Jevan The Teacher

In class on Thursday we decided to have another student teacher! We chose Jevan to be the teacher. Since Jevan was chosen he got to sit in the front of the class and teach us. On Wednesday, we had to get in groups and had to answer 25 questions. Once Jevan got to the front of the room he opened his laptop and decided that we were going to go over all the questions we had to answer on Wednesday. Whenever there is a student teacher the class isn't as calm as it usually is when Mr. Schick teaches. We stayed as calm as we could and Jevan has the class under control, most of the time. When Jevan would as the question we would all raise our hands to answer and he would call on one of us. I still enjoy having a student teacher, it's so much fun! I don't think we should have a student teacher more than twice a week though because we still need to learn what Mr. Schick is required to teach us.

CIA Fact Book questions

1. What is the population of the United States?                                   

     316,668,567
2. What are the five largest countries in the world, by population?                              

    China, India, United  States, Indonesia, and Brazil
3. What is the population of Pakistan?                                 193,238,868
4. What kind of government does the United States have?                                         Constitutional-based Federal republic; strong democratic tradition  
5. What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?                                             95%
6. What is the largest country in the world by area?       Russia
7. What country has the third greatest number of airports?

            Mexico

8. What country has the greatest number of exports?

           European Union

9. What country exports more oil than any other?

           Saudi Arabia

10. What country imports more oil than any other?

           United States

11. What country has the second largest proved reserves of crude oil in the world?

            Venezuela

12. Can women serve in combat roles in China’s military?

            Yes

What is GDP?        Gross domestic product or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year

13. What country has the highest GDP per capital in the world, and how much is it?

            Qatar

14. Is the US in the top ten for GDP per capita?

no

15. Most of the countries with the highest birth rates can be found in what continent

Africa

16. 11 of the top 12 countries with the highest number of deaths from HIV/AIDS can be found

in which continent?    

           Africa

17. What other country is in the top ten?

            Africa

18. Where does the US rank in HIV/AIDS deaths                                                         Ranked 18th
19. Is the US #1 in number of cellular phones?

            No it is ranked number 3

20. What percentage of the US is Roman Catholic?

            23.9%  is Roman Catholic

21. What percentage of Mexico is Roman Catholic?

            82.7% is Roman Catholic

22. What is Net Migration Rate?

            An excess of persons entering the country during a year is referred to as net immigration

23. Does the US have the highest Net Migration Rate in the world?

            No it is ranked 29th

24. According to the Factbook, what is the current population of the entire planet?

            795

Moving On to a New Section

Since we took our first test for the first section of the chapter it's time to move on to the second section! We spent todays class looking at a powerpoint our teacher made and copying a few notes and vocab words into our note books. A couple of words we talked about is emigration and immigration. One of the notes that surprised me is that there are 7 billion people on earth! I feel that 7 billion is a lot but I always thought there would be more people on earth. We also talked about the National Death Rate the National Birth Rate. I usually don't like copying notes but since we didn't have to copy a lot down I thought it was okay. I thought it was a lot easier that when we were looking at the powerpoint we didn't have to copy down every note that was on the board and Mr. Schick told us the important stuff and we only had to copy down what he said. The vocabulary words we had to know luckily were pretty easy to understand and if we have a vocab quiz on these words I think I will do well on it.

Finished the Test

Today we had our first test and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. We have ten multiple choice questions that were not hard at all ans then three essays. The essays were more difficult than the multiple choice but I still think I did pretty good. The three essays were about Socrates, Globalization and infrastructure. The easiest essay for me was the one about Socrates. We had to explain what his famous saying meant to us. His famous saying is "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think I understood that saying pretty well and I explained it very well on my test. The other essays were more difficult but I tried my best and put down the best answer I could think of. I took my time studying last night and made sure I knew all the information about the notes we took in class. I think I did well on the test and I hope i get a good grade to start off the year.

First Quiz Of The Year!

Tomorrow is our first quiz! Sadly, I don't think anyone including me is looking forward to it. Since it is our first quiz we needed to know what information we needed to study. So, Mr. Schick said that after we presented he would tell us what we needed to know and recommended we should take some notes. After we presented our power point presentations to the class we went over what we needed to know for tomorrow. We need to know information about Socarates, a Greek philosopher, The letter to Garcia, information about the Greeks, what we went over for the last couple days about Nike, and some vocabulary.  We all participated by raising out hands and said something we learned like a vocab word and what it meant or something about globalization or Socrates. Hopefully I will do very good on it. I took great notes and I am going to study hard tonight. I need to do my best so hopefully my studying will pay off!

What Can We Do To Help?

Just like yesterdays class we talked about the Nike foundation and what they were doing to its employees especially the ones in Indonesia. The employees for Nike that live in Indonesia are treated very unfairly and their pay is not very good either. Mr. Schick and my class discussed the video we watched about this problem yesterday and also talked about what we could possibly to do help. One of the ways we said we could help is to not buy anymore apparel, shoes, or equipment from Nike. We argued a little about that though because we all really like Nike and it would be hard to not buy anymore apparel or equipment from them. We also discussed and did some math to figure out how much money the workers get paid in a year. It was around 1,100$. We all said and agreed that what the managers of Nike are doing to the workers is unfair and needs to be stopped.

Nike Is Not As Good As It Seems

Today in class we were talking about the brand Nike. Everyone loves to wear Nike because it's cool and everyone has it but not many people know whats going on during the making process. Jim Keady and a friend of his Leslie Kretzu traveled to Indonesia to visit the people who live there and especially the ones that work for Nike. Jim went to Indonesia to prove that the working situation there is horrible and we need to do something about it. The people of Indonesia had a very hard life. The ones working for Nike are only paid 1.25$ a day and had to work a ton more extra hours just to get the amount of money that would supply them with food and other necessities that would help support them and their families. Jim and Leslie tried to live the way the people in Indonesia did and they couldn't do it because it was so hard. Leslie ended up getting sick with a fever of 104 degrees and if she got medicine the amount she would have to pay for it would mean she would have to miss two meals that day. The conditions are very hard there and I feel horrible for the people in Indonesia, we need to do something to help them.