Week of April 29-May 3

4/29
Urban Geography test
Homework:  Study migration in Rubenstein.  Pay particular attention to the following:
push/pull factors
migration stream
maps showing these streams
chain migration
net out-migration
voluntary and involuntary migration
refugees
areas of refugees
waves of migration into the US
Internal Migration (look at US maps depicting this)
shifting US population centers
The Great Migration
the great migration
Ravenstein's Laws
Gravity Model
Zelinksy's Model of Migration Transition

4/30-May 2
We will devote three days reviewing Migration.  So familiarize yourselves with the above concepts;
Homework:  Keep reading and reviewing Migration.  Study vocabulary especially from packet given beginning of year.

May 3
Finish Migration
Homework: 
1.  Watch Dust Bowl, WXEL, Sat. Check local listings.
2.  Research some kind of political conflict in the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, or Israel and the Palestinians).  Summarize in a paragraph.
3.  Study vocab. words from list given at beginning of year.  If you lost it, do a google search and find an AP Human Geography vocabulary review.

Week of Apr. 22-26

4/22/13
Essential Question:  What is the rank-size rule?
Group work:  Ask student-made questions in groups
Whole group:  Ask the teacher
Homework:  Research the urban morphology of your city.  Write a paragraph on it based on the concepts defined in this chapter.

4/23/13
Warm-up:  review rank size rule and compare to primate city rule.  
Essential Question:  What is your hometown's urban morphology?
Proofread hometown morphologies and highlight urban geo. terms.
In groups of 4, share urban morphology of hometowns.  Vote on the best one; place star at top.
Share with group.
Collect paragraphs.
Homework:   Redo urban morphology paragraph; make sure you apply vocab. from urban geography chapter.

4/24/13
collect paragraphs
Essential Question:  What and where are the important cities of the world?
Warm-up:  Identify individual cities' countries listed in Barron's.
Plot cities on a world map. Identify country by coloring and labeling.
Homework:  finish maps

4/25/13
collect maps
Promethean Board review
Homework:  review central place theory

4/26/13
Group work:  explain central place theory to your learning partner
Homework:  Review Urban Geo. for test on Monday

Free Response Tips

http://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/kmroyce/5-FRQ-Strategies.pdf

Scoring Guidelines for AP Human Geo. Exam

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/sg_human_geo_02_11558.pdf

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/sg_human_geo_02_11558.pdf

Week of April 15-19

4/15/13
VIS Chart on first 18 words of Urban Geography
Homework:  Finish VIS chart

4/16/13
pop quiz on vocab words
finish VIS charts
Collect evidence of AP score registration
vocab. test Friday

4/17/13
Finish King Corn
Distribute all papers
Homework:  study vocab for Friday quiz

4/18/13
King Corn quiz
Review common errors on writing assignment (Promethean Bd. flipchart) 
Homework:  Review important points from "Historical Geography of Urban Environments" and "Culture and Urban Form".  Construct two questions per section that you would like to ask me or pose to the class.  Study for vocab. test. 

4/19/13
warm-up:  Urban Geo. vocab.
King Corn quiz (Period 4)
Divide into groups of 4 and take turns asking questions that each student composed.
Homework:  Finish reading Barron's Urban Geo.

Getting your AP Scores

After taking your AP Exam in May, you will receive your scores online in July. Scores will not be sent in the mail. To get your scores, you need to go to apscore.org and create a free online account with the College Board. Students with a College Board account will receive email updates letting them know how and when they can access their scores.

Week of Apr. 8-12

4/8/13
Period 3 (Collect Boserup's Outline)
Review essay questions
Promethean Board review
Homework:  Study essay questions for test tomorrow.

4/9/13
Agriculture essay test
Finish Agriculture Promethean Board

4/10/13
Introduce King Corn vocabulary
Begin viewing King Corn

4/11/13
Finish viewing King Corn
Promethean Board vocab. review
 
4/12/13
Finish King Corn and quiz
Agriculture Test
Homework:  Read Urban Geo. in Barron"s up to "Culture and Urban Form"
Set up an account with apscore.org.  Print out first page to bring in on Monday.

Lynn Henning video

http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/northamerica

Agriculture: Green Revolution and Indian Farmers

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102893816