Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                       5/13/15


                                                         West Civ

     Today in West Civ we had a little time in the beginning to do what we want. Mr. Schick also gave us a pop quiz I probably failed. I hate when we have pop quizzes and they hurt my grade. This is going to hurt my grade and that really can't happen. Overall, I did not like class today at all.

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                               5/11/15

                                                     West Civ

     Today in West Civ we watched a video on Rome. This video was all about Tibious and how his father died and he is taking over now. It tells us in the beginning that Tibious doesn't know but he will die in 20 years by being murdered by the aristocrats. He was later murdered because he started a revolution in Rome. The video also showed how aristocrats could just take poor people's land. Furthermore, Tibious did not like that. Overall, I liked the video so far.

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                      5/8/15

                                                West Civ

     Today in West Civ we worked on our projects. Today my group put all of our notes together and our program is finally coming together. We also have an exact design of what our program will look like. I am excited for our project because I think it is going to be really good.

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                         5/7/15

                                                         West Civ

     Today in West Civ we watches a movie on our computers, at least most of us did. Furthermore, I watched most of the video on my computer. The video is really long and I hope we can finish it in class so I don't have to watch more at home. On the other hand, we also had a talk about the JC news. Mr. Schick does the JC news and someone in our class was going to be featured, but not anymore. I found the part of the video that I watched was very interesting and had some really good facts about Rome. This is a video I am going to watch again before I take the test.

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                             5/6/15


                                                      West Civ

     Today in West Civ we took more notes on Rome. Below I have listed some of my notes.

• The punic wars (264-146 BCE)
• there were three wars 
• first war two empires were fighting for control
• (264241 BCE)
• naval battles for control of the island Sicily 
• Rome wins the first Punic war 
• second Punic war
• (218-201 BCE)
• 29 year old Carthaginian eneral Hannibal almost does the impossible
• he almost defeats Rome 
• they attacked Rome from the north 
• Rome wanted to remove the threat of Carthage 
• so they decided that they wont be soldiers until the get what they want 
• finally they got the laws in public and they got some rights  

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                           5/4/15

                                                      West Civ


     Today in West Civ we took notes on Rome. I have listed some below.

• Patricians traced their ancestors to Pater or father 
• they had to deal with justice, make laws, and commanding the army 
• 5th century BCE the plebs challenged 
• the plebs were 98% of the population 
• they said if they didn't get rights they wont serve in the army
• the laws were then written out (the law of twelve tables)
• US originally modeled Romes government 

Gabriella Spilker                                                                                          5/1/15

     I was not here today because I am going to a cheer competition in Rhode Island.