Yesterday in class we continued the movie, after Mr. Schick returned from his field trip. We were in class for 15 minutes by ourselves but when teacher did walk in we got complements on our response to being unsupervised. We even had someone class the office to let them know we had no teacher. The movie was getting very good. They talked about Christmas in their village and the difference between ours and theirs. They don’t get presents they just enjoy each other. It was also neat to see the fact that they all were getting jobs. It was kind of weird that they got up to three jobs were some people in America can barely get one.  I guess that goes to show when you’re trying to help people you love you might expect less but get more out of it. For example when John finally heard from his parents he stopped going to school and got a third job so he could send them money.  That goes to show hard work does pay off.

Today in HG stated to watch the movie again. I found the movie When God Grew of us.  It is sad what is happening to all of these people. I wish people did not have to be so harsh.  I was happy for those chosen to come to America. It was kind of funny watching them adjust to everything. Like when they were on the plane and eating the butter plain. I thought that was strange how nobody said anything to them when they did they wrong thing. I mean I get the fact that they are trying to get them to learn on their own but still, when we were younger we had our parents tell us right from wrong. Well they don’t have parents, but they still need the help. How are you supposed to know right from wrong if no one tells you? Either way I can’t wait to watch more tomorrow.

Today day in Human geo we took our first quiz. I was very nervous at first because I did my best to study but I could not remember everything.  I was freaking out because I did not want to fail and have my grade drop. Once he handed it out I skimmed it and thought to myself this will not be as bad as I though. I was hoping Mr. Schick would let us use our blogs or notes, but he said no because the class before did not get to so it would not be fair. Once I started I breezed through it. Everything just flowed back into my head. A couple stumped me but I did the bonus so it should help. Once everyone finished we started a movie, “God Grew Tired of Us.” The movie is based off true events that happened less than two decades ago. It was a war between north and south Sudan. It talks about the Lost Boy’s trek and what they when though. It was so sad, but I kind of want to see more. I can’t wait for class on Wednesday so we can keep watching it.  

Yesterday in class we finished up the last few projects. My group hadn’t finished our on Thursday so we went first. Mr. Schick was in a notice very thing kind of mood. Like the fact that I put the unemployment rate for the ages 14-24 up instead of the unemployment rate if the USA.  Don’t forget the fact that I spelled something wrong. Then when we had the map of India up he pointed out the word that I spelled wrong. Go figure.  After the presentations were finished Mr. Schick started to talk about our quiz on Monday. I think it will be fairly easy only because we have not gone over too much. Also because everything we do in class in on my blog and Mr. Schick has links to the websites we used on his blogger. I think that if I take the time to study everything and don’t rush through I will do fine on his quiz.

Today in Human Geo we started our presentations about the different countries.  We only got two completely finished. My group got to start ours, but then the bell rang. From the groups that went the power points seemed pretty interesting. There was a lot of good fact presented. To my surprise the immigration rates for the two groups that went the numbers were nowhere close to each other. One group was high on the list and the other was really low.  It was neat how everyone set up their slides compared to ours. Some had their in order by person and other by importance to the country. Not that they were not all important, but some people care more about the unemployment rate then the birth rate. Then Mr. Schick started ours and then the time the bell was supposed to ring it never did. So we are up there and everyone was packing up. Finally after three extra minutes the bell finally rang. I think all and all this was one of my favorite classes so far.

Today in class we started on our projects.

Today in class we took notes on Population & Settlement. The first fact is over 7 million people are on the planet, 90% of the population growth is happening in: Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. Some of our milestones in population growth are-

·         1 Million in 1804

·         2 Million in 1927

·         3 Million in 1960

·         4 Million in 1974

·         5 Million in 1987

·         6 Million in 1999

·         7 Million in 2011

Then we talked about the life expectancy- the average number of years to lived by a group of people born in the same year. In Monaco it 89.68, US 78.49 and Chad 48.69. This is the longest to the shortest. Crude birth rate- number of deaths per 1000. Crude death rate- Number of deaths per 1000. RNI- subtract the death rate from birth rate. Net immigration- the difference between the number of people entering and leaving a country during a year. Push Factors- War, environment, no work, faith. Pull Factors- Health, faith.

This blog and the two above were posted late beacsue my blog did not start working until this afternoon.