Hades was the king of dead in ancient Greek stories. Hades <<HAY deez >> was older brother of Zeus, the king of gods. The ancient Greeks believed that the kingdom of Hades was under the Earth. Hades was meant for the souls of people who were not good enough to go to Elysium << ih LIHZ ee uhm >>.
The pyramids have fascinated many people for thousands of years. How did the Ancient Egyptians build these huge monuments and why? The most famous out of the the lot are the three in Giza near modern Cairo. But they are not the only pyramids in Egypt .There are over 80 others in Egypt and another 100 south in Sudan.
The soldiers arrived in France on the fourth of March 1915 to fight against the enemy.Today we are waiting for an attack, yesterday we charged across No Mans Land most of us didn’t come back. I was anxious and was nervous to go and i’m worrying about if I am going to survive until the day is over. continue reading…
My name is Danny Fisher. I’m 18 years old. I woke up at 5 o’clock to join the US army. I was just getting dressed when I saw a tank beside the window. I ran downstairs and opened the door. There was Irish army behind the chief. He told me that they are going to war so he asked if I would come. continue reading…
Life in the trenches is awful. It is impossible to protect our food from rats the size of cats. There are dead bodies everywhere and we only get time to move them in the night. continue reading…
Artemis was the goddess of hunting
Artemis is the name of the goddess of hunting and wild animals.
Artemis showed her as a beautiful young huntress carrying a bow and a quiver
of arrows often with a deer at her side. She was the goddess of childbirth.
Young woman getting married prayed to Artemis.
Artemis was the daughter of Zeus.
Artemis had a temple.The story was very interesting.
Athena was the god of warfare,wisdom and arts and crafts.She was a tall woman with a shield and a helmet.Athena was born fully grown from Zeus’s head.Zeus was king of the gods. Athena was skilled at weaving and making cloth..In one story a women called Arachne challenged Athena to a weaving contest .After the contest Athena turned Arachne into a spider. 
Zeus was the king of the gods.He was the most powerful god on Mount Olympus.it,s said that he lived on Mount Olympus with eleven other gods in Greece.Zeus was said to be the god of the sky and the weather,he was known to be the god of lightning and rain.Sometimes.Zeus is pictured with a long beard and carrying a sceptre and sometimes holding a lightning bolt and is shown as an eagle a strong high-flying bird.There was one person who was said to have the same amount of power as Zeus,this person was called Jupiter and Jupiter was the Roman god.He was also named after the largest planet in the solar system.Zeus married his sister Hera and had many children including the god Apollo and the Greek hero Heracles, the Romans called him Hercules.Zeus had a big job to do as the king of the gods.He had to do a lot of jobs on Mount Olympus,but he was a very interesting god.
Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of wine.
Dionysus was also an ancient Roman god, but the Romans called him Bacchus.
Dionysus father was Zeus, king of the gods.
Dionysus married Ariadne, the daughter of king Minos of Crete.
Dionysus with bad behaviour caused by drinking too much wine.
Dionysus taught people how to grow better crops and how to make wine.
Hercules was a great hero.
The Greeks call him Heracles, but Hercules is the name used by Romans.
Hercules was the son of the princess Alcmene.
Princess Alcmene was a human being and Zeus was the king of the gods.
But Zeus was not married to Alcmene.
His wife was Hera, queen of the gods.
Hera hated Hercules because he was not her own son.
Because of Hera’s tricks, Hercules was forced to perform 12 labors or very difficult jobs.
Many of these labors included fighting beast or monster.
Hades was the god of the dead and the urderworld which the Greeks believed you went to when you died.
Hades was the name of a god and his name should be prounounced Hay deez.
He was the older brother of Zeus who was the king of the gods.
The kingdom of the dead was also called Hades.
The ancient Roman god of the dead was called Pluto.
I found it intresting doing Hades because I
found out about things from thousands of years ago.
Ares was the god of war in greek mytholgy.
Ares was the son of Zeus who was the king of the gods. Ares was the father of many children, most of whom were warlike or were assoicated with war. The Romans had a god of war and named him Mars. There is a planet in our solar system called Mars after him. Ares had a very big family and most of his sons were gods. A god called Aphrodite loved Ares. And his son was the god of love called Eros.
Apollo was the king of the sun/music/archery/healing/poetry/telling the future and traveling by sea.Apollo was a god in Greek mythology.the Greeks believed that Apollo every morning went up to drag the sun across the sky and at night time he went back up to drag the sun back across the sky. Zeus is Apollos father. Using the name Phoebus Apollo/he became the king of light. The Romans also worshiped him. In the 1960s there were rockets named after Apollo such as Apollo 11 and Apollo 12.
As part of our local history studies this year we conducted a survey of parents/grandparents, asking them about their school days. To see some of the results of our survey please,
Watch the video below and answer the questions by posting your answers in the comment box.
Q1. Name the song being played at the start of the video.
Q2. Why were trench lines zig zag in shape?
Q3. How many rows of trenches did each side have?
Q4. What were communication trenches for?
Q5. What was a “fire step”?
Q6. What were “duck boards”?
Q7. What was “no man’s land”?
Q8. At what time in the morning would soldiers “stand to”?
Q9. What was a “listening post”?
Q10. How long did World War One last?
We are currently working on a local history project in which we have interviewed an older member of our family and asked them about their school days. We are currently gathering our information and will be posting some of the interesting things we find out on this site.
