Finished Maps in Class

Today we were given time to finish our maps in class today. First, we had three shadow kids from other schools join our class today. As we worked on our maps Mr. Schick had us come up one by one to his desk. The maps were to help us identify where things were. Also, they were to help us be able to locate places a lot better. He discussed to us our blogs and what his thoughts on how we were doing on them. If we had finished our maps we were allowed to work on other homework if we had any to do. We got off the hook today and didn’t have to take notes. The maps where pretty much our notes for today which was pretty nice. Today’s class was interesting and fun. I could see who wanted to get work done or who wanted to work but also just talk at the same time.

September 25, Tuesday Class Notes

Contemporary Mapping

• Shift from simply a tool that provides location reference to a tool used by geographers to communicate complex geographic phenomena
• Indianapolis is one of the only capitals that is not on a body of water

Map Scale

• Written Scale
• Graphic Scale

Projection

• Projection: method of transferring locations on earths surface to a flat map
• Discussed about the Mercator Projection, Goode Homolosine Projection, and the Robinson Projection

Geographic Grid

• Is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on earths surface
• Parallels are numbered by latitude
• Meridians are numbered by longitude
• Points on earths surface can be communicated by referencing points of latitude and longitude intersection 
• Further accuracy can be found by dividing each degree into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds
• Earths divided into 360 degrees longitude 

September 19 Wednesday Class Notes

Key Issues

• How do geographers describe where things are?
• Why is each point on earth unique?
• Why are different places similar?
• Why are some human actions not sustainable?

1.1.1: Explain differences between early maps and contemporary maps

1.1.2: Describe the role of map scale and projections and making maps (cartography)

1.1.3: Explain how latitude and longitude are used to locate points on Earth's surface

Geography: is the study of where things are found on earth's surface and the reasons for the locations

Human geographers ask two simple questions.

• Where are people and activities found on earth?
• Why are they found there?

A map is two-dimensional or flat-scale model of earth's surface, or a portion of it

Cartography: is the science of map making

Maps serve two purposes

• Reference tool to identify an objects absolute and relative location
• A communications tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features

The earliest maps were reference tools

The first world map was made by Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.)

Improvements where made later by Ptolemy

• After Ptolemy, advancements where made in cartography, which made mostly outside Europe by the china and Islamic world

First Test

I was a little nervous before we had the test. I thought I had studied pretty well but I knew I wasn't positive until I took the test. I liked the format a lot because I strong with some teachers formats this one I did not. I thought it was fairly simple and straight forward. everything I studied was used in the test which I was happy about. I new just about everything. I thought I did pretty well and for the first time on a test felt that I did good but I won't know until it is graded. This test format was put together very well and I thought very straight forward on what our teacher wanted us to know. I thought I was well prepared and was still glad that our teacher gave us time before the test to study a little more and get prepared.

Class notes Thursday

• Socrates asked leading questions to help kids develop critical thinking
• Athens was a great city that attacked brilliant thinkers
• these thinkers shared knowledge of astronomy, medicine, meteorology, literature, philosophy, and all things science
• teaching was manly centered around greek gods
• socrates had the young children thinking and questioning things
• socrates for doing this was charged with two different crimes
• corruption of the youth
• impiety (not believing in the gods of Athens)
• then we discussed if socrates should have not been charge or if he should have been charged for his 2 crimes
• Idiot: self-centeredness

Class notes Wednesday

• Imbecility: inability, feebleness
• Stenographer: a person who takes dictation
• Missive: a letter, especially a long or official one
• Ancient Greeks Arete
• Arete: excellence, moral virtue, fulfillment, the act of living to your full potential
• Arete involves all abilities and potential of humans
• the highest human potential knowledge
• "this is what separates us from the dawgs"
• We then discussed things the can't be proved or not it just isn't provable
• Then talked about what Jesuses image and what he most likely looked like
• Agora: a place that people meet to discus important things and have meetings
• Polis: political entities ruled by there bodies of citizens
• 508 BCE was the birth of democracy
• US (1776)
• France (1789)
• China (1985 and 1949)
• Russia (1917)
• Iran (1979)
• Egypt (2011)
• They all had a revolution
• Socrates worked as a stonemason, fought in a war, and this shaped the way he looked at life/world
• He met young students outside the agora
• He had a method of asking a bunch of questions to see there beliefs they had
• This help lead the the scientific method

Excellence

• Published on March 1899
• Sold over 40 million copies
• Translated into 37 different languages 
• Was made into a movie two times
• Was made into a slang and is stilled used in the military today
• The slang is for talking initiative
• Was made during the Spanish American war
• Garcia was a revolutionary seeking cuban independence
• Rowan was a army officer
• McKinley was president at the time
• Slipshod means careless

First Day at John Carroll

-September 7

My first few days of school where pretty fun. So far, I have learned a lot in all my classes. It was a little hard at first trying to find classes but I a starting to get it. My locker is still a struggle to open it, but I am starting to get it but also with the help of my advisor. The students are all really nice to me and helpful during the day while we are moving to classes or in lunch. It is a really full schedule. There is no time for mistakes or fooling around.  The homework hasn’t gotten that bad, but I know it will be getting worse sooner than later. My classes aren’t hard but there not easy and the teachers are very welcoming to me. I am really happy that I am starting to get the hang of it and hope that other freshman are too.