8/24-8/28

First day procedures (Monday and Tuesday)

"Did you know" video segment (Monday and Tuesday)

Five themes of Geography notes

Five themes collage

Intro Latitude and Longitude

PreAp HW- 5 Themes story

Types of Maps  power point presentation

TODLASS of Maps (Title, orientation, date, author, legend, source, scale)

Do your own map exercise

8/31-9/4

Finish up on maps PPT

Charts

Time Zones and International Date line

Latitude and Longitude coordinate w/s and packet

Pre-Ap "Rivers Run Dry: Human Sponge"

**CHAPTER 1 REVIEW SHEET**  TEST ON SEPT 8 OR 9TH***

**PRE-AP BOOK TEST 9/14-15**

9/8-9/11

Chapter 1 test Sept 8th or 9th

"My Island-Atlantis"  Project introduction Due Sept 15 or 16

**PRE-AP BOOK TEST 9/14-9/15**

Plate Tectonics

9/14-9-18

Plate Tectonics

Pre-Ap: "Where rivers run dry"

Pre-Ap Book test Monday or Tuesday

All classes due either Sept 14 or 15th Project Atlantis due

Chapter 2 Vocabulary Quiz--All classes

Water Cycle, Climate, Weathering/Erosion Notes

9/21-9/25

Finish Power Point notes from last week.

The Material World

RAC Culture

Population Pyramids

**TEST CHAPTER 3 & 4 WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY (ALL CLASSES) NEXT WEEK**

Review sheets given on Friday for "B" day

9/28-10/2

Review sheet given for "A" Day

Urban Geography notes for test

Pre-Ap "Guns, Germs, and Steel" Segment

**TEST CHAPTER 3 & 4 WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY**

REMIND YOUR STUDENT TO BRING THEIR NOTES AND REVIEW SHEET FOR TEST

Create a Culture for Core classes only

10/5-10/9

Hurricane Notes, Mississippi River Valley Handout, "Hurricane on the Bayou" video, questions and extension.

Text questions pgs  145-148 and 147-149

Notes on North America

10/12-10/16

DBQ on Hurricanes

Notes on North America

Immigration article and "30 Days" video segment on Illegal Immigration.

Grey Wolves reading and questions

10/19-10/23

**Test over North America moved to next Monday (A day) & Tuesday (B day)**

Core classes--finish North American Disaster project.

Text questions and Map over Canada--handouts

Test review sheet for North America.

10/27-10/30

Test over North America

Latin America Maps packet.  Many handouts over Political and Physical Maps over latin America

Day of the Dead in Latin America and hand out.

'Mexico Revealed' and handout

11/2-11/6

Climate Zones of Latin America

Guns, Germs, and Steel "Conquest of the Incas"

Andes Region

11/9-11/13

Geo terms

Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange Pre-Ap mini project in class

Latin America Text Questions

Rain Forrest/slash and burn-Core and Pre-Ap

Cocaine in the Andes video Pre-Ap

Next week DBQ on Cocaine for Pre-Ap

Test all classes next Thursday 11/19 and Friday 11/20 over Latin America

11/23-11/24

Testing Latin America

11/30-12/4

Textbook questions: Russia and Republics

Russia Revealed Video and Worksheet

12/7-12/11

Russia Notes

Study guide packet for Semester final given Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs--four parts.  Also need to study All Russia Handouts and notes to prepare for questions on final pertaining to that Unit.

1/4-1/8

European Maps

US-Denmark comparisons-notes

Sequence of wars

Photo story of WWII

Shrinking /aging population of Europe

Peninsulas of Europe

Notes over WW1

Pre-AP assigning of "Londonistan" due 1/14

1/11-1/15

Notes over WWII

Alps video and Handout

Polders handouts and Surviving wartime in London

Friedman notes and video on "Why Europe Hates us"

Notes on European continent

1/19-1/22

Thomas Friedman Why "Europe hates us" and handout

Test for Europe review handed out  Test next week

Africa physical and political maps due next week

Guns Germs and Steel on Africa "Tropics"  PRE-AP  essay test question from here.

1/25-1/29

Nile Valley and Imperialism in Africa

Desertification of the Sahel and Malaria--Child Killer

Aids in Africa Paragraphs from interviews Core-turn in, Pre-Ap  First part of paper on Aids in Africa --Test

Pre-Ap Lake Chad "Tragedy of the flood plains" Due Friday

Along the Great Rift and Apartheid in South Africa

2/1-2/5

Mystery of the Nile

Sahara desert

South Africa World Cup mini project DUE FEBRUARY 8--TWO DAILY GRADES***Core and Pre-AP

Aids in Africa DBQ--PRE-AP  DUE NEXT MONDAY FEBRUARY 8--TEST GRADE

Assigning of African Folk Tale Due 2/16 and 2/17--CORE ONLY

2/17-3/5

Southwest Asia Unit

Map of Southwest Asia and Stereotypes of Islam/Muslims

The Fertile Crescent H/O

30 Days Video:  Muslim in America and questions

Text questions in World Geography book pg's 510-515 with questions on pg 515

Comparison chart of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

US-Iranian relationships and questions

"Growing Up Saudi and questions"

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and questions

TEST NEXT WEEK OVER SOUTHWEST ASIA

A-DAY MARCH 10

B-DAY MARCH 11

PRE-AP STUDENTS** NEEDS TO BUY--"NECTAR IN A SIEVE" BEFORE SPRING BREAK AND START READING FOR DISCUSSION WHEN RETURN FROM SPRING BREAK

Georgetown Independent School District

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