today in west civ we learned about the patins, greeks, and the romans all in one go. we learned about the big drain that the romans made to drain water from the swamp and drained the water into the tiber river. we learned that the patins are the decedents of the Indo europeans. we also learned about tarqin the proud who was a true tyrant and the seventh and final king in rome after his terrible actions.

today in west civ class mr.schick allowed us to get together with our groups so that we can discuss our project that we are doing to hype up rome. we decided to film it at reece's house so we can use his field. we have all the props now we just need to do the filming and the editing for the little 1 minute movie/reenactment. that is all that happened today in west civ

                                       Types of roman stuff like buildings and things

Circus Maximus- http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/circusmaximus.htm

-wooden stadiums

-racing stadium in Rome

-created in 329 B.C.

-in 31 B.C. the stadium burned down and was replaced with marble

Coliseum- http://www.italyguides.it/en/lazio/rome/ancient-rome/colosseum

-consisted of pillars

- had underground tunnels

-known as the flavium ampethetre

-housed gladiator fights

Aqueducts- http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php

-arches

-held by gravity no mortar only rocks

-used gravity to transport water

-high in the air

Roman forum- http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/forum.htm

-lots of arches

-made of bricks

-a square surrounded by buildings

-meeting place for the roman senate

today in west civ we talked more about rome and how it was formed from greek ideas of government.  we also got a visit from flo rida and he pro formed a rome rap for the class which was funny and we talked about a up and coming project. thats about it

friday in west civ we talked about our upcoming rome project and we formed our groups. reece, penington, and i are one group and we are going to reenact a fight. we discussed what the fight would be about and how we would go about doing it thats about it.

today in west civ mr. schick gave us an over view of the corrections he made on papers. He told us what all his correction marks meant, how to look over a paper and revise it. we basically spent the whole class talking about that paper. We were supposed to watch a video but we had no time thats all that happened in west civ...

today in west civ we got our final grades on the project and paper that we had to do about certain subjects in ancient Greece. we also went over our tests on ancient Greece. other than that we talked about what is good stuff to study from and some other subjects but other than these few things nothing else went on in west civ

today in west civ we took a test on ancient greece and we turned in our paper so thats basically it not much else to write so thats all for today.