ARTICLE OF THE MESSAGE FROM MOTHER NATURE

What is the main point of this article?

Reflected about how weather is changing, in which linked to the global climate change, and so led to the extreme weathers occurrence.

List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words. 

_Reluctant - unwilling, not feeling satisfied in doing something that you don’t want to do.

_Skeptics - reminding a person who keep on doubting behavior of something that supposes to be valid

_Industrial Resolution - a period of time when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport and technology had a profound effect in USA and soon spread all over the world in the 18^th to 19^th century.

_Vulnerable - capable of to be hurt or wounded

What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?

•         Weather is our day- to day- experiences, in which happen in short period of times.
•      Climate is more static, in which describing a region’s typical weather conditions as developed over periods of times, based on the information of latitude.

What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?

• Torrential monsoon rain
•  Flooding
•  Breaking heat
• Breaking drought
• Snowstorm 

What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?

I had been experienced a torrential monsoons rain, in which caused flooding every corner in Ha Noi, where is in the northern of Vietnam. As the rains got heavier, the ground couldn’t absorb anymore water, water stay still on the ground, caused traffic jam, dead engines…

What does the word “perception” mean?

Perception meant sensing, it was some thing like a point of view from a person’s opinion, showing the understanding about a particular topic.

What is your “perception” of global climate change?

Global warming is really an emergency alarm, in which people had to take guts, not only study about the environment; how climate change, CO2, greenhouse gases caused the global warming… but we have to be warriors who are going to stand up for the next generation, protect the Earth planet, demonstrate right ideas of possible solutions for Climate change. As you can see of how global warming impacts to living organism, in which taking away their life, their habitat, their needs. People blamed on Extreme disaster of why did it happen, yet certainly didn’t realize that they are who caused the climate change at the beginning. People might be arguing that they never faced such a difficult condition like this and how are they supposed to deal with it? However, in my opinion, people caused their own problems, and it is time to fix it, to correct it, to re-done it, to once again rebirth the Earth, at least taking one shot to improve it into a better world. 

Tell me about your map: Jennyania!

The Jennyania was enclosed by the Lemon Brown Ocean, with its neighbor countries such as the Wizardradia in the Northwest, Tinker Bell land in the Southeast and the Massive world in the Northeast. Jennyania was the name based on the one who found it: Missy Jenny, and was divided into three different cites: Patrickinia with Slemish as the capital, Baba- ya ga Witchinia with capital named Jack o’ lantern and the Elfinia with the capital of Pixie Hollow. The countries had all full four seasons, well cold in the winter, warm in the spring, hot in the summer and quiet during the fall.

Patrickinia and Elfinia, unlike the Witchinia, had many similarities in both physical and human characteristics. Elfinia got a large mountain, with the height reached 600 meters, called Mt. Everest the Junior. Even through Patrickinia didn’t have any mountains, yet there was an ESB hill as tall the mountain. In around mountains and hills, there are usually rains in the summer, since then the Elf and Patrickina’s followers had advantage in planting farm and forest in that area, such as the Clover farm and the Woodland.  Nimame is an extensive river that ran through almost the country, as well as being the border between Patrickinia and Elfinia, in which become the main water resource for the Elves and the followers, since it had never been dried or polluted. Their, near the river, the Elves and Patrickina’s followers both sharing lesson of raising unicorn and training them to find water on there own. As usual, people in the same cities, with different directions, still having lots of points in common. For example the north people and the south people of Patrickinia eat the same rice that was imported from Elfinia, and they also practice the same religion -Catholic Christianity that was spread from the 14^th century missionaries.

One of the proudest structure achievements in Jennyania’s legend might be the Baba-ya ga Hut, which had been applying into comic books, fairy tales, and cartoons…. It was a normal house at the top, however stood on the four Rooster’s legs, and only witches know the spell to control it, made it dancing, running, walking just like a chicken.  It is located in 5° east, 20° south, and right in between of the Wisdom tree, and Cauldron and Broom factory of Baba-ya ga Witchinia cities. 

With the advantage of raining in the area of Mt. Everest the Junior, the Elf started farming at there. However, the width of the mountain is too massive, yet the area around it had been cover by large woodland, the Elves couldn’t manage to chop the trees down for land for farming. However, farming is necessary, since they need foods to stay alive, also export it to Patrickinia and Witchinia, one of the Elves finally took strength to say: “We are going to borrow the idea form Aksum kingdom, doing Terrace farming could extend the area in farming.” Many Elves approval it, yet some of them protest, however, Terrace farming actually did work in this situation. If you look at the map, you could see that the mountain had many edges, in which looked like the stair at your home, please don’t get misunderstanding that was a stair, Elves farmed on it, it was white called Terrace farming.

The Elfinia however was acknowledged as the cities where gold mines located the most. Either it is a mine, or it could be at the end of the rainbow. Meanwhile, the Massive world, where the giants and Titans are living, desired for the gold of Elfinia. Currently, a kilogram of gold can be exchanged as a thousand dollar, in which we called a Treasure. Couldn’t dominate their own greedy, the Giants started to occupy the northern of Elfinia. As the same time, they began to torture the Elf, managed them to confess the gold mine located, in the North, in the South or in the West of Jennyania. Couldn’t stand for these Massive, the Elf migrated, left their cities, went across to the Nimame rivers to Patrickinia, where was the Catholic church placed, in which the Giant didn’t dare to go to there, since it was a sanctuary. As the elf moved, they brought along an ideas of where to fine gold mine, the way to exploit it effectively.

STUDY GUIDE

5 themse of geography

• ·         Places
• ·         Region
• ·         Human Environment interactions
• ·         Location
• ·         Movement

(Including the description for each words and examples)

6 Essential Needs

• ·         World of spatial terms
• ·         Places and region
• ·         Physical systems
• ·         Human systems
• ·         Environmental and society
• ·         User of geography

3 main types of maps

• ·         Political
• ·         Physical
• ·         Thematic (including variety of types: economic, resources, battle map, population…)

What are?

• ·         Geography
• ·         Spatial term
• ·         Environment
• ·         Longitude
• ·         Latitude

_Explain what are Maps and the important of Maps.

_Understand the meaning of Culture; be able to list out unique topics that pull out the words Culture (trade, religion, literature, currency…)

_Be able to understand the definition of Active readers: Summarizing and Questioning

Geography jobs

• ·         Land surveyor
• ·         Location analyst
• ·         Urban planner
• ·         Climatologist
• ·         Cartographer

Geographic tools (reference)

• ·         Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
• ·          Remote sensing
• ·         Geographic Information System (GIS)
• ·         Irrigation system

_What is a Compass? Explain the help of it.

_Be able to located North, East, South, and West through using a Compass

MY FAMILY CULTURE

Through out the process in order to accomplish the family tree project, I have been learning a lot about my own history, about my hometown, my family culture, things that were so familiar to my life but I never knew the past of its. As the project has been done, I realized the family culture, traditional beliefs are really important that became a part of my life. The one question that I asked my mom and receiving in her answer a very surprise: “Mom, what is our hometown famous, traditional food?”

My hometown was in the north of Vietnam, where is Hai Phong, a port city. “Speaking of Hai phong, people thought of its very special, popular food through out the country, that is what we called Banh da cua.” my mum gently explained it. That was a huge blow to me. I ate it every week, I enjoyed it. The brownish noodle, with simple ingredients that could be found anywhere, and the tasty sauce combined together form a unique bond that being well-known, adored not only by Vietnamese people from the three regions of the country but also the foreigners.

I also learned diverse things from others friends’ presentations. For example, I learned about Korean traditional clothing from my classmate Roy, or either the sacred belief of Harvest in many Asian countries. I also knew the special ceremony for children were born of Baptism from one of my friends in different class while we were sharing information.

Discovered a hometown’s food that stands out for the Vietnamese culture, I shall feel quite please and interesting. I found that this project, not only an assignments from class to do for grade, but also helped me to understand more about my family’s exclusive culture. Last but not least, this project, basically led us to understand about our friends better, through the process of sharing family’s culture somehow proved it.