Catch Up Day

Today was a catch up day to finish our maps and do our blogs or other homework. I finished my maps yesterday at home so I am doing my blog. I include almost all of my notes in every blog in some way, so I am just going to talk about how it went when I was doing my maps. Naming the continents and oceans were very easy on every single map. The Equator, Prime Meridian, and International Date Line were easy on the Mercator and Robinson map, but a little harder on the Peters Map because there weren't any lines and everything was much bigger so the distance between things were different. The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn were also fairly easy to place even though I have never heard of those. The only sort of difficult part was the nation of my origin because I only know three for a fact which are Germany, Ireland, and Italy. The African-American part of my origin is harder because none of my family really knows where we are from because of the slave-trade. In the last 100 years or so of the slave trade, Africans were on plantations and being born into slavery, so it would be very hard to track where my ancestors were originally from. After doing one map is was fairly easy to place the same things on the other maps and I didn't have to use my computer a lot after the first map I labeled.