Today in Western Civ my class and I worked on our Ancient Greek Civilization projects.  Our projects include Greek Food, Greek Olympics, Greek Government, Greek Pottery, and Greek Gods and Goddesses.  The projects are due on March 27th for my class, I’m not sure when the other classes projects are due though.  The project that I am doing is the Greek Olympics with Quinn, we talk about how the Olympics started, why they started, how long they lasted, who was allowed to compete and watch the games, and we talk about the games that were held during the Olympics.  I plan on recreating some of the games later in the week and hope that it turns out well.

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