Sub Day

Today in class we had a sub and were instructed to finish our projects, but since we had previously finished we didn't have much to do. I made sure I knew what I'd be saying during class and here's what I came up with:

I spent time in class researching a day in the life of an average Athenian boy and then planned the skit. 

Background: 

-       The mortality rate was very high, so babies weren’t given a name until they were between 7 or 10 days old.

-       An infant with any imperfection, was often killed or abandoned.

-       Until age six, boys were taught at home by their mother or a male slave.

In the video:

I am seen in a classroom like setting, similar to one that boys would be learning in all those years ago. I am learning everything the boys would’ve been taught, as they were had the subjects of grammata, music, and physical education. Grammata was similar to today’s english class, where the boys learned to read and write. I am also wearing a white towel, to show an outfit similar to one Athenian may have worn.

After:

Athenians differs from Sparta in the way that they wanted their men to be well rounded, which is why they weren’t forced to train for the military until they were at least 18. Even then you were only forced to train for the military if you looked the part.