Today was a fun day. We had a community bell today to explore groups and different organizations set up by students. A couple of the groups caught my eye like the fishing group, biking group, the gaming group, and the computer programming group. I would like to explore some of these groups so I can become more involved in the school and so I can develop different skills.
     The second part of the assembly was voting for class presidents, downloading remind, and explaining the dress code for spirit week. Nominating the class president was pretty cool, we got to hear different perspectives from people and hear the different point of views for making the school better. Two of the people really caught my attention for class president, they brought fresh ideas and showed great leadership skills that could really lead us freshman in the right way. I can't wait to see who was nominated! Downloading remind was very helpful, it allows us to see when test are, when we have school closings, and when we have homework. This app is a great way to stay organized and keep our grades up to par. Lastly, hearing about the dress code was really important for dress down day and spirit week. If we did not get a talk about dress down day and spirit week I would probably be in Mr. Ireton's office when these events come around. Today was a very productive day!

Labeling Maps

            Today in class we labeled maps. We labeled prime meridians, equator, continents, oceans, the nation of your origin, the international date line, the tropic of Capricorn, the tropic of Cancer, and the John Carroll School. It was a very chill fun class today and I really enjoyed labeling all the different maps.

Maps

Michael Proctor
9/25/18

Projection:
Earths spherical shape causes distortion when drawing it on a flat piece of paper.

4 types of distortion
- shapes and area can be distorted
- distance between points
- areas relative size may be altered
- direction can be distorted

Geographic grid: 
The grid is a system of imaginary areas drawn in a grid pattern on Earths surface.

Meridians- Longitude
Parallels- Latitude

Telling Time:
Earth as a sphere is divided into 360 degrees of longitude.

Maps

How Do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?

• Geography is the study where things are found on Earth's surface and the reasons for the locations.
• Human geographers ask two simple questions...

1. Where are people and activities found on Earth?

2. Why are they found there?

Why is each point on Earth unique?

• Each point has different cultures and land types.
• Nothing on Earth has the same features therefore it is unique in its own way.

Why are different places on Earth similar?

• Different places on Earth are similar due to globalization because people start something on an international scale spreading it around the world.

Why are some human interactions not sustainable?

• Some human interactions cannot be sustained because we use some resources like coal and gas at a pace much faster than it can be renewed meaning its not sustainable.

First Test

I thought the test was very good. The format of the test was very good and well written making the test pretty easy to do. I would suggest you give more room to right your essays though, other than that the test was fine.

I was not in class due to a high school soccer game.

Ancient Greece

Arete:

• Moral Virtue
• Act of living up to one's full potential
• Fulfilling purpose in life
• Excellence of any kind

Important quote- (Human knowledge is about knowledge itself)

Agora:

• Gathering place, assembly center where people went for important events

Polis:

• Political entities ruled by bodies of citizens
• Origin of the words politics, metropolitan and poll

Socrates:

• As young men they worked as stonemasons
• Fought in Peloponnesian war
• Working class background and battles shaped the way he viewed the world  
• Met with students, asked questions to get underlying belief's of there knowledge also known as the Socratic method

Excellence 

• Elbert Hubbard wrote a message to Garcia. It was very inspirational essay written in 1899
• It was made into a super popular book with 40 million copies sold
• The book was translated into 37 languages
• Made into movie twice
• Spanish-American war, Garcia taking Cuba from Spain
• Rowan (Army Officer) President Mckinley Was assassinated 
• Tallest mountain in North America named after President McKinley 

    I was absent due to extreme pain from shoulder injury.

      My first days of school have went very good. I am really enjoying my new teacher's and making new friend's from all different school's. The staff at the school is very nice and the school is in immaculate condition. The environment is amazing and comfortable to learn in. I really love how all the teachers care and want their students to succeed so they can excel at learning and life skills. During these first days it has been really exciting to hang out and have fun with my teammates on and off the field going to games and practices. I love the family like connection with everyone in the school and I can't wait to spend my high school years at John Carroll.