Population & More

Today in class, I actually had Michaela as a fake shadow for a little bit until she was kicked out. But moving onto the actual class, we got back our pop quizzes and we talked a little bit more about the shooting in Oregon. We talked a lot about the guy that had the gun, and a lot about the stories Mr. Schick's friend told him, about how the guy died and how sometimes the media portrays the criminal as more of a "celebrity" than the actual victims. We also watched a video that was part of a pilot episode for the show "Newsroom". It was a little confusing at first but then once we got into the video, the spokesperson, Will McAvoy, made some very good points of what our country has become, how even though it's awesome, it's definitely not the greatest country in the world. We also continued our notes on Population and Settlement. We learned about Life Expectancy and how the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. We also talked about how women actually tend to live longer than men, because they go to the doctor's more, and how we have different types of things in our bodies than men. We learned about measuring population too: the crude birth rate- number of deaths per 1000 of the population, and the crude death rate- number of deaths per 1000 of the population. Then that ties into rate of natural increase, or RNI, which is what you get when you subtract the death rate from the birth rate.