ned to bring my grade up. If I study my blogs and notes I think I will be fine.