Quiz Day

Today we had a shorter class because it is an H day and we had a prayer service. It went over the scheduled time so we had our classes made even shorter. So we came in and studied for 10 minutes of class to prepare for the test. It was on the 5 major religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Christianity was the easiest because that's our religion and we learn about it every day. Islam wasn't to hard there were a few facts that took me a little while to remember but it wasn't to difficult. Buddhism and Hinduism were the hardest. I kept getting them mixed up. They are kind of similar and some questions I could just not remember at all no matter how much I studied them. Judaism wasn't to hard because we learn a little about the religion in class because they are similar and they are in the Bible to. I think I did okay on the quiz, at least a B.

Test Review Day and Stories

Today in class we were told different stories from Mr. Schick when he was in film directing. He told us a story about what happened when he was in his second commercial. He was in a line of cars in the passenger seat and there as a helicopter in front filming. They were filming all the cars turning their lights on a once. They put a helicopter on a little wheels to move it to the perfect position and its so light two people could lift it. It was still on the wheels when they turned the helicopter on to start filming and it started turning. The back blade was spinning sideways toward his car and it shattered the windshield. He was wearing a big coat because it was so cold so the glass didn't effect him. He also knew the kid from Home Alone.

Five Major Religions

Today in class we learned about the five major religions. They are Christianity, Islamic, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The first one I'll talk is Christianity and number of adherents: around 2.2 billion (largest in the world), you call them: Christians, their geographic location: Europe, the Americas, southern Africa. The next one is Islam, the number of adherents: 1.5 billion (second largest), you

call them: Muslims, their geographic location: Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa. The next one I'll talk about is Hinduism the number of adherents: 1.1 billion (third largest), you call them: Hindus, their geographic location: India, Nepal. Next is Buddhism, the number of adherents: 500 mill. to 1.5 billion, you call them: Buddhists, their geographic location: southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan, (there are 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States). The last one is Judaism, the number of adherents: 14 - 18 million (ninth), you call them: Jews, their geographic location: Israel (6.4 million, 75.4%) and US (5.3 - 7 million, 1.7% - 2.6%).

Test Return and New Unit

In class we got our tests back and checked them. I got a 95/100 on it, I was very surprised. I didn't think I did that well on it. I got two wrong. One was, 90% of the population growth in the world is taking place in certain regions. Which of the following is NOT one of these regions. a. Africa b. Latin America. c. Europe d. East Asia. e. South Asia. I said East Asia because I read the questions wrong and was kind of confused what is was asking. I also was thinking of Japan how they aren't having a lot of kids. The right answer is Europe which makes sense. The other question I got wrong was, of these four countries, it has the highest birth AND death rate. I said India but the answer is Nigeria. Now we are studying the 5 major religions for a test on Friday. We have Thursday to get notes and learn it.

Test Day

Today in class we took our test on population, migration, and population pyramids. I think I did okay, better than last time. There were definitely some questions I wasn't sure about. There were multiple choice mainly, some population pyramids you had to identify, and few questions were you had to pick from a few different countries and match them to the correct description. The population pyramid section was a little hard because to of them were very similar. I couldn't figure out which of the countries and what there population would be like. I tried to use the total population to help me figure out what country went with the pyramid. I think most of the multiple choice was easy except a few I wasn't sure if I got right. Overall I think I did pretty well and hopefully I got a good grade. Also everybody was here in class which is good and we will get to check them soon.

Test Review and Jeapordy

Today in class we reviewed for the test Monday. It will be on Population Pyramids and the terms we learned. We re watched the population pyramid video we first watched a few weeks ago. The first time I watched it I didn't really understand it. Now that we have learned so much I understood the video and it made sense. I wrote down a few things that will be on the test. I starred the important things and wrote down some extra facts that could be important. I will study my notes and watch the video again this weekend. After we talked about the video and watched it we got on the topic of jeopardy some how. We then watched the latest episode of Jeopardy, it was shorten so we could watch it in 15 minutes. It was the tournament of champions. This was the last group to make the champions.

Finished projects

In class we finished our project presentations. We had one group and they did Italy and Tanzania. They talked about how Italy has a lot of people under the poverty line. A solution was reducing taxation that could help a business owner free up their work force and employ more people. They did a good job ending it. I don't know if they knew there material that well, but it was still good. After that Mr. Schick said that we are going to get a paper with our groups name and ours and give each other number grades. We would each get our own paper and no one else would see it. He would look at the scores and use it to help him determine our grade. It one person consistently got the lowest grade then they probably didn't do much work. If someone consistently gets the highest than they probably did a good job. I didn't like doing it but I actually tried to be honest about my grades. Hopefully got a good grade.

Presenting Day

In class today we presented our projects on problems and solutions for our countries. We heard lots of different countries and their problems and solutions. I thought our presentation went pretty well and we hit all the points. I think our power point was good and had the information we needed. I think we did a good job presenting it and we didn't look at the board to much and knew our information. We had some different points for a country. Then we said the pros and cons for each country, so why our points were good and why they could be bad. We got into discussion about our point when we said a solution for the drug problems was to ramp up the production but we didn't mean it as it was a good idea, it was just a solution. We didn't hear all the presentations so we will finish tomorrow.

Project Day 2

Today in class we worked on our project again. We picked Germany and Japan. We had a problem for Columbia and part of a solution for it. Then today we finished it and put a finished solution on the PowerPoint. After looking for a long time on every tab we finally found a problem for Germany that was good. We then found a solution which was pretty easy to do. We organized all our information on a slide show and we had on box with problem, an arrow, pointing to a box with the solution. Our problem for Germany is that the German government has taken in over 1,000,000 migrants/refugees since 2015. That is a lot of people to handle at once especially if they just keep coming in like this. Our solution is for the government to take a break from allowing so many immigrants/refugees into the country to give people time to assimilate and get used to the new culture/etc. to prevent conflicts between conflicting backgrounds. As well as to prevent overpopulation. It will also give the economy a break and help the unemployment rate. That is what we have and we will be presenting it tomorrow.

Project Day 1

Today in class we started a new project. We have to pick two countries and find a problem in each and solve it with a solution. There were four captains picked and they went to the front of the room. They each took turns writing on paper who they wanted in their group. It was done this way so that nobody knew who was picked first or last by each person and no one would feel left out. Once they picked, which seemed to have taken a long time, we got together in our groups. We picked what countries we wanted and told them to Mr. Schick. After that he explained what we should do and said we should use the CIA World Factbook website. Our group is me, Sam, Karlee, Claire, and Andrew. We chose Germany and Columbia. Our problem for Columbia is that. Their GDP is bad and the only reason they even have one is because they are all drug dealers. We are their biggest customer. Our solution is to ramp up the drug production and keep selling them to rich americans who then ruin their lives by getting addicted to drugs. Or they could stop selling drugs and grow a lot of crops instead like coffee, flowers, and corn. (third largest coffee exporter and second largest cut flower exporter). That is all we have so far.

Class Review

We were suppose to have a pop quiz in class but Mr. Schick wanted us to look good for our parent teavher conference. Since it is the beginning of the quarter we started at zero so if we bomb our test then we could have like a 40 percent as our grade. So he didn't give us the pop quizwhich was nice of him. Instead he went over some important questions that would have been on our quiz. He asked a some questions like key terms, number answers, and other stuff. He said the definition of key terms like crude birth rate, crude death rate, fertility rate and what number it has to be for it to replace, life expectancy, what country imports the most oil, and what country has the highest birth and death rate. Crude birth rate is number of births per 1000. Crude death rate is number of deaths per 1000. Fertility rate has to be at least 2.1 for the population to not decrease, the two children replace the parents exactly.

In Class Population Assignment

Japan: There net migration rate is zero. This means that there is the same amount of people leaving and coming into the country. It interesting because they can only increase their population by having more kids, which doesn't seem to be happening. They aren't having a lot of kids because women now wan to work and have careers. There population will be hard to keep up.

Greenland: The Net Migration Rate is -6. This mean that more people are leaving the country than coming in. It is only -6 so that is not a lot but their population will decrease because of this. The people might be leaving because of the climate and their aren't that many people living their. Its harder to find opportunities their unlike America because it so under developed.

Lebanon: Has the highest Net Migration Rate at -40.30. There are a lot of people leaving, almost no one coming in. The conditions are bad because of all the past wars they have had. One just recently ended and I don't think they have had enough time to recover from all the wars that kept happening.
Everyone is leaving hoping for a better life in Europe.

Cook Islands: They have a small population. It is 9,038, they are very low on the country comparison chart. Their Net Migration Rate is -32.3 so they have a lot of people leaving and not enough coming in. There Fertility Rate is 2.16 so it is just enough to replace. They have 8.6 deaths per 1000. They are ranked 75 in the country comparison. I think there population will not change much or if it does change it will not be rapid.

Russia: They have a big population for a big country. They are number six with 142,122,776. There Net Migration Rate is 1.7, they have more people coming in than out. Their population won't go down because of that. They are in the top ten for highest death rate, it is 13.40 deaths per 1000. The population can definitely go down and the population pyramid shows more older people than younger. The fertility rate is 1.61 and it has to be at least 2.1 for the population to stay the same. Their population will be decreasing.

Population Pyramids

Brazil: Will grow slowly. Answer: grow slowly then decrease slowly.


Spain: Will decline. Answer: decline slowly.


Greece: Will decline slowly. Answer: decline quickly.

The Bahamas: Will increase quickly. Answer: grow quickly.

Aruba: Will increase. Answer: will increase for a while than decrease quickly.

Quiz and End of First Quarter

Today we took a ten question quiz on the Hans Rosling video 200 years in 4 minutes. We watched the video again and before taking the quiz. The questions were on a PowerPoint and we filled the answers in on our paper. Some of the questions were what was the y axis called and what is the x axis called. Another was what two events occurred that caused population to go down and what is the worst country according to Hans. It is the end of the quarter and I hope to finish with all A's and I think I did get all A's. That was my goal for the first quarter even though it doesn't really matter I still wanted all A's. For the next quarter I hope to do better like still A's but maybe higher percentages or stay the same. We also have to take our exam which I'm nervous about because I am not a good test taker. I just want to pass all my exams or get a little above a passing grade on all them. I will have to make sure I stay organized until then so I am prepared for the test and so I can easily study for everything. I don't need to worry about them yet but I have to remember that they are coming soon. I can't believe that I am done already with my first quarter of high school. It has gone by so fast already.