Last day in human geo :((

Today was my last day in Mr. Schick's human geography class and it's kinda sad, but at the same time I'm looking forward to see what semester two brings to me. Hopefully good things. Today in human geo since it was the last day of semester one we obviously couldn't learn anything so Mr. Schick let us watch Jeopardy. We watched the college version. As we were watching, the class was answering the questions along with the video. I was getting a lot of them right, which was cool because sometimes not even the people on the screen knew the answer. Well, that was pretty much it, but it was nice having you as a teacher Mr. Schick, you've always been really fun. Mr. Fendryk has a lot to live up too.

guns germs and steel test

Today in human geo we took the guns, germs, and steel test. Mr. Schick gave us like ten minutes in the beginning of class to study. I studied by looking over the notes we took while watching the video. During the test he played this peaceful music. The test was pretty easy and I felt a little more reassured because of the extra study time he gave us. After the test we weren't allowed to work on our blogs yet because some people were still working. So I got out my health notes and looked over them for a little bit because we have our health final tomorrow. Then he put the video that the peaceful music was connected to on the screen and we started watching it.

last day of guns germs and steel

Today was the last day of watching the Guns,Germs, and Steel video. We had like ten minutes left so we watched that and he decided that he was gonna add the question "How many cows there are in the country" or something stupid like that. Mr. Schick spent like the entire end of class on CIA world fact book looking at a bunch of random facts that about Papua New Guinea and its government and society. Even though he said we aren't gonna have to know them we still spent the entire class looking at random facts that we didn't need to know instead of looking over what we're actually gonna need to know for the quiz tomorrow.

guns germs and steel video day 4 i think

So today in class we obviously continued watching the guns, germs, and steel documentary video. Today the video talked about animal domestication and how breeding was super useful and to the people to the land, and to the animals themselves. The first ever animals to be domesticated in ancient times were goats and sheep. Animals like them were not only good for food, but their wool/ fur, is really good for weaving coats and such. The fourteen large domestic animals are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bactrian camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, yaks, mithans, and Bali cattle. Anyways for extra credit Mr.  Schick said that if we went to the pow wow on Saturday and took a pic of ourselves there we could've gotten 6 points extra credit or something like that. Unfortunately I didn't have a ride there so I couldn't' t go. Hopefully I do really well on the upcoming test on this video.

GG&S day 3

Today was another day of watching the guns, germs, and steel video. Today while watching the video we learned about how in the middle east growing was wheat and barley, this was when majority of the earths climate was really arid (which just means hot dry and things were unable to grow). The archeologists in the video discovered, what they believe was the first real evidence of "civilization" and called it Draa. It was a little community. Another thing the archeologists discovered while digging was what they think was a granary (which is just a place they stored the wheat and such. so they didn't get infected by bugs and so it didn't spoil). It's kind of like a shiloh. Places that learned to develop their own farming were china- rice and the americas- corn, squash, and beans. People around the world with the most productive crops are the most productive farmers. This is called GEOGRAPHIC LUCK.

guns, germs, and steel video day 2

Today in human geo we continued watching the gun, germs, and steel video.  In class we talked about how to have advances to a civilization. The three advances were: advanced technology, large population, and a well organized work force. During the video we learned a term called prehistory. Pre history was about 13,000 years ago when everyone was either a hunter or a gatherer. Mr. Schick asked us a question that he said would be on the test; Are there any people in the world who still hunt and fend food fro themselves? The answer was yes because the people of Papua New Guinea & the Amazon still do that type of thing. In Papua a popular main source of food for them comes from the center of a tree. I's called sago. It's like a the of wheat that can be baked and Mr. Schick said it had good calories and there was always enough to feed multiple people.

guns germs and steel

Today in human geo Mr. Schick pulled us up one by one to look at or exam grades, including the essay, which I did a lot better than I thought. I was really happy with my overall grade. While he did that, we were researching about a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel. He said that's what the rest of the semester we'll be working on. This book is written by Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA. He teaches biology and human physiology. He also likes to bird watch. His favorite place to bird watch is Papua New Guinea. Jared first traveled there when he was 20 for birdwatching and this is also where he started to research for his book. He thought to write the book when he heard this question from someone who lived in Papua New Guinea while he was on a trip: "Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guinean's have so little?"  The history of his book goes all the way back to the 1920's when the British first came to Papua New Guinea. With them, the British brought materialistic things and illness. The New Guinean's began to worship these items almost religiously. Therefore the British thought that they were genetically superior than people of color.