Remember that I would like daily posts when possible. This is the thread to post on for the next week. Remember to post notes, epiphanies, questions, ideas, things you learned.
Oh, and Elevation went awesome. For those who went, wow, thank you for an incredible time. For those who did not, I hope your week was productive and I can't wait to learn together in class.
Although I am still struggling to get used to 50 minute classes, I really enjoyed the time we spent together today.
World History: Get those landmarks completed and memorized. There are only 81 of them. You guys are smart and you can do it. Remember, we just want a basic familiarity with them, you don't have to know everything. Also, remember that we will be doing a "Landmarks Gauntlet" on Wednesday. That's another way of saying a game that requires knowledge of those Landmarks. One more thing, if you want to add a Landmark that I left off, please feel free. And if anyone will PLEASE remind me on Wednesday to explain the STUDY GUIDE.
World Literature: Remember to read and annotate books 1-8 of The Iliad. Come to class ready to teach something. And if anyone will PLEASE remind me on Wednesday to explain the STUDY GUIDE.
I am still reading Wednesdays assignment in the Iliad it is interesting I basically have to keep the homer pronunciation guide oped and Wikipedia ready, it is REALLY good though!
oh, Dr. Groft, you should see if it is possible to add a "edit your own posts" thing to this blog, not sure if it is possible but if it was it would be really helpful
Hi everyone! I'm new to Williamsburg this year, but so far im loving it! I'm so excited to get to know everybody and to have a lot of fun this year in social leadership.
I found this site VERY helpful since all of the gods are referred to by their roman name and I am more familiar with the Greek name for the gods http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/roman_vs_greek.html
hey whats crackin? just wanted to say that i think elevation was amazing and i think this school year is going to be fun! so... happy days toa ll and have fun :)
Yeah, well I've found it helpful to read with the pronunciation guide from Dr. Groft, the character list from spark notes that has a paragraph of info on each person as well as a map, and I've just copied and pasted them in my documents and so I just open it all up and refer to it when I need it.
This is Megan World Literature Thoughts: Agamemmon kinda throws a tantrum about giving up the priest's daughter. He gets the best and biggest cut, but when he has to give her up, demands that he gets a replacement girl.
I really don't like this book because of all the killing that goes on and how graphic they are.
Wow, as I'm reading the iliad, and especially book V, I noticed that Homer names and tells us about almost every person that gets killed. He makes each person human, someone who had a life and a family, and he usually includes what they did wether a merchant, a hunter, a priest's son or whatever, and it goes to show what a loss the war brings. In a couple parts when some of the warriors are talking you can see that they finally realize what's truly important in life, only once they are confronted with death. And in another part there are two brothers who spent their lives to become skilled in the arts of war, and how they die just like that at Aeneid's hand, ending their sadly pointless and fruitless lives, never actually living. It was just really interesting to me and made me think first of all about how terrible wars is and its great cost, and that that cost is really only truly worth paying for a very select number of reasons, and also how I and everyone needs to spend their lives living and loving and doing good things so that at the end of this life we will have made a difference and spent our time here in happiness.
Megan world literature comments: Why didn't the Trojans just tie up Paris or make him give Helen back? She wanted to leave!! and most of the kings wanted to give her back!! It reminds me of this utube video I saw called, "How Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended". They basically simplyfy the entire thing into dropping the ring into the volcano while some of the fellowship distracted Sauron. I think the Trojans just made life hard for themselves. They could have spent a decade doing something more constructive.
i thought three cups of tea was really inspiring!! i loved how they explained what 'three cups of tea' actually means!! just flew home from Michigan!! cant wait for class tomorrow!
So I was reading in Heroes of History today, And I found the first paragraph on page 25 interesting where he says, "...the wise man does not speak, for wisdom can never be transmitted by words, only by example and experience. If the wise man knows more than other men he tries to conceal it." I thought that was a kind of cool thought. I think too many people think they know it all and try to lecture and explain everything they know.
The last paragraph on page 26 and then the next one I thought were cool too.
I thought it was interesting when on page 37 in Heroes of History, it said, " Buddha's conception of religion was purely ethical; he cared everything about conduct, nothing about ritual, worship, or theology." It seems to me that he is saying that as long as you look like you are doing good that is all that matters!
I just wanted to share an example of how great and important having a large vocabulary is, and using descriptive adjectives and such in writing; I was reading in Heros of History on the bottom of page 23 and the top of 24, Will Durant gives a perfect illustration of this, he calls modern thought a "gallery of echoes [from the past]" and just think that's really cool because the past is where we get most of our thoughts and heritage and our beliefs, and so those 'echos' made by people before us are constantly being brought back to the public by everyone around us as well as ourselves
Megan World History, comments Class was amazing today! i felt like i learned so much and was really able to interact with everyone. there were some fantastic comments and i should have written them down, but ah well. I was also reading the HoH, and there was one part where he was explaining how much freedom the egyptian women had. I know a LOT about ancient egypt, but i didn't know that they could wander around without chaperones and that the property came throught the female line. which just goes to show that you can keep learning about something which you thought you knew everything about, and that you learn something new everyday. and remember our definition of the day: poli=many, tic= blood sucking parasite. politicians= a group of blood sucking parasites!! ;)
Hey this is Mandie! I was trying to read The Iliad but I cannot get into it at all! I can't keep the names straight mostly. I like to get to know the people in a book and I can't decide who the bad guy is and who the good guy is... :( Any advice from anyone?
Siera World Literature, comments Megan you are absolutely amazing! Haha! I hope you never stop making comments in class ! It was great :) And your facial expressions are hilarious!
Mandie, go to Cliffs Notes or Sparknotes, which ever you prefer, and look at the character lists and maps, they should give you a brief history of each of the main characters. :)
Hey Social Leadership Class: I really enjoyed meeting with you as a class and many of you personally today. Fun!
Everyone else. I hope you had a great week. I hope you're not too far behind and that you are happy, learning, and improving your lives and your relationships! Like we talked about today, education is about deepening our understanding and enhancing our humanity. Facts are important, but they are simply tools to do those more important things just mentioned. Pay the price, learn the facts, and then dig and dig and reap the benefits that will surely come!!! Please keep posting! I'll start the week of September 20th thread on Sunday night.
I thought it was interesting how in the Illiad, the animosity between Juno and Jove even though they are married, they seem to hate each other. In book 8 of Illiad, Jove says of Juno, "I am less surprised and angry with Juno, for whatever I say she always contradicts me." Is like he has to be married to Juno and hates every minute of it.
Alright, so I have a question for all my World Lit classmates, in the Iliad when they talk of Helen, they always say something about her, then her treasure. "I want Helen and her treasure" "You must surrender Helen and all her treasure with her." And so on. So my question (or multiple questions I guess) is, do they really want Helen? Or do they want just her treasure? Both? What exactly does treasure imply? Is it jewels and gold, or something about her? Why are both wanted just as badly? Did I miss something earlier to know what they mean by "treasure"?
Ok This is Heather Bone :) and this is my presidential speech for the world history class, even though i'm a little late for that I thought I should probably still send it in. I'm not sure if this is the right place, but here we go :) -Character-I love everyone and I love to speak and lead and help others to be happy. -Resume-I’ve spoken in many places, I love helping people and I love to lead. -Experience- I have won many awards for public speaking and love to do it :) -Introduction-who I am-I am a child of God just like all of you. I stand for freedom of people, and for individuality in society. -Vision-what I believe-I believe in a free nation. I believe in justice. I believe in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I believe that everyone is their own type of genius. I believe in every student reaching for the stars. I believe we can all change the world and I would like to help with that :) Thanks!
Hey Everyone!
ReplyDeleteRemember that I would like daily posts when possible. This is the thread to post on for the next week. Remember to post notes, epiphanies, questions, ideas, things you learned.
Oh, and Elevation went awesome. For those who went, wow, thank you for an incredible time. For those who did not, I hope your week was productive and I can't wait to learn together in class.
ReplyDeleteElevation WAS amazing
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am still struggling to get used to 50 minute classes, I really enjoyed the time we spent together today.
ReplyDeleteWorld History: Get those landmarks completed and memorized. There are only 81 of them. You guys are smart and you can do it. Remember, we just want a basic familiarity with them, you don't have to know everything. Also, remember that we will be doing a "Landmarks Gauntlet" on Wednesday. That's another way of saying a game that requires knowledge of those Landmarks. One more thing, if you want to add a Landmark that I left off, please feel free. And if anyone will PLEASE remind me on Wednesday to explain the STUDY GUIDE.
World Literature: Remember to read and annotate books 1-8 of The Iliad. Come to class ready to teach something. And if anyone will PLEASE remind me on Wednesday to explain the STUDY GUIDE.
Social Leadership: I'll see you all on Friday!
I found Homer's writing very interesting, especially his referencing of the ancient gods.
ReplyDeleteI am still reading Wednesdays assignment in the Iliad it is interesting I basically have to keep the homer pronunciation guide oped and Wikipedia ready, it is REALLY good though!
ReplyDeleteoh, Dr. Groft, you should see if it is possible to add a "edit your own posts" thing to this blog, not sure if it is possible but if it was it would be really helpful
ReplyDeleteHi everyone!
ReplyDeleteI'm new to Williamsburg this year, but so far im loving it! I'm so excited to get to know everybody and to have a lot of fun this year in social leadership.
Ill see everyone on Friday!!
Dillon is my real name! haha but all my posts are going to show up as squid 28!
ReplyDeleteI found this site VERY helpful since all of the gods are referred to by their roman name and I am more familiar with the Greek name for the gods
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/roman_vs_greek.html
hey whats crackin? just wanted to say that i think elevation was amazing and i think this school year is going to be fun! so... happy days toa ll and have fun :)
ReplyDeleteNate, find out if I can do that. Tell me how, will you?
ReplyDeleteWorld Lit.
ReplyDeleteYeah, well I've found it helpful to read with the pronunciation guide from Dr. Groft, the character list from spark notes that has a paragraph of info on each person as well as a map, and I've just copied and pasted them in my documents and so I just open it all up and refer to it when I need it.
David: that's a good idea
ReplyDeleteAndy groft: I will look into it
This is Megan World Literature Thoughts:
ReplyDeleteAgamemmon kinda throws a tantrum about giving up the priest's daughter. He gets the best and biggest cut, but when he has to give her up, demands that he gets a replacement girl.
I really don't like this book because of all the killing that goes on and how graphic they are.
Dr. Groft,
ReplyDeleteQuestion about the landmarks. Are we suppose to have all 81 looked up and memorized by Wednesday morning?
Megan(punky)
This would make interesting movie!
ReplyDeleteClass Servant Leaders
ReplyDeletePresident- Andrew Greenman
Vice President- Sarah Hardy
Vice President- David Wilcox
Secretary- Mandie Looslie
Driver- Alexander Petrie
Good luck World Histroy class leaders!
ReplyDeleteThe Landmarks Dr. Groft gave us in WH are time-taking to complete, but some of them are pretty interesting to do a little more research on :)
Ekalb Werdna (Andrew Blake)
I like what Zach said, this would make an interesting movie! I would totally watch it! :)
ReplyDeletePS: My blog name because of older blogs I have had will come up as babyface1217, My name is really Crystal Schulmire :)
World Literature, Jonathan Peterson
ReplyDeleteIts funny that theres a lot of pouting in both armies, especially on the Achaians part.
World Lit.
ReplyDeleteWow, as I'm reading the iliad, and especially book V, I noticed that Homer names and tells us about almost every person that gets killed. He makes each person human, someone who had a life and a family, and he usually includes what they did wether a merchant, a hunter, a priest's son or whatever, and it goes to show what a loss the war brings. In a couple parts when some of the warriors are talking you can see that they finally realize what's truly important in life, only once they are confronted with death. And in another part there are two brothers who spent their lives to become skilled in the arts of war, and how they die just like that at Aeneid's hand, ending their sadly pointless and fruitless lives, never actually living.
It was just really interesting to me and made me think first of all about how terrible wars is and its great cost, and that that cost is really only truly worth paying for a very select number of reasons, and also how I and everyone needs to spend their lives living and loving and doing good things so that at the end of this life we will have made a difference and spent our time here in happiness.
David, that's AWESOME! You are right I have also noticed that!
ReplyDeletein case you have not guessed I am Nathan Owens
Megan world literature comments:
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the Trojans just tie up Paris or make him give Helen back? She wanted to leave!! and most of the kings wanted to give her back!! It reminds me of this utube video I saw called, "How Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended". They basically simplyfy the entire thing into dropping the ring into the volcano while some of the fellowship distracted Sauron.
I think the Trojans just made life hard for themselves. They could have spent a decade doing something more constructive.
i thought three cups of tea was really inspiring!! i loved how they explained what 'three cups of tea' actually means!! just flew home from Michigan!! cant wait for class tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteSo I was reading in Heroes of History today, And I found the first paragraph on page 25 interesting where he says, "...the wise man does not speak, for wisdom can never be transmitted by words, only by example and experience. If the wise man knows more than other men he tries to conceal it." I thought that was a kind of cool thought. I think too many people think they know it all and try to lecture and explain everything they know.
ReplyDeleteThe last paragraph on page 26 and then the next one I thought were cool too.
I thought it was interesting when on page 37 in Heroes of History, it said, " Buddha's conception of religion was purely ethical; he cared everything about conduct, nothing about ritual, worship, or theology." It seems to me that he is saying that as long as you look like you are doing good that is all that matters!
ReplyDeletedoes anyone else think that the Iliad is super decriptive with war? haha I was grossed out at some parts.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to share an example of how great and important having a large vocabulary is, and using descriptive adjectives and such in writing; I was reading in Heros of History on the bottom of page 23 and the top of 24, Will Durant gives a perfect illustration of this, he calls modern thought a "gallery of echoes [from the past]" and just think that's really cool because the past is where we get most of our thoughts and heritage and our beliefs, and so those 'echos' made by people before us are constantly being brought back to the public by everyone around us as well as ourselves
ReplyDeleteMegan World History, comments
ReplyDeleteClass was amazing today! i felt like i learned so much and was really able to interact with everyone. there were some fantastic comments and i should have written them down, but ah well.
I was also reading the HoH, and there was one part where he was explaining how much freedom the egyptian women had. I know a LOT about ancient egypt, but i didn't know that they could wander around without chaperones and that the property came throught the female line.
which just goes to show that you can keep learning about something which you thought you knew everything about, and that you learn something new everyday.
and remember our definition of the day: poli=many, tic= blood sucking parasite.
politicians= a group of blood sucking parasites!! ;)
Hey this is Mandie! I was trying to read The Iliad but I cannot get into it at all! I can't keep the names straight mostly. I like to get to know the people in a book and I can't decide who the bad guy is and who the good guy is... :( Any advice from anyone?
ReplyDeleteSiera World Literature, comments
ReplyDeleteMegan you are absolutely amazing! Haha! I hope you never stop making comments in class ! It was great :) And your facial expressions are hilarious!
Mandie, go to Cliffs Notes or Sparknotes, which ever you prefer, and look at the character lists and maps, they should give you a brief history of each of the main characters. :)
ReplyDeleteHey Social Leadership Class: I really enjoyed meeting with you as a class and many of you personally today. Fun!
ReplyDeleteEveryone else. I hope you had a great week. I hope you're not too far behind and that you are happy, learning, and improving your lives and your relationships! Like we talked about today, education is about deepening our understanding and enhancing our humanity. Facts are important, but they are simply tools to do those more important things just mentioned. Pay the price, learn the facts, and then dig and dig and reap the benefits that will surely come!!! Please keep posting! I'll start the week of September 20th thread on Sunday night.
Dr. Groft
YES, WE ARE HAPPY!
ReplyDelete;)
I thought it was interesting how in the Illiad, the animosity between Juno and Jove even though they are married, they seem to hate each other. In book 8 of Illiad, Jove says of Juno, "I am less surprised and angry with Juno, for whatever I say she always contradicts me." Is like he has to be married to Juno and hates every minute of it.
ReplyDeleteSo just a shout out today, I thought today's colloquium was awesome. I really enjoyed it! :)
ReplyDeleteAlright, so I have a question for all my World Lit classmates, in the Iliad when they talk of Helen, they always say something about her, then her treasure. "I want Helen and her treasure" "You must surrender Helen and all her treasure with her." And so on. So my question (or multiple questions I guess) is, do they really want Helen? Or do they want just her treasure? Both? What exactly does treasure imply? Is it jewels and gold, or something about her? Why are both wanted just as badly? Did I miss something earlier to know what they mean by "treasure"?
ReplyDeleteOk This is Heather Bone :) and this is my presidential speech for the world history class, even though i'm a little late for that I thought I should probably still send it in. I'm not sure if this is the right place, but here we go :)
ReplyDelete-Character-I love everyone and I love to speak and lead and help others to be happy.
-Resume-I’ve spoken in many places, I love helping people and I love to lead.
-Experience- I have won many awards for public speaking and love to do it :)
-Introduction-who I am-I am a child of God just like all of you. I stand for freedom of people, and for individuality in society.
-Vision-what I believe-I believe in a free nation. I believe in justice. I believe in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I believe that everyone is their own type of genius. I believe in every student reaching for the stars. I believe we can all change the world and I would like to help with that :)
Thanks!