Day 34- Summery of Online School

Students and teachers are facing challenges unlike any we have seen before. The reason I think this is so unexpected is because I have never had school close for more than a few days with no work. Online work is causing challenges I have never expected. I would normally wake up for online school at either 6 or 12. The reason I wake up at these times is because my dad leaves for work at 6:00 and I cant trust the alarm clock on my phone because my phone sometimes crashes at night and sends it into safe mode which stops alarms. The work that I am given for biology, Spanish and bible I must teach myself because biology is lectures and we don't do live classes for Spanish. My workload for today is bible, Gym, Western Civ, English, Spanish, Math HW and Math Exit. All of these combine to take longer than 6 hours most of the time which is strait work. Plagiarism and cheating is tempting in this scenario with almost no way for teachers to see if we are cheating along with no consequences. I don't even know what consequences there are because we cant have detention or go to the office or have in school suspension. The past few days have been like a movie the governor making an order to stay inside to reduce exposure and about 65,000 more people get infected everyday with even more people in the US having not been tested or have been asymptomatic. This is still going to go on and everyone needs to adapt to the future.

DAy 33- Athens Plague VS Covid-19

The Athenian plague shares some symptoms to Covid-19 such as Fever, sneezing, coughing and possible pneumonia. The deaths for the Athenian plague is 50-100 thousand while currently the death count is 22,184 but is probably in the 30,000s because China has stopped reporting numbers. The origin of the Athenian plague was likely from Africa. The virus Covid-19 is from China most likely because it is where the initial people showing symptoms are. The Covid-19 is a novel corona virus while the plague that hit Athens was most likely typhus, smallpox, measles or a from of the Black death. In 2005 a DNA sequence was taken from the teeth of a person from a Greek burial pit and it came back as Salmonella Enterica an organism that causes typhoid fever. Because of the plague in Athens law broke down which has not happened yet. There was no way to stop the Athenian plague but now we know how viruses work and have computer to help such as the Folding@Home project which uses multiple computers from around the world to act as one super computer to find a cure.

Day 32- Summary

Alexander the great- Leader who captured and held large amounts of land in Asia and some in Europe. From age 13-16 he was taught by Aristotle and was interested by philosophy, medicine and scientific investigation. He succeeded Phillip with no opposition by putting down his rivals. Put him charge of the invasion of Asia. By 333 he conquered Asia minor. Once Asia minor was conquered, he moved to invaded Egypt. Once he was dead the power was given to Phillip the 2nds other son who was a bad leader.

Darius 3- Last king of Achaemenid empire. His empire was unstable and controlled by unreliable leaders and rebellious people. Was chased by Alexander the great after he defeated the Persians attempted to restore his army but was defeated finally defeated by Alexander, he was killed by his bodyguards and bound him and put him in an ox cart.

Phillip 2- He expanded Macedonia and is the father to Alexander the great. He only had one great defeat was when he was too confident and did not have good Intel through reconnaissance. Started the league of Corinth which was designed to  keep the peace. The peace never lasted long. He was wise and built on the achievements of earlier Greeks. He was assassinated by a bitter noble who didn't like him too much.

Day 31- Alexanders Horse

Alexander the greats horse named bucephalus was his favorite horse and rode into many battles with it. He realized the horse was afraid of it shadow so he turned it toward the sun. He was the only one that tamed him so he bought is and rode it into battle from the conquest of the Greek city states to India. After the final defeat the horse was kidnapped and Alexander made a threat and the people sent the horse back. The death of the horse is not agreed upon weather it was battle wounds or natural causes. Alexander to get over  the loss of his horse named a city after him. Alexander cared deeply for his horse and made a bond that lasted years of war and conquest.

Day 30- Cyder Days so Far

Cyber days overall have been shorter than a regular school day with most assignments can be completed in no more than 5 hours. The most difficult part is that work is posted in different places for almost every teacher. For example, for Spanish all my work is on Microsoft Teams. For biology where are given no directions all the work, we are given is just " go to posts and complete this assignment".  Sometimes with most teachers posting on Veracross they will leave an assignment at the bottom of the post and I will read the assignments at the top and do them and not look back. none of my teachers have done online class where we are in a Skype call which I am not looking forward to. So far, I have had two tests and I can see how easy it would be to cheat (I didn't) because for Spanish google translate, for math photo math, for English look in the book, for every other class look up the answers. I don't know how teachers, or the administration can fix this so I think that some people will cheat on everything they get and not learn in. Because they do not learn it, they will not know it on the finale exam.

Day 29- Socrates Questioning Traditional Beliefs

Socrates stood up for the  people that fell overboard at the battle against Sparta. Socrates also could of change the minds of the people in power and the generals were killed with hemlock. Socrates stood up to calm the fears of the people. He questioned the society and did what his reasoning told him to do and it was not to vote to kill the generals but vote to let them live. This event started Socrates questioning the society and following his reasoning.

Day 28- Pericles

The city would rely on their fleet of ships and their ability to trade with outside people. The grain boats turned on them because of the plague that was spread on the boat. The symptoms of this plague are given by historian at the time. "The body was seized by heat and redness on the head and inflammation of the eyes.and then the sickness descended into the bowels releasing laceration and uncontrollable diarrhea". The city slowed down and trade slowed. People decided not to be good because people could be bad and die the same way. 1/3 of Athens died. Pericles strategy underestimated the power of things he could not control. The changes who resented Pericles began to realize he was against corruption after so much followed his death. Athenian slid into mob rule and crippled their ability to fight a war. What folded out of their plan was the opposite of what they wanted

Day 27- 1st Cyber Day

Pericles was a leader who lead during the golden are of Athens who believed in strengthening democracy by giving pay for political power because only wealthy people could lead because middle class and lower couldn't afford to stay in that position. A direct democracy is run through the people having direct control and not going through a representative like in a republic. Few other city states used this, and it was mainly used in Athens. The Delian league was a pact that had all the city states come together in resources to build up a navy and army to defeat the Persians or other invader. Some other the money was used without the league’s permission to but gold, ivory and marble to make Athens look better.

Day 26- Corona Time

Today in class we talked about what we will be doing for the cyber days because of corona virus. Today was the last day of school for at least two weeks and may go longer. By the time of posting the school has decided that web cam groups are not mandatory but will be done with a 24-hour warning and can only happen during the time the regular mod would happen. Most classes will give about 30 min of homework/cyber work.  I think that schools will be closed for a month to a month and a half because the Covid-19 has been spreading at the same rate as Italy but we are 11 days behind them so what Italy has right now we will have in around 11 days. For that reason, I think it will keep on speeding as fast or faster because of the low amount of test kits; I hope everyone is prepared for the next moth to a half of homework.

Day 25- Middle Movie

Today in class we continued watching the movie. In the movie we learned first about what was traded and how that affected their wealth. Because of the trading pottery became popular to store oil and other things such as cooking materials. Pottery became an art and vases from the Greek era sell for millions of dollars. 527 BC a leader was dead. 514 Hippias brother was murdered and tortured the murderers and tortured their wife. Pysitrius son only wanted to hold and expand his power. The rest of the movie mainly talked about Homer and Plato and his students in the rest of Greece and highlighted the Persian war. It also pointed out the biggest trade items that help to Greece grow to its popularity. The final part that the movie talked about was how the republic started.  The republic started because of an overthrow in the government and the main leader that helped overthrow it decided to give the power to the people by giving them the right to vote in yes or no corresponding to black and white stones.

Day 24- Start Video

Today in class we started watching the grease video. The video is a three-part series about the beginning of Greece. It highlights different civilizations and important people such as Homer Aristotle and other important people. The video is 50 minutes long and we got through 15 minutes today so we are probably going to be watching this for the next four days. So far I have learned that one of the reasons the grease mainly Athens has grown so much is because of the amount of olive oil they can produce that was sold to Egypt.  Most important stories usually have something to do with mythology such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Both of which were written by homer which is also addressed in this movie.  The movie is very good for notes because it is slower and highlights important details and is categorized.  I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the movie.

Day 23- Philosophy

Today in class we learned about the philosophers in Greece. One of the first meeting philosophers was Socrates he was the first one to help people to start thinking on what was happening around them and question but they were being taught. He came up with the Socratic method which involves making the other party thing mo today in class we learned about the philosophers in Greece. One of the first meeting philosophers was Socrates he was the first one to help people to start thinking on what was happening around them and questioned what they were being taught. He came up with the Socratic method which involves making the other party think more.  After Socrates one of his main students Plato followed in his footsteps and after Socrates his death from hemlock poisoning. Plato gave his knowledge to one of his students Aristotle who helped form arguments to be done with facts and which also led to science as we know it today.

Day 22- The Persian Wars

Today in class we talked about the Persian wars. The Persian wars were the wars fought between Greek city states and Persia. Persia being much larger was predicted to win the Persian wars but they lost in the end. the Greeks had superior navel technology and had the fastest and most maneuverable ships. The Greeks used the phalanx formation which was designed to break through any formations and be able to attack from the inside. The spartans put up a long fight which was 300 spartans against thousands of persians and by the time saved from them the athenians escapeed to fight the persians off of Greece.  The Persians eventually lost to Greece because of the Athenians defense in the street of Sicily which stopped their trade with their own people inside of Greece which cut them off we can get supplies to continue the war. After this the Persians pulled out of Greece leading to Athens be retaken by Greece.

Day 21- Greece Part 2

Today in class we started the second part of Greece before that we started reviewing the test. On the test I did very well and better than I thought I would. The amount of questions on the test I thought was very good and the difficulty of the questions was also good Brandon from easy too difficult. After the test we started learning about the second part of Greece and Greek gods and goddesses. We learned about how Jesus is the main  God because he is the main father over everyone else. The Greek gods were different than noticed every other guy because they had constant contact with humans in their stories. And their stories they thought about God’s fighting in wars for them.  Some  of the gods and goddesses to me are not useful such as the one that is the god of wine.  Before the gods and goddesses there were the titans which gave way to their modern gods and goddesses which started out as Hades Poseidon Zeus and a few others.