11-19-14 Class

Premonition

Today in class, we had a substitute teacher. The strange thing about this was that the class before, I was sitting there, thinking "I feel like we have a substitute today even though we haven't had one for this class yet". When I was finally done with Algebra, I was walking down the steps to class when Adam told me "Room 220". Room 220 sounded familiar for some reason, but I didn't know why. I turned around and walked to Room 220 and I quickly discovered why it sounded familiar. It was my advisory room. Our substitute was the one, the only, Mr.Connolly. Mr.Connolly is the coolest advisor and so laid back. I was excited to see him, and sat in my normal comfy chair that spins. I had forgotten my headphones today, which doesn't happen often. It just so happens, today we had to do our Spotify assignment. I just lowered the music to the point of only me hearing it and chose a few songs. All of the songs were Pull Force songs from country artists like Toby Keith.

11-18-14 Class

Finally

Today in class, Mr.Schick made us a deal. The deal was that if we got what we needed to get done the first half of the class, he would put in grades for the second half. As usual we participated and copied notes and got our work done. Mr.Schick had us taking notes on Cultural Division. He had a map of the US up and each county was a different color. One color represented what the majority of the county called what us Marylanders call "soda". Mr.Schick told us how he is from Chicago and often catches himself saying pop and having to say soda so people from around Maryland will understand. He then put in grades and my grade went from a 71 to a 94!

11-14-14 Class

This is Russia's national anthem in Russian and English.

11-13-14 Class

Test

Today in class, we took a test. I didn't get to study a lot for it and thought for sure it was going to be a problem. Luckily, Mr.Schick pretty much verbally covered everything on the test. As soon as I got to class, I opened my computer and did a quick study before having my computer shut by Mr.Schick. He handed out the test and we began. I was relieved to see some questions we have previously answered on there and did them first. I then noticed I knew just about every single answer. Confident that I had done well on the multiple choice answers, I moved on to the essay. I wrote a short 5-6 Sentence essay on why it was wrong to assassinate the president. I think I did well and am confident I will get an 85 or above.

11-12-14 Class

Ya Done Goofed

Today in class, people who's slide made it in to the final presentation, had to make their slides public. Mr.Schick said he was so used to just doing it himself, he completely forgot to tell us. I made my slide public and we moved on. Mr.Schick then pointed out the 7 things John was doing wrong and we all laughed. We went over some neat slides, and Mr.Schick got really into assassination. He exclaimed that each year he has at least one kid who thinks its fine if the president got assassinated. Apparently, this kid was in another class and said "The only bad thing about Obama getting assassinated is the fact that the person who did it would go to jail". Mr.Schick said he went off on the kid and told us that he has had presidents he doesn't like but that doesn't mean he would wish for them to be assassinated.

11-11-14 Class

Final Presentations

Today in class, we had our final presentations. First up was Syria. I had to leave briefly to pick up my unexpected shadow and felt bad for a short amount of time thinking I had once again forgotten I had a shadow. When I got to my shadow, I found out he had just switched days. My shadows name was Brent and he came from Bel Air Middle School. I introduced him and Mr.Schick asked if he knew about Syria, to which he responded "A little". We then watched the Syria presentation, Israel, Mexico, and lastly, Brazil. I took a ton of notes and made sure I got what Mr.Schick said. Overall, the day was very productive.

11-6-14

Presentations

Today in class, I witnessed my first presentation. I was absent yesterday due to a bad sinus infection that prevented me from being able to come to school. Yesterday, there was a presentation on France I believe. I had a friend send me the notes and took some today. First up, were Parker and John. This was a pretty funny presentation. We laughed at some grammatical errors and when John tried to pronounce "Joachim Gauck" everybody laughed. The next slide was Adam and Kendall. Kendall was in business mode and Adam was all laughs, a good balance of both. At one point, Kendall and Adam did this hilarious "Yes" and "No" at the same time, that sounded like it was straight out of a movie.

11-4-14 Class

Finishing Touches

Today in class, Mr.Schick announced this was our last day of being able to work on the projects. Karson and I were already done, but I still went and sat near her and acted like I was doing work. I listened to some rad music, from the likes of Aerosmith, Bill Withers, and most importantly, Bruce Springsteen. I made some adjustments to the spelling on the slides and corrected some bad grammar. I began singing and Mr.Schick shut me down. I stopped singing, but we all knew he just stopped me because he was jealous of my amazing singing. Class was long today, so we kind of joked around a little and talked about really tall people. I learned a man named John F Carroll stood at 8 ft 8inches. Class eventually ended.

10-30-14 Class

More Project

Thursday in class, Mr.Schick let us go over our president test. I got a 73%, the same as a shadow. This was due to stupid mistakes and not studying well. I was surprised to learn getting 4 answers wrong would drop your grade so low, but then again, the test was only 15 questions. Mr.Schick did the dings again with a new sound effect. The sound effect was a fart noise. I got a fart noise. We then went back in to our groups and did work. Karson and I are geniuses so of course we were done. We then chilled the rest of the class.