UNIT 7 – Cultural Geography (Chapters 4 & 5)

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Go over Semester Exam; discuss course direction and AP Exam

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Movie: The Gods Must Be Crazy (selected scenes); Fantasy Geopolitics

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Identity, Race & Scale

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Ethnicity, Place & Space; Mapping America

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Map Quiz: The Caribbean; go to the Geography Education site - choose an article - go to Schoology - Discussions - and submit your post, then make comments on one other posting
Look over current events Read 117-26 (Introduction & 5.1; guide Read 127-30 (5.2); guide

Study for Caribbean map quiz

 Read 130-41 (5.3); guide

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 Power Relationships; Gender Issues; Vulerable Populations

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Local and Popular Cultures

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Authenticity and Diffusion of Culture; writing workshop

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Popular Culture & the Cultural Landscape

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 Half Day; review for test



Read 90-99 (Introduction, 4.1 & 4.2 up through Local Cultures and Cultural Appropriation); guide

Read 99-101 (the rest of 4.2); guide; optional reading (The Amish and the Mennonites)

Read 102-10 (4.3); guide

 Read 111-16 (4.4); finish guide Study for test

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No School: Martin Luther King Jr. Day



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Test: Cultural Geography; Chapters 4 & 5 (Objective Only); extra vocab due

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Nations, States, and Political Organization; work on Evolution of the Contemporary Political Pattern

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Due: answers to the Evolution of the Contemporary Political Pattern; Diffusion of the Nation-State Model; begin work on the Model UN - Berlin Conference

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World-Systems Theory; work on the Model UN - Berlin Conference sx
Study for test Read 211-18; guide Read 218; finish guide & Evolution of the Contemporary Political Pattern Read 218-22; guide Read 222-30; guide

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