Lesson Plans march 22-26

Monday, Mar 22
Landforms & Resources
Outline Notes pp 390-397
HW: Finish outline notes

Tuesday, Mar 23-Advocacy
Climate & Vegetation- graphic organizer
Coloring Book Activity & questions
HW: Bring textbook , glue stick, and scissors
Physical map

Wednesday, Mar 24
Reading Notes 27-cut/paste/annotate
HW: Climograph of Houston

Thursday, Mar 25
Postcard ActivityMessage/stamp/picture/climograph/absolute location

Friday, Mar 26
Quiz 11 pp 399-407
Outline note quiz
“The Annual Flooding in Bangladesh”
HW: Finish writing-due Mon

5th Six Weeks EXTRA CREDIT!

You will have the opportunity to watch a film for extra credit this week.

We will be showing Afghanistan Unveiled in Room 302 on Wednesday March 10, and in room 301 on Thursday March 11 at 3:30 each day.

The film is 1 hour long so please make arrangements to be picked up after school as necessary.

This film is about a female journalist from Pakistan who risks her life filming the plight of women inAfghanistan under the Taliban. It is well worth seeing.

Review for Southwest Asia test -3/9/10

Physical:
Golan Heights
West Bank
Dead Sea
Rub al-Khali
Dome of the Rock
Western Wall
Water
Natural disasters
Desalinations
Choke points
Oil

Human:
OPEC
Kurds
Dubai
Ottoman Empire
Palestinian Mandates
Iraq/Iran
Palestiniens/Israelis
Taliban
Afghanistan
Zionism
« stateless » nation
« the Middle East »
Primate Cities

Lesson Plans Mar 1-5

Monday, Mar 1
Istanbul-Primate City pp
HW: political map

Tuesday, Mar 2
Physical map quiz
Monotheistic Religion pp
Notes
HW: Major Religions of the Middle East + questions

Wednesday, Mar 3-short day
“How the Middle East became that way”
HW: finish if needed

Thursday, Mar 4
Iraq/Iran, Kurds pp
Questions
HW: 3 paragraphs
Thesis
Similarities
Differences

Friday, Mar 5
quiz
Afghanistan pp
HW: Life under the Taliban

TURNITIN INSTRUCTIONS!

DO NOT COPY THE QUESTIONS INTO YOUR TURNITIN SUBMISSION AS THEY WILL APPEAR IN MY ACCOUNT AS HAVING BEEN PLAGIARISED.

INSTEAD JUST WRITE THE SHORT PARAGRAPH ANSWERS.

Lesson Plans JFeb 22-26

Spring Semester 2010-Week 8

Monday, Feb 22
Graded discussion-Africa
HW: Study for test + Bring book on Tuesday

Tuesday, Feb 23
Test-Africa
HW: SW Asia Physical map + Read Chapt 24 (quiz on Thursday)

Wednesday, Feb 24
Landforms & Resources pp
Project due tomorrow
HW: Geo terms 24/Processing 24

Thursday, Feb 25
Project Due
Quiz #8 (pg 357-367)
Oil in SW Asia pp
Outline notes
HW: Water Shortage in SW Asia

Friday, Feb 26
Auditorium – college prep
All Geography classes

Review for Africa Test

Physical
River basin
Nile River
Desertification
Marginal land
Desert landforms
Date palms
Rift valleys
Africa’s climates
Plateaus and escarpments
Niger delta

Human Regional
South Africa
-Political, sanctions, Nelson Mandela
Apartheid
Aswan High Dam
Groups in Darfur
Nigeria linguistic groups
Importance of Sahara culturally
Cultural regions
African diseases

Human Colonization
British rule in Nigeria
Results of colonization
Africa post-colonial economy
Importance of Ethiopia and Liberia
Berlin Conference
Brain drain