Brooklyn's letter home

Dear Uncle Bert,
      I was wondering if you could come help me here. I have been working for days non-stop and I'm not enjoying it. Working here is making life even harder And here if I make just one mistake they will not give me food for a day. I also have to sleep on the ground well the rest of the family sleep on there hay beds. I really want you to come help me here so that I don't have to go through all of this, if you came then I would have help so that I would't make as much mistakes and actually have food. Hope to see you soon.

Isaiah's letter home

 Dear grandma I am working as a slave for a family in Athens. It is terrible if I do some thing wrong I will not be fed for a day and I will have to work very hard the next day to earn a meal.All the people say that the democracy is fair in Athens but it really isn't because all people are not treated fair like me I am not considered a citizen and some people are teated like royalty.  

Many of the men in Athens spend there days doing now work at all and they spend Their day hanging out in the agora voting on Issues the concern the  concern the Athens citizens. The women spend there time in the house  getting to get her  each other and complaining about how they can't vote.

Vicky

Only male who were born in Athens were allowed to vote but not only that your mother and father had to beborn there to. Woman weren't just unequal but they also belived to be demonic and had to be controlled and restricted, woman had to wear long and dark cloakes that covered their heads, she could only show herself to her husband. In Athens most people were slaves also reconised as man footed things. If you were half Atheinian were atuomatcliy disqualified. 1 in 3 people were slaves there were not a lot of free people, the slaves were bought and sold and separated from their families, as so as someone becomes a slave when they were perviously free people they lose half their virtue. There was an age restriction to vote. Some Athenians if they didn't like one mans show they would shut him out, so seriously did Athenians take a player that they called people who didn't participate "idiots".  

Athenian knight slave note

Dear mother and father
I have been captured by the Athenian military. I am now a slave of the family of the Athenian military's general they are horrible to me every time I make a simple mistake like cleaning my hands before cooking i am whipped or sent with no food for a day. the conditions are terrible when we slaves are sent to sleep we are sent to the basement wich has a rat problem and smells like rotting food . The children of the house are rood and insecure u should expect a level of professionalism for the kids of the general of the Athenian milatary. And we only get fed 1 meal a day and usually it rotten meat or mouldy bread .

Brooke's blog

The crowning demos was a new law against tyranny bellow. It teaches me about the law and how important it was back in the Athens. The art was from chaironeia  and it was dated in 337\6

what is a klepsydra? by: Raquel

  Interviewer: I have here with me, a citizen of ancient Athens! Notice I said CITIZEN, which means that he is a man, his parents were born in Athens, and he is not a slave! We are here to ask him about the.... klepsydra! First question, what is it and what is it used for?

Citizen: It was used as a timer for speeches in ancient Athens, to make sure that everyone had the same time. There was a LOT of speakers, and we wanted to be fair. You would put an equal amount of water into a jar with a small hole that was sitting on the edge of a ledge, and there would be an empty jar below it. The water would drip into the empty jar, and when the top jar was empty and the bottom jar was full, the speech was over and it was the next persons turn. Then we would fill the top jar with the same amount of water, and do it again for the next speech.

Interviewer: that's pretty interesting! Your people sure are smart, and good inventors! I guess you really believed in democracy, since you wanted everything to be fair! I guess we should be fair in all things, but you guys took that super seriously!

Citizen: Yup! We didn't want to be like tyrants, though, so we  try to give every CITIZEN a say.

Interviewer: Anyway, next question! Question number two: Where is it from? Ooooo, this is a toughie! Well, I guess you were there, so it won't be so hard for you, but we are going to give someone in this audience a chance! Who wants to be the lucky guesser? Ooooo, lots of hands! Let me see, I choose you!

Audience member: It was it came from........um.............silly me, I forgot! Uh.........

Interviewer: That's okay! Anybody else? No? well, I'll tell you the answer. The answer is, in ancient Athens! That's were it was made! Ha ha ha, that one is so easy!

Citizen: That's right. Now, what is the next question?

Interviewer: Question number 3, Who made it? I'll tell you before anyone tries guessing, 'cause you might be guessing for a long time. The answer is, nobody knows! nobody knows who made it! except for the people who were there when it was made. Were you there?

Citizen: no, sadly. I wasn't on the council at that time. They did announce the name to the people, but I forget what it was...............

Interviewer: That's okay! Now, next question.......... question number four, when was it made? Do you know?

Citizen: I do know, in fact. It was made around the fifth century BCE, which stands for before common era.
That means somewhere around  500 BCE, or BC if you're religious.

Interviewer: Interesting, that was quite a long time ago! Next question........question five! What does it teach you? W'll ask a audience member about that. You sir. You tell us what that teaches you.

Audience member: It teaches me how the world of Ancient Athens really believed in democracy, and that they wanted it to be fair for every citizen, and they believed in it so much that it led them to do amazing things. They invented a lot of cool things in their desire to be fair, and their ideas helps us in our lives today. The Klepsydra, was an awesome invention, and not only was it used for timing speeches, it was also used for a clock when there was no sun for the sundial. This shows me that you can do whatever you want if you believe in something strongly, and if one idea doesn't work all the time, then you try something else.

Interviewer: Very good explanation! Well, that brings a close to our show! See you next time!

                                                             The End  

Athenian democracy ( Madisson W)

     Athenian democracy wasn't exactly fair. The only citizens were men over the age of twenty and were born in Athens. So that means women weren't citizens, slaves weren't citizens and if you weren't born in Athens you weren't a citizen or if your parents weren't born in Athens.


     
      How you were able to be in the election was they would  have a big piece stone with everyones name on it. Then on a little tunnel kind of thing and put black and white beads in it and if your name lined up with a white bead you could be elected.



     So how you got in the election was pretty fair but how you were a citizen wasn't fair at all. But I don't get why the only citizens were men over twenty and were born in Athens, so no I don't think Athenian democracy was fair.

Brooke's blog

I think democracy is NOT fair because the slaves have to work24/7 and I personally don't think that's fair because they have guard survalance to and I think they should make the people work the same times as the slaves to be sure everything is equal because how do the slaves sleep and the women are the ones who have to cook for the men. Also women are not aloud to vote so it's like the slaves and the women are not part of the town.
Women should be able to vote same with the slaves.
The women should be able to do the same things as the men .
I think women and slaves should be aloud to vote in on everything.