3/16/11

     Today Mr. Schick decided that we were going to start over watching the movie so that we could stop in the movie at certain points and explain things.  So we watched the movie during the whole class while we stopped the movie to get spellings and have discussions about what was happening.  Athens was built on and around an Acropolis.  Cleisthenese was an aristocrat.  In the early days of Greece the aristocrats controlled the common citizens.  Cleisthenese's brother in law rolled into town with a tall woman that he claimed to be Athena and took control.    He gave Athens a chance to prosper and they did when he lowered taxes and allowed them to take out loans.  Greece was then a good trading country.  During this time they also developed a unique style of art.  Pisistratus then died and his son Hippias took over.  Hippias did well until his brother was murdered and he went crazy.  The Athenians then lost their rights and had problems.  Cleisthenese then decided to try to overthrow Hippias and was successful.  That is it for today.