12/15

Today we were disusing everything we need to know for the test we pretty much need to know everything that we have on our blog so if you want to see what look below at my other post heres what we need to look at also. We need to look at our tests, our blogs, the PowerPoints and links that he posted, plus your notes and blogs. 

12/12

Today in class we went over all the test that we took over quarter 2. We did this so that we can get ready for the exam which we are taking next week.

12/10

Today we took our test and i did good the only problems i think i got wrong was the organization questions like NATO an the UN and UE. I liked how some of the questions were questions from the movie we watched Slum Dog Millionaire but i think I got the question wrong on the who invented the tool ( which i don't remember ) I put Sam Adams i think. I got an 85 on the test but i feel like i should have done better than that like 90

12/9

Today Mr. Schick had to leave early so we got to study and do home work i did math homework and our sub was my religion teacher mr. Kimble

12/8

today we had our christmas mass and our class was shorter so we finnished our notes and our blog then we just talked for like the last 35 minutes

Jews  14 - 18 million (ninth in the world) mostly in Israel founded by Abraham they use the Talmud
Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) books and believe in ethical monotheism - God is one, and concerned with the actions of humankind Ten Commandments 13 Principles of Faith

12/4

Today in class Mr.Schick  showed us his song he made with his daughter it was really good the deserve a record deal. Then we took notes

Christians around 2.2 billion (largest in the world) located mostly in Europe, the Americas, southern Africa and have a lot of different kinds Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Protestants Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, many more It uses the The Bible, especially the New Testament and believe that Jesus is both human and divine - the Son of God; he  led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the Father 

Muslims have1.5 billion (second largest) located in Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa have 2 groups Sunnis and Shiites (which sound really funny when u say it) use the Qur’an and beleive in monotheistic, Abrahamic Five Pillars (testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage)

Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah (God), and observing Islamic law 

Buddhists have 500 million to 1.5 billion followers and hav a geographic location: southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan (there are 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States) the have 4 different types Tibetan Zen Theravada Amidist they beleive in Four Noble Truths There is suffering, Attachment to desire is the origin of suffering, There is a cessation of suffering, The Eightfold Path will lead to 

the cessation of suffering and The Eightfold Path Right view,Right intention,Right speech,Right action, Right livelihood, Right effort, Right mindfulness, Right dedication

12/3

Today in class we took more notes in class

Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Christianity and Islam are the top five religions in the world they have millions of followers all believing in the same thing. 1 billion people practice Hinduism, 376 million people practices Buddhism.14 million people practice Jedaism.2.2 billion people practice Christianity, and 1.6 billion people practice Islam Religion con unite many people it can also divide them because of war. It can also be a dividing force around the world, Hindus and Muslims fight in India and Pakistan. There are conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Jerusalem is the most holy spot for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Spatial divisions is how we divide the livable space found on the earth by establishing social, economic, and political control. These Spatial division can also cause conflicts or cooperation. Countries and economic alliances are examples of spatial divisions.

This is all the notes we took today in class and we don’t have class tomorrow.

12/2

Today in class we took notes on the power point he showed us
Cultural characteristics are parts of a group's everyday life. They are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. in the family about language religion and ethnic heritage
The number one thing taught taught in family is language.Brazil in the only South American country that does not speak Spanish. Some are bilanguage which means they speak more than one language Switzerland has 4 language and Canada speaks 2. English is the number one bushiness language. Some places have more than one ethnic heritage in the old country Yugoslavia many ethnic groups were made into one country Serbs, Croats, Bosnian, Albanians. Some places are primary one ethnic group like Japan, China, and Korea.

12/1

Today in class we watched slumdog millionaire for the people that were absent on Tuesday after that we talked about any questions we had after the movie. like why do they have dance sceans at the end or why Salim was in the bath tube while he was getting killed and taking out the evil millionaire that he worker for. I liked how at the beginning of the movie they ask you the question of why Jamal won the game show and gives you the four possible answers and then at the end they put it D. IT WAS WRITTEN. It was a really good movie and i am very glad we got to watch it during class instead of taking notes

11/24

Today in class we continued watching Slumdog Millionaire, and collected notes about the life Indians all they go through living in the the Slumdogs.

Lots of people rob and scam tourist to get money because they usually have a lot money and valuables.
There are many gangs and rival gangs causing a lot of violence.
Some people get orphans and train them to scam and beg. Some of the scams to make money include teaching the orphans to sing and beg for money. Some evil people viciously blind the orphans and have them beg for money because they will be able to collect more money
Jamal and his brother scammed people giving them fake tours of the Taj Mahall and they did things like make them leave their shoes while the other steals it. They would lead people away from their cars then steal everything and they would sell it for a lot of money. This is the last scean we stop on which make no sense to me right now.

11/21

Today in class we watched slumdog millionar to see what it is like to live in the slums of India so now we have to post things that we noticed during the movie so this is what i found
no space
houses were really small
covered in trash
sewers right by homes
kids are little scamers
10s of thousands of people in 1 city
a lot of orphans
mob viollance
no religious freedom
make money by begging and stealing
currupt police
resour to tourcher
overcrowder schools

11/19

Today in class we had a subsitute teacher so Mr. Schick posted on our blog to finnish our spotify project which i finnished yesterday then we got to do homework of any class

11/18

Today in class we started to work on our music projects that Mr. Schick assigned to us the first one was to get a playlist of songs that talk about migration.


1:"Its 5 o'clock somewhere" by Jimmy Buffet

2:"Across the Universe" by The Beatles

3:"Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

4:"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac

5:"Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles

6:"Forever Young" by Rod Stewart

7:"Move Along" by All American Rejects

8:"Long Distance" by Bruno Mars

9:"I Believe I Can Fly" by R Kelly

10:"Hotel California" by The Eagles

The second part of the project was to find the national anthem of the country we gid our presontation
  
that is it in syrian
and here are the lyrics if you want to read along
ANTHEM LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Defenders of the realm,
Peace on you;
Our proud spirits will
Not be subdued.
The adobe of Arabism,
A hallowed sanctuary;
The seat of the stars,
An inviolable preserve.
Syria's plains are
Towers in the heights,
Resembling the sky
Above the clouds.
A land resplendent
With brilliant suns,
Becoming another sky,
Or almost a sky.

ANTHEM LYRICS IN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

Qa Roomrama D-Shima Rama
D-Umtan Atoor Kalakh B-Shlama
Ay D-Veela Dargooshta D-Mardoota
Qa Eeqara D-Avahatan
Aney D-prisloon L-Mitamranita
Aney D-Mhoodyaloon Ah Barnashoota
D-Amrawa B-Shlama Hal Abadoota
D-Khayo Oree'wa B-Rwakhaniyoota
D-Yarmava B-Marya Go Elayoota

I thought it would sound more ruthless and mean because the leader is ruthless and mean and i just feel like he would change it to sound more intimidating.

11/17

Today's class went by really fast to me we first talked about how Mr. Schick academic team won over the weekend and we talked about how it works and how they get and lose points. They only lost one game and now are playing in the finals which is really cool. After that he gave us some questions that would be on the things i don't remember them i just know i got 3 of them write. One was about cookie monster I know that. After we were done that we looked at a chart of the united states separated into counties and it showed what percentage of the people called soda for example pop or cola then we wrote down a definition of something he is going to explain to us the next class because we ran out of time. Or and he gave us our test back i got an 80 without the essay question.

11/14

Today in class we had our test it was hard but i think i did good. i studied alot for it but still had some things that i thought were wrong like which leader was most likely to leave first and i chose barack obama because he has 2 years left and all the other leaders have more years  or will change the laws so they stay longer another thing that scared me alittle was the essay question it was why is it unacceptable to kill the president of the united states. I don't think it is acceptable to kill him but i put it on my power point because it is a way of getting rid of a leader

11/12

Russia
     -federation since 1991
     -Vladamire Putib
     -prime minister 1999 to 2000
     -three branches legislative executive and judicial
     -countries are afraid to attack his wepons when he came to power 1/8 of the Earths land
Brazil
     -Federal
     -citizenz fote for who they want to chose to vote for us
     -4 year terms reelected 2 times in a row and you need to step down for 1 term
     -before they were a military junta
     -You can impeach her elect another os assassination
mexico
     -re elect someone else impeach him
     -Enrique pena bieto is the president

11/11

today Mr.Shick wasn't here so in class we went and studied the power point that he made for us I hope we still share after though because its messed up others wouldn't have to do it. Our substitute teacher today told us that if we be quite, which we were, we could work in partners. Oh and I thought i broke my computer so I went all the way to Mr. Vatuchies office so that I could get it fixed, but it was just dead. I felt like the smartest person in the world after that. But its not my fault in Mrs. Amato class her outlet doesn't work so when i tried to charge it it still died. I learned a lot of things about india and the other countries which we need to know about tomorrow for the test

11/10

UK
Constitutional monarchy is when a king or queen acts as head of state
they have commonwealth realm
constitutional monarchy has been around since 1066
prime minister stays for 4 years five maximum
david camron the prime minister was born in October 9 1955
was prime minister in 2005 youngest prime minister since 1812
people decide weather or not he gets kicked out he is a decedent of king William the 4
After that it was our turn to talk about it. Syria is an republic under a authoritarian regime
which means that they have the title republic so that it seems that everyone it equal when really only have little to no rights.

11/7

Japan
     -Japans leader Xi Jinping was born in 1953
     -his father helped found the communist party
     -Each term you serve is ten years
     -He has 8 years left
     -you can get rid of him through impeachment assassination reelection
     -he got every vote except 4
Canada
     -has a parliament democracy
     -there are 5 parties
          Bloc Quebecs
          Conservative party of Canada
          Green Party
          Liberal Party
          New Democratic Party
     -The prime minister rules
     -He is the 22nd prime minister
     -Anyone over 18 can be elected
     -No term limits
China
     -has a Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
     -Shinzo Abe is the prime minister and they also have an emporer
     -Ways to get rid of him is through riots, impeachment, electing someone else

11/5

          Today in class we started looking at our power points we made

France

  -France has a Republic government and semi-presidential system

  -They have a President and a Prime Minister

  -The government was made in 1958 (56 years)

  -Francios Hollande has been in office since 2012 and he is part of the socialist party

  -Shares power with the Prime Minister

  -Prime Minister Manuel Valls was elected April 2014 and was born in Barcelona and moved to French when he was 20

  -In Latin it means "public thing"

  -The President is expected to be in office until 2022 and serves a 5 year term

  -He will be put out of office if they assassinate, a revolution, new elections the cabinet can kick him out and boycott him

China

  -Communist type of government

  -China controls stores

11/4

today we went to the cancer awareness fair in the main hall it was really cool. On the stand closest to the academic wing they were selling the bracelets for Mr. Maynard I would have got one but I can't afford that for 10 dollars. At the second stand a guy was teaching us about testicle cancer, we learned how to tell when you have testicle cancer and to check for it all the time everyday. At  the 3rd table the girl there explain how she work for a cleaning service that goes to peoples houses to clean and if they have cancer they will clean for them for free, then she gave us a bracelet that says "God is Awesome". At the fourth table they showed us a machine that shows if you have skin damage or if you had oily skin or something like that. I had no signs of skin damage but i have really dry lips, that color was white it looked as if i had rabies, and I had really oily skin. On the last table they showed us that if you have smoked you have a very likely chance of getting lung cancer and your lungs will turn black and you would not be able to breathe OK

11/3

Today in class we worked on our project we didnt finish today but we are very close to. Today we fixed up the way we are going to write it, and we found more pictures to go with it. We added this information
-Syria's parliament speaker, Jihad Lahan, announced the final results from Tuesday's election, saying Assad garnered 10,319,723 votes, or 88.7%.
-Laham said Assad's two challengers, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3% and 3.2% respectively.
-The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42%
and we also found information on how he changes the votes like just "counting wrong" or bombing building threatening them that that will happen to them if they don't. All this stuff we have put onto our power point and we are still looking for thing to add to it, to make it better and longer.

10/28

today in class we worked on our project more me and Antony are pretty much done we just have to add some extra information like ways to get a new leader in Syria because the other one Bashar al-Assad is killing his own people and rigging elections so that he stays in office. So obliviously we cannot impeach him because he is basically untouchable. We also found out that their government, it is a republic but it is under an authoritarian regime and it has lasted for 73 years. Maybe if we get a new president Syria would be better off, I still do not even understand why he would even think of killing his own people. All in all we had a productive day, but it was really slow I hope we finish tomorrow so that I can listen to music today. If you want to see our slide show you can comment your email and we’ll invite you to watch.

10/27

Today in class we got an assignment to look up a country and find these  3 things below
1:What type of government
       -Describe it in our own words
2:How long the government has been
3:What is the best way to get another leader to rule
      - describe best to worst ways to get them out of the government
We also get to work in partners for the first time in this class. My partner is Antony Saccenti (got that shout out) http://antonysaccenti.blogspot.com/ thats his blog. if you don't know him he is short and pale but has a cool porcupine head and he plays basketball. Well we got assignened syria which makes it easy for us to see how to get him out of office because a lot of people don't like him and probably sit in basements trying to figure that out

10/21

Today in class we went over what we had done the night before when we had to find interesting fact about the leaders of the the countries we researched over the weekend. I had like 5 or 6 good facts but Mr.Shick turned them down when he was ignoring me because I couldn't pronounce somebody's name. When i was reseaching there were facts that seemed innocent but when Mr. Shick explanes them seems really crazy. Stuff just like a man taking pictures with his shirt off and him becoming a black belt in judo but behind all of that he is basically telling people from other countries not to mess with him and he will hurt them if he does.

10/20

Today we have to find one interesting fact about all of the leaders

Enrique Peña Nieto-His wife, Angelica Rivera, is a soap opera star.
He is the fifth member of his extended family to serve as the governor of the State of Mexico. His second cousin directly preceded him as governor

Joachim Gauck-The majority of the voters of all political parties represented in the Bundestag approved of his nomination, with the Green voters being most enthusiastic (84% approval) and Die Linke's voters least (55% approval); overall, 69% support him, while 15% oppose him.

Bashar al-Assad-Syrian President Hafez Assad's oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over his father's role as president.

Xi Jinping-Is considered to be a "princeling," the son or daughter of a revolutionary veteran.
His wife, Peng Liyuan, is a famous folk singer in China.

Francois Hollande-Is the first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
When elected had been in a long-term relationship with journalist Valerie Trierweiler for several years.Promises made during the campaign include renegotiating the austerity agreement, troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, lower retirement age and higher taxes for the very wealthy.

Pranab Mukherjee-His hobbies are reading, gardening and music.[3] His elder son, Abhijit Mukherjee, is a Congress MP from Jangipur, West Bengal. He was elected in the by-polls held after his father vacated the seat. Before his election, Abhijit was an MLA from Nalhati in Birbhum. His daughter is a Kathak dancer.

Stephen Harper-An avid follower of ice hockey, he has been a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs since his childhood in the Leaside and Etobicoke communities in Toronto. He published a book, A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey (2013), which chronicles the growth of professional hockey, particularly in Toronto, and writes articles occasionally on the subject

Elizabeth II-She was not declared the Heir Apparent when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated because of the possibility of a male heir.
When World War II began she was a Girl Guide (British Girl Scouts) and went through the same training as the other Girl Guides her age.
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Reuven Rivlin-He has been a vegetarian since the late 1960s. Rivlin is well known as a supporter of the Beitar Jerusalem football club, sometimes described as "The-Most-Seasoned-Beitar-fan", ever since he first saw a game of Beitar in 1946 when he was 7 years old.

Dilma Rousseff-Prior to running for president, she had never run for an elected office.
Joined the resistance movement against the military dictatorship and was jailed and allegedly tortured in the early 1970s

Vladimir Putin-Enjoys working out and has a black belt in judo.
Grew up in a communal apartment shared by three families.

Shinzō Abe-He was Japan's first prime minister born after WWII.
1957-1960 - His grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, is Japan's prime minister.
1964-1972 - His great uncle, Eisuke Sato, is prime minister. Sato is also a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Weekend HW (Part 3/3)

(9)
Japan
Constitutional Monarchy Parliamentary Democracy
Shinzō Abe
Prime Minister










(10)
Russia
Constitutional Federal (Federation) Presidential Republic
Vladimir Putin
Russia, President








(11)
Brazil
Federal republic
Dilma Rousseff
President









(12)
Israel
Parliamentary system
Reuven Rivlin
Israel, President

Weekend HW (Part 2/3)

(5)
United Kingdom
Constitutional Monarchy
Elizabeth II
Queen









(6)
Canada
Constitutional Monarchy
Stephen Harper
The Prime Minister of Canada








(7)
India
Constitutional Federal (Federation) Republic
Pranab Mukherjee
India, President







(8)
France
Presidential Republic
François Hollande
France, President

Weekend HW (Part 1/3)

(1)
Mexico
Federal Representative Republic
Enrique Peña Nieto
Mexico, President









(2)
Germany
Federal Republic
Joachim Gauck
Germany, President










(3)
Syria
Presidential Republic
Bashar al-Assad
Syria, President







(4)
China
Communist Socialist
Xi Jinping
China, President

10/17

Today in class we got our test back and i was preety happy because instead of getting a 87% i got a 90% because he messed up. I finally got a bell ring.   ($)           ($)
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 Our estimated guess by Mr. Schick for what our average grade would be was a 72%. But we ended up as a class getting like a 80%. Accually according to the bored 104% but what ever. I only missed 4 questions one during the 12 computer questions i looked at the wrong thing and wrote that down I did not miss any of the vocab but i missed 3 other questions as well but i don't remember which. But we got some weekend homework. We have to get information about certain countries we have to find a picture of there leader we have to say what country the name of ther leader what kind of leader and what kind of government they have

10/14

Today in class we did homework all period because 3 kids were taking the test and we had to wait for them. So I have no idea how I am going to explain it in 150 words but it is worth a try. While we were in class I managed to complete my English assignment due on thursday about which was to study our notes on these vocab word
anathema
banter
castigate
docile
emaciated
gauche
heresy
ignominy
libation
motley

when I was done I did my math which was extremly easy and then helped jude with his because i am a nice friend. After I was done all of that I was able to play running man for 5 minutes before my computer died. then i ended up watching other people playing games also like Antony playing running man and Delaney play some game with a bolder that reminded me of run 2 on cool math games. They both played really bad ( It took Delaney 20 minutes to pass 1 level and Antony just gave up after a while). Either way today was a very boring day that we ended up doing nothing fun or very productive.

10/10

Today in human geography we took a test I thought it was some what easy but he should have gave us more time to do the part where we had to go online to the CIA World Fact Book and answer 12 questions in like 10 minute I finished but it looked like some others didn't The rest of the test just got harder but I think I did real good with the vocabulary and stuff like that. The bonus questions I don't know how he expects anybody to answer except for the first one he what was the net migration of the world, and the other was really confusing answer and he wouldn't take the test until i put an answer down so I just put I don't know and he looked at me and started laughing.If I had to guess I think I would have gotten at least a 90-95% and here that bell he rings when people get 90's

10/8

Today in class we reviewed what is going to be on the test we need to know the vocab words

                      Life Expectancy             How long your expected to live

                      Crude Birth Rate            How many babies are being born      !

                      Crude Death Rate          How many people are dieing  ! Both make next word

                      The Rate of Natural Increase

                      Developing nation       pre industrialization    countries starting to grow

                      Developed nation        post industrialization    countries growing and thriving

                      Rate of increase

                      Net Migration Rate

                      Imigration     How many people move to your country    @Both make last job

                      Emigration    How many people move away from your country       @

                      push and pull forces     What makes you move push bad things pull good things

                      Total fertal rate

we went over all of these terms  during class and we also need to know how to get around the CIA world book because there is a part of the quiz when we get to use it to find information

10/7

Today in class Mr. Schick explained to us how he was in this program for Spotify, a app you can get on phone and computers to listen to free music, that only 20-23 teachers in the world are in. Mr. Schick told us that spotifiy is looking want us to help and get songs for kids to listen to to help them study, so Mr. Schick gave us a project to find a song about migration i can be any kind of music by any artist. I think the project is really cool because we get to listen to music for a grade and they gave us free membership and songs for three months. It took like an hour to get our codes out but after we had 15 minutes to listen and share music. Somebody kept playing Anaconda by Nicki Manaj and tried to get Mr.Schck to listen to see if he liked it.

10/6

Today in class we discussed if the United States is the best country on the world. I don't think it is the best but it is close because I live here. While looking up facts in class I learned that America has the most debt in the world but is still 2nd in importing goods and 3rd for exporting goods. America is also 1 in internet host but second in internet users that means we are making a lot more websites in our country that people in other people in different countries are using. America is number 1 in getting around its country because it has more roads train tracks and airports than anyone else. In my opinion all of the countries has both positive qualities and negative qualities that make all the countries really great at the same time so there is no true best county in the world.

10/3

Today in class we watched the rest of the video that talked about population charts. We saw that russia had very few people in there 90's because of the World War 2 and people dieing. We also talked about how Cubans lived close to us so when they have bad problems like they do now the make rafts and float all the way to america and the deal is that there is a law if you make it to America before the coast gaurds catch you, you can become a free person and not have to go back. But if you do get caught, you go to jail back in Cuba. Finally we talked about how China was only allowed to have one kid they did this because the were scared the population was going to dramticly increase and the were going to not be able to pay for them.

9/24

Today in class we went over the test we took last week, i think it was an easy and i should have gotten an A on i accidentally got confuzed when Mr. Schick said that we should use wikipedia as a source but not a number 1 source. Anouther question i got wrong is "when was the "message to garcia" writen" It was accually writen in March 1899. The last thing I got wrong is that I got wrong was that the ancient greeks called an idiot. They call people that don't want to participate in politics and anything else involving the community.

9/10

Today in class we talked about how English is the international language of business which I think is really cool because it is the language that I speak which means you can also communicate with lots of other people without having to learn a new language. Another thing that we talked about is how in Maryland we might change the minimum wage from $7 per hour and change the minimum wage to be $10 per hour which would effect us in a major way.This could turn out to be a bad and good thing for us, it would be a good thing because we would all start getting a lot more money for our hour but it would also effect us in a bad way because now they would lay off or fire a lot of workers to make up for all the money being lost. A third thing we talked about is how people from other countries are starting to take our jobs because they have started working for a lot less money then we do, and that is why a lot of or clothes are from other countries as well. These things I found really interested during our discussion in class today.

3 facts from the video

Today in class we watched a video on cool and interesting facts about the internet and the population of the world, these facts are weird or just  interesting to me. The first fact is that soon China will become the number one English speaking country in the world, this is weird to me because China's first language is Chinese and now China is going to have more people speaking English as a second language than England, Canada, and the USA which speaks those languages as their main language there. The second fact that interest me is the fact about how teachers prepare us for jobs that don't exist yet in order for us to solve problems that haven't happened yet and to use technology that hasn't been invented yet. I think that's cool that our parents and teachers are counting on us to save the world and use more advanced technology and were suppose to count on our kids to save the world and use more advanced technology in the future. The third fact which I found pretty weird was that during a 4 minutes 58 sec video  694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.that is also pretty scary because songs usually cost about $1.99 online so in about 5 minutest music artist have lost $1,381,060 all together and $145,177,027,200 a year which is a lot of money to spend considering the big named artist their are. Well these are some pretty cool weird and scary facts that I found out watching the video

5 point plan to being successful in highschool

     -Be organized
Being organized is an important part to being successful because you don't want to have your work mixed in with work from other classes
     -Don't miss homework
We have homework everyday we have class and if you don't do it you would totally fail.
     -Always find make up work
If you get your make up work in on time you won't get in trouble or 50% on everything and fail.
     -Keep in touch with the teacher
If you can keep contact with the teacher it is easy to make up things and get help with any questions you have about notes and work and test.
     -Pay attention and participate in class
If you pay attention it makes taking notes, studying, and test taking easier.

If you follow these ways to being successful you will always pass and get good grades

9/6

Today in class we went over all the definitions again and Mr.Schick told us to write the revised version in this blogg 
Agora-was a central spot in ancient Greek city-states. The literal meaning of the word is "gathering place" or "assembly". The Agora was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city.

Arete-in its basic sense, means "excellence of any kind", the term may also mean "moral virtue." " The act of living up to their full potential."

Polis-Central Urban area of Athens. It mean citizenship and body of citizen

The year 508 BC- The year Athens was founded and birth of democracy.

Socrates- ancient greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of western philosophy, along wih plato and arostotal.

The Death of Socrates- In this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by hamlock/ poison

Socratic method-is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical ideas and to illuminate ideas.

day 5

I wan't able to blog today I couldn't find the post to know what to do

Day 4

I wan't able to blog today I couldn't find the post to know what to do

Day 1 of school

              Today was my first day at John Carroll and it was a really great experience. Today I rode the bus to school it was really boring because nobody really talks on the bus except the bus driver and they also have some weird stops like in front of a Mars supermarket.When I got to school I met all the kids in my advisory i'm the only kid in my advisory that's in the 9th grade besides some other girl that was home schooled. That 2 hour rotation thing that we did in the beginning of the day. All my teachers the rest of the day were really cool i had tons of free time today and got to hand out with a lot of kids I met for the first time in math we didn't really do anything interesting, in English class we did this introducing game and when it was my turn I totally messed up the girls name, and in human geography i thought the teacher was really interesting and funny, and i'm not just saying that because he's going to see this.