Todays class

Today in class we discussed the CIA worldfactbook website. We learned how to further navigate aorund the website and learned some new facts about the United States government. We also learned there are a bunch of definitions on the website that can be useful for class help. Mr. Schick talked about nuclear bombing too, which was kind of scary to learn about. We watched a video about it and everyone would quickly get to the safest spot if the siren would go off. 

class notes

Today in class we reviewed things they talked about on friday in class because some people were not in class because of the freshman retreat. We looked at a power point that had facts written on it and then Mr Shick explained everything to us. Some of those things we talked about were interesting.  One of those things we talked about were life expectancy. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. Right now on this earth there are over 7 billion people. The number is increasing by over 73 million per year. The crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 of the population. And the crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1000 of the population. The net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year.

Fridays Class

On friday i was not in class. I went on the freshman retreat. On the retreat we did a lot of fun things. We played games outside and also got into groups and talked and then came up with things that represent John carroll. My group said Athletics, Academics, and citizenship. Then we ate pizza and played more games. Then we got back onto the bus and then had closing prayer and ended the day.

todays test

In class today we took our test. I thought that the test was going to be a lot harder then it actually was. Mr Shick let us use our blogs which helped a tremendous amount. If you had a really good blog and did everything correctly it would've helped a lot on the test because if you got caught you would've had the information. Taking the test wasn't bad at all.

Today in class we had a substitute because mr Shick was at a meeting far away. The teacher told us to check your blog because you gave our instructions on there. We then got into groups and helped each other study. We created questions for ourselves that would help us study on quizlet.com.

Todays class

Today in class we discussed many things. Since Mr Shick will not be in class tomorrow we went over things that will be on the test wednesday. He explained the test really well. He told us that he does not do true or false questions because they do not benefit us because we have a 50/50 chance of getting it wrong. Then he let us say some things that we think should be on the test. He even let us know the essay question and some of the questions that will be on the test. Then we started talking about inventions and how everything is going to be different in the years coming.

globalization

In class yesterday we talked about globalization. Globalization is the connection of different parts of the world. Globalization also results in the expansion of international cultural, economic, and political activities. A lot of globalization is associated with Americanization. One way globalization has spread is through religion. Also many people are talking way more english around the world. Globilization is spreading in many around the world.

todays class

In class we discussed many things. One of those things was talking about where all of our things come from. We checked our clothes tags, shoes, binder and computers to see where they they were made. Most things were made in china because everybody there works for cheap and then ships all the stuff overseas to america. We discussed workers from other country. We talked about if you call
Verizon someone from india will answer and have no clue what we are talking about. And we reviewed our drill that we had for homework last night about technology. Everyone when we were discussing it was shocked and so was i.

Did You Know video

I was not in class for long today but i didn't have to be in class in order to do this blog because there is a video to help. There were many  things in this video that i had no clue about. My initial reaction on the video i watched was i was shocked and amazed. I was shocked because i was amazed at all this crazy information about our generation using technology. All of these changes are happening with technology. Who knew this would all turn into such a big problem. Back in the day they didn't used to have any of this technology that we know take for granted and don't get off of it. I don't think most people in our generation could go a month with out the use of technology. Even i wouldn't be able to. These changes are personal because it is becoming such a big part of my life because everyone is always on there phones or something and we can't have conversations face to face. Technology plays a huge role in my life. In many ways it does such as, school, social media, talking to people. I school we use computers and google our answers sometimes, we do our homework online. Social media is probably one of the biggest because everyone is so into Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat that we hate when we cannot use these apps. It has become such a big part of our lives.

Definitions

In todays blog we have to define terms that we discuss in class.

Agora- 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. wikipedia 

Arete- means "excellence of any kind". The term may also mean "moral virtue".  The act of living up to ones full potential. - wikipedia 

Polis - City state in ancient Greece , central urban area 

The year of 500 BC.-  Athenian democracy was established in Athens under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias. 

Socrates- born on 470 BC. A greek philosopher who contributed to the fields of ethics. created socratic method. 

Death of socrates-  Socrates was put on trial for criticizing democracy and was sentenced to death and was forced to drink a mixture containing poison hemlock. Corrupting the youth and introducing strange gods were the reasons. wikipedia 

The socratic-It is a dialectical method, often involving a discussion in which the defense of one point of view is questioned. wiki 

When ancient greeks called you an idiot- someone concerned with private affairs instead of public meaning you are self centered

Today in class we talked about "A message to Garcia". The whole point of this story is so that everybody understands they should be reliable and hardworking and just get done what they need done without asking questions. Then we talked about voting. When our parents were younger the voting age was different. It used to be 18 and now it is 21. And he said that kids were getting drafted into the war but yet couldn't vote. Younger people should be aloud to vote because we have our whole future in front of us unlike old people. Senior citizens don't have as much time as we do left on the earth so why can't we vote to help our future?

todays class

In todays class we had to help get everyone on track with there blogging. Today in class we figured out that many people kept creating a new blog every time, instead you are supposed to publish a new post on your blog. Since most people were doing it incorrect we had to help them get back on track. Then you had to show us how to check our grades online on powerschool because many people also didn't know how and some of those people were failing because of there blogging mistakes. Since the people blogged wrong he didn't see there updated posts which caused them to get a zero for completion because he didn't know they did them.After we got everyone situated we talked about the ALS ice bucket challenge and how someone in his family was affected and how it has raised almost over 90 million dollars.