April 23-27, 2018

AP Human Geography
Mon. 4/23 -- Finish notes on city models in developing countries.  Go over the chapter 12 quiz.  You did so well on the city models, we don't need to go over that quiz.  Begin Key Issue 3 project on expanding cities.  Lots of new vocabulary -- partner project.
Tue. 4/24 -- Finish expanding cities project. Due today!
Wed. 4/25 -- Video "10 Cities that Changed America"  This is from PBS and you can watch in on-line if you are absent.  Take notes on the innovation from each city. I expect a couple bullets on each of the 10 cities.  Discuss New Urbanism.
Thur. 4/26 -- TED talk: " Greening the Ghetto" by Majora Carter.  There is a sheet with questions, so look in the file.  On-line activity from PBS on "10 Parks that Changed America."  Discussion of why parks are important.  Characteristics of city planning.
Fri. 4/27 -- Powerpoint lecture on City Challenges (Key Issue 4).  It is a lot of material!  Watch Discovery Atlas on Dharavi if possible.

Economics
Mon. 4/23 -- Library to work on the High School Plan and Beyond.  Other students are working on a slide show about a corporation.
Tue. 4/24 -- Library HSBP and Corporation project continued.  This is the last of the class time.  DUE on Wednesday.
Wed. 4/25 Taxation Basics -- vocabulary from Chapter 14, Lesson 1.  Students will draw political cartoons teaching about basic tax vocabulary.  Pages 400-406.  HSBP and Corporation Slide show DUE. NO time during class to work on it.  Due at 3 p.m.
Thur. 4/26 -- Finish vocabulary from Lesson 1.  Mini-lecture on taxes and tax chart to be stamped.
Fri. 4/27 -- Quiz on tax vocabulary. Read pages 406-410.  Alternative Tax Approaches.  Describe a Flat tax and VAT tax.  Include two pros and two cons with each.  Make a brief chronology of Tax reform including 1981, 1986, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2013.  What happened each time?

April 9-13, 2018

I am sorry about the missing weeks - end of the quarter crazy.

AP Human Geography
Mon. 4/9 -- Introduction to Central Place Theory.  Assignment intro and hexagon pattern for our local area looking at range and threshold issues for cities, towns, villages and hamlets. 
Tue. 4/10 -- Finish Central Place Theory assignment.  Discuss findings at the end.  Did students see a pattern?
Wed. 4/11 -- Rank-size cities and Primate cities.  Definitions and graphs of countries and city sizes.  Which countries follow which rule?
Thur. 4/12 -- Global Cities and services.  We start with questions and a powerpoint show and discussion.  Students will finish reading and complete the worksheet.  Chapter 12, Key issue 3, p. 442-447.
Fri. 4/13 -- Powerpoint on the history of urbanization.  Assignment to diagram rural settlement patterns -- basically read p. 448-451 in Chapter 12, Key issue 4.  Diagram clustered and linear settlement patterns. Take some notes on clusters in Colonial America and the development of dispersed rural settlements in the U.S.
NOTE: There is a chapter 12 quiz on Monday.  Get a unit review sheet.

Economics
Mon. 4/9 -- EconMovie #5 Cars (watch on-line for review). We will review GDP and demographics quickly and divide up into groups of 2-3 to look at demographic data from the U.S.  Data summaries will be added to a diagram on the board. If we are ready, Quiz on GDP and Demographics. We may take the quiz on Tuesday.
Tue. 4/10 -- On-line video from SF Fed "The New Geography of Jobs" by Enrico Moretti.  You can watch it on YouTube.  Comparing city demographics in class.
Wed. 4/11 -- Business Cycles.  Questions from the document camera.  It will take about 15-20 minutes to do the questions and correct them.  Crash Course Economics video on 2008 Financial Crisis.  I will introduce the video with some vocabulary.  Compare and contrast the causes, depth and results of the Great Depression 1929 with the Great Recession of 2008.
Thur. 4/12 -- "Where would you like to live" research assignment.
Fri. 4/13 -- Crash Course #7 on Inflation (there is a lot of good material out there).  There are questions to go with the video and an on-line assignment at the Minneapolis Fed about the CPI.