Today in class we went to cia.gov because Mr. Schick liked the website. We picked a country and found an interesting fact about the country. We went around the classroom and each of us said our interesting fact. Mine was about Italy and I said that Italys national holiday is June 2nd its called Republic day. There was two facts said about the United states the first was that is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. The other fact about the United States is that they are number 18 out of 200 states for obesity. I also learned that Fiji's language is English. Today's class was pretty interesting.
Excellence Notes
Today in Mr.Shicks class we looked at a power point based A message to Garcia. A Message to Garcia was what we read on Friday. I learned A Message to Garcia was a inspirational essay in March 1899. It got popular and published over 40 million copies. They even made versions in 37 languages. A Message to Garcia was made into a movie two times. The setting was the Spanish American war. The person who delivered the message was Rowan. Rowan was an army officer from West Point, class of 1881. The person the message was delivered was Garcia. Garcia was a revolutionary seeking Cuban independence from Spain. We also learned some "odd" vocabulary. Perihelion is the point when a planet is closest to the sun therefore it is at its brightest. Slipshod means careless, lackadaisical, slapdash. Imbecility means feebleness, stupidity. Stenographer is a person who takes dictation in shorthand. A missive is a letter. We then learned the word the ancient Greeks had a word for excellence calle...
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