Emma's Blog

1/28/19 Today in class we continued to watch the video. The village in New Guinea emerged 11,500 years ago. A granary is wear they store grain and it is a very small structure. During the drought, people started growing their own food. Stone Age people of the Middle East were becoming farmers. Plant Domestication is controlling what your growing. Today, it happens in research labs. In China, people grew rice. In North and South America, the grew corn, squash, and beans. In Africa, they grew sorghum, millet, and yams. Sago is not nutritious and can't be stored like the grains. The New Guineans were the earliest farmers in the world. New Guinea plants can't be stored for a long time. There plants are all low in protein. Sometimes they ate large spiders because there wasn't that much protein in any of their food. Animal domestication is controlling what you eat. It is a new source of food. This happened 9,000 years ago.

1/25/19 Today in class we reviewed the video and our notes in the beginning. There was a shadow in our class and she seems very nice. Hopefully she comes here next year. Then we took a pop quiz and then reviewed the answers at the end of it. I realized I only got one question wrong and the quiz covered all of the notes I have taken in my copybook. We talked about how we should have two blogs in already and we can do the third blog today in class. Then, we made sure everyone has a composition book for class so we can take notes. The notes are very helpful in the copybook because then you can incorporate the notes into your blogs that night. We have the rest of the class to do our blogs and to sit for the rest of the time and do nothing. Now for the blogs, I don't have to do them until Monday night.

1/23/19 Today in class we watched a video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond is the hero of the story. This takes place in Papua New Guinea. Jared Diamond is an author, professor at UCLA, and he is a biologist. He has a passion of studying birds. In New Guinea, people have lived there for 40,000 years. One man he met 30 years ago was named Yali. Yali said, "Why you white men have so much cargo, and we New Guineans have so little". The New Guineans didn't know what Jared had brought when he traveled because they have never seen steel or something like binoculars. Many of the colonials came from different parts of the world. Some of the civilizations are architecture, government, advanced technology, large population, and well-organized work tasks. Close too 13,000 years ago, everyone was either a hunter or a gatherer. People are still living like they did thousands of years ago. One main food the gatherers would eat was sago, which is stapled food and it is a pa...

1/22/19 Today in class we learned some the rules that we have to follow. Some of the rules include no playing games on the computer or it is an automatic detention. We learned that we have to do a blog every time after we meet and it is due that night by 11:59 p.m. When we have class on Friday the blog that we do is not due until Saturday night at 11:59 p.m. We were talking about possibly doing a few presentations during this semester. If you do the blogs every night, at the end of the semester it will all equal up to 180 points and it can help your grade a lot. If you rarely do the blogs, it can make your grade drop even though they are worth 2 points each. If you do all of the blogs and do well in this class, you will be successful this semester.