Greek thinkers 2/4/10

            Euclid was a geomatrist.  He was the one invented geomatry.  Hippocrates is the father of medicine he advanced medicine by a lot.  He was the one who stopped going by supersticion and started observing symptoms.  Argametes was the one who dicovered leverage.  He made the quote of "give me a big enough lever and a place to stand and I can move the earth.  Thucydides was a historian.  He recorded the battles of ancient greece.

Athenian democracy 2/4/10

          The Athenian people wanted a kind of goverment that was not a tyranny.  The Athenians revolted against their tyrant leader Iagrius.  He and his guard of Hoplites climbed to the top of the acropolis.  There they held out for two days and two nights, but on the third day an angry mob of Athenian citizens killed them.  The Athenians had exiled a man named Cleisthenes before they over through their leader.  The Athenians brought him back and asked him to make them a fair kind of goverment.  He made the democracy and the simplesystem of voting.  The voting process was to put pebbles in a jar.  A black pebble for no or a white pebble for yes.

Athens: Inventions of Concepts and Democracy

Please view the following video, The Coming of Democracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4lw7pOCGCs

Please answer the following questions on your blog:

Who wanted a better form of government?

Who was Cleisthenes?

What was the voting process?

Please view the following video, The Thinkers of Greece.

http://video.kidzui.com/videos/319144?related%5Bchannel%5D=Ancient%2BGreece

Please answer the following questions on your blog:

Please write 2 complete sentences for each person.

Euclid

Hypocrates

Archimedes

Thucydides

When you are finished answering the following questions, please wait quietly until everyone is done. We will then go outside and choose our own black and white rocks.

Thank you,

Ms. Picard

exit ticket 2/2/10

 One of the many events that led to the pellapenesian wars was the attack of the Persians.  After the Greeks led by the Spartans drove off the Persians the Spartans led the Pelonnesian league.  Later when a Athenian leader took over they took power.  When the Athenians rose in power the Spartans backed away.  The athenians then instigated the Spartans to war by attacking cities friendly to Sparta.

exit ticket 1/28/10

Nothing.

Current Events: Snowman Economics 1/27/10

Source: CNN Student News

Today on CNN Student News one of the reporters used building a snowman as an example for building the economy. The reporter was trying to fix a snowman named Jeff. Unfortunately for Jeff, the snow was too powdery. The reporter got some other people to help him, and they got a bucket with some water in the bottom. They put the snow in the bucket with the water and the snow became more slushy and sticky, and they fixed Jeff.

The reporter used the analogy of Jeff being the economy. The people had to look at the snow and change the snow to make it different to be able to fix Jeff. Jeff is like the economy because people had to look at things in different ways and make changes to fix him and the same goes for the economy.

I think it was funny that they used a snowman named Jeff to represent the economy. I think it was a good analogy.

Exit ticket 1/26/10

A memoir is a telling of one or more of your own memories.  A research paper is just finding facts about a certain subject.