Today in Honors Human Geography and at John Carroll I feel exited to start my four year journey at John Carroll. In class on Friday Mr. Schick only had seven minutes to prepare us for our first day at John Carroll. Today in class Mr. Schick explained the daily blog to us, and how to set it up. My first day at John Carroll was on Friday August 25th, we had abnormal schedule with seven minute mini mods, and a meeting in the auditorium to start the day. in the auditorium we had a few members of the John Carroll administration talk to us about our future a John Carroll. Then we broke off into our advisory's, and got our lockers and locker combo. later that same day I had a JV soccer game vs. Perryville. We won our game 10-0 and I gave out all the
water and I filled them so the players could drink and stay hydrated.
Today in Honors Human Geography we discussed six topics, Agora, Polis, The importance of the year 508 B.C. to the ancient Greeks, Socrates, and the death of Socrates. Agora-" (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets.", and "was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. The literal meaning of the word is "gathering place" or "assembly". The agora was the center of the athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city." Polis- "a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.", politics comes from polis, polis helped start the Democracy. The importance of the year 508 B.C. to the ancient Greeks and the rest of the world is that this is the first time ever in recorded history that the people revolt against their leader. Socrates, was a Greek philosopher, and a teacher. The death of Socrates- Socrates was on tr...
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