Geography 102

I finally finished everything this weekend. I feel like a huge load has been taken of of my shoulders. I can now tell my students who's missing what. If you read my blog (not sure if people really do, or if I'm just talking to myself), you may have noticed that I changed a book under my "reading" section. I inadvertantly finished a 579-page book, Angels & Demons. I must say that the story was much better than The Da Vinci Code, although I loved both! Today, the kids were looking over the world map that I made them label a week or so ago. They have a test tomorrow, and I have a student "N", who was talking to her friends. They were discussing how to say North America in French. "N" could not figure out why Canada was considered part of North America. "It's not America!", she proclaimed. I really didn't even want to help her figure that one out. I let her friends laugh at her. She was the same student last year that told me (in front of class) that she didn't realize there were really kings and queens in the world. She assumed they were only in fairy tales. She also asked how long the train trip from Texas to France lasted...