Writing Exercises

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Presentations

Students, I couldn't get the powerpoints uploaded.  But I think you have enough to review.  GOOD LUCK TOMORROW.  GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP.

Dr. Haley

World Geo. Info.

Geo. Info for all parts of the world

Sample Human Geo. Exam Essay Questions

Sample exam questions

Week of May 13-17

5/13/13
Group vocab. review
Homework:  Study models and vocab

5/14/13
Presentations
Homework:  Research first 10 Model & Theory checklist

5/15/13
Presentations
Homework: Study Crash course notes

5/16/13
Ms. Asmar guest speaker
Review test
Review Crash course
GO TO BED EARLY AND RELAX

5/17/13
GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT AND RELAX!!

Political Review Questions

Rubenstein Group Review Work:

Remember, to adequately respond to a question you must do the following:

• Define your terms
• Express your thesis
• Provide evidence
• Give details and/or examples

1. Explain the division of North and South Korea.  Why does the conflict between the two states still exist?  How is the US involved?  (Rubenstein 241
1. Locate states on map.  (Give their situation.)
2. Define state.
3. Express your thesis. (The conflict between North and South Korea still exists today.)
4. Provide evidence. (In your own words, summarize the history of conflict.)
5. Explain how the conflict endures today.

2. Why do boundaries between states cause problems? (247-249)
1. State your thesis:  Boundaries cause problems.
2. Define 5 basic states.
3. Give one or two examples.
4. Explain the problem of each shape.

3. In terms of their relationship with the United States, summarize the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran.  (264-266)
1. Define the three states in terms of situation by locating on a map.
2. State your thesis. (“Conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran have escalated since the end of the Cold War.)
3. Summarize conflict in each state.
4. Explain how that conflict endures today.

Conflict in the Middle East

Should U.S. intervene in Syria?

"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN

     All the features of Syria's civil war that are supposedly the result of U.S. nonintervention bloomed in Iraq despite America's massive intervention there. In Iraq under U.S. occupation, jihadi terrorist of all stripes flourished. They employed tactics that were brutal beyond belief – putting electric drills through people's heads, burning others alive and dumping still breathing victims into mass graves.
     These struggles get vicious for a reason: the stakes are very high. Joshua Landis, America's leading scholar on Syria, points out that Syria is the last of the three great minority-ruled regimes in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the first, the Christian minority was displaced in a fifteen year bloody civil war. In Iraq, the US displaced the Sunni minority, but they then fought back brutally – again a long, bloody civil war. Syria is following precisely that pattern.
     The minority regime fights to the end because it fears for its life once out of power. The Sunnis of Iraq fought – even against the mighty American military – because they knew that life under the majority Shiites would be ugly, as it has proved to be. The Alawites – the ruling sect – in Syria will fight even harder because they are a smaller minority and have further to fall.

URL:  www.time.com

Haiti: The world....

Haiti: The world doesn't have any idea...

Week of May 6-10

5/6/13
Discuss Dust Bowl write-ups
Collect write-ups
Divide students into groups to discuss points of conflict in the Middle East or North Korea.
Homework:  Review migration notes.  In Rubenstein, address 3 political questions.  Due Friday.

5/7/13
Migration quiz
Divide students into groups to compare how they addressed political questions.  Highlight critical points from each response.
Introduce Haitian newspaper article.  Connect vocab. to article.
Homework:  Read Barron's Ch. 1 

5/8/13
Barron's Ch. 1 Crossword 
Discuss any Ch. 1 confusions.
Promethean Board review
Finish for homework.  Work on Haiti vocab. papers.  Due Thurs.; review Ch. 1

5/9/13
Collect Haiti vocab. papers
Groups take notes, compare to Barron's, make up presentation from AP Human Geography Crash
Course

5/10/13
Collect 3 questions on political geo.
Groups take notes, compare to Barron's, make up presentation from AP Human Geography Crash
Course
Homework:  Study Barrons; study groups