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