Research part 3 10/29/14

Today in class we kept working on the project. We found out more information about the prime minister, ways to get the president out of office, and a lot about the actual government.  I tried to show Mr.Schick some pictures of my bloody nose but he refused to look at them lol. Also i found a lot more about Manuel Valls ( the prime minister of France). Anyways, today's class was kind of boring but that's how it should of been because we are doing a project. Also i had to leave 5 minutes early for my away game at McDonough. We listened to music softly as we did this project because we needed something to keep us going. It added a little spice to the project and made it more fun. Its nice having the extra person in our group because she helps a lot. Hopefully she will get a good grade with us!

Research part 2

Today in class, we worked again on the Google slides presentation. We got a new person in our class. Her name is Kelsey Boyle and she chose to work with Kyle and I. It was nice because we needed the extra help. Mr.Schick helped us a little bit by telling us some important information about Frances government. He told us information about the past president and things about how to get the president out of office. Also he told us some other crucial information. Today's class was kind of stressful because of all the important information we forgot to add. But we managed to get most of it done. We added color to the Google slides so it looks more appealing. That's basically all we did in class today. There really wasn't anything different we did

Research with Kyle on France Government

Today in class we picked partners and worked on a power point ( Google slides) on a specific country and its government. Kyle and I decided to be partners which was funny because we had the two highest grades in the class. We had a total of eight slides which was pretty long for this project. We answered how long President Francois Hollande had been in office and what type of government France had and ETC. We found out that their were 5 republics during Frances government time. After that we added Mr.Schick so he could edit and look at our project. I'm hoping i can get a good grade on this. I personally think today was long but was pretty easy to do.

POP QUIZ!!! :(

Today in class we had a pop quiz on the topics we studied on. Well unfortunately i didn't study. But i knew a lot of the stuff on the test. Hopefully i got an A. hes handing the quizzes out right now. So i kind of shaking. I got an 87%. I have a 91 in his class so hopefully that will bring me to a 90. im so nervous right now. I just hope that it stays as an A because then it would mean i got straight A's. The quiz was fair and not to hard. I think the shadows had fun listening to peoples reactions when Mr.Schick showed them their test. There were 16 questions. I guessed on one of them correctly so I had some good luck. Mr.Schick studied to be a priest, but he became a Human Geo teacher that gives our random pop quizzes to ruin kids grades. :). The final thing i did is play games on the computer. That's basically what we did today!

Wednesdays Class 10/22/14

Today in class we went over facts that we didn't find the day before. It was kind of the same stuff we went over yesterday. Some facts that were brought up today was that the Prime Minister of Israel (Benjamin Netanyahu) brother was killed trying to save a few Iraelis in an Ugandian hostage. Also the Emperor of China never graduated college because he got to be emperor. I'm pretty sure everyone would pick Emperor lol. One of the last things i remember from class is that the Mexican president is the second most wealthy man in Mexico. A drug lord is the #1 wealthiest man in Mexico. They sell a ton of Heroin. Since they make a lot of money they tell the Mayor and other officials that they will help them out if they don't say anything about the Heroin, They said that Americans should stop buying it, so they'll stop making it.

Today's Class 10/21/14

Today in class we went over the HW from last night. He asked some students to share what they wrote down. For about everyone of the facts we had a discussion over it. Some of the facts were that Dilma Rousseff had thyroid cancer. It is gone now. Also that Vladimir Putin tries to act tough in pictures and doing tough things like Judo. He is a black belt though, so you might want to watch out :). The fact that i came up with is that Shimon Peres is 91 years old! Enrique Pena Nieto has two wives and the first one died. Also he partially won because of his looks. The chancellor for Germany is the 5th most powerful woman in the world which is pretty insane. Thats basically what we went over in class today.

1 Fact About Each Leader

President Enrique Pena Nieto- His wife, Angelica Rivera, is a soap opera star.

President XI Jinping-Is considered to be a "prince ling," the son or daughter of a revolutionary veteran. He is the son of founding members of the communist party in China.

President Pranab Mukherjee- Indira Gandhi once suggested to Mukherjee that he hire an English tutor and brush up his pronunciation. He simply refused, preferring his thickly accented Bengali English

President Vladimir Putin- Grew up in a communal apartment shared by three families.

President Joachim Gauck- He was a former Lutheran pastor. The chancellor of Germany is named Angela Merkel. She is the 5th most powerful woman in the world. She descended from two parents of the Nazis party. She has a PHD in quantum chemistry.

Prime Minister David Cameron-The youngest prime minister since 1812.

President Francois Hollande-Is the first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995. Hw was raised catholic but turned to athiest.

President Dilma Rousseff- Joined the resistance movement against the military dictatorship and was jailed and allegedly tortured in the early 1970s.

President Bashar Al-Assad- Bashar Assad was educated at the Arab-French al-Hurriya School in Damascus. After high school, he studied medicine at Damascus University and later worked as an army doctor. 

Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper- He has an very big interest in Hockey.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe- He was Japan's first prime minister born after WWII.

President Shimon Peres- He is 90 or 91 years old.

HW 10/19/14. Leaders

• Mexico
• Federal Republic
• President Enrique Pena Nieto

                            

                  

• China
• Communist State
• President XI Jinping 

• India
• Federal Republic
• President Pranab Mukherjee

• Russia
• Federation
• President Vladimir Vladirovich Putin

• Germany
• Federal Republic
• President Joachim Gauck

• United Kingdom
• Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
• Prime Minister David Cameron

• France
• Republic
• President Francois Hollande

• Brazil
• Federal Republic
• President Dilma Rousseff

• Syria
• Republic under an authoritarian regime
• President Bashar Al-Assad

• Canada
• A parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy
• Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper

• Japan
• A parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy
• Prime Minister Shinzo ABE or Emperor Akihito

• Israel
• Parliamentary democracy
• President Shimon Peres

Fridays Class 10/18/14

Yesterday in Mr. Schick's class, we went over the test. I thought i did very well on it. I got a 90% on the test. I got three questions wrong i should of got right. The last one is the one where i had a question about. The population pyramids had a different number of populations on the scale. I thought the U.S.A showed the most TFR than the African countries. I got that wrong because of the scale difference. Mr.Schick said it didn't matter about the scale. it mattered about the pyramid and its ages of population. The test was very fair. The weren't any hard parts that we never went over in class. You just had to study and basically, you would do fine. I was actually surprised that i got one of the best grades in class. The next blog i do is the 12 countries and leaders. I actually need to do it because i have an 89 in his class and this HW will bring me up to an A hopefully.

The make up test today

Today in class, i had to take a make-up test. I honestly thought it was easy. Since i knew how to use the CIA World Fact book, i flew by the front of it. I studied the definitions of the words so that part of the test wasn't really challenging. The population pyramids was simple. I knew African countries are having many babies and there is way less old people. I knew Germany had a low baby rate but a mediocre middle age and up rate. Finally, the U.S was basically right in the middle of both of them. I used process of elimination. It made things so much easier. The push factors was a little challenging but i hope i wrote my push factors well enough for him to understand. The pull factors were the easiest. Since i did the United States, i knew there were a ton of things to pull people into the U.S. Overall since i studied, the test was easy and im pretty sure i got an easy A.

PS: If my handwriting was bad, im sorry. Its tough to write with a broken thumb on my dominant hand lol.

10/11/14

On Friday i was not in class because of the retreat. I plan to take the test on Tuesday at 3:00. I might have soccer so i got to talk to Mr. Schick about it.

Preparing for the test 10/8/14

Today in class we reviewed for the test. We basically just went over the vocabulary for the test. Some stuff we went over today is the crude birth/death rate. Also how to find the rate of natural increase. Also countries need infrastructure to become a developed nation. The birth rate minus the death rate is the rate of natural increase. Another thing we talked about is immigration (people coming to the country) and emigration (people leaving the country). The net immigration rate is found when you take immigration and subtract it from emigration. The last thing we talked about is push factors and pull factors. Some push factors for leaving a country is war, disease, leadership, and religion. Some pull factors are a good economy, land, good leadership, and not involved in any war.

Class 10/7/14

Today in Mr. Schick's class, we got our spotify accounts and codes to redeem our membership.  He called us up one by one and told us our codes.  He told us to say the code back to him just to make sure it was correct.  Some kids messed up so Mr. Schick told them the correct order and they finally got it.  About three or four people in the class had to wait one hour to redeem their membership, like me because the website spotify, thinks that someone(s) are hacking the website.  After everyone got their codes, he let us take our phones out and listen to music.  I thought today's class was very interesting and easy.  Also, in the class people were dancing to their music or other people's music.  The girls were very annoying in today's class.  I'm just glad that class ended before I got more annoyed with the girls.  Overall, today's class was fun and chill. I'm writing this with a broken thumb. The cast takes over my full thumb and arm. Plus I have a sling.

Class Today 10/6/14

Today in class, we were still trying to figure out if the U.S is the best country in the world. A ton of people in the class came up with statistics of the U.S compared to other countries.Some facts that i found interesting in today's class was, that the U.S is third for telephones- to mobile cellular. I thought the U.S would be first or second. It turns out that India is second. I didn't think India have that kind of technology in their country. Another fact i found interesting was  that China is the number one in electricity production. I thought the U.S would be number one in electricity because we have so many technological advances, so we need more electricity to work the product. I realized during today's lesson that there is no perfect country. Each country has its positives and negatives. I would say that the U.S is better than most countries. There are however some countries like India and China that are probably equal to our country.

The video 10/4/14

Yesterday in Mr. Schick's class our class watched a video about our country. It was a TV show but he only showed the first episode of it. The video was about people always thinking that the U.S is the best country in thew world. When the camera went to the one reporter. He went on and on about how the U.S is not the best country in the world ANYMORE. The reporter explained all of these statistics he knew in his head about how the U.S is not the best country in the world anymore. Everyone was stunned in the crowd except one person who was telling him to say that the U.S was not the best country. After the reporters got off the air, the other two reporters were stunned that the one reporter said his rampage on TV. After we watched the video Mr.Schick took a vote on of people in our class that thought that the U.S is the best country in the world. about 95% of the class voted that the U.S is not the best country in the world.  He picked on students to explain for their reasoning. Someone said that people are too lazy to get off their butts and find a job so Obama keeps taxing us and the lazy people are just getting money for nothing. then Mr.Schick told us a story about him helping a homeless man.

Population Pyramids 2 10/1/14

Today in Mr. Schick's class we went over the other half of the video and took notes. Also we had to use my laptop to present the video to the class because Mr.Schick's laptop wasn't working. It was pretty cool sitting up at the main desk controlling things :). Anyways, some of the notes I took today are, that we talked a lot about Cuban people coming to America. He said that its hard for Americans to get into Cuba nowadays for vacations or other stuff. Also its hard for Cubans to get into America to see family and start a new life. If a Cuban gets on Florida land and the coast guard or whatever doesn't catch you your free to do whatever you want. If they catch you and your not on Florida land you get arrested and taken back to Cuba. Also we talked about Russia. Russia's old people are not as high in population because Russia lost millions of men in World War 2. Finally we talked about China. People in china thinks boys are better then girls. So since they can only have one child, the parents are always hoping for a boy. The one child rule started in the 40's or 50's. Thats the main topics we touched on today in class.