Missing Grace

For the second time this week, Mr. Schick is out sick again. All we did was watch another video and take notes. The video was about the story of Pheidippides; the wars with Darius, Xerxes and the Persians; the brilliant leader Themistocles; the mysterious Oracle of Delphi; the battle in the Straits of Salamis; and why the Golden Age of Greece was so extraordinary. Annie and I were talking about how much things changed since Grace left us, and it’s a pretty sad thing to think about. She always kept things in order and a smile on Annie’s face. She was there to yell at Devin when he wouldn’t let Mr. Schick move onto the next slide, but we still loved her anyways. So until Monday, maybe Mr. Schick will be there, maybe not.

 

Commercial Presentation Day 2

Again in western civ, we watched almost the rest of the commercials. Kap, Ryan, Sung and Arri’s commercial took up the first mod of class. There commercial was okay, they definitely put in a lot of effort and the final product was a lot better than the one that I saw. The problem was that it didn’t make logical sense. Sung’s acting was spot on and amazing, would have won a Golden Globe without a doubt. Ryan was the narrator and didn’t mess up a single word. Arri was Arri, no further explanation needed. And Kap did everything else nessiceary. The reason I said that we almost got through the commercials is because Annie and Alexa still have yet to go, it was really strange though because we told Mr. Schick that they still had to go but he ignored everyone… alright. But anyways this wind is getting really scary outside! Stay safe and I’ll see you Friday!

Presentation Day 1

Because Mr. Schick was back in class today, we presented our projects. I think that we did well, we had the music to go with the story board which was very funny. A few more groups need to go tomorrow so that’s what we will do then. After we finish all of the projects we will probably move onto a new topic. I think that Mr. Schick said something in the beginning of the year that we will go in topic order of how they were traveled when they made history. If that is the case than our next topic will be Asia I think. Tomorrow all we have is the rest of the videos. So until then.

Final Touches

Western Civilization today was just like any other substitute day. Mr. Schick was sick so we had a sub. For the second mod our sub was Mrs. Deroba and our third mod sub was Mr. Bolden. All we did was make the finishing touches on our projects. Today Leah looked up good music for Sparta and Athens and found a song about Sparta and Athens that Mr. Schick would probably really like. Other than that we didn’t do much more in class. To make our poster look better we got cardboard from the library. Tomorrow we have to present the projects, our group will probably play our music of choice during our presentation to keep things moving along and make our presentation more entertaining. I’m nervous to present tomorrow but I just want to get it over with. A lot of people in our class did an actual commercial while my group did a storyboard. No that doesn’t mean my group was lazy it just means that we have a social life. So until tomorrow.

Boring Movie

In western civ today we had a sub because Mr. Schick is a chaperone on the Senior Retreat. All we did in class was watch the rest of the video. Our commercial is due on Monday and we will also present them at that time. My group is Grant, Leah and I and we picked Athens to present. So far we have the basic of what we need to do, today and over the weekend we will finish the story board. We all decided not to do a video because it would be very hard to get everyone together. I don’t think that it’s fair to not give us class time to work on the project because you said that you would but never did. And honestly, the video we watched was very boring and hard to keep up with. We had western civ second mod and while we were watching the video I thought I was going to fall asleep. See you Monday.

Extension!

Extension due date on the commercial project! Because Mr. Schick is going on the senior retreat trip on Friday, our commercial project will be due on Monday! Today we continued with the video, pausing when the important information comes up. Surprisingly we got a little bit past the 20 minute mark. The plan for Friday is to continue watching the video and taking notes. It will be difficult and different because we have never seen the video before so we, as a class, don’t know what to look for, while Mr. Schick does. We don’t have class tomorrow, our commercial project is due Monday, and I will talk more on Friday!

Athens or Sparta Commercial

Today in class we briefly started to watch a video. But for the very first part of class Mr. Schick gave everyone a heart attack with a fake pop quiz. He took an old quiz paper that he used to give, passed it out, and nobody knew any of the answers. After he explained to us that we aren't taking a quiz, yet, we started to "watch" a video. The video was 50 minutes long, and there were three parts in all. We also would pause the video once an answer, something important, or a question came up. Because today we were two hours late, and we already had a short class, we only got 7 minutes into the video. Our main focus is on the commercial due Friday. I have explain before that I’m stuck, and I still am. Hopefully I can think of something good before Friday. So, until tomorrow.