AOW Impressions

// Take a moment to reflect upon your impressions of what you have learned from the array of articles in at least two well written paragraphs, using evidence from your graphic organizer //

    I think that the activity that we did on Friday really showed me what kinds of issues actually interest us and how serious they are. For example, there were 5 people out of the 13 people I talked to were about climate changes and the effects of it. I believe that one part of the interest of these articles is that in 8A science, we are learning about climate change, but I also believe that we are noticing much of the changes today. What really interested me was Autumn's article about coral bleaching. Autumn mention that coral reefs are dying because the water is getting to hot and I know that the only way large bodies of water will have a temperature rise is because of climate change. She mentioned that because the coral reefs are dying, many fish have no home. She said something that I feel tied a lot of the class's articles together; "everything is like a huge chain of events", and I believe that this is true because one event occurs and a million other can happen because of one. 

    This activity also helped me learn about countries that I had never heard of and personally would have never cared to look up articles about them. Gabe's article really interested me because it was a country named Yemen, which after I looked up found out that it is an Arab country, is in a major water crisis. Not only do they not have sufficient clean water to drink but Gabe mentioned that it is a country that rarely has rain which makes the situation that they are in worse. What was really interesting but that also brought up some questions is that I learned that in Yemen, "about every 9 nine days the government hands out water to 67% of the population"How does the government obtain this water? How do they decide how much to distribute? How do they decide on who to distribute?