January 4-6, 2017

Welcome to 2017!

AP Human Geography
Wed. 1/4 -- Your AP Essays on Malthus and Religious clusters in the U.S are both due today. We will grade one together (so you see how they are graded) and I will grade one.  New calendar for chapter 7 -- Ethnicity and introductory notes.
Thur. 1/5 -- Quick review on ethnicity and race and spatial relationships.  Look up data from the U.S. census from various cities and states.  Color code a map.
Fri. 1/6 -- PP notes on the history of ethnic distributions in the U.S.
HW: Key Issue 3 p. 238-239 worksheet on nationalities.

AP Art History 
Wed. 1/4 -- Notes on the Baroque in Italy and Spain.  Take card #90 off your list.  We will do it with the New World set.
Thur. 1/5 -- DVD on Caravaggio.  This DVD provides good background on patronage issues, tempermental artists, and the social setting of the Italian Baroque. Caravaggio is very interesting.
Fri. 1/6 -- Notes on the Baroque in the Netherlands and Flanders.  You can now do 9 of the 10 art cards for the Baroque unit.
HW: Work on Art Cards.  Baroque set due 1/10. 

Economics
Wed. 1/4 -- Read p. 494-499 on Absolute and Comparative Advantage.  Notes on trade.  Why do nations trade?
Thur. 1/5 -- A comparison chart on ways to limit trade.  We will have two ends of a spectrum -- protectionism and free trade arguments.  Students will also define tariff and quota. p. 501-505.
Fri. 1/6 -- Mini Lecture on the history of global trade agreements and the WTO.  Mini-projects on WTO issues and trade disputes.  Presentations today and Monday. 

December 12-16, 2016

Wow.  Unusual Snowy week.  See changes to calendar below -- updated on 12/15

AP Human Geography
Mon. 12/12 -- No School -- Snow Day
Tue. 12/13 -- Religious Conflict -- intro notes and questions on three key religious conflicts.
Wed. 12/14 -- Lecture on religious conflicts . Review for Quiz.
Thur. 12/15 -- No School -- Snow Day 

Fri. 12/16  -- QZ: Chapter 6. Notebook #5 DUE. 
Monday and Tuesday will be to finish the holiday presentations.  We are now two days behind and will have some extra homework in the new year to make up the lost time. 

AP Art History 
Mon. 12/12 -- No School -- Snow Day
Tue. 12/13 -- The High Renaissance (lecture) -- Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
Wed. 12/14 -- Primary source reading on the role of painter.  There are questions to go with the reading. Late Renaissance -- Titian and Pontormo.
Thur. 12/15 -- No School Snow Day  -  Work on the HR and LR cards.
Fri. 12/16 -- History of the Reformation.  Hopefully we will have enough time to watch some of Luther.  If not there is a shorter version on Khan academy. HW: Get your Northern Renaissance Cards ready -- pictures and labels.  You will only have Monday night to finish 4 cards.
Mon. 12/19 -- Notes on the Northern Renaissance. Finish cards tonight.  Quiz and Cards due tomorrow. 
Tue. 12/20 -- Open Card Quiz on the Renaissance.  This quiz will be more difficult than the last quiz, so I recommend excellent cards.  Questions will cover the all of the Renaissance cards. HR, LR and NR cards due (9 cards).

Economics 
Mon. 12/12  --No School -- Snow Day
Tue. 12/13 -- Notes on Inflation.  Mini-skits on inflation topics. If you are absent you will need to read the section in Chapter 13 on inflation and familiarize yourself with the concepts.  The skit will be excused, not the knowledge :).  ECE moved to Wednesday.
Wed. 12/14 -- Powerpoint on unemployment -- how it is measured and types of unemployment.  Student partners will create a cartoon defining the five types of unemployment -- See pages 386-387 (Sources of unemployment). If you are absent, create a five cartoon project showing pictures of the five types of unemployment.  Define each type.  Economic Current Event #3 DUE by 4 p.m.
Thur. 12/15 -- No School -- Snow Day
Fri. 12/16 A short video on technological unemployment.  Review for the Economic policy test. Review sheets out.
Mon, 12/19-- A bit more review, game. Short test. There is no essay, just short answer questions on economic policy. Chapters 12-13.
Tue. 12/20 -- Supply-side and Demand-side policies -- Discussion, video and quick partner charts.
 

December 5-9, 2016

AP Human Geography
Mon. 12/5 -- Graphic organizer on the origin of religions. Small group projects.  Hw: Finish the graphic organizers p. 192-195, Ch 6, Key 2.
Tue. 12/6 -- Worksheet -- Map of the diffusion of Islam, Christianity and Buddhism.  HW: Review for the quiz.
Wed. 12/7 -- Assembly Schedule.  QZ: Key Issue 1-2 (Multiple-choice, 18 questions).  Know definitions, an basics of religions, branches - including distribution and diffusion.  Begin religious organization and space chart. This is a large group project.
Thur. 12/8 --  Finish religious organization and space chart, group discussion questions.
Fri. 12/9 -- Work Day for the holiday project. Chromebooks.

AP Art History 
Mon. 12/5 -- Introduction to the Renaissance. Early Northern Renaissance Notes.  Handout of the techniques of altar painting and engraving.
Tue. 12/6 -- Italian Politics city states map.
Wed. 12/7 -- Early Italian Renaissance. Short video on Medici and notes on Burnelleschi and Alberti -- architecture.
Thur. 12/8 -- EIR -- Paintings and sculpture.
Fri. 12/9 -- History of humanism and Savanarola.  Art cards on the Early Renaissance DUE.  Open card quiz. 

Economics 
Mon. 12/5 -- Library work day -- HSBP and Corporation project.
Tue. 12/6 -- HSBP and Corporation project DUE no later than 3 p.m.
Wed. 12/7  -- Review Keynes and the output expenditure formula, quiz (open note). Notes on demographic trends and economic growth.  If you are home, skim pages 346-351(lesson 2 in chapter 12).
Thur. 12/8 -- Watch "Changing Geography of Jobs" form the EIP series.  Look up the video (a bit longer than five minutes).  You will then research a city in the U.S. that falls into either a brain hub or industrial capital.  Pick up the direction sheet.
Fri.12/9 -- Business cycle. Read p. 366-371, answer the questions. Get a copy of the questions from me if you are absent.