Presenting Projects pt 1

Today in Western Civ we talked for five minutes and then we started to present our projects. Cat and Audrey's group went first and they did Theater in Ancient Greece, here are the notes I got from that:

Theater in Ancient Greece

• first performances were in the theater of Dionysus, built near the acropolis in Athens 
• types of performances: 
• comedy 
• mocking
• politics
• Aristophanes 
• tragedy 
• serious drama 
• tragic hero 
• hubris (this is excessive pride which often led to a characters demise) 
• Sophocles 
• Oedipus Rex is an example of a tragedy 
• three genres all together: comedy, tragedy, and satyr plays 
• clothing and props 
• masks
• costumes that showed stuff about the character 
• props 
• Greek Theaters 
• lots in many city states, and you can still visit them today even though they are in ruins 
• then and now 
• many plays today are modeled after plays then
• genres we have now came from them 
• heavy makeup and costumes are used in both 

Then my group presented, which was nice because we got to get it over with, and we were a little bit of a mess because we were missing one person, but we did good I think still. And Mr. Schick said I actually projected my voice for once which was nice because I'm usually told I'm too quiet so. 

Anyways, then Claire's group that did Greek Government went, and we didn't take many notes because we had already pretty much covered that. But I did write a few things down: 

Ancient Greek Government 

• monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, tyrant 
• Pericles' mom was the niece of Cleisthenes 
• arete to them meant to do everything to the best of their ability 

And that is all.