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Today we had a pop quiz. I actually thought I did really bad. Mr. Schick left the room and went to grade the quiz. I got a 80%, which I thought was really good compared to what I thought I got.

Wednesday

Today in class we went over facts about the leaders of the countries. Our class had to go on a quest and find some of the information Mr. Schick wanted us to know. Our next class will be on Friday.

Oct 21st

Today in class we went over our project and homework from the night before. We talked about the presidents of each country we were assigned to research. There was very many interesting facts about some of the presidents. Like one of the presidents had a black belt in Judo, one president had many affairs, and one was 91 years old.

Project

Mexico

Enrique Pena Nieto: President

Federal Representative Republic

 -he cheated on his wife

 

 India

Pranab Mukherjee: President
Federal Representive Republic

 -

China

Xi Jinping: President
Communist State
-He wanted China to have a dream.
-Wife was a folk singer
-He was the son of founding members
of the Communist Members in China

 

 

 

Russia

Vladimir Putin: President

Federal Representive Republic

-earned a black belt in Judo









Germany
Joachim Gauck: President

Federal Representive Republic

 -Both of his parents were apart of the Nazi party

 

 

United Kingdom

David Cameron:

Prime Minister

 Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
 - youngest prime minister since 1812

 

 

 

France

Francis Hollande: President

Republican

 -He was raised Catholic and then changed to
athesist

 

 

 

Brazil

Dilma Rousseff: President

Federal Representive Republic

 - was in jail for political crimes

 

Syria

Bashar Al-Assad: President

Republic under an Authoritarian Regime

 -Speaks fluid English and some french

 

 

 

 

Canada

Stephen Harper: Prime Minister

a parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy

 - was enrolled into university of Toronto and then dropped out

 -

Japan

Shinzo Abe: Prime Minister
A parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy

 

 - 91 years old

Israel

Reuven Rivlin: Prime Minister

Parliamentary Democracy

 -received a degree at Hebrew University of Jerusalam
-

 

 

 

Today in class some students still had to take the human geo test. Mr. Schick told us that if we had any other homework we could work on that. I worked on my math and English.

test day

In class today we had a test. The first part of the test was about finding clues on the CIA world fact book. We had 10 minutes to complete this part of the test. The second part of the test was questions about the vocab. It wasn't that hard but some questions were kind of tricky. The third part of the test was a little hard. It was a population chart but it did not tell you what countries they were so we had to identify the charts country.

Class

for the test we need to know:

life expectancy

crude birth rate: total births per thousand

crude death rate: total deaths per thousand 

developing nations 

developed nations 

rate of nature increase

net migration rate 

immigration: coming into the country

emigration: leaving the country

push forces: something that forces you to leave a country 

pull forces: something that make you want to go to a country

total fertility rate 

We need to make sure we study the CIA world fact book for the test also.

Spotify

Today in class, Mr. Schick told us about this "Spotify group" he is in. He had codes for us to use so we could have a free premium account to access Spotify. Mr. Schick assigned us a project to find songs that have to do with moving around like migration. He said it could be any kind of music. I think this is going to be a hard project, because not really songs in our present time are not about migration. It is going to be hard because we are all going to have to find an old fashioned song.

Class Oct 6th

Class today was about "Why is the United States the greatest country?".  Today in class we looked for information in the CIA fact book to prove that the United States was the best country. There were some things that were negative and some things that were positive to answer that question. We are very high ranked in transportation. We are also very high ranked in communication and technology. The United States has very bad health though. We have very many people who have diseases and many people that are overweight. I think that if we changed up what we eat and learn how to become clean we could possibly be the best country.

Today in class we watched this video on three news people . The video was about America, questions about America. One of the audience members asked the news cast "Why is America the best country?" The woman and the other man answered in a positive way. The other man didn't answer. He saw this lady in the audience holding a sign up saying, "its not." The man said, "Its not." in front of the whole audience. He started ranting on why America isn't the best country. I agreed with him, its not.

class today

Today in class we reviewed the video again, and we finished the whole thing. We talked about the population rates in all the different countries. The United States population should be higher with all the immigrants we have in our country. We also talked about how the families in China usually only one child in there family. The one child is usually a boy. If the child is not a boy the mother chooses abortion.