AP: Fast Food Nation

Make sure to get your copy of Fast Food Nation! It is sold online used so don't overpay!

Africa Map Quiz Part 2

Please don't forget! Africa Map Quiz Part Two for Standard and Honors World Geography will be Tuesday, February 1st.

Make sure that if you need to retake Part One that you do it in tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays before the progress report.

Honors: Agriculture Project.

Honors World Geography - need the link to the USDA's state fact sheet page?

Here you go!
http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/

Need another copy of the US state map for the choropleth map portion?
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/usa.html

(click US no labels)

Agriculture PPT.

World Geography Students:

I'm trying something new with my powerpoints. If you missed or need the powerpoint for any reason, click here: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AWaPNSqn5YKuZGdqN25jNGJfMTM2Zzc3aGd0ZnY&hl=en&authkey=CPW59PMH

This is the link to the powerpoint for 1/20, on organic food, genetically modified food, and the "food crisis."

Africa Map Quiz 2

Honors/Standard World Geography: Make sure you are studying for your Africa map quiz part 2! Quiz is the southern half of the map, 18 countries, and will be February 1st. Link for the map is http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/africa.html

This link has blank and labeled maps for you to study with.

Welcome Back to Second Semester!

Welcome back, Geographers! Even though this semester has gotten off to an odd start with a snow day then a holiday, we're steadily making our way through January. 

In AP Human Geography, we've finished Unit 4 (Political Geography) and will be starting Unit 5 (Agriculture). Make sure you're finding your copy of "Fast Food Nation" for our book study!

In World Geography, we started our Economics unit at the start of the semester. We've learned about types of economic systems, types of economic activities, government interaction in the economy, and levels of development. Honors students researched countries and created "development profiles" to share with their peers and practice classifying development level by GDP/Capita, literacy rate, and more. 

We quizzed on Unit 4.1 on Tuesday, January 18th. If you missed that quiz, make sure to come to tutoring! We took the first half of the Africa map quiz last Friday, January 14th. If you missed that or need to retake it, again - tutoring!

Exam Announcements

Exams are right around the corner! In case your student has not updated you, here are a few announcements for exam week:

- We start exam schedule this Friday, the 10th. We go to 4 blocks a day, with study sessions for the exams that are the next day. The first exam is Monday, the 13th and is for the D1 class. D2 and D7 test on Tuesday, D3 and D6 on Wednesday, D4 and D7 on Thursday. If your student takes blocked classes, they know that it runs like a "Wednesday schedule"

- Honors and Standard World Geography students will receive a study guide with key ideas this Thursday. Standard students are allowed to make a "cheat sheet" (one piece of notebook paper, front and back) based on the study guide, use it on the exam, and turn it in for 5 bonus points on the exam.

- Honors and Standard World Geography students will begin their study day project on Thursday. They will receive detailed instructions for this. It will be a classwork grade.

- AP students will review in class on the study day but are expected to begin reviewing prior to the study day. The AP semester exam is a full, timed multiple choice that will be taken in the library to emulate the real exam. It will be 75 questions, 60 minutes timed.

All students will need a pencil for the exam. Pencils will not be provided.