october 14

Today in class I made up my test instead of doing it after school. While I and many other students made up the test the rest of the class had some free time to do homework or study or whatever. I feel that I did pretty well on the test, some of the population pyramid questions threw me off but other than that I feel good. The bonus questions were impossible but I guessed on the first one and put some question marks for the second one. I finished the timed part using the CIA Factbook early, so I got a head start on the rest of the test. I think that the test was fair, and I think it was a good amount of questions. I also think that the first 12 questions were a good idea, even though they made the test 10x more stressful.

october 10

I had freshman retreat today, so I was not in class for the test. I will take it on the 14th after school.

october 8

Today in class, I was only there for about 25 minutes, but while I was there we talked about life expectancy, crude birth rate CBR, crude death rate CDR, and rate of natural increase RNI. I wish I could have stayed fro the rest of the review, but sadly I had to leave for a soccer game. Hopefully I didn't miss much and we will continue reviewing tomorrow. I will look at Mr. Schick's blog.

october 7

Today in class, we went exploring through the CIA Factbook again to get more familiar with it because we will have to use it on our tests on Friday. While we were exploring, we were supposed to try and find some evidence to support why America is or isn't the best country in the world. There was one main point someone found that was so important that we had to write it down. This fact was about oil. The Factbook said that we were the 2nd country ranked who "makes" or drills the most oil, but we are also ranked 1st in the most oil imports. This is because the US uses SOOOOOO much oil. We fuel everything today and everything is made from oil. It seemed crazy at first, but the more we I thought about it, the more realistic it became. I think I am really getting to know this website and I am able to maneuver within it and find what I need.

october 4

Today's class was very "intense". We watched a video in which there were 3 people who were answering questions for college students. One question that was asked was, "why do you think that the United States is the best country in the world." Two people said freedom and the the other man didn't answer at first. he eventually told us that he thought the US is not the greatest country and he wasn't afraid to speak up about it. I for one, think that America is a great country. I don't think it is the best, but I don't think there is a BEST country. Obviously, some countries are more advanced than others and are all around "better", but i do believe that the US does have its fair share of problems. We have problems right within our country and government and we also have problems in other countries and continents that we have to deal with. In the video, there was a women holding a sign that said, "It's not, but it can be." this was her answer to the question that i stated earlier and I agree completely with that.

october 2

Today, we told the people who weren't in school yesterday about the music in education project with Spotify. Mr. Schick told the people that are in charge of this Spotify project to tell them that my code would not work. For the rest of class, we got back on track and talked more about population pyramids and we were given class time to look at the CIA Factbook. On this we were allowed to look at any country, mostly focusing on the big countries or African countries, and their population pyramid. It was interesting to see a country's pyramid and how it was shaped. For example, Qatar's pyramid was very strange. First, it has a lot more males than females. This is because they have a lot of oil there and it is a man's job to mine for oil. Second, they are not having a lot of babies there. Third, it looks like their life expectancy doesn't seem too high in Qatar. This was pretty cool to see because in comparison with, say, Afghanistan, their's is VERY different.

first day of October

Today in class we talked about a "special assignment" that Mr.Schick has given our class and our class only. We trying to find songs and music to go along with things that are happening in the world. He is part of a program that is trying to bring music in the educational world. We are using Spotify to find our music and Mr. Schick was given codes for free 1 year memberships to Spotify Premium. My code didn't work, so I am going to have to see Mr.Schick about that. Hopefully I will get a working code so I can get my free membership. I think this assignment is going to be really fun, especially when we get to share our playlists and music. This assignment is going to be fun and educational because we will be doing some current events. I am really looking forward to this project.