1st Class Of West Civ

Today in Western Civ class, we learned all about the class rules and how to set up our blog.  I met my new teacher Mr. Schick and he told us all of the rules in the classroom especially no playing video games because that is an automatic DETENTION!  I also met some new people in my class that I never even knew were in the freshman class.  We got our new seats and I sit behind Jackson and Alexa sits behind me.  In Western Civ this semester, we are going to learn about Mesopotamia all the way through til the 1700's.  Then, we started to set up our blog and created a new account.  We had to create a title and an address then we had to email Mr. Shick our blog website.  For our blogs every night, we have to write about what we learned about in class each day and what we took notes on.  The blogs have to be 150 words or more and we upload them to get 2 points each blog.  We got to begin working on our blogs and then we got off track because Sydney Moore brought up her shadow day and how you told the class a story about your dog.  One fun fact I learned about Mr. Schick is that he has three dogs now but he got rid of one because it growled at him and his other dogs all the time.  Then, Mr. Schick aloud us to work on our blogs until the bell rang!                      

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