You will need to know all these models for your AP exam.
https://teacher.ocps.net/michael.coleman/aphgeo/AP%20Review%20Geography%20Models%20pdf.pdf
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Week of Jan. 6-10, 2014
1/6/14
Learning Goals:
Learning Objectives:
Using Rubenstein illustrations, identify states/regions in which ethnicities are clustered.
Provide reasons for the present distribution.
Identify case studies of ethnic conflicts from different regions.
Learning Activities:
1. vocab. discussion
2. vocab. quiz.
3. Homework:
b. Construct a VIS Chart on the following vocabulary words: nation, nation-state, stateless nation, multinational state.(You can also do nation state; part nation state, multinational state, or any other combination of appropriate vocab.) (VIS chart: word, definition summary, context clue, 2 examples)
1/7/14
Learning Goal:
Discuss various nation-state configurations and illustrate with examples.
Objectives:
Identify nation-state, part-nation state, multinational state, stateless nation.
Learning Activities:
Whole group discussion of terms.
1/8/14
1. Ask Learning Partner these essential questions:
a. What is the difference between nation-state, part-nation state, multinational state, stateless nation? Discuss with learning partner.
b. Where do ethnicities settle in the US and why do they settle there?
2. 3-minute write on some aspect of essential questions.
3. Collect homework.
4. Prepare for substitute day. BRING RUBENSTEIN.
On a sheet of paper you will answer the following questions? (Write questions.)
1. What is apartheid?
2. Who are the Afrikaners?
3. Who created apartheid laws?
4. Why were apartheid laws created?
5. Who was Nelson Mandela and why is he important?
6. What is the legacy of apartheid laws?
7. Raise an important question you'd like to discuss for Friday.
8. Find something on Youtube about apartheid. Summarize and list the title.
9. Does the US have anything that is similar to apartheid? Provide evidence for your answer.
The above questions require reading, research, and thought. Do not submit one sentence responses especially for questions 4-9. Due Friday.
1/9/14
Substitute:
Silent reading and address 9 apartheid questions.
Homework: Finish 9 questions. First 4 questions due on Friday. Final drafts due on Monday, Jan. 13.
1/10/14
3-minute write:
Explain the racial conflict in South Africa from the 1940s to the present.
Homework: Research Roma culture and summarize something interesting in a paragraph.
Learning Goals:
Understand the distribution of major ethnicities within the US
Understand importance of ethnicity and human rights
Understand importance of ethnicity and human rights
Learning Objectives:
Using Rubenstein illustrations, identify states/regions in which ethnicities are clustered.
Provide reasons for the present distribution.
Identify case studies of ethnic conflicts from different regions.
Learning Activities:
1. vocab. discussion
2. vocab. quiz.
3. Homework:
b. Construct a VIS Chart on the following vocabulary words: nation, nation-state, stateless nation, multinational state.(You can also do nation state; part nation state, multinational state, or any other combination of appropriate vocab.) (VIS chart: word, definition summary, context clue, 2 examples)
1/7/14
Learning Goal:
Discuss various nation-state configurations and illustrate with examples.
Objectives:
Identify nation-state, part-nation state, multinational state, stateless nation.
Learning Activities:
Whole group discussion of terms.
- Using Rubenstein as a guide (p.208-210) on map handout, color code different ethnicities in US regions.
- Construct 8-box chart with American ethnicities at top beginning with the largest. Place percentages in parentheses. Identify region for each. On top half list hypothesis for each. On bottom half list reality (after researching homework assignment).
- Homework: finish homework.
1/8/14
1. Ask Learning Partner these essential questions:
a. What is the difference between nation-state, part-nation state, multinational state, stateless nation? Discuss with learning partner.
b. Where do ethnicities settle in the US and why do they settle there?
2. 3-minute write on some aspect of essential questions.
3. Collect homework.
4. Prepare for substitute day. BRING RUBENSTEIN.
On a sheet of paper you will answer the following questions? (Write questions.)
1. What is apartheid?
2. Who are the Afrikaners?
3. Who created apartheid laws?
4. Why were apartheid laws created?
5. Who was Nelson Mandela and why is he important?
6. What is the legacy of apartheid laws?
7. Raise an important question you'd like to discuss for Friday.
8. Find something on Youtube about apartheid. Summarize and list the title.
9. Does the US have anything that is similar to apartheid? Provide evidence for your answer.
The above questions require reading, research, and thought. Do not submit one sentence responses especially for questions 4-9. Due Friday.
1/9/14
Substitute:
Silent reading and address 9 apartheid questions.
Homework: Finish 9 questions. First 4 questions due on Friday. Final drafts due on Monday, Jan. 13.
1/10/14
3-minute write:
Explain the racial conflict in South Africa from the 1940s to the present.
Homework: Research Roma culture and summarize something interesting in a paragraph.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Week of Dec. 9-13
Week's Learning Goal:
To differentiate between complex language vocabulary.
To understand Hindu Caste system.
To understand the difference between race and ethnicity.
12/9/13
Warm-up: What is the difference between a pidgin and a Creole. What is the difference between Esperanto and a lingua franca?
Vocabulary CROSSWORD
Homework: STUDY VOCAB. Study Culture Practice Test.
12/10/13
"Hour of Code" TV Program
Culture vocab. test
Practice Test test
Homework: Research a religion other than your own from a reputable web page. Don't forget to cite sources. You do not need a "Works Cited" page. Note the following:
12/11/13
Introduce Dalits video vocab. & themes. If absent you can find this online.
Video review and quiz.
Homework: Review section on ethnicity. Address the following: What is the differences between ethnicity and race? Give and example.
12/12/13
Collect religion reports.
Finish Untouchables
Homework: PBS Illusions of race. Students will try to identify race by looking at photographs.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm; finish ethnicity and race question.
12/13/13
Collect ethnicity and race assignment.
GAME DAY!! (Review of semester examination.)
Homework: Review Barron's for Semester Exam.
HOMEWORK OVER BREAK:
1. Carefully read all of Political Geography in Barron's.
2. Make two or three questions of something you find confusing.
3. Do all the Practice tests (MC and FR) at end of unit.
4. Make sure you do the Test Tips in the gray boxes.
5. Make sure you understand all the vocabulary.
6. Skim over Ethnicity Chapter in Rubenstein. Pay close attention to maps and pictures.
We will spend about a week on this unit. Be ready for a vocab test on Thurs., Jan. 9 and a full test on Friday, Jan. 10.
To differentiate between complex language vocabulary.
To understand Hindu Caste system.
To understand the difference between race and ethnicity.
12/9/13
Warm-up: What is the difference between a pidgin and a Creole. What is the difference between Esperanto and a lingua franca?
Vocabulary CROSSWORD
Homework: STUDY VOCAB. Study Culture Practice Test.
12/10/13
"Hour of Code" TV Program
Culture vocab. test
Practice Test test
Homework: Research a religion other than your own from a reputable web page. Don't forget to cite sources. You do not need a "Works Cited" page. Note the following:
- Identify in terms universalizing, local, ethnic, Evangelical, monotheistic, polytheistic, etc.
- Identify number of followers.
- State the creation story.
- State place of origin.
- State diffusion if any.
- List 3 beliefs.
- List 3 practices or rituals.
- Using percentages, identify your hearth's dominant religion/s.
- Research the Untouchables of the Hindu Caste system and note one interesting fraction that hasn't been discussed.
12/11/13
Introduce Dalits video vocab. & themes. If absent you can find this online.
Video review and quiz.
Homework: Review section on ethnicity. Address the following: What is the differences between ethnicity and race? Give and example.
12/12/13
Collect religion reports.
Finish Untouchables
Homework: PBS Illusions of race. Students will try to identify race by looking at photographs.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm; finish ethnicity and race question.
12/13/13
Collect ethnicity and race assignment.
GAME DAY!! (Review of semester examination.)
Homework: Review Barron's for Semester Exam.
HOMEWORK OVER BREAK:
1. Carefully read all of Political Geography in Barron's.
2. Make two or three questions of something you find confusing.
3. Do all the Practice tests (MC and FR) at end of unit.
4. Make sure you do the Test Tips in the gray boxes.
5. Make sure you understand all the vocabulary.
6. Skim over Ethnicity Chapter in Rubenstein. Pay close attention to maps and pictures.
We will spend about a week on this unit. Be ready for a vocab test on Thurs., Jan. 9 and a full test on Friday, Jan. 10.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Culture Research Questions
1. What countries are in the
Anglo-American region? Latin
American region? (Name at least 5)
2. Identify at least two
syncretic traditions.
3. On a chart with five columns,
make a list of 5 European states across.
Under each list countries that they colonized. Who
did your hearth colonize or who colonized your
hearth? How did this affect the
colonized or colonizing country?
4. In two columns, name two
language families and list at least five languages that fit under that
language.
5. Trace Modern English’s roots
going in reverse order and starting with Modern English.
6. Construct a 5-column VIS
chart with the following vocab: isoglosses, pidgin, Creole, Esperanto,
and
lingua franca. In 1st column write
word; 2nd define; 3rd use in context; 4th give example; 5th
draw
visual clue.
7. How does a culture become
extinct? Give specific examples.
8. What is the connection
between literacy and gender?
9. How is illiteracy used as a
tool of oppression? Give
examples.
10. Why is it important for human
geographers to study religion?
11. In a multi-column template
construct a VIS chart with the following religious vocab: universalizing;
local; Evangelical;
global; ethnic. Use the model
describe in #6.
12. Write a paragraph on the
diffusion of Islam.
13. Why do some religions spread
while other do not?
14. Why would fundamentalist
beliefs tend to result in religious conflict?
15. How does religion contribute
to various tensions across the globe.
Give two examples from the book and an additional example from
another
source.
16. Research ethnic neighborhoods
in Miami. Is there a history of
conflict?
17. Who were the Untouchables?
How were/are Untouchables treated?
18. List the characteristics of
folk and pop culture. Which one
socializes you and why?
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