Friday, September 28, 2012

A) See my timeline, do a search for "Nero," and put all the entries for him in your timeline. B) Make a link to Discobolus.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

A) Timeline: 313 AD - The Edict of Milan granted religious freedom to Christians and tolerance of whorship to non-mainstream Romans. It has been calculated that between the first persecution under Nero in 64 to the Edict of Milan in 313, Christians experienced 129 years of persecution and 120 years of toleration and peace. (See Reasons for Persecution.) Make a list of the reasons.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

A) From my timeline, copy the two entries for 112 AD and make the corresponding links.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

A) Timeline: The Temple of Zeus, which housed the Statue of Zeus, was built in Olympia, Greece. B) Timeline: Socrates was indicted as an offender of public morality. "The accusation ran thus: 'Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly, of corrupting the young.'” C) Timeline: Rewards and prizes for Olympic victors in their home towns D) See my links. Beyond receiving a laurel wreath for being a victor at the Olympic Games, make a list in Word of other prizes a winner would receive from his home town.

Monday, September 24, 2012

A) Timeline: During times of war and battle, differences were put asid so that the Olympics would be conducted in a peaceful manner. Even the games of 480 BC took place in the middle of the Persian War. B) Discuss Olympic Truce. C) Photoshop, page one, picture 1

Thursday, September 20, 2012

A) Assignment 2 (Character Counts) "What I Know About Life". Type it; don't copy and paste. B) Assignment 73 (dictation #3); take a snap shot of your percent and results.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

A) Assignment 26: Link your Vesuvius Dreamweaver file with last week's "stroke w/no fill" Dw file for ten points. See my sample. B) Timeline: 392 AD: Theodosius I became emperor of the whole Roman Empire (the last one to do so).

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

A) Timeline: Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. An estimated 16,000 people perished on that fateful day. Pliny the Elder died August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder was a friend of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, who ruled from AD 69 to AD 79. Vespasian also ordered all descendants of the royal line of David to be hunted down, causing the Jews to be persecuted from province to province. (Make five links.) B) Finish juxtaposing two pictures (Ps Vesuvius & Fw Victim) in a Dreamweaver double table with colored cells. Add a third picture equal to the combined width of the first two. (See assignment 26.) C) Take last week's two pictures (stroke w/o a fill) and juxtapose them like this week's two pictures. (Again, see assignment 26 for a sample.)
A) Put this in your timeline and make a link: Wrestling (called pale) was added to the 18th Olympics in 708 B.C. B) Put yesterday's Mount Vesuvius and victim(s) in a double table in Dreamweaver. Make a timeline link to your Dw file.

Monday, September 17, 2012

A) Finish the Grant football file. B) Add the following to your Dreamweaver Olympic timeline and link to evidence of competing in the nude. It is believed that the Greek tradition of athletic nudity started at the games in 720 BC, and it was most likely introduced by the Spartans or Megarian Orsippus. It is from this practice that we have our word “gymnasium” – derived from the Greek word “gymnos” meaning “naked”. Competing naked was meant as a tribute to the gods and to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body. C) In Photoshop, crop a picture of Mount Vesuvius with the height being 350 pixels. In Fireworks, show me someone who was killed by Mt. Vesuvius. Adjust the image to 350 pixels heigh. Juxtapose both in a Dreamweaver double table.

Friday, September 14, 2012

A) Grant football file: Add two more quarters of scores. B) Dreamweaver timeline

Thursday, September 13, 2012

A) Connect to your server, split the screen and back up your PowerPoint folder. Open your slide show from the hard drive and shade it down with the yellow button. Wait for me to grade it. B) Add the next two quarters of scoring to your Grant football file.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

A) Use the red "Sum 2010" curriculum button to get to the "BHS Football" link; after which, select the "Grant @ Bell September 11" football link. In Word, type only the first five lines, using center alignment for the heading, a left tab for the "Score by Quarters," and five center tabs for the actual scores. Save as a docx file. B) Move on to your 15-slide PowerPoint on the Olympic Games.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Assignments 4, 5 & 19

Thursday, September 6, 2012

A) Finish the last set of ten immortals (Poseidon - Zeus) in Excel. Save as an xlsx. B) Copy yesterday's medal count into Excel. Compare totals using data validation.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A) The main idea to yesterday's article on the first ladies was "D": The First Ladies are important in American culture. Fix your answer if necessary. B) Go here to this London website and get the "full medal count." Copy the entire list of countries / medals and paste into Word. Leave your document at portrait 100%. Your six-column table should be two pages in length. Make your table properties 8" wide. See my sample under assignment #26. C) Finish immortals04.xlsx (Chiron - Persephone) in Excel.

Monday, September 3, 2012

A) In a new Excel file, type the third set of ten Immortals (Hephaestus - Calypso). B) From the red curriculum buttons, go to "Sat. Sch." / Week 1 / Hour 1: Determine the main idea for the article on "First Ladies." C) Continue with your PowerPoint. It's due before Parent Conference.