Week of Feb. 3-7

Learning Goal: To review Political Geography

2/3/14
Spot quiz:  Was your hearth a colonizer or colonizee?
Review Organizations chart
Promethean Board Review
Homework:  Define irredentism and devolution and illustrate with examples. YOU WILL NOT FIND THIS IN BARRON'S OR RUBENSTEIN.  RESEARCH ON COMPUTER.

2/4/14
Check homework.
Practice quiz.
Promethean Board review
Homework:  Summarize the history of the UN and identify issues of current importance. BRING RUBENSTEIN TOMORROW!

2/5/14
Address the following in Rubenstein or Barron's.
1. Explain the concept of state by:
     a.  identifying necessary qualifications and characteristics
     b.  giving 2 examples
     c.  listing examples of states in various regions (identify region)
    
2.  Describe the problems of multinational states and stateless nations.

Homework:  Study for vocab test.

2/6/14
Learning Goal:  To understand political geography vocab. and issues
Go over essay questions.  Start preparing.  Essay test on Tues.
Game review
Homework:  Study for Political Geo. test


2/7/14
Vocab. crossword
Write a paragraph using 10 vocab. words.
Political Geography Vocab and Unit Test on Monday; essay test on Tuesday.
Homework:  Review essay questions under Unit Objectives and Activities handout.

Human Geography AP Testing Information

There will be a Human Geography testing review at South Plantation High School on March 15.  Presenters will be offering tips on how to pass the test.  Mark your calendars.  More info. will follow.

THE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY WILL BE MAY 13TH IN THE AFTERNOON.

Week of Jan. 27

1/27/14
Learning Goal:  Understand apartheid.
Collect Political Papers final drafts.
Seminar:  address student-made questions about SA apartheid.
Homework:  Reread and review different kinds of boundaries.  Make a 6-box chart with the following headings:  physical, geometric, subsequent, antecedent, superimposed, and relic. Indicate whether type is physical or cultural. Inside the box, define each type and give two examples.  Now explain why understanding the type of border is important in understanding human geography.  Provide examples.

1/28/14
Learning Goal: Understand borders and their importance.
Introduce and view "The Outsiders"
Quiz on Outsiders
Homework:  Reread International Political Geography; concentrate on theories and organizations

1/29/14
Learning Goal:  Understand borders and their importance.
Finish Outsiders
Discussion
Homework:  Review theories

1/30/14
Finish Outsiders & quiz
Learning Goal: Understand Heartland and Rimland theories
Whole group discussion of Organic, Rimland, and Heartland theories
Homework:  In Rubenstein, read "Colonialism" on page 244-247.  Complete Colonization handout.

1/31/14
Learning Goal:  Understand colonialism and post colonialism
In Barron's read section on colonialism.  Describe to your learning partner how the lingering effects of colonization have affected contemporary countries in Africa, Asia, and South America.
Whole Group discussion of Colonialism
Check colonization homework.
Research your hearth. Did it colonize or was it colonized?  How did it affect you personally?
Continue studying vocab. and Barron's political geography chapter.  Test next week.

 

Week of Jan. 21

Learning Goals:

To understand South Africa apartheid

To differentiate between economic systems

To compare and contrast systems of government

To understand how a state’s shape affects state’s status

To understand the role of international organizations

To understand the political tensions inherent in states

1/21/14
collect homework
Review substitute directions.
Whole group: List the characteristics of communism, capitalism, and socialism.
Ticket out: List the system you would prefer to live under with evidence to support that choice.
Homework:
a. Research another stateless nation and be ready to explain some disadvantages of being a stateless nation.
b.  Do Political Papers (Due Friday)
c.  Review all of Political Geography.  Political Geography vocabulary test Monday.  Unit test on Friday.

1/22/14  Substitute
Essential Question:  What are the different kinds of states in terms of shape, size, and location and how do these factors affect it?
Activity 1:  Construct a 6-column or 6-box graphic organizer and lists different kinds of states mentioned in Barron's under "Territory, Borders, and the Geography of Nations". Entitle each box with the name of a kind of state.  Give an example and sketch its shape. You cannot use the ones already drawn in Barron's.  At the bottom of the box, state how its shape, size, or location affected its status.
Activity 2: Make a 6-box chart with the following titles:  EU; UN; NAFTA: OPEC; NATO; & CIS

Under each title:

a. spell out acronym

b. identify the kind of organization

c.  write purpose of organization

d.  list three examples

Homework:
a. Review meaning of centrifugal and centripetal forces.  What are the forces that hold the US together?  What are the forces that have the potential to separate it?  Be ready to discuss this in class.
b. Finish any classwork not completed.

1/23/14
1.  Review capitalism & communism
2.  Move to part of room that you most believe quote.  Be ready to support your move.
3.  Ticket out:  Choose one system and defend your choice.
4.  6-box organization papers will be collected tomorrow.
5.  Homework:  work on papers

1/24/14
Peer edit political papers.  Final drafts due Monday.
Handout review of Capitalism/Communism
Capitalism/Communism quiz.
Homework:  Correct Political Conflict papers. Review Political Geo Vocab.

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Week of Jan. 13-17

This week's tasks will be flexible depending on the testing schedule.  Therefore, plans are subject to change.

1/13/14
LP discussion of Roma culture
Finish viewing Roma
Homework:  make a three-column chart with the headings communism, socialism, and capitalism.
Define each and give examples of communist and capitalist countries.

1/14/14
whole group discussion on three economic systems.
Roma quiz
Silent Reading:  Read "The Roma:  During and After Communism"
Highlight or underline important points and places.
One LP explain during and the other after
Homework:
a. Make a three-column chart with the headings communism, socialism, and capitalism. Define each system and give examples of communist and capitalist countries.
b.  Identify all countries studied on world map.

1/15/14 NO CLASS (TESTING)

1/16/14  NO CLASS (TESTING)

1/17/14  NO CLASS (TESTING)
Homework:  Work on Political Conflict essays; Study Barron's Political Geography Chapter as you will be tested next week.



 

Political Conflict Paper

Research an ethnic conflict either in your hearth or one of the many places around the world.  

Summarize the conflict (quote source).  Be ready to address the origin of the conflict along with who, what, when, where, how, and results.  Was ethnic cleansing or ethnic apartheid involved?

You must use at least 10 geographic vocab. words from Barron's Political Geography chapter. Highlight or underline the words in a 1-2 typed paper due on Friday. I suggest the following paper structure:

Paragraph 1:  Describe the state where the ethnic group resides.  (Here is your opportunity to use

several vocab words.)
 
Paragraph 2:  Describe the conflict.  Transition from the 1st paragraph with something like: "Within the state of _______, resides an enormous amount of tension between _____ and _______." Then summarize the conflict as directed above.


Paragraph 3:  Summarize if and how the conflict was resolved.  Could the conflict have been resolved in a better, more humanitarian way?  If, so how? If the conflict is unresolved, suggest how it could be resolved.

Printout rubric and attach to front.

Rubric:

_____Coherent description (20)
_____Writing Conventions (grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, etc.) (20)  
_____Vocab. usage (20)
_____Innovative thinking (10)
_____Reputable sources (10)
_____Proper citation (Check MLA web site to see model) (10)
_____Followed directions (10)

Review: Patterns of Human geography

Watch Mr. Mac's Patterns of Human Geography, Parts 1 & 2 on YouTube to review population.