Human Geography

Today in Human Geography we watched a video on how less than 40 years ago all of the countries were poor and sick except for the UK and the Netherlands who were not that far ahead but they were still doing better than the rest. In 1940 they were wider spread than ever and more of the countries are closer to rich and healthy but almost all of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are still poor and sick. It was in 2009 when all of the countries started getting to Rich and healthy but not a lot have the most money but they still have a high life expectancy which means that they are healthy. Some of the provinces in China when split off from the whole they appear to be like the Sub-Saharan African countries that are stuck behind because of bad diseases and they cannot grow a lot of food and they will continue to have a low life expectancy until they can fix their problems.

Today in Human Geography we talked about our tests and got them back and I saw that I got a 98% on it and I missed one question but I did not get the extra credit questions because one of them was a close reading question and I did not pay attention to exactly what it said but only one person got it correct because the right answer was zero and the only person to get it right was Dylan and Dominic was the only one who got the second extra credit question right so he ended up with a 102% on the test. The question I got wrong was very confusing because it was talking about the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The question was asking about which nation had the highest net migration rate and the correct answer was Canada but I put the United States because did not remember learning that specific answer but I could have been more prepared.

Today in Human Geography we got to look at a website called Kiva and we just got to explore and see if we thought that some of the things on the website were interesting and I noticed that it is just for donating money to people and you can give a minimum of 25 dollars and you can only donate to a person one time. I liked this because we could pick the people that we thought deserved it most and I saw about a woman that was raising money to pay for hospital expenses because she had already had a kid but she was having another one and needed to pay for the bills that were coming when she did give birth and all the times she had to check on her process. I noticed that she had a long time before her donation time was over and she only needed $175 to pay for all of the expenses that she would have to cover. I hope she either gets the funds or I am happy that she did get them depending on the next time I check it.

Today in Human Geography we took the test and I am very glad that I studied for it because everything that I studied was on the test and this helps because I knew what all of the answers were and I believe that I am going to get an A but if I do not it will be a very close B but I will be upset at myself for not getting a good grade of an A. The only two question that I did not know were the bonus questions on the back of the test. I do not think that I got any of these right and I would be very surprised if I did. I also got to work on anything else that I did not finish so I was able to finish my biology work that I thought I turned in but I guess I did not because it said that I did not and I found it in my book not turned in or fully completed.

Today in Human Geography we kept going over presentations that people made for the go for an A or go for a B project and I noticed that more people today went for a B than the last two days combined, 3 groups out of 5 or 6 today went for a B and from the last two days only two groups went for a B and the rest went for A's because people may need the A grade because their grade might not be that high and they want to bring it up or they have an A and they just want their grade to be even higher than it already is. I noticed that on veracross, Mr. Schick posted my grade for it and I saw that my group got an 81/100 on the presentation and it is a B but it is very close to a C and I was surprised because I thought that we were going to get a much higher grade on the presentation than we did because we worked very hard on it and we did a very good job presenting.

Today in Human Geography we continued hearing project presentations from groups and my group had to go first today. I do not like speaking in front of classes and I did not like this because people were very disrespectful like Ryan and they were just sitting on their computers doing whatever they wanted while we were trying very hard to present the project that we worked our butts off to do and finish to try and get an A while other groups like the one yesterday only went for a B. This frustrated me because it is a very tough class and all I wanted to do was present my project so that I could get an A and bring my grade up from the B that it dropped to because of the first pop quiz that we then re-took because almost everybody got a bad grade on it. I hope that we got an A on the project because it would help me tremendously and I would feel better about having to do a project like that again.

Today in Human Geography we started listening to the presentation projects by people that either went for an A or went for a B. Only one group did the go for a B project which surprised Mr. Schick because all of the groups in his HONORS class did a go for an A project and most of the projects in our class did go for an A project and my group did a go for an A project and I think that the rest of the groups did a go for an A project. I think that my group will get an A because we did everything that was required to the greatest standard of what we can do and if we get a B I will be upset and I will want to know why it happened and what we could have done better. If we do get an A I will be happy but if we get a low A I would just want to know what we could have done better so that we can do better the next time we do a project.