Human Geography Blog 8-29-17

I was not in class today due to recovering from surgery.

            In today's Honor's Human Geography class we have a sub! Her name is Mrs. Ferry and she just happens to be my Spanish teacher. Today I had to read an article about how geographers use site and situation to describe where a place is and what it looks like. Site is physical attributes of an area that help a geographer describe what this place looks like. When different places have a variety of different sites it gives them a character that only they have. As Mr. Schick said before,"no two places in the world are the same". We can see in history that many starting off civilizations really took the different sites of an area into play because they wanted to use those sites to their advantage. One good example of this is Havre De Grace. America built naval bases in Havre De Grace during the Revolutionary War because it was easy to defend the Chesapeake Bay. So, they used the sites of Havre De Grace to their advantage. As we can see, sites are very imp...

              In today's wonderful  Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we went over our blogs with Mr. Schick and checked our maps that we filled out about a week ago. We started the class with Mr. Schick calling us up one by one to check on our blogs and see if we are doing the titles right and just including what needs to be included in them. Mr. Schick called about five people up before he said, "Frankie." When I walked up he told me that I needed to fix my title because I was just making the titles the dates that I did the blogs. Which is why I have very "creative" title today. After going over my blog with Mr. Schick we went over the map we filled out a while ago. I happened to lose my map so I shared with my friend Ashley. After going over the map the bell rang and put a wrap on Monday's Honor's Human Geography class.

                In today's wonderful Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we went over how every point of the Earth is different and similar. We learned that the differences and similarities between regions start with where they are geographically. Geography has a big play in a region's culture. This is what ultimately makes regions different and similar to each other. After this, Mr. Schick checked our mental world maps to see how we did on them. After looking at a map I realized just how much I don't know geographical regions. I tried drawing the shape of the Scandinavian Islands and Mr. Schick thought that it was a literal piece of garbage and that I was trying to make a statement about littering. After the checking was over we finally got our tests back. Mr. Schick has a tradition that whenever someone gets an A on the test he rings a bell. If you score a 100% or more, you get two rings. If you get a B or less on the test, you are rew...

               Today in the wonderful Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we got a new air conditioner! Just kidding, that's not the only thing that happened today. We drew maps without even looking at anything to help us. Mr. Schick called it a mental map. We had to draw a map of the world without looking at the map in the back of the room. Mine was extremely bad. I drew all of the continents way out of proportion and the same went for the oceans. We also had to draw a map of our route to school. I got out my notebook and made all of my lines and all of the places I pass and then realize I did it to the school I went to for the last nine years of my life. So, I threw that one out and made my new one. I drew the lines and the bridge I cross all the way until I got to John Carroll. The whole activity really gave you a fell for where you are in the world.

             Today was a very short, yet sweet, Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick. I walked into class and put my phone in the Apple Bin like every other day. When, Faith walked in and said it was stuffy in the room. So, Mr. Schick walked over to the phone and dialed a number and said," Oh yes, hi, I wanted to tell you that Faith would like an air conditioner to be delivered to the class room." Mr. Schick then said that he was swamped with all the tests that he has to grade and asked us if it would be okay if he spent the period grading the tests and giving us a study period. We all said that was fine and everybody left the room to go get books while Michael and I stayed in the room. I stayed in the room because I was leaving to see an orthopedic in ten minutes. When everyone was gone Mr. Schick told me and Michael that someone actually was delivering an air conditioner which I though was pretty funny. After that, it was time for me to go. ...

              In today's Honor's Human Geography Class with Mr. Schick we learned had a very interesting lesson on two world maps. We learned about the difference in the Mercator Projection Map and the Peter Projection Map. Through most of our entire lives we have been believing the world looks like what the Mercator Map projects to be. However, the Mercator Map has many flaws. It projects Greenland to be the same size, if not bigger, as the United States. However, The United States is much larger than Greenland. The Mercator Map also projects Alaska to be much bigger than Mexico. But, Mexico is actually 0.1 times bigger than Alaska. The Mercator Map also projects Africa to be much smaller than it actually is. As we can see their are many things that are wrong with the Mercator Map. A lot of people wonder why it is so wrong. It is because of the man named Mercator, that made the map, wanted the latitude and longitude lines to be nice and straight and b...