West Civ Day #35- New Nero

Today in West Civ we started a video on the insane emperor called Nero. This video was a series made several years ago by BBC. I thinks that this video will be very good and fun to watch over the next several days and I look forward to it.

West Civ Day #34- Excellent Empire

Today in West Civ we learned more about the Roman empire. We took notes about it which I will post on my blog when we finish these notes. So far we covered Caesar, his great-nephew Octavian, and Jesus at the time of the empire. I think that it was incredible that the amount of power Caesar took and two generations later still had in his nephew. That shows how powerful and how much the people liked Caesar. I think that Caesar was the best Roman emperor of all-time, if not the best leader of a nation all-time.

West Civ Day #33-Cool Caesar

Today in West Civ we learned about Julius Caesar. I thought that Julius was a genius and a man who thought way ahead of his time. From all of his battle strategies against Gaul, to actually taking over Rome and become its first emperor. He was smart because he knew that the Senate could not defeat his army, the people loved him so he won the assembly, and the consuls would have no say because they would fear him. He helped Rome into an age brighter than anything that Rome could imagine at the time. He was thinking into the future, a place where Romans would never think to look at. He was ahead of his time, and he lead Rome into the greatest empire the world has ever seen

West Civ Day #32- Ridiculous Rome

Today in West Civ we continues to present. I think that our video was pretty good but it could definitely use a little more work. I think that we got a solid A but maybe not. Unfortunately it went wrong because two videos played at once which was definitely not supposed to happen at all. Hopefully we will get to watch the full video again Friday and explain more as well.

West Civ Day #31- The Problem Project

Today I West Civ my group was supposed to present our project, but everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Arri's computer froze on screen and JP and I did not have the app to play the video and Sung can't connect to the white board with his laptop. I am very upset because I want the class to see this video because it was very funny. But I guess we will just have to wait another day to present.

Western Civ Day #30- Roman Review

Today in West Civ we review all of the info about Rome that we have learned so far that will be on the test Friday. I think that I am ready for this test and should do well because this section is relatively easy.

West Civ Day #29- Interesting Italians

Today in West Civ we watched a bunch of weird videos on the Punic Wars. the voice of the narrator was really annoying but there was a lot of good information. It was about Carthage and Rome fighting over land and control of the Mediterranean. I don't think that we have learned enough information about Rome yet to take our test on Friday when we don't even have class on Thursday. Plus tomorrow we will be working in our groups for the projects I believe so we'll see what happens but I don't see how we can possibly learn all of Rome in one and a half weeks.

West Civ Day #28- The Prime Punic

Today in West Civ we read a section about the Punic wars and then took notes on them. So here are the notes.

-the Romans fought Carthage
-Carthage was on the north coast of Africa
-Greeks fought Carthage so when Rome became power they fought Carthage
-winner took command of western Mediterranean
-three phases/ rounds of the Punic wars from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C.
-first phase Rome forced Carthage out of Sicily
-Carthage came back in the second phase
-they captured and defeated most of Italy
-but with help of allies and their own men Rome forced Carthage out
-Carthage was beaten badly
-scared of Carthage, Rome went offensive and captured and destroyed Carthage
-all of the land that Carthage owned became Roman like Sicily, Spain, and Africa
-in the later years Rome would spread from eastern Mediterranean to Britain
-Rome's first involvement was with Greece
-Around 200 B.C. Greek ambassadors came to Rome for help with resisting the king of Macedonia

West Civ Day #27- Talking Text

Today in West Civ we did not do anything except highlight and underline important stuff from our book. We ended up highlighting about four or five pages from the Rome unit. but again it was a kind of boring class today

West Civ Day #26- The Great Group

Today in West Civ we went over the rap from Mr. Schick in yesterdays class. We got through the first verse and that was all but we will take more notes on it later this week. But we have a project coming up and we have a lot of choices to make about what we are going to do. JP, Sung, Arri, and I are going to make a commercial that advertises Rome and I am very excited because it will be hilarious.