Heated Debate

Today in human geo class we had a heated debate on a topic about President Trump and immigration plans. The whole class basically got in a huge fight over it. It was mainly Matt, Demetri, and Ben against Robert. Robert didn't agree with Trump and the others did. Mr. Schick said that our class probably has the most republican kids in it. I personally didn't feel like expressing my opinion even though I had a lot I could've said. I didn't want to argue with my friends over something political, it isn't worth it. I liked the debate and I liked talking about it but I do think the podcast we listened to was biased. When I did ask a question I was ignored and no one gave me my answer. The podcast didn't give certain points where Trump was doing the right thing, they would cut his speeches short and highlight the stuff that he said was bad. 

Migration, Notes, Western Expansion

In Human Geo. class today, we talked about mobility and migration again. The first part of class was almost like a basic review of what we took notes on the day before. I asked Mr. Schick if we could get up and move around the room so the class didn't feel so boring. He then came up with the idea that we would read from a packet and if he called on you to read you would stand up and talk. We learned the difference between emigration and immigration and that 3% of the world's population has migrated at some point. Also in class we learned about the Western Expansion. Robert and Demetri stood up in the back of the room and explained it to us. They drew a picture of the United States and showed that most of the country was taken my Native Americans and the United States wanted it. We talked about Lewis and Clarke and the expedition for the Pacific Ocean. Lastly we talked about how gold in the United States was found in California and many Chinese immigrated to the United States in search for gold and to get rich. Many Americans from the East Coast also moved West in search fro gold and wealth. 

Migration

Today in Human Geography class we learned about migration. We learned about mobility and the different types of movement. We talked about how my family was from Philadelphia as an example. I went to Thanksgiving in New Jersey. My mom's side is from Philly and my dad is from Harford County. When my mom married my dad we moved to Maryland. Then, my grandmother moved to New Jersey. Those are types of migration. My family are migrants, where we moved a short distance away. Immigrants are when you move to a complete different country. Immigration can be forced upon people when they need to get out of their country fro certain push forces. Or they just want to move to a different country for certain pull forces. 

Review and Quiz

Today in class we reviewed our answers for a video that we watched last class. Last class we watched a video on Global Health of the world. He was showing us a demographic chart of the population of the world and how rich and healthy some countries were compared to the poor and sick countries. When we finished going over our notes on the video, I answered two questions, we took a little quiz. Some people started getting nervous and started saying they don't remember learning this but once we got the quiz we noticed that it was the same questions that we just took notes on and reviewed 2 minutes ago. So generally the quiz was really easy because we just learned everything that was on it. I might've gotten 2 questions wrong just because I always get X-axis and Y-axis mixed up. If I get those wrong then I would get an 80% but if not then I think I would get a 100%.

Video and Notes

Today in Human Geography class we watched a video and took notes. We all watched a video together about a man who was a college teacher for the subject Global Health. The man showed us a demographic chart which has an X-axis of wealth and a Y-axis of life expectancy. There were different colored dots that would represent different countries. The bigger the dots were the more populated that country was. He would fast forward through time and the dots would move up and down, back and forth through the chart. He pointed out that all the African countries weren't moving up or across as fast as the rest of the counties. The one year in Africa they broke free and had a revolution and they had a big boom in health and wealth. The African countries started catching up with the rest of the world.

Reviewing our Test

Today in Human Geography class we got our test back and reviewed our answers. My whole row got an "A" or over and I didn't. I got an 89%, which is 1 point away from an "A". I don't really mind though because an 89% is still a really good grade for me. I got a really stupid question wrong. It asked for a percent and I put a number of population. That was all my fault and if I got that right, I probably would've gotten an "A". We really didn't do much in class besides check our test. After school though, we had ping pong tables set up in the hallways. That was a lot of fun and I hope they set them up every day. Mr. Schick played against Robert and I couldn't stop laughing. I think Robert won I can't really remember but it was really funny and I had a good time. 

Population Maps

Today in human geo class we talked about population. We took notes and looked at various maps. Some maps would have population dots for a certain topic. When the dots were darker that meant that there were more people in that area that did that specific thing. Some of the maps were making me mad because it said that no one at all in that area did that specific thing (per let's say 5 miles). I thought it was incorrect and Mr. Schick argued that it was correct. People also mainly settle near cities and big capitals. On the population maps there were lots of clusters of dots in those areas because that's where big cities were and where there was a lot of people living. We talked about how no one lived in the desert in Africa and no one lived in the tundra in Greenland. People don't live in places like that because they are inhabitable. 

Test Day

Today in class we took a test about everything we reviewed about yesterday. I'm proud of myself. I'm pretty sure I did good. I thought I was gonna take longer to find stuff on the CIA world fact book but I actually managed to find everything really quickly. I hope I did good on the test and I'm not getting my hopes up for nothing because I currently have an F in your class.

Test Review

Today in human geo class we did a test review. Our test will be on the CIA world fact book. We will have 15 minutes to complete 15 questions about different countries of the world and random questions about their economy, society, geography, etc. One of the questions may be, "what is the population of Uganda?" I would then go to the website, go to the drop down bar, search for the country Uganda, pull up the tab "people and society", look for the population. It isn't hard at all, it's almost like a cheat sheet but it's what the test is on. Today in class I was having trouble finding stuff and I really hope I don't come across that problem during the test. Other things that are gonna be on our test are the push and pull factors of people leaving and coming to countries, and the diagrams of population pyramids. There are three different types; Christmas tree, box, and cup.

Absent on November 5th, 2018

I missed class on Monday, I was absent.