9/27

Today in class I didn't do much but that's mostly because I wasn't there instead I had to go and get my braces tightened. The appointment was very fast and only took like 5 minutes so I got in and left, but for the rest of the day my teeth hurt really badly. I got back to school so fast that I was still in the Human Geo, so when I got back I asked what to do and people told me to finish doing my maps but I had already done that at home so I just had conversations with the people around me.

9/26

I had a pretty good overall day today. The first good thing about today was that it was Thursday, the best day of the week. What was also cool about today was that we got to go to the upper gym during our 3rd mod and check out all the clubs that our school has, I didn't sign up for any but the mountain biking and fishing clubs looked interesting. Next I went to Intro to bible and had a test on our first chapter, Mr. Huber graded them in class and we got our scores back I got a 23/25 or a 92% which I felt really good about. The last awesome thing about today was that we won our Jv football game against St. Marys the final score was 18-8, I got in in the fourth quarter and got a tackle and an assist.

9/25

In today's lesson we went over different maps throughout history and how they changed over time. The first map we saw didn't even look like a map and was made out of sea shells and bamboo, this map was supposed to represent were certain islands were and the high and low tides. We also learned that maps used to be mainly directional devices explaining how to get from point A to point B, but are now most commonly used to communicate the location of complex geographical places. The next thing we talked about were meridians and parallels, a meridian is an arc drawn between the north and south poles using latitude and a parallel is the same thing but it uses longitude. The last thing we learned was scales on maps and how they can be written in one of three ways a ratio or fraction, written scale, or a graphic scale.

9/24

Overall I agree with the points of the cartographers in the video and how we should change to the Gall-Peters map, but there are some points that I either didn't understand or didn't agree with. In the video they talk about how the size of a country or continent may change the way we see a country and how powerful it is. However later on in the video they talk about how Greenland and Africa look roughly the same size on the traditional map but in reality Africa is around 14 times the size of Greenland, the part of this I didn't understand was that even though Greenland is represented as being much bigger than it really is it still isn't that powerful in the worlds view. They say that the size changes how we see power but Greenland is pictured as being large but in fact it is not perceived as having much power in todays world.

A message to Garcia impressions

I very much agree with the message that Elbert Hubbard is trying to convey in his short story A Message to Garcia it is something that I think we can all learn from. People need to take action, we can't just sit around and wait for someone else to do our job for us. More people should be like Rowan, he doesn't ask many questions he figures it out himself, he takes action and does what he is told. Many people in todays society put blame on other people and wait on them to fix the problem instead of doing it themselves like Hubbard is trying to tell us to do. This was my take on the story.

Today in class we learned about the Gall-Peters map. The Gall-Peters map is a more accurate representation of the size of countries and continents in the world. In common maps we see that the prominent world powers such as the US, Russia, and Europe are actually bigger on these maps that they actually are. I think that we should change our current maps to the Gall-Peters map because its more accurate information and gives us a better representation and better knowledge of our world for and how size dose not mean how powerful a country is.

9/8

On my third day at John Carroll I had a pretty good day. My first period was an unscheduled. In this I met up with my friends Ham Sullivan and Terrence Reed which are both on the JV football team with me. Then I went to my second period class which was English with Mrs. Zurkowski which was very fun because at the beginning of class we did some yoga. In my third period class of Health we went over a Quiz we had done the previous day which I got an 85% on so I was happy with that. We then had lunch. After lunch I went to Mr.Schick's class. We learned about a man named Elbert Hubbard who was a writer who wrote a story called A Message to Garcia,.

first day of school

Today was my first day of school at John Carroll. Today in Human Geography we first called role and showed Mr. Schick that we had brought our composition notebooks that he told us to bring during orientation, I think everyone brought their note books today.Then we went over his syllabus which was pretty straight forward. Lastly that we all went down and got our picture taken for our yearbook and student I.D. Overall I had a great first day of high school.

9/17

Today in class we took a test on excellence. I felt that I did fairly well on the test and am excited to see what I got on it. The only question I got stuck on was one asking me what was the main gathering place in ancient Greece, I was stuck on it for like ten minutes when I finally remembered it is called the Agora. The two essay questions were fairly easy as well, they asked how the trial of Socrates happened and how the quote "The unexamined life isn't worth living". I wrote about how Socrates was accused of misleading the children of Greece and dishonoring the gods. I also wrote how Socrates was given a chance to escape but decided not to. For the second essay question I answered how government and media play a huge role in what we learn and what opportunities we are exposed to on a daily basis.

9/14

A message to Garcia was very popular in the time it was published, it sold over 40 million copies worldwide. It was translated into 37 different languages, It was written in March of 1899. The book had two movies based off of it in 1916 and 1936. The phrase "take a message to Garcia" meant to take initiative. The book was set in the Spanish American War.
Slipshod- careless lackadaisical, slapdash, remiss.
Imbecility- feebleness, stupidity.
Stenographer- A person who takes dictation in shorthand.
Missive- A letter, especially a long or official.
The Greek word for excellence is arete.
Agora- A gathering place the center of political, spiritual, and athletic life.
Polis- Political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens, is the origin of the words politics, metropolitan, poll.
508 BCE the birth of democracy the first time in recorded history that a people had revolted against their rulers.

9/13

I agree with Socrates quote "Unexamined life is not worth living."

This quote still has meaning in todays world. For example people in communist countries like China and North Korea are living these types of lives. The people in these countries follow by the teachings and rules of their government, and have no say in changing or speaking up about things that they disagree with or questions that they have. Where as in America and other democratic countries we are free to have our own views and disagree with each other and freely ask questions. Many people in These communist countries try to escape or even lead them to self harm because they have no free will and no human rights.

9/11

Agora- A gathering place, the center of political, spiritual, athletic, and artistic life.

Polis-  Political entities ruled by their bodies of citizens. Is e origin of the words politics, metropolitan, and poll.

508 BCE - The birth of democracy- The first time in recorded history that a people had revolted against their rulers.

Socrates the early years- Worked as a stone mason as a young man, he fought in the Peloponnesian war. His background may have shaped the way he viewed the world.
Socrates Teacher- He met with young students in his workshop in the Agora. His method was to ask a series of questions to determine their beliefs and the extent of their knowledge. His method led to the scientific method.
Socrates Controversy- Athens was a great city that attracted brilliant thinkers, people came from all over the world for astronomy, medicine, meteorology, literature, philosophy, and all things scientific. His teachings often went against traditional thinking.

9/10

Today we mostly took notes here is what we took notes about. We learned that A message to Garcia written by Elbert Hubbard sold over 40 million copies in the US and was very popular when it was written. The Author of the book became very rich and wealthy after the stories success. Elbert Hubbard died on May 7 1915 while aboard the RMS Lusitania. We also learned that one of the characters in the book William McKinley, the 25th president, had a mountain named after him but the name was later changed to Denali in 2015 in respect for the natives who lived there.