Today in class we took our test on the video we've been watching over the past three days. Overall I think I did really good. I might have got one or two wrong because I missed one day of the video but the test was really easy. I feel like I did good because I'm more of a visual learner that's why watching videos is good for me. Also, I think I took good notes on guns germs and steel. One question I did have was how did germs have anything to do with the topic. And one question that was kind of hard on the test was why did people leave the fertile crescent, I said because of over-farming but its ok.

today we finished watching the video by Jared Diamond. We learned that based on your geographic location. it determined if you would progress in life. People in the middle east were very lucky, they were given many animals that could be domesticated such as cows, pigs, and horses. But what really helped them was their crops. They had access to very nutritious crops such as wheat and barley. These things led the middle eastern to learn and create= new things much easier. After that, we learned that originally there were no animals in North America that could be and that the Europeans brought those over.

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In class, we watched the video again. Since I didn't see most of the video, last class I was told a lot that I missed. One thing I missed was the food they eat called Sago. Sago is not good it takes four to five days to process. It also is a waste of calories, goes bad fast, and only fills you up. After that, the video went to the middle east and show how much it was easier to live there since they had wheat. Wheat can be stored for a long time and has great nutrients overall way better then Sago. Jared Diamond said everything was about Geographic Luck.

Today in class we continued to watch the video I didn't get to see much because I left early for a basketball game. I did see that when the Europeans came to Papua New Guinea. They felt as if they were better than them because they were making people carry them.

Today in class we got to see how we did on our exam. I got a 93 on the main test but my essay wasn't as good and I ended up getting a 78 on the essay so it mad my test grade balance out to an 89.25. I thought I did pretty good on the exam essay. After we got to look at our exams we did research on a book call Guns, Germs, and steel. The author was Jared  Diamond. what he was trying to do was see why the world was so unequal

Today we just wrote our Essay it was pretty easy and I think I might get one hundred. I might have had some grammar errors. But my actual writing was good for me. One problem that I had is that I could've used six paragraphs because I made a mistake by using one whole paragraph on the background of each country, Like about their government. Also, I wrote a lot, a total of three pages. Overall i think i did really good on the Essay

Todays the day before writing our Essay. I've gotten a lot better at writing Essays. And we are allowed to use a notecard. On the not card I put certain facts that are very precise. Like niger Has a birth of 43.60. This should help my Essay because it will give it more detail. Also, I think it was a good idea to pick topic A and the countries I picked ( Japan, Niger, The United States of America) have lots of different problems I can talk about.

Semester Essay

                       The three different countries I selected were the United States, Japan, and Niger. I picked these different countries because of they a juristically different in almost every way. For example, they are all on different continents, they all have different governments, and they all have different problems.

Today in class we did our test. To me, it was pretty easy but I know I got at least 2 wrong. The first one was the first question I really knew the topic but I just made a dumb mistake by putting the answering the wrong space. The second question was the one about the video. To be fair I wasn't here when we watched the video but I stilled should've watched the video. One question I got right that some people got wrong was the question where the sentences were wrong and you had to add plus immigration. Overall I think I did pretty good and I think I got an A.

Today in class we reviewed again for our quiz on The demographic transition. Today Mr. Schick asked us a bunch of different questions like what are countries that are in stage five and some are. Japan, Germany, Russia, Greece, Portugal, and Italy. Another question was what was the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution started in England, basically, they made a lot of factories which gave them a lot of jobs, and gave them a lot of money. Then later on the U.S did the same thing and that's how we are a developed country now. I think I will do good on this quiz I just have to study.

Today In class we review for our upcoming quiz on the demographic transition. First, we started out by drawing a demographic transition graph. The graph starts off with the birth rate at 42 and then has the death rate a little below 40.  Then it shows us the curve of both rates which gives us the rate of natural increase. There is also a line that starts off in stage one very low called total population in all other stages it increases besides in the fifth one. This graph shows us the Demographic transition of the United States.

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Today I took the test on religion and did not do good. This was the lowest test score I've gotten since forever but I learned to study more. But in class besides that, we basically did nothing besides review the test and talk about football. I wished I studied more but it's my fault even though I missed the lesson on it, I shoved taught myself more about Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddism.

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Test day

Today we just took our test on the whole unit of population. I think I did pretty well may even have got a one hundred. At the beginning of class until 10:25 Mr. SChick let us study a bit more I looked at things like when the population hit 1,000,000,000 for the first time and there was a question on the test exactly like that. Near the middle towards the end of the test, there were population pyramid questions which at first I wasn't very sure about then I looked up and saw that the test had the population of each pyramid and that helped me out a lot. Overall I feel as if I was very prepared for this test and i think I got near 100 percent.

Today we basically did the same thing as yesterday, study for our up and coming test on Monday, November 18. The only thing we did different today is that we watched the video on population pyramids. Then Mr. Schick hinted to some more questions like if we are looking at a population pyramid of Niger do we think that the population is increasing or decreasing. Or like to remember that they always put males on the left and females on the right. And the last one is that usually in most countries females live longer than males, typically because males do more dangerous jobs in certain countries like going to war.

Today we were noticed that we will have a test on Monday about our whole unit. Even though we already took a test and had a group project on this unit. We were hinted at some of the questions that could be on the test. The test will cover things about population and how to read a population pyramid. Also certain facts like that you have to have a TFR (Total Fertility Rate) on 2.1 to keep your population the same. Or facts like what is the total population of the world which is 7.6 billion