Today in class we started by reviewing yesterdays research points and we especially went over Socrates. I learned that he actually thought that philosophers should run the government because they were more educated. Then we talked about the definition of idiot, the Greeks used it as a way to describe people who weren't involved in their government and community. They were viewed as dishonorable. Then we took a look at socrates famous quote "an unexamined life is not worth living". This quote to me is looked in a way that if you don't live your life questioning and wondering things about our word, then is there really a point to live? Why would you want to live a dull meaningless life? Socrates firmly believed this as well. We also spent time in class discussing hurricane Irma, as a way of questioning our life, today's class was very eventful and I felt like I learned a lot of useful information that will be used for the test.
When I first got to class I started off by getting the notes I missed while I was absent. Then I found out where my new seat was. Then we went into discussing place and characteristics of a place that make them special. We talked a little bit about Maryland and the characteristics that make it unique. Such as language, culture, the flag, traditions, religion and much more. Then we did more definitions. We defined region and cultural landscape. Then we talked a little about types of regions and how to classify them. Then after that we got into groups of three and looked at three maps from different elections- 2006, 2008, and 2012. We looked at which states voted republican and which voted democratic and then we sorted them and talked about how you would categorize them into different regions. We did not finish all of it so I think that is where we will be picking up during the start of tomorrow’s class.
When I first walked into human geo I realized that the classroom was surprising warm. This was nice because it is really cold outside and most of the first floor is too. I hope that we get off school tomorrow and maybe even Friday. Then we all got mints because a classmate had a bunch left over from advisory, so overall class was off to a good start. Today in class we started off by reviewing the qualities of an independent State. Then we watched a cartoon video of all the countries in the world. And finally, we got the information for our world leaders project and got to start it.
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