Wednesday, October 27th

Honors/Standard: Advisory #3, Lifeline - what makes you who you are?

AP: Review Unit 2, Notecards due today!

Tuesday, October 26th

Honors and Standard: Labeled map of Europe

AP: Reviewed Unit 2 for test

Monday, October 25th

Honors and Standard: Quiz 2.2 (Honors - Short Answer, Standard - Multiple Choice)

AP: Interviews with Mr. McNeal's ESL students

Friday, October 22nd

Honors: Reviewed Unit 2, created Unit 2 Title Page

Standard: Finished Atlas assignment, reviewed Unit 2, created Unit 2 title page

AP: Migration

AP: article on Cholera in Haiti

Here's a CNN article on the recent Cholera outbreak in Haiti - remember, cholera is a stage two epidemic, so this probably shows Haiti's backwards shift after the earthquake. Or, does it represent a stage five epidemic, showing the results of poverty?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/21/haiti.cholera/index.html?hpt=T1

Thursday, October 21st

Honors: Environmental Protections, discussed deforestation and drilling in the arctic, HW = paragraph reflection on drilling in ANWR

Standard: video on Environmental Issues

AP: Faces of America documentary

Wednesday, October 20th

Honors/Standard: Advisory #2, Labels - discussed labels others give us and created the inside/outside me

AP: Migration

Tuesday, October 19th

Honors: Environmental Issues - discussed ways humans cause environmental issues like deforestation and pollution, HW: Environment advocacy poster

Standard: Environmental Protection, learned about ANWR, made a pro/con list for drilling in ANWR

AP: Migration

Remade in America - NY Times

AP - If you want to explore the interactive website more in class that we used, here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

Monday, October 18th

Honors: discussed current events article on MLGW vs. Mississippi water case, worked on Think Show!

Standard: learned about ways humans affect our environment negatively (deforestation, pollution, smog, acid rain, etc). HW = to make a poster advocating one of the environmental issues

AP: discussed basics of migration (emigration, immigration, net migration, internal vs international, etc), watched a PBS Frontline documentary on border migration in Mexico and the corruption there.

Friday, October 15th

Honors: Focused on the idea of scarcity, discussed potential conflicts with natural resources, finished natural resources mapping activity

Standard: Defined scarcity, finished natural resources mapping activity

AP: Practiced Free Response Question for Population, actual FRQ from 2008 AP Exam

Maps

Here's a great blog post from strange maps about a funky globe depicting Berlin. I especially like the first part talking about distortion of the globe when transcribed onto 2-D form. You should remember that from the beginning of the year... All Maps Lie. 

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24545?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fblogs%2Fstrange-maps+%28Strange+Maps%29

AP Unit 2 (Population and Migration) Vocab Lists

Here's the links to the vocab definitions if you need them for your notecards:

Population Vocab

Migration Vocab

AP: epidemelogy in the news

AP kids - check out this article about the history of cancer. It relates to what we talked about today. 

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/14/how-the-ancient-world-dealt-with-cancer/?hpt=C2

Thursday, October 14th

Honors and Standard: Renewable and Non Renewable Resources, continued to work on resources activity

AP: Epidemiology and Hans Rosling TED video on Asia's rise to power

Wednesday, October 13th

Honors and Standard: Advisory Day One, Conflict Management

AP: Malthus population growth

Tuesday, October 12th

Honors: Reviewed Nine Weeks Test, introduced Natural Resources

Standard: Natural Resources vocab, started mapping distribution of Natural Resources (in class activity)

AP: Reviewed Free Response Question results from Unit One

Monday, October 11th

Happy Columbus Day (and Fall Break!) - I enjoyed meeting parents tonight and discussing progress in class. It was wonderful to see you all. If you would like to get in touch with me, please note my email address on the right hand tool bar. 

As a current events connection, check out this news article from today: 
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/2-Injuries-Reported-After-2-Quakes-Hit-Arkansas/RtYzRanpvE2zZ6y2yVaaSA.cspx?rss=59

Arkansas had two earthquakes! Students, there's tectonic activity in action. 

Thursday, Oct. 7th

Hon/Stan: Nine Weeks Exam *note: please check Power Connect parent portal to view updated grades!!

AP: Discussed examples of the Demographic Transition model, received Population Activity (due Tuesday)

Wednesday, October 6th

Hon/Stan: Learned about weather patterns, how we get our weather, and when it goes bad (natural disasters) - saw video clips on tornadoes and hurricanes

AP: Discussed Demographic Transition Model (7th) and Population Pyramids (4th)

Tuesday, October 5th

Hon/Stan: We finished climate by discussing the 12 climate zones, learning about orographic effect, El Nino, and other variances in climate. Standard classes received a vocab list for their nine weeks exam.

AP: Discussed Demographic Transition Model (4th) and Population Pyramids (7th).

Friday, October 1st

Honors/Standard: Documentary from Planet Earth, "Pole to Pole" investigating the climates found around the world

AP: Documentary on population growth and decline from NOVA, "World In Balance"

Thursday, September 30th

Honors/Standard: Worked on Climate Zones (Honors - notes, Standard - foldable).

AP: RCQ in 4th, 7th progressed on to Demographic Transition Model

Wednesday, September 29th

Honors/Standard: 3rd period quizzed (due to being off schedule from homecoming), all others introduced Climate with notes on 4 factors of climate and began study of Climate Zones

AP: 4th did not meet due to PLAN test, 7th took RCQ 2.1/2.2

Tuesday, September 28th

Honors/Standard: Quiz 2.1 - if you were absent, please retake!

AP: discussed demographics, read article from ABC news on Infant Mortality Rate in Memphis