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Maybe my last blog ever

Hey everyone, you probably heard we may stop doing our blogs so if I'm going to go out, I'm going to do it with a bang. Let's get started!!!!!!! First  here is a link to It's Thursday by Mr. Schick. You can listen to this on everyday not just Thursday. Second though Mr. Schick wasn't here today we still had fun. Third  here is a link to Rome by Chi Cago. So feel free to rock out with these awesome tunes. Fourth most of you probably want to stop doing the blogs but just do one more and if it is indeed our last blog then go out with a bang just like me because you all were very excellent with your blogs. You guys and gals should add links and things to help spice up your blogs. Though most of you see the blogs as tedious and boring, I'm really going to miss them if we stop doing them. I know yo guys don't feel the same but that's your opinion! So that's all I got so read this when you are bored.
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Back from Break

Today we got back from Easter break and Mert and Dylan did their tests. After they did that we went over them and started talking about Rome. Rome was supposedly founded by two twins named Romulus and Remus who were the children of the god Mars and a princess. Obviously this isn't true, Rome was built by many different people not two mythological twins. Rome's government was a republic which comes from the Latin word res publica which means " public affair." Republic is when people who are eligible to vote, vote for their leaders. Patricians are wealthy landowners while plebeians are common farmers. Tribunes were representatives of the plebeians.  Consuls were the officials. The senate was the aristocratic branch of government and dictators were leaders with absolute power over the government and the army. Legions were the grouping of troops in their army. The Punic Wars were wars between Rome vs. Carthage. Hannibal was a man who despised Rome and avenged Carthage...
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Day of the Test

The first test here at John Carroll was very easy. Mr. Schick even gave a two point extra credit question which asked us what is the name of Mount McKinley right now and the answer was Mount Denali. There weren't a lot of vocab words there were like four vocab questions and were all easy. There were a few questions and both essays involving Socrates. One question asked what he was charged with another asked about the Socratic Method. One of the essays asked us what did the quote "The unexamined life is not worth living" mean to you. The other essay wanted us to describe the events of Socrates' death. The first questions involved "A Message to Garcia." One of them was asking when it took place which was The Spanish-American War. Another asked who delivered the message to Garcia and the man's name was Rowan. Rowan was an army officer who graduated West Point in 1881. For the essays there wasn't a particular amount of sentences we needed, all we needed ...
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