Week of April 1-5

4/1/13
Peer edit Green Rev/Organic Farming essays
Distribute quizzes
Homework:
   a.  Correct essays.  Final papers due on 4/3/13
   b.  Using dictionary.com or regular dictionary, define GR vocabulary words
    

India Podcast Vocabulary: 

unsustainable

Punjab

Sikh

coalition

philanthropist

communist

Chotia Khurd

Bollywood

irrigate

ground water

water table

Dust Bowl

4/2/13
Collect vocabulary.
Essential Question: Was the Green Revolution a curse or blessing?
Vocab. review (BINGO)
Podcast
3-minute write

4/3/13
Explain yesterday's homework.
Promethean Board Review
Homework:  From Barron's, outline different types of subsistence agriculture.
Optional homework:
In a paragraph, connect Green Revolution to cultural hearth. (If your Internet is down, you may use library or classroom/IB Internet to get information. If there is no information on GR and your hearth, you may research more stories on India and the Green Revolution.) Paragraphs are due on Monday.

4/4/13 (Early Release)
Warm-up:  Explain the different types of subsistence agriculture.
Promethean Board Review--model how to outline different types of subsistence agriculture.
Outline Esther Boserup's agricultural model.
Homework:  review Boserup's model of transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture

4/5/13
Collect GR/ROF (Rise Organic Farming) essays

Choose student to model Boserup's model.
Review von Thunen
Lynn Henning video

Homework: Answer the following in bulleted form:

Essay Questions for Ch. 7 Agriculture and Rural Geography  KEY

1.  Name and explain the 4 main agricultural revolutions.          

2.  Name and explain the 3 different types of economies that have traditionally governed agricultural production and distribution.       

3.  Identify 6 agricultural hearths.

4.  Identify and explain 2 methods used to cultivate the land.

5.  Identify and explain the different forms of subsistence farming.

6.  Identify Esther Boserup’s five-stage progression from extensive subsistence forms of agriculture to more intensive land cultivation.

7.  What were the results of the Green Revolution?

8.  What were the consequences of agribusiness?

9.  Name and explain 4 types of commercial agriculture.

10.  Draw and explain the von Thunen model               

11.  Explain how biotechnology and agribusiness have had negative effects on periphery countries.