Monday, September 7, 2015

September 8-11, 2015

AP Human Geography

Tue. 9/8 --  Vocab list p. 14-18 -- Define: Place, location, site, situation, and toponym. Assignment on regions.  This is a ledger size piece of paper to pick up in class.  Finish the GIS map tonight.
Wed. 9/9 -- Book log-in handed out.  Finish the regions project.  Due: GIS map. Homework: Study vocabulary from Chapter 1, Key issues 1-2 p. 5-19.
Thur. 9/10 -- QUIZ: vocab p. 5-19. Key Issue 3.  Discuss and define Globalization.  How has the economy and culture experienced globalization? Project on space and diffusion. Vocab to learn: space, density, concentration, and pattern.  Draw a distribution of shapes that explains the above terms. Define each word. More diagrams on relocation and expansion diffusion.  There are directions in class.
Fri. 9/11 -- Map of the US and Canada. 

Ancient Medieval
Tue. 9/8 -- DUE: Cultures of Mountains and Seas worksheet p. 123-126.  Quick video to introduce the Mycenaeans.  Group project to make a map of Mycenae.
Wed. 9/9 -- Finish Mycenae map. PP notes on Iron Age Greece.
Thur. 9/10 -- Make a comparison chart of Athens and Sparta.  Review map for geogrpahy quiz on Friday. Read a small section of Lycurgus.
Fri. 9/11 -- Qz Geography of Greece.  Introduce Persia and work on map of Persia. 

Economics
Tue. 9/8 -- Barter simulation.  Types of economic systems chart -- traditional, market and command types of economic systems. 
Wed. 9/9 -- Vocabulary quiz on chapter 1 -- study the words from your Chapter 1 list.  PP notes on Mixed economic systems.  Read p. 44 --  Make a list of the disadvantages and provide one way the United States tries to minimize this disadvantage -- work with a partner.
Thur. 9/10 -- Country Research in the library.  Each student will have a different country to research follow the directions and use www.cia.gov to find the answers.  Country research due Friday: 9/11
Fri. 9/11 -- Watch "Emerging Powers: China" complete the video watching guide.


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