Blogs

Artists:

Aeschylus

-Playwright

-"Father of Tragedy"

-7 of his (70-90) plays have survived to modern times

--"The Persians", "Seven against Thebes", "The Suppliants", "The Oresteia" (trilogy), "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers", "The Eumenides", "Promethe

Today we worked on our projects

Peloponnesian War

• One out of four people in Athens died after the war began
   from the plague disease due to cramped and dirty living conditions
• The plague killed their leader Pericles
• Sparta blockaded the cities walls
• left t

Added info to power point 

Today I found information for my slides, and picked out some pictures. Everyone did a good job.

I contributed to my group by looking up stuff for: did other civilizations have the same beliefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Greece

workday to day.

Worked on our project..

got my pictures up!

and worked on my slides.

my topics:

military and who participated in the army

Delian League

• The Delian League was a unification of Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens.

• The main goal of the Delian League was to get the people of Greece to continue fighting the Persians.
• The Delian League helped to liberate the Ionian

He was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician,and student of Socrates

He was a writer of philosophical dialogues and founder of the Academy in Athens

the first institution of higher learning in the Western world

Along with his mentor, Socrates, an

Today we worked on our presentations!

• Possibly one of the Most famous myths of Greece is the tale of Hercules.
• Hercules is the son of Zeus and Alceme. He was born half mortal and had many adventures.
• Another myth is of the Titans. These were immortal beings that ruled earth before the Olym

Worked on project over Greek gods. Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Helios, Athena, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, and Artemis were all gods that the Greeks worshiped for different reasons. 

• Ares was the god of war. He is depicted as a blood thirsty savage du

today we went over test questions and then finished watching the america story of us

Focus on studying

periods of time

basic definition

how did it imoact the us both positive and negative

Native american removal

columbus

jamestown

revolutionary war

us constitution

louisiana purchase

industrial revolution early 1800s

mexican american war

civil wa

Group test tomorrow.

Ways to review- Study our blogs. Study other presentations. Look at Bruns' PowerPoint or listen to his podcast.

Native American removal- Columbus coming - 1877.

Jamestown and colonization- 1607-early 1700's.

Transcontinental railroad

Ten Events that shaped Merican history til 1877

Native american Removal- We killed them by disease, Forced the off, enslave, steal,

Louisiana Purchase- Huge land purchase

Transcontinental Railroad- linked railroads across Merica

MERICA'! The story of us!

Today we started off class with what the test is going to be like and whats going to be on it with our group test

things to study

I need to study the map more

finished america the story of us episode three

Today we reviewed for our test. We also watched America the Story of Us. The questions that will be asked are the period of time, the basic definitions, and how it impacted the US both positively and negatively. Jamestown started on 1607. Transcontin

Review Day:

Test tomorrow.

Native american removal- (1492-1877.) Got rid of them by force, spreading disease, wars, enslaving them.

jamestown- 1607

industrial rev.- infrastructure, roads, railways, etc. early 1800s.

study map.

transcontinental railroad- 18

We talked about the test tomorrow. and reviewed for the test also.