Homework for Wednesday | "A message from Mother Nature"

1) What is the main point of this article? 
In my opinion, the main point of this article is to tell people that the earth is changing and it cause a lot of damage for human living

2) List four vocabulary words and look it up: 
+ Dozen - a infinite of number
+ Reluctant - struggling in opposition
+Skeptic - a person who doubt a belief or a religion.
+ Torrential - flowing of something rapidly.

3) What is the different between "weather" and "climate"?
Weather can change from day to day but climate stay the same and doesn't change in a long period of time.

4) What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
- Flooding in New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma.
- Record breaking heat wave destroyed million of acres.
- Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan. 


5) What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
- I never had any experiences with extreme weather


6) What does the word “perception” mean?
- The word perception means the understanding of an issue and knowing what's happening around us. 


7)  What is your “perception” of global climate change?
- Changing is nature, we can change it will go on but we can't stop it. 

5 Themes of Geography

5 themes of geography

1)  Human/Environment Interaction:

People live in Tomato Land always have a fear about the volcano. The first time they came to Tomato Island and live near the volcano because they thought it won’t erupt. The volcanos did erupted and destroy farmland, killed a lot of people and animals. Later then, people plant fruit and rice on another land. They hunted in the forest for some food and also have ships to catch fishes

2) Place:

In Tomato Land, there are lots of river branches all over the land. But the special thing is that the part of the river where separate the farming land with the volcano is actually was hand made because they want to keep the lava away from them. There are mountains too, they are not really high but they keep away the cold weather. In Tomato Land, there is a forest too. In the forest, people hunt for food, but also growing tree to keep the animals alive.

3) Movement:

After the volcano first erupted, the Indians people moved out from the volcano and live far away. People there travel with by walking or taking boat to go along with the river.

4) Region:

People in Tomato Land very friendly to each other and sometimes live with each other for a short time. They spoke English because they used to be invaded by England. They wear clothes that were made of animals’ fur to keep warm and it’s also the cloth that they wore everyday life. The weather is really nice, sometimes it’s hot but sometimes it’s really cold. But because of them mountains that keep away the cold wind from the North, the weather always stay at medium. Their traditional food is tomatoes. Because their land have a shape of a tomato so they decide to take tomatoes as their traditional food.

5) Location:

To be continued

Homework for Friday 3rd | #2

STUDY GUIDE

A) 3 TYPES OF MAPS:

1. Political - Shows countries, capital and seas.
2. Physical - Shows physical feature of the earth
3. Thematic - Shows other kind of map like: population, road, climate.... etc.... 

B) 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY (VOCABULARY):

1. Location - the exactly position that base on logitude & latitude
2. Place - describe the physical and human of a place 
3. Movement - anything that move from place to place
4. Region - a place that have similar physical and human characteristic
5. Human/Envioronment Interaction - how human and environment adapt to each other

C) 6 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS: 

1. Human System - how people lived and their uses of resources
2. Physical System - how did the earth change its surface and impact of living things
3. Places and Region
4. Environment and Society
5. Uses of Geography
6. World of Spatial Term - a location where place is located and how its physical feature relate to other place. 

D) QUESTION : "WHAT IS CULTURE?"

1. A region or place or country that have its history, traditional festival, clothing (costumes) environment, trading to make money to have a living

E) GEOGRAPHY'S JOB: 

1. Urban Planner
2. Location analyst
3. Climatologist
4. Cartographer

F) TOOLS: 

1. Maps
2. Computers
3. Remote sensing 
4. Global Positioning System (GPS) 
5. Geographic Information System (GIS) 

 G) VOCABULARY 

1. Geography - study of  a places, human, culture...
2. Environment - Anything that surrounding around us, or surrounding a place.
3. Map - presentation of a surface of the earth 
4. Location analyst - a person that studies about a area to find the best location for a client
5. Urban planner - a person who creates plan for improving parts of the city
6. Climatologist - a person who studies about climate
7. Cartographer - a person who creates map 

H) WHAT WE DID IN CLASS: 

1. Explain why maps are important
2. Define the word "Culture" 
3. Locate North, South, East, West by using Compass
4. Draw a map of each floor (Group work)
5. "What is ACTIVE READER?" Learn how to be active reader 
6. 7 paragraph summarize - Switch table 

Homework for Friday 3rd | #1

BLOG ENTRY - HOMEWORK

This blog entry is about "what I've learn about other classmate/friend from the project Family Tree?"  What I have to say is... I learned a lot of different things like some of my friends are half Chinese and half Vietnamese, or some people come from the middle of Vietnam or even Ha Noi, where I came from. I also learn about culture and Korea's traditional clothing from Roy. I found out that they are not really scary and "not so nice" like I used to imagine. I also learned about their past, their parent and their family culture. I want to learned more about my classmate. 

About me, I also found out that it's not so bad speaking in front of people. I mean like.... it's normal, just like we are sharing and talking and discussing in a group. I admit something, I didn't prepare the speak, I just write down what I need to say and words just came out of my mouth. 

I used to be shy and quite......... maybe not anymore. 

I used look down on myself ......... not this year. 

I used to ran away ....... I'm not gonna run anymore. 

A lot of people think that this is just a normal speak. But the speak about "family tree" changed me a lot. I found out a lot of things that hidden inside me, and some of my talents that lost now found its way coming back. Thank you Mr. Blake, thank you my friends. All of you, I don't know if any of my friends from period 7 are reading this but... if you are in period 7, thank you.