Prisoners of GeographySummer Reading Assignment:
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Sketch Map Assignments.
You will be making a world atlas.
This project will be due on May 1st.
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Due August 24th
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if you have not done so already
You need to download Google Classroom, Remind (you can find the code for remind on the LINKS tab to the left) and Google calendar. All of these will be of great help to you in the school year to come. Many teachers on the Freshman Campus use these apps to keep you up to date.
Your grade in this class will be totally dependent on you and your work ethic. I don't "give" grades, you earn them. This class will challenge you and push you beyond your comfort zone. If you are in one or more extra curricular activities you can still do well in this class. The key to your success will be time management. You can expect to spend as many hours outside of class as you spend in class. However, if you are not used to this work load you may be spending more time at the beginning until you learn better study habits, reading and note taking skills.
Look around this site. This site and the following apps will make this easier: Remind; Google Classroom; Google Calendar and your online textbook.
Look around this site. This site and the following apps will make this easier: Remind; Google Classroom; Google Calendar and your online textbook.
This course covers the following topics:
1. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5%–10%)
2. Population (13%–17%)
3. Cultural Patterns and Processes (13%–17%)
4. Political Organization of Space (13%–17%)
5. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13%–17%)
6. Industrialization and Economic Development (13%–17%)
7. Cities and Urban Land Use (13%–17%)
Course Objectives:
1. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5%–10%)
2. Population (13%–17%)
3. Cultural Patterns and Processes (13%–17%)
4. Political Organization of Space (13%–17%)
5. Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13%–17%)
6. Industrialization and Economic Development (13%–17%)
7. Cities and Urban Land Use (13%–17%)
Course Objectives:
- List and explain the building blocks of human geography
- Identify patterns of population distribution, growth and decline and connect these patterns to different stages of economic development
- Identify different types of migration and explain the reasons for each
- Describe the origins, development and distribution of different languages and explain how language can be either a unifying or a divisive factor
- Describe the origins, development and distribution of different religions and explain how religion can be either a unifying or a divisive factor
- Define a nation-state and identify the factors that determine the power/influence a nation-state has in the world community
- Describe how economic development is measured and identify possible paths to economic development
- Explain the differences between intensive and extensive subsistence agriculture and the differences between intensive and extensive commercial agriculture
- Describe the distribution pattern of industry and explain the factors underlying industrial location decisions
- Explain the origin, distribution and growth of settlement areas and explain why these people and activities display particular spatial patterns
- Apply geographic methods to the contemporary issues of energy, pollution and food production
- Use and think about maps and spatial data sets
- Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
- Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes
- Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
Course Syllabus |
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You will not be able to register for the online textbook until school begins. We have a limited number of (about 32) hard copies of the textbook at school, however if you want to highlight, underline etc. in your book you are encouraged to purchase your own copy. You can also mark your online version. There will also be assignments on the online version.
Course ID MOREYAPHG