9/11/17

Today we reviewed the slide show facts about "A message to Garcia and Socrates." Tomorrow is our test and today was a review of what we knew.  to start us off we coved Socrates and Ancient Greece.  Socrates was a philosopher and considered the father of western civilization. He worked as a stonemason when he was younger and fought in the Peloponnesian war. Socrates taught the younger and said "I can never teach anyone anything only make them think." He was a wise man in the eyes of most but some didn't like him. Because some didn't like him, He was charged with corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods of the state. Socrates trial involved five hundred jurors to make a decision whether he lived or died. When socrates came up to defend himself he did not take the approach that would save his life but would end it. Socrates said " I am just a man doing my job and in fact you should be rewarding me with free dinners for life rather then punishing me. Socrates was put to death with poison hemlock with a jury score of 279 saying guilty and 221 saying he wasn't.  Socrates sums up his teachings with this phrase. " The unexamined life is a life not worth living."

Next we covered a Message to Garcia. A Message to Garcia was written in 1890 and was published in 1899. It sold over 40 million copies and was translated into 37 different languages. The setting is the Spanish American war. The message was delivered by a guy named rowan who I tell you about in some of my earlier blogs. Rowan was a army officer who graduated from the class of 1881 at west point.

Here are some vocabulary terms from a message to Garcia:
Perihelion: The point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun.

Slipshod: Careless, lackadaisical,remiss

I will study and be ready for my test tomorrow