3/30/20

Today's blog is about the struggles everyone is facing regarding cyber school. As this is a hard time for everyone, there are a lot of challenges that are involved for students, such as myself, sitting in my room for hours and hours doing nothing but work gives me a headache just thinking about it. As I am a very social person, not having interactions with anyone makes the work load feel ten times worse. The teachers are also at a disadvantage. As some of them choose to take this time to barely give the students any work and use this time for themselves, other teacher give us way too much work and it sometime can take me two-three hours just for one subject. Another struggle regarding cyber school is cheating. When I was working on an assignment and I didn't know the answer I cant say I didn't call my friends a ask them. It is so easy to cheat and get away with it with this new way of learning and I feel that it is unfair to some students and the teachers who are really putting time in for all of the work during cyber school. I feel that we should all come together and fight the virus by staying home doing the work, without cheating so we can finally go back to school.

3/26/20

The corona virus and the Athenian plague were very similar. Although they had different symptoms, corona virus gives people the cough and a high fever, and the Athenian plague gave people nausea, high fever, diarrhea, etc., they were similar in another way. They both spread visiously throughout the country they were in. The numbers of deaths, and cases are very high and still climbing, for the corona virus. Both of the diseased changed the time when they were in. The corona virus has put people on quarantine and now doesn't allow people to go out as the government puts restrictions on it now. The Athenian plague was partially the reason for the decline of the classical Greece era. Both of the viruses completely got out of hand and changed the time and the people that it was with.

3/24/20

Philip II was the king of Macedonia from 359 BC to 336 BC, when he was assassinated by one of his personal bodyguards. As a youth, he was taken as hostage in Illyria and then held in Thebes. There he gained military and diplomatic education by Epaminondas. Phillip returned to Macedonia in 364 BC and became king in 359 BC. Had many military conquests, such as defeating 3,000 hoplites, creating the Phalanx, and defeating 7,000 Phocians in the Third Sacred War. He was assembling an army to fight Persia, however, he was assassinated before he could attack.

Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, succeeded his father at the age of 20 after he was assassinated. He was tutored by Aristotle until he was 16. After inheriting his father's army, he launched the attack on the Persians that his father had planned. After invading Persia, he began a series of campaigns that lasted 10 years, and, eventually, overthrew King Darius and took control of the Persian Empire. He continued his conquest until 323 BC and died in Babylon on his way back home.

King Darius III was the last King of Persia and had assassinated everyone who succeded him as well as his father in order to get the crown. He didn't have the experience the other members of his family had and was without the talent needed to rule an Empire of that caliber. After Alexander began his conquest on Persia, he fought them at the battle of Issus in 333 BC and outnumbered them 2 to 1. Despite this, however, he was defeated and after an amazing number of defeats had his Empire seized from him by the hands of Alexander.

3/23/20

 Bucephalus was Alexander's horse that he won. He was known to have a massive head, black coat, and a white sea on his brow. Alexander's father was offered Bucephalus for a large sum, but thought Bucephalus appeared untamable. Alexander said to take the horse and if he couldn't tame it then he would have to pay his father back. Alexander goes on to tame Bucephalus by speaking to him and turning the horse away from the sun so he doesn't see his shadow. They grow up together for nearly two decades and fought many battles. Unfortunately, Bucephalus dies of battle wounds in 326BC. Alexander the Great loved the house and even founded a city named Bucephala in honor of his stallion

3/20/20

The first cyber week of school has been okay. I feel like I am stuck doing A LOT more work for some of my classes such as Math, and English. For other classes, its pretty laid back and the work load is pretty good. I end up doing between 6-7 hours of work per day so it a little less then actual school but still a lot. The biggest thing I don't like about it is how I'm isolated by myself in my room for that long. I feel like I'm going to go insane. I hope the virus will be solved soon so we can go back to school because I enjoy it a lot better.

3/18/20

After the war had hit Athens and forced athenians to move away, diseases, and more corrupt leaders forced  philosophers to bring them back to their better days. After their ruler had died and they had been struck with a horrible disease they started to become not so strong as what they used to be agian. They turned to anger because they didn't see a point in doing good deeds if both good and bad people both suffered the same fate. This sudden turn in their ethics most likely caused good men like Socrates to stand up. If they no longer listened to their older beliefs and values then they needed philosophers like Socrates to challenge them to better.

3/17/20

In the Peloponnesian War, Athens had a plan for defeating Sparta, mainly by their ships and their ability to trade. When a horrible plague hit Athens all of that disappeared. At this point in time no citizen seemed to care about the government, trade, or even religion. This eventually killed over a third of the whole population of Athens. Even Pericles caught this plague, and died 6 months later. He wanted to turn Athens into the greatest civilization, but this plague ruined that. After his death, corruption was common in Athens, as citizens craved for more power.

3/16/20 First cyber day

Pericles was a well respected, likes leader in Athens. He had power in Athens for 32 years due to him being loved by everyone. Pericles had three goals for Athens. The first one was to strengthen the Athenian democracy. The second one was to hold and strengthen the empire. The third was to glorify Athens. A direct democracy is when the citizens run the government themselves instead of electing a leader to do it for them. This was the form of government that Pericles was going to put into place. The Delian league was an alliance formed by the Greek city-states to fight off any largely populated empires such as Persia. This was formed right after the Persian wars so it was more directed at just Persia.

3/11/20

Today, Mr. Schick wasn't here today so we had to watch the part 2 of the video from yesterday. The beginning of the video was based on the Persians, Greece, and Egypt. It talked about the relationship with each other. They didn't get along very well. It went into pretty great detail about he Persian wars and described it very well. It then went into talking about the gods and goddesses that were involved in Greece and their ideas. The video even got into the specific conversations that the leaders were having about the strategy.

3/10/20

Today in class we watched a video on ancient Greece. since Mr. Schick wasn't here today we had to watch the video ourselves and take notes on all of it. It was a review of basically everything we have already learned. It talked about the odyssey and the Iliad and then went on to talk about all the different time periods and all the ruler. It was everything we already went over.

3/6/20

Today in class we went over the PowerPoint from yesterday. We then had a pop-quiz. The quiz was on the Greeks and Persians. It was also on the gods and goddesses. Another thing that was on the pop quiz was the three big philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. I got a 100 on the quiz so I am happy with it. I need to try and bring my grade up to at least a B.

3/5/20

Today in class we went over and reviewed the three big philosophers. Aristotle wanted to gather everyone from around the world to share ideas and make the world a better place. Socrates was a philosopher that made people think and broke the laws and was put to death for it. Plato was the student of Socrates and taught everyone about him and his thoughts.

3/4/20

Today in class we took notes on gods and goddesses.  We learned about Poseidon, Zeus, Athena, etc.
We then talked about the Persian war for the rest of class. The Persians greatly outnumbered the Greeks and if you were asked who won the war and you didn't have any background knowledge, then you most likely would have said the Persians. The Greeks ended up winning because they were very smart with their battles.

3/2/20

Today in class we started to take notes on Greek gods and goddesses. As we had people making up tests the rest of us took notes individually. The PowerPoint was talking about Poseidon, Aphrodite, Dionysus, etc. It didn't go into too much detail but I'm excited for this unit because I like Greek gods and goddesses.