Intro to Human Geography

I did horrible on the quiz yesterday.  I did so much worse than I thought I did, I got a 36 out of 50 and I thought I would get like a 40 out of 50.  My grade came out to a 73%, I don't think I've done that bad on a quiz in a long time.  I also studied a lot for it.  I even rewrote out my notes.  Oh well.  We're waiting for Nick to take the quiz because he was absent yesterday and then when he's done we're going to check it.  I went to the bathroom before class started and I saw Kenzie in there so we walked down to class together and she told me about how she was upset because she got a bad grade on her math test and the human geo quiz.  It made me feel a little better though since I got a bad grade on it too.  Mr. Schick yelled at Christo and after lunch I fell up the stairs and landed on my head and my head ache still hasn't gone away.  H A P P Y   T H A N K S G I V I N G !

In todays human geography class we took our world religions quiz.  The five religions that were on the quiz were Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism.  The quiz was pretty easy, only a couple stumped me, but I think I did pretty good on it though.  I have a B in human geography right now so I'm hoping the quiz brings me up to hopefully an A, if not at least closer to one.  I don't know when the mid- quarter grades come out but I'm really hoping by then to have all As.  I feel like if I can get straight As by mid- quarters than keeping those As until the end of the quarter will be easier.  It'd be much easier to do that than it would be to have a B or C at mid- quarters and try super hard to bump that to an A by the end of the quarter.  The only Bs I have at the moment are in human geography and intro to Bible.  I have an 87% in both classes though so they're pretty high Bs.

In todays human geography class we learned about the other two world religions.  We learned about Buddhism and Judaism.  Buddhism is the fourth largest religion and Judaism is the ninth largest.  Even though Judaism isn't the fifth largest religion, Mr. Schick included it in the top five world religions because of its' survival throughout all the years and attempts of prosecuting Jews off the face of the Earth.  Followers of Judaism are known as Jews and followers of Buddhism are known as Buddhists.  Buddhism has 500 million to 1.5 billion adherents, the number varies quite a bit because Buddhism is a very lenient religion.  You can be a Buddhist and pretty much any other religion at the same time.  Buddhists are geographically located mainly in Southeast Asia, China, Nepal, and Japan, while Jews are geographically located mainly in Israel and the United States.  Buddhism has four denominations (other religions based off of one) and Judaism doesn'...

In todays class we learned about three of the five most popular religions.  We learned about Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism.  Christianity has about 2.2 billion adherents.  Adherents is another word for a follower, it comes from the word adhesive which means to stick to, so it's like sticking to your religion.  Islam has 1.5 billion adherents and Hinduism has 1.1 billion adherents.  Christianity has many different denominations, Islam has two denominations and Hinduism has no denominations.  Denominations are different branches off of a religion.  Christianity is geographically located in Europe, North America and South America, and Southern Africa.  Islam is geographically mainly in Indonesia, the Middle East, and North Africa.  Hinduism is geographically located in India and Nepal.  Each religion has certain beliefs they have to believe in.  Some religions are more strict and have more rules than other religions.  On Frida...

Today in class we went over the test we took yesterday.  I thought I was only going to get about four wrong but I got eight wrong.  I got an 80 percent which is still a B so I am ok with that.  I was hoping for a higher B like an 85 percent but I am just glad I did not get a C.  All the ones I got wrong were the questions that I wasn't sure about.  Most of the questions that I got wrong were the ones about the countries and continents.  I did also get a couple that I was unsure about my answer correct and I was very pleasantly surprised.  Mr. Schick told us that he gave the honors classes six extra questions than the regular classes which I didn't know.  One of my friends in the regular class tried to rub in my face that he got a better grade than me.  Now I'm gonna go tell him we had six extra questions so that's not true!!!

Today in class we took a test on population, population pyramids and migration.   I remembered to look over all my notes last night and this morning Mr. Schick gave us time in class to study some more.  So I watched the video on population pyramids which I'm really glad I did.  Right before we took the test Mr. Schick told us we would need to identify specific countries which I am not good at doing so I tried to learn those quickly.  There we a couple questions on the test having to do with specific countries and continents that I don't think I got right.  I don't think it was too hard of a test I'm just not good at knowing a specific countries population growth and that type of stuff.  The test was 40 questions.  I think I got probably like a 34 out of 40.  I am sure I didn't get higher than that, I'm thinking I got a B which I would be ok with.

In todays class the last group presented for the developing and post-industrialized country slideshow project.  Tonight is also the parent teacher conferences and my mom is meeting with all my teachers.  I'm not nervous about it but I think all my teachers are going to say I talk too much.  The last group's presentation took about 20 minutes.  They're definitely getting an A.  Now we're doing a little worksheet Mr. Schick is giving each of the groups.  It has a place for you to grade everyone in your  group's part in the project.  I'm glad we are doing this because there was definitely some people in my group who did absolutely nothing and it really made me mad.  This always happens I feel like when I do group projects, especially with people I don't know very well.  If they're my friend I'll tell them they're being rude by not doing anything but if I don't know them well, I don’t feel comfortable saying something like that.