Ancient Greek

Today in class we continued to take notes about "A message to Garcia". We also discussed the tragedy's that occurred on September 11th in 2001. We talked about what happened and what everyone was thinking during this. Aside from that we began discussing ancient Greek. The Socratic method is, a pedagogical technique in which a teacher does not give information directly but instead asks a series of questions. A Polis is a Greek city-state. An agora is a meeting place in the middle of a Greek city-state. Socrates was a Greek philosopher in 469-399 B.C. He invented the teaching practice of pedagogy, where a teacher asks students questions in a manner that draws out the correct response. He also created the Socratic irony, and Socratic method. Socrates was sentenced to death by poison (hemlock) and his last words were "Crito we a cock to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt." In 508 B.C Kleisthenes began reforming Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution.