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.

essay day

Okay so finally after days of prepping for the exam essay we finally did. it. He gave us pretty much the entire time to do it like before the bell for class even rung he said we could start. I  was really stressed about this essay, clearly due to my last blog, but I got help from my friends and they helped me and gave me good notes to have on the notecard Mr. Schick provided for us. As writing I did get stuck a couple times, but in the end I was able to organize most of my thoughts on the paper and I think I didn't completely fail it.

essay prep

Today in human geo Mr. Schick decided that he would let us have a note card with only bullet points on it with the notes we collected on whatever essay option we chose. In class he just gave us the whole time to research and stuff. The thing is, I re -read every single essay option like a million times and I still am struggling to figure out which one I can write about and thoroughly understand and not fail. So as i'm writing this, I literally have no idea how my essay is going to turn out or what I'm gonna do. Pretty stressed about it, considering I have one night to get all my notes gathered and stuff. It was very nice of him to give us the notecard so we have some help on the test, it's just when you basically have no clue what to write about, it's reallyyy kind of useless to me at the moment. Anyway you're. welcome for the rant session.

demographic transition quiz

So today in human geo we took the demographic transition quiz, based off of the article he gave us like last week. In the beginning of class Mr. Schick gave us 10 minutes to study and review everything. To study I made a quizlet last Friday and studied a little bit over the weekend. I know I usually say this, but I think I did a pretty decent job on the quiz like the lowest I could get would probably an 80 or something. Anyways there was one question on there that had me absolutely stumped, like I looked at it and reread it like ten times and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the statement. So, I just left it blank lol. After I was done with the quiz i took my glasses off and Mr. Schick came over and put them on and proceeded to call me legally blind, which is VERY accurate. Then when everybody was done taking the quiz, we learned that it was Mr. Schick's birthday and he talked about exams week.

quiz talk

Today in human geo Mr. Schick just asked a bunch of questions about what's gonna be on the quiz next Monday. He asked questions about the four/five stages and what they did and how they applied to different countries. The demographic transition chart we drew yesterday, I'll probably be using that to study and the article he gave us in the beginning of the week because I still don't really understand which stages are what except for the fifth one because it's like the all time lowest. But technically the fifth stage is just theoretical so I don't really know.

discussing the demographic transition

Today in human geo, we went over the demographic transition article and we talked about what the 4/5 stages were about. I put 4/5 because technically the paper only went into detail about the four, but at the very end of it, it mentioned a fifth stage. Anyway so we went around the class and one of us would describe what the stage was and how it impacted the population and when that person was done they would get to pick another person. I raised my hand for the first stage and I wasn't really aware we had to go into that much detail so i just stated the three general bullet points that were listed above the paragraph about stage 1. It's fine though because we went into more detail. Stage one is just when people had to hunt for their food and both their CBR and their CDR were high. IN stage two thats when the industrial and medical revolution happened, which impacted the world a great deal. In stage 3, the birth rate starts to decline and people have fewer kids. Lastly stage 4, the birth rate is very low and the death rate is increasing. This condition is called zero population and also the lack of change in the population.

the demographic transition

So today in human geo Mr. Schick basically just talked about ho exams are really soon and how they're gonna work and stuff like that. Then he gave us this article on the demographic transition and told us to read it and highlight/ underline information we think seems important. As I was reading and highlighting important stuff, I came across a lot of the same stuff we did in our last unit with population and settlement stuff. Like it pretty much just talked about how the CDR, the CBR, and the NIR, affect countries and their growth. Im not really sure if that's exactly right, but that's what I got from it.

looking over test

Today in human geo we looked over the five major religions test , but for like the first fifteen minutes one student had to take the test so Mr. Schick let us do whatever. I tried to watch Netflix, but the connection was really bad so I tried to link the wifi to my phone and it worked a little bit better but was still really slow, so I just watched youtube. After the kid who didn't take his test finished, that's when we started to look over the actual test. I got a 38/50. I did a lot worse than I thought I did. I kept mixing up Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. I did pretty well with the Judaism and Christianity questions though. For the rest of class Mr. Schick just talked and that's why i'm doing my blog while he talks about random things till class ends.

5 religions quiz

Today in human geo we took the five major religions quiz that we've been working on for three days. Before the actual test Mr. Schick gave us ten minutes to review our notes and stuff. He also walked around with a basket filled with candy and stuff and he let us pick something out which was nice. I got one of those jolly rancher lollipops, it was pink lemonade flavored. Anyway, we also went over the slides about the religions as a class one more time as review. T study for this quiz I used Ryleigh's quizlet that she made and it kinda sort of helped. I definitely got the basic stuff covered on the test, but I'm almost positive I continually mixed up Hinduism and Buddhism. Luckily, it was all multiple choice and there were no writing portions of it.

5 major religions pt 2

So yesterday we talked about Christianity and Islam. Today we talked about Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Hinduism is the third largest practiced religion in the world, 1.1 billion. adherents. Tjey are referred as Hindus. They are mostly located in India and Nepal. Their holy book is called the vedas. Eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; composed in verse form (meant to be sung and easily memorized). Buddhism had 500 million - 1.5 billion adherents. They are called buddhist and a majority of them are located in southeast Asia, China, Nepal and Japan. The amount of buddhist in the US is 1.2 million. The founder is Siddahara Guantama. Judaism has 14-18 million adherents. They're called Jews. They're located in Israel and the US. The founder was Abraham. Their holy book is the Torah.

start of 5 major religions

In human geo today we started to talk about the five major religions. The most practice religion in the world is Christianity. The second most practiced is Islam. Around 2.2 billion people in the world are christians. They are located in Europe, the Americas, and southern Africa. The denominations of Christianity are: Catholic church, Eastern Orthodox church, Protestants (Lutherans, Methodists, Baptist, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and many more. The founder of Christianity was Jesus Christ and Christianity is Abrahamic in origin). The holy book of the religion is called the Bible , especially the New Testament (gospels). Some of the beliefs are that Jesus is both human and divine- son of God; he led a virtuous life; was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected; he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the Father. We also talked about the Islam religion, but I have enough words from just talking about the christianity one lol.

test day :))

So test day is here and we finally took the population pyramid/settlement test. All the questions on the test were multiple choice, which was nice because I don't like having to write short answers. Mr. Schick gave us ten minutes in the beginning of class to study which was also very nice of him. I just looked over my notes in my composition and re watched the population pyramid video. When I got the test I was able to answer most questions without any doubt, but for sure on some of them their was hesitation. I did my best to make good guesses though, if I really had no idea on one, which was only on like three problems. Overall I think I probably got a high B on that test and I feel pretty good about it.

test review pt 2

Today in human geo we finished doing the second half of reviewing for the test on Monday. We re watched the Ted-ed video on population pyramids as a class. I pretty much understand most of the population pyramid stuff and I think i'll do okay on the test. Mr. Schick let us watch jeopardy again, which was really fun.

Test Review pt 1

Today in human geo Mr. Schick was talking about the parent teacher conferences and how he would talk to the parents and stuff. My mom asked me if I wanted her to come and talk to any of my teachers and I told her not really and surprisingly she agreed. I think it was because she was approving of my grades for the first quarter so she didn't really care as much. Anyway for test reviewing, Mr. Schick pulled up the one google slide presentation with all of the population and settlement information that we first started with in the beginning of this unit. We just went through each one and told us what we would have to know for the test. We're also gonna review the population pyramid stuff tomorrow, but Mr. Schick wanted to give us blog time.