Today in Vegas... My Famous Uncle!

So today we lost our game pretty bad because we weren't playing like the team we truly are. I don't know if it was the pressure because of the college coaches or if it was because people on my team just didn't hydrate enough... idk. So I met my uncle and he is so funny! He knows so many famous people he is practically famous himself. Actually he is famous. He is a famous chef that has his own cooking show that Fox might pick up and he is working on publishing his own cook book! This man has Micheal Jordan's number in his phone! Anyways I have to go to sleep because I have a game in the morning... goodnight!

Today in Vegas... Its so hot!!!

So I don't really even know if we have class today but I'm gonna do a little blog just incase. So basically I'm, of course, at another soccer tourney. This time in Vegas! It is so hot here and I got off the plane with my coat on and I was dying the second I stepped outside! Hope you are having fun in school! Wish me luck these next few days!

Today in class... GREEK GODS (& GODDESSES)!!!!!!

Today in class we talked about the best part about Ancient Greece. Mr. Schick says he doesn't like this part and doesn't care for it but I find it the most interesting. I've always been interested in the way they used to believe in their gods. I personally just don't like how confusing it is with all the demigods and like who came from who and which siblings had kids with the other siblings. Thats the stuff that I don't like. And if you ask me, Mr. Schick seemed pretty into it when he was talking about it... but thats just my opinion.

Also, WEAR YOUR PJS INSIDE OUT TONIGHT AND PUT A SPOON UNDER YOUR PILLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i simply just want a single snow day this year

Today in class... Greece Again

Today in class we talked about Greece even more. Mr. Schick gave us some words to know so here they are:

Polis- fundamental political unit made up of a city adn the surroundign counrtyside
Monarchy- rule by a single person (usually king)
Aristocracy- rule by a small group of noble, rich, and land owning men
Aristocrats- a member of the ruling class
Oligarchy- wealthy groups who seized power (didn't like the current rule)
Tyrant- powerful person who took rule by appealing to the commoners for support

We also talked about some important people and rulers... Just remember 508 BCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats when the first democracy came into place

Today in class... More on Greece

Today in class we talked more about Greece.We talked more about Greece's geography and more on how it shaped their culture. In Greece you are only able to farm on about 20% of the land. The temperature is pretty okay there with it being in the 80s during the day and 40s at night. Their diet was pretty much just grapes, olives, and grains. These we also a big part of their economy and trade system because with the olives you could make olive oil and with the grapes you could make wine which were very popular things that you could only find in Greece.

Today in class... New Unit

Today in class we started to learn about Ancient Greece. We learned that the main civilizations were always near water: Egypt---Nile River
                               India----Indus River
                               China--Huang He River
                               Mesopotamia--- Tigris and Euphrates River
Also, Mediterranean means "middle of the earth". We basically just covered the basics today. Like we talked about some places we need to know on the map, the geography of Greece, and how that shaped their culture.

Today in class... Fly High Josh

So today in class all of the grades got called up to have a "meeting" type thing. They told us that sophmore Joshua Hamer had been in a really bad car accident and that we need to keep him in our thoughts and prayers. Then we all prayed as a group and went back to class. I also got a 97% on my test.

So it is after school now and we actually all got let out of school early. Um I don't know how to say this lightly but Josh passed earlier today. After we all found out no one could focus, not even the teachers so they decided to let us out of school early. This is also why I have changed the title of my blog.

Rest in peace Josh. You will be missed <3

Today in class... Test

Today in class we took our test on American History. So last night he sent out an email about what we should study and that helped me out a lot because I was really confused on what we needed to know. We were also allowed to use our blogs but first off my internet wasn't working and I didn't feel like taking all of my test taking time to try and figure out my internet issues. Second my computer was about to die so I probably wouldn't have been able use my blogs by the time i figured out the wifi stuff. Third I looked through the questions and realized how easy the test was and that I didn't need my blogs in the first place so I think I did really well on the test. I actually think I got a 100%.

Today in class... Review for Test

Today in class we pretty much just went over all of the notes that we have taken in class on this unit. As we were going over the notes Mr. Schick told us what would be good to know and what we didn't have to worry about. I was still pretty much lost the entire time because as we were going over the notes I realized that my notes for some reason were out of order so it was pretty hard to follow along so I just gave up. I'm just gonna study everything I have in my notes.

Today in class... Mr. O'Hara

Today in class Mr. Schick had his teacher review thing so Mr. O'Hara was in class to observe. I felt bad for Mr. Schick though. First off that one kid that keeps coming into our class came again and to me hes kind of annoying because he distracts the people on my side of the room and they will just talk the whole time. Also everyone had their laptops open and were probably playing games which also didn't look good for him. After Mr. O'Hara left a lot of people (including me) kept dozing off and eventually fell asleep. I mean I pulled through until like the last five mins. Idk all I know is that when I woke up, Mr. Schick was still on the same slide.

Today in class... Slides on Slides on Slides

Today seemed like it was never ending... especially this class. It just seemed to go on forever and ever. Not gonna lie I fell asleep. Idk why I was so tired today but I couldn't keep my eyes open. We talked about the the Constitution and more of the Articles in the Constitution. I'm about to fall asleep again bc I just had practice and that took SOOOO much out of me. Idk how I'm gonna function tomorrow.

Today in class... Everyone is sick!

Today in school everyone is sick and getting sick! There is a rumor going around school saying that if I think its like over 10% or 20% of the school or something is out sick then the school has to close. I'm really hoping that its true. Also Mr. Schick warned us that the school is starting to get stricter on the whole dress code situation. Another thing that I think is really unnecessary is that we are going to have a computer in the hallway that we will need to use to sign in if we are late. What have we come to. What was ever wrong with going to the secretary. i never thought that lateness was such a big deal that my tuition money has to pay for something to give us a hallway pass instead of something more important like oh idk maybe some HEAT or AC!

Today in class... Cupid's Corner

Today in class it is Valentines Day! I honestly don't know why I put a exclamation point with that sentence because I hate Valentines Day. Its just such a depressing day for people who don't have a Valentine *cough cough* me *cough cough*. Anyways today Mr. Schick let us watch the new JC video on YouTube called Cupid's Corner. It was basically a video with all the cutest and most popular couples in JC answering questions about each other. It was really cute actually. Also Mr. and Mrs. Attanasio were in the video and they are honestly so stinkin' cute. After we watched the video, we talked about Amendments and we touched on religion in schools like we did the other day. My views haven't changed.

Today in class... Tests

Today in class we got our tests back and I got an 88... very upset. On the bright side Mr. Schick said he was going to add three points on our overall test grade because he had made a mistake on the test itself which caused may people to get an answer wrong. When we were going over the test I found that I had skipped a question adn failed to answer it which really made me mad at myself because if I would've simply just answered that question then my grade could be 2.5 points higher than what it is right now... SMH (shaking my head).

Today in class... Religion in Public Schools

Today in class we had this huge discussion about whether or not public schools should allow prayer and whether or not they should make the lesson on how the Earth was created based on the book of Genesis. I personally think that prayer is an okay thing to allow as long as you allow all prayer of all different religions is allowed and I also feel that it is okay as long as teachers don't make kids pray according to their religion. As far as the lesson on how the Earth is made, I feel it would be okay as long as you incorporated all different religions and how they all believe the Earth was created. If that isn't possible then they should continue the way they are teaching it as of now except they should say that the Big Bang is exactly the way it happened. They should put emphasis on it being a theory.

Today in class... Constitution Assisgnment

Today in class we walked in to find Mr. Schick not here. Our sub told us that he left an assignment for us on Veracross... which was not there so for half of this period we all have just been sitting around chatting and looking at dresses for the winter dance coming up. About half way through this period we all checked Veracross again and Mr. Schick had put the assignment up. So here it is... a brief summary of the Constitution.

Preamble:
lists the reasons why the colonies decided to separate from Great Britain

Article 1:
Explains the Legislative Branch- the two "houses": The House of Representatives and the Senate

Article 2:
Explains the Executive Branch- the President, Vice President, Cabinet, and Departments under the Cabinet Secretaries carry out the laws made by Congress

Article 3:
Explains the Judicial Branch- Supreme Court decides cases according to the US Constitution. Courts under Supreme Court decide criminal and civil cases according to federal, state, and local laws.

Article 4:
States Powers'- States have the power to make and carry out their own laws.

Article 5:
Amendments- The Constitution can be changed and new amendments can be added by approval of 2/3 votes in each house of Congress and 3/4 votes by the states.

Article 6:
Federal Powers- Federal powers are higher than any state power and any and all laws must agree with the US Constitution

Article 7:
Ratification- 12/13 states signed the Constitution. From September 1787 to July 1788 the States met and discussed the Constitution and finally voted to approve it.

Today in class... New Blog

So as you can tell I made a new blog for Western Civ. I know its a little late but I just felt like a new semester along with a "new" class deserved a new blog. So today Kate came back from Florida and I was so excited because I missed her so much! She again as usual was playing with my hair in class lol. Basically today we went over the notes we started to take in class last Friday so that Kate and everyone else that was absent could catch up. We also talked about the 3/5 Compromise and how bizarre that was. We obvioudly realize now that a person should never be considered any less than a whole person.