8/30/12

Today Human Geography defiantly kept my attention. We read "A Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard. This story was about a man named Garcia who was a general in hiding during the 1800s. Garcia needed a message sent to him but no one knew where he was except for a man named Rowan who knew some information about Garcia. When Rowan was asked to deliver the message he didn't ask any questions he just went and got the job done. The point of the story is that Rowan delivered the message without any hesitation and was determined to get the job done when most people would question the job and probably would want someone else to do it. This shows that back then people were more determined to get their work done weather it had to do with their job or school and nowadays people are more lazy and slack way more. While discussing this story if someone answered the question right then Mr. Schick would give them a doughnut and at the end he gave everyone a doughnut but i didn't take one. With the few minutes left in class we talked about plagiarism and how serious it is. I am looking forward to see what we will be doing tomorrow in class.

8/29/12

Today we didn't do much in class because a lot of people were still having trouble with their blogs. While Mr. Schick went around to help people I customized my blog a little and changed my Google chrome theme.  After that we talked for a while and once everyone had their blog set up Mr. Schick gave us our first homework assignment. The homework is to define eight ancient Greek terms.
arête- being the best person you can be
Socrates- he was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. hes one of the founders of Western philosophy and taught Plato and Xenophon 
the death of Socrates- he was condemned to death by having to drink hemlock 
the Socratic method- created by Socrates and is a m
polis- a city in Greece ethod of teaching by question and answer 
the date 508 BC-  Kleisthenes reforms Athenian code of laws and establishes a democratic constitution
agora- a central spot in ancient Greek city-states  
And if the ancient Greeks called you an idiot it meant you were disinterested in their politics  

August 27, 2012

        Today in class we talked about what Human Geo would be like this year. We got assigned seats and Mr. Schick joked about how we were the smart class because we got our seats right the first time. We discussed the syllabus which I found very interesting.  It definitely helped me to know more about that class then when I first walked in.  Every day after we have class we have to post on our blog and talk about what we did that day.  Mr. Schick explained to us about how he teaches in three different locations so we know where to find him during different times of the day in case we have a question. The only supplies we really need in Human Geo are our Tablet PC, a pen or pencil, and a composition notebook to take notes. This is one of the classes I think I will definitely be looking forward to this year.

First Day

       On Thursday morning when my alarm clock went off I woke up nervous for my first day of high school.  Once I arrived at school, I started to feel excited and a little relieved when I saw a few familiar faces.  We had breakfast in the cafeteria and then went off into the auditorium for a few speeches from some of the faculty. The teachers made me feel a lot better about the day because they seemed so nice and welcoming. After we went to the auditorium I went to my advisory.  I had a problem opening my locker but after I tried about 20 times, I finally got it which was such a relief. After lunch the freshman attended their modified schedules for a C day. I was extremely nervous for this part because we had to find our classrooms by ourselves which ended up not being very hard at all. Mr. Schick was very welcoming and his class seems like it’s going to be a lot of fun.  Also Mrs. Magner was very nice and had a great personality. I can’t wait to get into what we’ll be learning in Spanish this year considering Spanish is one of my favorite subjects. I met tons of new people on Thursday and I can’t wait to see everyone again on Monday. What I thought would be a very nervous day for me turned out to be a fun, exciting day.