Class Discussion

Today in class we discussed the current situation at the border, immigration in general, and Donald Trump. Overall, the discussion was what I'd assumed it be. People on a spectrum with some sticking to either a Pro-Trump course or an Anti-Trump course being the radicals of the spectrum. Personally, I do not Donald Trump, but that does not go to say that I do not like a secure border. People in class although would tend to stick with open border equaling anti-trump and vice versa. There were a few who were sticking to a pro-Trump, locked border doctrine and defended their opinions well. The people who were on the other side of the spectrum though tended to have points that may have been sturdy but could have some holes poked in them. Mr. Schick did ask us to put what we learned but because I'm always tuned into this stuff the only real thing I learned was my peer's views. Personally, nothing has changed for me from the discussion and I will be sticking to my beliefs of a secure border and disliking Donald Trump. Until next this has been Patrick Simms reporting to you live from Baltimore City.

n o t e s

So today's class was pretty tame and Mr. Schick even told us some stories from his childhood. So, to begin off class we continued taking notes on what we had been doing for about the past week or so. So, today's class was mainly involving population distribution and the three ways in which we can calculate it. The first way is to divide the number of people by the amount of land. The second way is to divide the number of people by the amount of arable (fertile) land. Lastly, the third way is divide the number of farmers by the amount of arable land. This in the end will give us a population density. Except the third way cause that kind of only includes farmers. For the second half of class Mr. Schick told stories from his childhood which was quite the delight. He told of a tornado that destroyed his elementary school and how a small Greek orthodox school somehow took in a few hundred kids and give them somewhere to learn while his school was being rebuilt. Hopefully he'll have more stories to tell from his childhood next class.

Quiz 2.0 or something

So today we had another quiz in human geography. It was on what we have been learning for about the past week or so. At the beginning we had a fifteen minute period of time to complete fifteen questions using the CIA World Factbook. This section was fairly easy besides trying to find the countries in two hundred country long list. I feel like I did well on this part and hopefully will find out as such soon. The second part of the quiz was to use some words from a word bank to help with a fill in the blank. Then, the last section was using some population pyramids to answer some questions and this was fairly simple. At the end we got to draw cartoons about what we have learned about society in the past unit. Overall it was just another average day and I can't wait to go home and relax.