Absent For Class

I was absent from class today because I am currently in North Carolina visiting my sister at college.

God Grew Tired Of Us Movie (Continued)

Today in Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we extended our notes on the movie. The movie is called God Grew Tired of us. It is about the Lost Boys who had to escape from the civil war in their country of Sudan. We started watching this movie yesterday and continued today. What we saw today was some of these men, had the privilege of coming to America and living there.  The Untied Nation would pay for the men to have an apartment and it was there job to find a job. Once they found a job, they would pay back the money they borrowed from the United Nation and then pay for their housing once they could afford it. The men were spread out into several cities in America. It was a very sad and happy time for them when they had to leave what they have come to know as their brothers. Ever since they had to run away, they have never been apart, so it was an emotional time for those leaving .

God Grew Tired Of Us Movie

In Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we started the class by going over the test that we took on Friday of last week. After we did that, we then watched a movie. The movie was called God Grew Tired Of Us, which is a movie about the Lost Boys of Sudan. The boys are fleeing their country of Sudan because of a civil war that is going on in this country. Most of these boys, who were separated by their parents by the government, were orphans. They travelled by foot from country to country searching for safe refuge. The boys travelled thousands of miles and through two countries. These countries were Ethiopia and Kenya. Among these boys, there were many deaths. They died of starvation, dehydration, and sicknesses and disease that they picked up along the way of the gruesome journey. This war had a major negative effect not only on the country but on its people as well. 

Sudan Civil War

The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983 and ended in 2005. It was fought between the People’s Liberation Army and the Republic of Sudan. The government was made up of several groups that were heavily armed. The war was a combination of conflicts between races with the Arabs being in the central government and the Africans supported by the People’s Army and the countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Uganda. Over a million people were killed and they were mostly civilians. They died because of lack of food and no water due to the drought. The war also was divided by religion. The government was Muslim and the People’s Army was a combination of African religions and Christians. The fall of the national economy, made things worse as prices went up and riots started. Government leaders were forced to move toward a peace plan or be forced out of office. The more the government tried to force things on the people, the more they fought against it. As people protested, the government attacked them. With the two year drought, came a lack of food and water and wide spread illness. Women and children were forced into slavery and villages were attacked. A peace treaty was signed in 2005 where the countries split oil money, the religion became Islamic, jobs were split between the government and the people and the armies were merged. 

Presentation Day (Continued)

In Mr. Schick Human Geography class today, we met mod one. First, to begin the class, we finished the presentations that we were working the on the previous days. The final group to present was the group who had our nation, the United States of America. Caroline and Erin presented the power point. After their presentation, Mr. Schick mentioned some things that will be on the test on Monday. We went through his Human Geo blog and he pointed out any special details or sections that we need to review for the test. As we were going through the blog, we came across the “Did You Know?” video. Mr. Schick played it for us once again. This time, he broke it down for us. Every time that there was a fact that really stuck out or was amazing, he would pause the video and ask us some questions such as: Why is this happening? How does this make you feel?  Do you believe this? etc. He also explained the fact into detail. We ended the class by going over what would be on the test.

Presentation Day Blog

For today’s Human Geography class, we presented our power points, which we worked on yesterdayin class for the entire mod. How it worked was one person went up to the front of the room and presented the country. Everyone else from that group stayed at their seats. Those who were not presenting the project, had to look up the answers to the questions that Mr. Schick asked. They found the answers on the CIA World Factbook website. The first presentation was on the country of Thailand. Mary presented the project. In that group, were Greg, John, Adrianna, and Mary. The second presentation was my group. We were assigned the country of Nigeria. Kishan presented the PowerPoint. This group has Ellie, Kishan, Ryan, Andrew, and myself. The final group to present yesterday had the country of Italy. Stoots presented the project. The people who did this country were Haley, Alex, Cole and Stoots.  We ran out of time and the last group did not get to present.

First Project

In Human Geography class today, we started our first project for this class. During class and for homework, we had to break up into four groups of five by counting of by fours and do some research on an assigned country. Our research is taken place on the CIA World Factbook website. Our group was assigned the country of Nigeria. Nigeria is a country that is located in the continent of Africa. It is a very poor, undeveloped country. For the project, we have to construct a PowerPoint on this country and present it in class on Thursday. Our group has Ellie, Kishan, Ryan and Andrew and I. We used pretty much the entire class mod to start our research and what we did not finish in this class period was to be completed for homework because we will be presenting our projects tomorrow in class and they must be completed.