Mr. Schick is now Homer from Greece... WHAT?

Today in class we continued the powerpoint on Ancient Greece. Mr. Schick had a show to put on for us. Suddenly he's a teacher and then he's blind and he's Homer. It was hilarious! It made my Tuesday. Mr. Schick is a really good actor. Any way here's the notes we took in class:

-Ionian Sea is south of Greece
-People in Greece either built ships, farmers, metal workers, weavers, and potters
-They had poor/limited natural resources so they needed to trade
-Fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula only 20% is suitable for farming
-Their diet consists of grains, grapes, olives
-Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
-The weather was mid-40's in the winter and mid 80's in the summer
-Mycenaeans started around 2000 BCE and they dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE *controlled trade in the region*
 -1400 BCE the Mycenaeans invaded the island of Crete and took in the Minoan culture and language
-Dorians- the mysterious "sea people"
-About 2000 BCE they invaded the Mycenaeans and burnt palace after palace
-Dorians were far less advanced, the trade-based economy dropped, writing disappeared for 400 years (they never wrote anything down anyway) 
-Homer was a blind storyteller who existed in the "Greek Dark Ages" era were they wrote nothing down 
-Wrote Trojan War stories 750-700 BCe 
-He wrote "The Odyssey" and "The Illiad" 
-The Odyssey is 12,110 lines and is written in Dactylic Hexameter (long phrase then short phrase.. pattern continues)
-People wonder if Homer really existed "Homeric Question"
-People think that Homer might have been a mythical creature himself or he actually existed and he was just that awesome? I think he did exist and he was just so awesome it was beyond our human minds.

Special note to Mr. Schick, just want to say you really made my day today. That was hilarious, such a great actor. 

This is Homer from TV...                       

 This is actually Homer!
                       

           


 This is a map of Greece

                    

And Mr. Schick since you love Greek wine... here you go. A website all about Greek wine! Your welcome: http://www.allaboutgreekwine.com/