Social Studies

           To be honest, I just love this subject and of working with you Mr. Vendramin because I've learned a lot about other countries' history as well as Canada. I like the way you are helping us if something is wrong and we don't know. At first, It's hard for me to do all the assignments especially if I'm not done with the first assignment, but after how many months, I enjoyed working because I like using iPads for my projects or home works. What I like about this class is our presentations even though we don't want to do it in front of class, but we did it well. I also want all the presentation because I've learned a lot about Indians, Mayans, Greeks, Cree,Egyptians, etc. I remember when we geocache outside and it's awesome because it feels like its an adventure for me. I also like the European map even though its hard to memories it all because I'm not familiar all of the European countries but then, we did it in class, so I just love it. I will also miss this social class. All of the activities, assignments and projects we made, it made me realize that learning social studies is important in our lives, so thank you Mr. Vendramin for teaching us Social Studies and how to use other application in the iPads.

Rome RAFTs

         I really enjoyed our game show that we did in our presentation. I've learned a lot of things about Romans life like about Roman food, Roman mythology, information, soldiers and government of Rome. The fruits that was common for them are grapes. Prima Mensa was their mainly dish. Our planets names were come from them. You can join the military army if you're 20 years old and shouldn't be marry. Their government is a republic. Julius Caesar was killed in the theater of Pompey. They also have Colosseum and watch gladiatorial fights. I like Tyra's group presentation because its interesting to know about what our planets rules for the Roman. Each planet is known as god, like Jupiter is the god of kings, Mars is for war, Venus is for love and Pluto is for death. I realized that learning Ancient Rome is important because they influenced people around the world.

Roman PMI

Plus
-Military strength is the most obvious similarity.
-Romans had the best training,biggest budget, and finest equipment that the world have ever seen in their time.
- Romans were known for their infrastructure, including their Roads (or Via) as well as their engineering feats with bridges and aqua ducts, built primarily to enable their military to move more quickly.
-China is a socialist and communist country that is slowly turning its back on its soul and embracing it nemesis, capitalism.
-. Romans embraced their status as masters of the known world; however, few Americans would claim bragging rights on their own imperialism.
Minus
-United States has deployed any ruling consuls in any sovereign lands.
-The rest of the world undoubtedly knew their strength and consequently feared the Romans as well.
-Romans had to excel at both the art of winning wars as well as the winning the cultural battle often times found in political circles, considering that the Roman empire spanned continents as well as vast cultural divides. Rome’s greatest conquest was the seduction of its’ peoples.
-The United States with the Iraq war has learned that the “American” way does not always work.
- The fall of the Roman Empire occurred primarily due to a lack of foresight as well.
Interesting
-Rome was the Superpower of its time, as United States is the Superpower now.
-The Internet began as a military tool, and arguably is one of the most superior inventions of our time, bringing whole nations together in mere nanoseconds.
- United States offers Starbucks, my personal favorite, Wal-Mart for 24/7 shopping convenience, and Disneyland for entertainment, just to name a few.
-The Roman and American models of government and capitalism are based on the principles of progress through utilization of it’s work force with the lure of the good life as an individual’s goal
- Those highways find their counterpart in the Internet, or better known as the information Superhighway.

Blog #7 (Evaluation-Mark)

                 Evaluation is evaluating yourself and others. It's all about what you did in your project or presentation. It's how much you put an effort into your work. Evaluation is a contribution in every work, project or presentation that you did with your group or individually. Evaluating is also being honest with yourself and it's your grade in yourself or with your group. What mark means to me is an average or grade. If you're hard working, it's kind a gift for you if you have high marks or grades. All your work totals your marks. It shows how you did your part or work.Learning helps me to be better for what I'm doing. We learn in order to make better lives for ourselves.

First Nation Presentation (blog # 6)

      I enjoyed listening to Athena's dad, which is Mr. Benjoe because I like the way he drew a first nation in the board. I learned things about where he came from and words in his language. I also enjoyed the activity that he gave to us because it helps us to cooperate and communicate to others by asking them and fill out our papers and to know my classmates better too. I really like his painting because his a good artist and I was amazed when I saw his painting because it's really awesome and colourful.

Presentation (blog # 5)

           I think our presentation did well even though at first, I wasn't in timing in reading my part. Presenting is not that easy because we were talking in front of class and it's hard to do it, but I learned that we need to have confidence and be comfortable in presenting in class. We also need to have an energy in presenting, so the audience will enjoy and not be bored. I also learned that we need to have an eye contact on our audience and make our voice louder and clear, so the audience can hear us. I think Lana and Johnna had the best presentation because they use their creativity to do their prezi. I learned a lot of things about their civilization which is Mayans because they included interesting things like the games of mayans and their cultural dances. I enjoyed learning Ancient Mayans because I like the way they presented it.

Essay Writing

         During our essay, I've learned a lot of things that I haven't know before. Our civilization is Ancient India and I've learned about the social sciences especially, its economics. India was the worlds twelfth-largest economy and third largest in Asia behind Japan and China, and that's very interesting to know. Buddha was also came from India and the Taj Mahal (seven wonders of the world). I've heard it before, but I don't know where it is. It's also great to know that India is a unique and most favourable tourist destination because of its wonderful places to visit and its own culture. I like using google doc because its great and we can share it to you, Mr. V. I can also change the font colour of it and paste pictures that makes our google doc or essays more colourful and presentable. While I'm doing my essay or part, I read it all over again at the start of it to make sure that my sentences flows and nice to read it.

Current Event 1

Current Event (Number)
What - What is the article about
Who - Who are the people involved / affected
When - When did this happen
Where - Where did it happen (as much info as you can give and insert a link from google maps where the event took place - http://maps.google.ca/)
Why - Most important part. Why did you choose this article. What is its impact. Which of the seven social sciences does it most deal with.

What- The article is about how a Pope is selected,and what are the requirements to be a Pope. 

Who- We, Catholic are involved about the selection of a Pope. 

When- Pope Benedict XVI resigned on February 28 and the voting for a new Pope starts last March 12,2013.

Where- The event took place in Vatican City. This is where they vote or select a new Pope. 

Why- This article is important to learn for all of the Catholic to know how Pope was selected and because there's a lot of process to become a Pope. To become a Pope, you must be Catholic, a man, unmarried, a priest, a cardinal then Pope. The Social Sciences involved for selecting a Pope are History because, they continue to learn traditions to become a Pope. Geography to  know 

where are the Popes live and do their work being a Pope.Political Science because they vote and select a new Pope. Economics because there can be a lot of money that involved about what a Pope did. Sociology because of how they interact and the society became one for selecting a new Pope.It can effect or impact us Catholics to know what can a new Pope will do in Catholic Churches. It's important for us because it's part of our history. 

Geological Time Activities

          From the geological history, I've learned lot of things that I haven't know or understand before. I've learned that there are stages or periods before we came, and what we are now in this world. At first, the Earth formed when bacterias are around, animals (either small or big), plants, dinosaurs, monkey then suddenly, we, humans appeared. I've also learned that the Earth changed about million years ago, and continents landed to different places, joined together, and spread out again. There are four type of Eras in geologic time that tells us about stages of how we appeared and lived. I've learned that Alfred Wegener, a young German Earth Scientist is searching and finding an evidence about the drifting of continents. The point of learning geological history is to help us understand about what happened before we came, and to think what we can do, now that we know the history or where we came from, how we became a human, and continue to learn about the Earth, and theories' of Scientists.

Does God Exist?

                 God really exist because there are reasons that he really is. Jesus Christ, his only son is the clearest, and most specific picture of God. We look at him and believe in him. Other Scientists don't believe in God and said that he doesn't really exist, but as an individual, he exist because without him, we can't be here in this world, and the things around us. He is the creator and savior of life. God really exist because he forgives us for what are sins are,and taught us how to love, forgive, and care for others. God sends his son, Jesus, so we can learn good things from him, and worship him. God is everywhere even if we didn't see him. The word of God is the recipe of life. I believe that God exist because of the bibles we are reading, and to pray for him. God really exist because of the photographs of Jesus Christ that shows he exist. And God created the Earth in seven days. Finally, the last proof is that when Adam and Eve appeared, and have a children.

First Impressions

           Social Studies focuses on the social sciences such as History, Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, and Psychology. It helps us understand and learn about what happened in the past, how we, humans interact,governed, and our behavior,and how the earth or world came to be. Social Studies is important for us because we can learn many valuable things about our country's history and others history and their different traditions and cultures. Learning Social Studies helps us to think wisely, and share what we know and how we understand the society. It also helps us to develop our own strengths to fully understand and to apply our knowledge. I want to learn much more about social studies because it challenge me, and I found it interesting, and I also know that we all need to study Social Studies for the future.
          Using technology is very helpful for us to do our work easier, and have a better life. It gives us lots of information and researches that we want to know, and helps us to create things in our own.Life rotates and rely on technology. That is why, without technology, life will be miserable and everything will change. It's important to us everyday in our daily lives. I also really love using technology because I can search many things that I don't understand.