Writing Exercises

 http://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/writing.html

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

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

India's Farming 'Revolution" Heading for Collapse

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

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.