Thursday, January 22, 2009

Assignments for next class

You have 3 assignments for next class:

1) Read Chapter 5, Section 1 of your new world history text book.

2) Post one interesting fact from your reading on: www.hornadaycmh.blogspot.com

  • Include your name and class hour

3) Bring double-sided folder to class.

Have a fantastic weekend! I will see you on Monday and Tuesday!

43 comments:

  1. Bryson Wooden
    Hour 7

    In the early years of Rome, all citizens who owned land had to serve in the army.

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  2. Jasmine Peters
    Hour 1

    After the Trojan War the Mycenaean civilization collapsed.

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  3. Hayden Steele
    Hour 7

    I liked how the greeks handled early government. They used small communities to build up their culture. They may have not been so dominate if this was not in place. They used the mountainous region to their advantage also.

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  4. Jennifer Thies
    Hour 4

    A blind storyteller named Homer told epics about life during the Trojan wars. Some of these epics (such as the Illiad) are now considered great novels and classics.

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  5. Rachel Marceau
    Hour 4

    tiny fertile vally's covered one fourth of greece.

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  6. Tia Klundt
    9th Hour

    One intresting thing i found was that Mycenae, a warrior-king ruled the surrounding villages and farms. strong rulers controlled the areas around the Mycenaean cities, such as Tiryns and Athens.

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  7. Amanda Baumann
    9th Hour

    I thought it was interesting that historians thought that the "legendary stories" of the Trojan War were fictional....but they weren't! Excavations and archaeological studies showed that the stories might have been based on real cities, people, and events.

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  8. Kylie Vieth
    Hour 4

    Instead of a single government, the Greeks developed small, independent communities within each little valley and it's surrounding mountains.

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  9. Brittni Young
    7th Hour

    I thought that it was interesting how the Greeks didn't live on land... but they lived around sea and rarely had to travel more than 85 miles to reach the coastline. Also, I thought that it was interesting how it talks about the epics of Homer because in language arts we have been talking about and reading one of the epics written by Homer... The Odyssey.

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  10. Jerred Estenson
    Hour 9

    I found it pretty interesting how it took the Greeks many days to travel to a place 60 miles away; compared to an hour or so it takes now. I also found it pretty cool how Homer was mentioned in the reading, like some said before, we are learning about him in our LA classes.

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  11. Amber Crabtree
    1st Hour



    the greatest storyteller was blind and his name was Homer. People thought he composed his epics.

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  13. Tori McNutt
    Hour 9


    I loved the storie that the blind guy, Homer, told about life during the Trojan War.

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  14. Collin Smith
    4th hour

    What i thought was interesting was during the rule of the Dorians the Greeks appear to have temporarily lost the art of writing during the Dorian Age. No written record exists from the 400-year period between 1150 and 750 B.C.

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  16. Kaitlyn Schletzbaum
    4th Hour

    I thought it was interesting that the city of Mycenae was surrounded by a protective wall that was more than 20 feet thick.

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  18. erika
    4th hour

    i thought it was interesting how Homer was blind

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  19. Derek Rice
    Hour 9

    I found it interesting that the Greek civilization formed around a sea rather than a river. To me this is something that made the Greek civilization stand out against many surrounding civilizations. Overall I think it is a bennifit to have the sea as a form of transportation to all parts of Greece. In comparison to the sea a river is limited in where a ship might be able to go.

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  20. Mariah Maher
    Hour 9

    I think it was pretty interesting that the greeks lived "around a sea" with small communities instead of a large unity of one government.

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  21. Lauren Dynes
    Hour 1
    The stories of the Trojan War interest me. These stories seem fictional but historians are finding out that some are based on real cities and people. I like this type of reading

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  22. Morgan Gregory
    Hour 4

    Greek Myths interest me SO much! Are we going to study them?

    Anyway, according to traditions, a new group of people, the Dorians, moved into the war-ton courntryside.

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  23. Emily Stolfus
    Hour 7

    The Trojan War was 10 years of constant fighting and it all started over the kidnapping of one woman.

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  24. Amber Chivington
    Hour 7

    I thought it was interesting that the people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. were later known as the Mycenaeans which came from their leading city, Mycenae.

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  26. Erica Eagleburger, hour 1

    i found it interesting that Greeks rarely had to travel 85 miles to a coastline

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  27. Melissa Murphy
    Hour 7

    I thought it was interesting that kings like Tiryns and Athens dominated Greece from aobut 1600 to 1100 B.C.

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  28. Taylor Adams
    Hour 9

    the greatest storyteller was blind and his name was Homer. People thought he composed his epics. this is neat because he is blind and he told great stories. so he would of had to listen through his whole life and not see anything. yet feel like he saw it all or just came up with what it must have all looked like.

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  29. Cordell Bell
    Hour 9

    Homer who was thought to be the greatest storyteller of all time was a composer. He was the author of the Odyssey written in 700 B.C. The Odyssey is the second most viewed book besides the Bible. I think this is interesting because I learned alot about it in my LA9 class.

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  30. Jennie Schwabe
    hour 7

    I thought it was intersting that the greeks created all the mythologies and myths.

    p.s- this is a little late cause i forgot about it until now!

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  31. Nathan Pinion
    9th hour
    I find it interesting that the Greek myths managed to survive history through word of mouth alone for so long.

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  32. Jonathon Richards
    9th hour

    Back in the day, all the people in rome who had land had to be in the army.

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  33. Christian Kaufman
    hr. 9

    It was cool to me how it took the Greeks a lot of days to travel to a place 60 miles away; where for us it would only take a couple of hours.

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  34. Collin Gall
    Hr. 4
    I thought it was interesting that anyone who owned land was in the army, and how that instead of having one single government that they broke the ruling into smaller communities.

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  35. Houston Roberts
    Hour 4

    I thought it was interesting that the Greeks once had a form of writing until the collapse of their culture by the Dorians.

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  36. Kit Nelson
    Hour 4

    One fact I found interesting was that historians thought that the legendary stories told of the Trojan War were totally fictional, but later discovered that they were based on real cities, people, and events.

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  37. Jon Frazier
    Hour 4

    I liked that the Trojan War went on for 10 years.

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  38. Jared Hughes
    Hour 1

    I thought it was interesting that Spartan women trained in the army and were more apart of the community. Where as women in other societies were just house wives.

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  39. Morgan Noble
    Hour 7

    I thought it was interesting that some of the quoted sayings like "Come back with your shield or on it." have been passed on until the 21st century.

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  41. Haley watts

    Hour 1

    I thought that greek city-states having different forms of government was interesting, as well as how a single person called a kind was usually the government called a monarchy.

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  42. Brandon Bell

    Hour 9

    I thought it was interesting that the stories of the Greeks were passed down through word of mouth

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  43. Emily Stolfus
    7th hr

    i thought it was interesting that you had to serve in the military 10 years before you could be elected into a public office

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