SUMMER WORK
AP Human Geography - Summer Work
8/24 (First Day of School)
Syllabus and book distribution
Turn in summer work
8/26
Map Quiz #1 (Physical/Human Geography)
Summer Terms Quiz
10 Questions in 8 minutes
CRQ Quiz (Fast Food Nation)
8/28
Video: Ptolemy, The Father of Geography (8 minutes)
Socratic Seminar (Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?)
Homework: Begin Reading Chapter 1 (Test in 3.5 weeks)
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8/31
Socratic Seminar (CH. 1-5 of Fast Food Nation) [Madhangi/Jack]
NHD Project - Project Description
9/2
Notes: Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 2 (Part I)
NHD Project - Annotated Bibliography Points Chart + Rubric
Discuss rubric and points system
9/4
CRQ Question: Regional Landscape Distinctiveness
NHD Project Time
Homework: Continue Reading Chapter 1 (Test in 2.5 weeks)
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9/9 (BABA Week)
Notes: Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 2 (Part II)
Find these cities: Coordinates Based Challenge
How To: Socratic Seminars - PowerPoint and Student Handout
Project Time
9/11 (BABA Week)
Socratic Seminar How Google Builds Its Maps [David Dale/Larry R.]
Homework: Map Quiz - North America
Homework: Continue Reading Chapter 1 (Test in 1.5 weeks)
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9/14
Project Time (check-in)
9/16 [Curriculim Night]
Map Quiz #2 (North America)
Project Time
9/18
Socratic Seminar - "The Myth of Continents - Introduction" [Nipun S./Ethan E.]
Project: Exhibit
Homework: Finish Reading Chapter 1 (Test in 0.5 weeks)
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9/21
Due Date: Annotated Bibliography
Distribute Unit 2 Terms (Ch. 2-3)
Project: Exhibit Examples
9/23
Test - Unit 1 (Basic Concepts)
35 questions Multiple Choice (28 minutes)
CRQ (50 minutes)
Work on Unit 2 (Ch. 2 and 3) Terms
9/25 (Friday Half Day)
Socratic Seminar: Global Population Growth, Box by Box (10 minutes) [Logan/Aastha]
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9/30 (BABA Week)
Due: Process Paper (250-500 words)
Paragraph 1: How did you choose your topic?
Paragraph 2: How did you conduct your research?
Paragraph 3: How does your project relate to the NHD theme?
John Green: Drought and Famine
John Green: Population, Sustainability, and Malthus
Population Pyramid Activity
Project Time (Paper)
10/2 (BABA Week)
Due: Ch. 2 Key Terms
Socratic Seminar: Head Count [David B./Jay C.]
Ch. 2 Population/Health, Key Issue 3 (Demographic Transition Model)
Project Time (Paper)
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10/5
John Green: Disease
Video: Aging Japan (25 minutes)
Project Time
10/7 (Friday Schedule on Wednesday)
Socratic Seminar: Japan's Population Bomb [Clayton/Micaela]
Article 1: Japan: Population Aging
Project Time
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10/12
John Green: Migrations and Intensification
10/14
Exhibit Primer - Cyril and Methodius
John Green: America's Move to the City
Map Quiz #3 (Central and South America + Caribbean)
10/16
Socratic Seminar 7 (Syria Push/Pull Migration) [Angelica/Diella]
Due: Exhibit
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10/19
Migration DBQ - India, Palestine, Africans
Documents 1, 2, 3 [African migrations to New World] + Conversation
Documents 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6 [Jews to Israel] + Conversation
Documents 7, 8, 9 [Hindu/Muslim migrations Pakistan and India] + Conversation
John Green: Movin' to the Wild West
Due: Ch. 3 Terms Due
10/21
Films
John Green: Gandhi + Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
John Green: Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Ted Talk: Workforce Crisis of 2030 - and how to start solving it now
Ted Talk: How to help refugees
Ted Talk: Lessons from the 1918 flu
Homework: Finish Document Based Questions (Bias and Answers Responses)
Study Guide
Study Terms and Notes
10/23
Due: Responses to Document Based Questions (Bias and Answers)
Socratic Seminar 8 The Significance of the Frontier in American History [Ethan F./Carmen]
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PSAT WEEK
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10/26
Test - Unit 2 (Population)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
Assign Unit 3 Terms (Ch. 4, 5, 6)
10/29 [FRIDAY SCHEDULE]
Library Quiet Session - Writing/Revision
10/30 [Half Day]
Library Quiet Session - Writing/Revision
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QUARTER TWO
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11/2
Due: 1500-2500 word Project Paper
Due: Chapter 4 Terms
Assign: World Religion in Focus [Who, What, Where, When, Why + Diffusion over time] - 15-20 minute in-class presentation
Hinduism and Buddhism
Shwena, Madeline, David
Aastha, Madhangi, Marcus
Islam and Judaism
Jack, David, Anya, Ethan
Micaela, Larry, Emily, Zaynab
Christianity and LDS
Alexandra, Angelica, Logan, Clayton, John
Carmen, Ethan, Diella
Taoism and Confucianism
Ashley, Kailey, Nipun, Sebastian, Josh
Anna, Jay, Sarah
11/4
Documentary Component Overview
Thesis Question: Describe the diffusion of religion (x) over time.
Due Dates:
Friday, November 13th - 250-500 word technique synopsis
Monday, November 30th - 2-3 minute mini-documentary
FRQ: Folk Culture
World Religion in Focus Meeting Time
Documentary Work Time
11/6
Socratic Seminar 9 Diffusion of Cricket [Josh/Micaela]
World Religion in Focus Meeting Time
Documentary Work Time
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11/9 [ABBA Week?]
Due: Chapter 5 Terms
Ted Talk: What Makes a Word Real
World Religion in Focus Meeting Time
Documentary Work Time
11/13 [ABBA Week?]
Due: Documentary 250-500 word review
Ted Talk: Don't Kill Your Language
Ted Talk: Don't Insist on English!
World Religion in Focus Meeting Time
Documentary Work Time
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11/16
Slideshow: gifs of World Religions
Due: Chapter 6 Terms
World Religion in Focus: Hinduism and Buddhism
Period 2 Presentation [David D., Shwena, Madeline]
Period 4 Presentation [Madhangi, Marcus, Jay]
Documentary Work Time
11/18
Map Quiz #4 (Western Europe)
World Religion in Focus: Islam and Judaism
Period 2 Presentation [Ethan, David B., Anya, Jack]
Period 4 Presentation [Micaela, Larry, Emily, Zaynab]
Documentary Work Time
11/20
Socratic Seminar - World Trade Center Mosque [Sebastian/Emily]
Documentary Work Time
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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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11/30
Due: Documentary
World Religion in Focus: Christianity and LDS
Watch Documentaries
12/2
World Religion in Focus: Taoism and Confucianism
Watch Documentaries
Study Guide for Unit 3 Test
Study Terms (Ch. 4, 5, 6)
12/4
Interfaith Speakers (9:15-10:15am)
Period 4 Students - Seminar Takes Place During Class
Period 2 Students - Seminar Takes Place During 4th Period (Permission Slip)
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12/7
Test - Unit 3 (Cultural Patterns and Processes)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
12/9
Generation Like (Frontline)
Study Guide - Midterm (Units 1-3)
Study Key Terms - Chapters 1-6
Ready yourself for 3 surprise CRQs
12/11
Socratic Seminar 10 Generation Like [Alexandra/Anna]
Study Time
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12/14
Midterm: 75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
12/16
3 CRQs (75 minutes)
Assign: Key Terms (Ch. 7-8)
12/18 [Half day]
Return Multiple Choice
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WINTER HOLIDAY
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1/6
Water Policy Presentation (Period 2)
Assign: Key Terms (Ch. 7-8)
Assign: Websites / NHD-Alameda Assignments (5 Groups of 2-3, 5 Individuals)
Groups:
names (topic)
Individuals
name (topic)
1/8 [Friday Schedule]
Socratic Seminar 11 [Group led - formulate at least 3 questions in your notes]
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1/11 [POL Week - Friday Schedule]
Due: Key Terms - Chapter 7
1/13 [POL Week - 80 minutes class]
Map Quiz #5 (Eastern Europe/Eurasia)
Video: Kurdistan
1/15 [POL Week - 80 minute schedule]
Once Brothers
Socratic Seminar 12
[Accompanied with Ted Talk listed above]
Submit Notes
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1/19 [Finals Week - Friday Schedule]
Due: Key Terms - Chapter 8
Once Brothers
Assign: Position Paper Assignment
Choose to represent either...
Nicarauga or Costa Rica OR
Palestine or Israel
Follow the guidelines of the 5-part position paper listed above
Article 1: Border Battle: Nicarauga vs. Costa Rica - Google Goofs and Google's response: Google Lat Long: Regarding the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicarauga
Article 2: How Palestine Might Become A State
1/20 [Finals Week - 120 minutes]
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SEMESTER TWO
1/27 [BABA Week]
Submit: Position Paper
Ted Talk: Mapping the Future Countries
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
1/29 [BABA Week]
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
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2/1
Test - Unit 4 (Political Organization of Space)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
CRQ #2: ???
2/3 [CAHSEE Testing]
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
Assign: Ch. 10 Terms
2/5
Socratic Seminar 15 - Larry/Clayton - Flint, Michigan: Did Race and Poverty Factor into Water Crisis
Ted Talk: We Need to Talk about Injustice
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2/8
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
Ted Talk: The Other Inconvenient Truth
Assignment: Agriculture Advertisement
Example 1: Avocado Draft
Example 2: Avocado's from Mexico
Example 3: Juan Valdez Colombian Coffee
Example 4: Pistachio
Example 5: McDonalds Beef
2/10
Von Thunen Model
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
Ted Talk: The Case for Engineering our Food
2/12 (Half day)
Due: Ch. 10 Terms
Socratic Seminar 16 - Diella/Ashley - G.M.O. Dilemma: Swaying a Wary Public
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2/17 [BABA Week]
Due: [NHD / Webpage]
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
2/19 [BABA Week]
Due: Agriculture Video Advertisement
Map Quiz #6 (Middle East)
Project Time [NHD/Weebly]
Study for Unit 5 Exam
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2/22
Test - Unit 5 (Agriculture and Rural Land)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
2/24
Project Time Check-in [NHD/Weebly]
Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 4 (REVIEW)
Ch. 9: Development, Key Issue 1 (HDI Measures)
Development Policy Project - DUE March 23rd
2/26 [Half day]
Socratic Seminar 18 - Ethan/Josh - Farm Subsidies Persist And Grow
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2/29
Due: Ch. 9 Terms
Ch. 9: Development, Key Issue 2 (Gender)
Ted Talk: What My Religion Really Says About Women
Ted Talk: Why Gender Equality is Good for Everyone
Ted Talk: New Data on the Rise of Women
3/2
Ch. 9: Development, Key Issue 3 (Energy)
Video: Things Find A Way
Video: A Day at the Livermore Labs
Project Time
3/4
Socratic Seminar 19 [Logan/Carmen]
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3/7
Due: Ch. 11 Terms
Ch. 9: Development, Key Issue 4 (Paths to Development)
Lecture: Core-periphery Model (Basic)
Notes: Rostow's Modernization Model of Development
Ted Talk: Inside the Secret Shipping Industry
3/9
CRQ Assignment
Ch. 11 Industry and Manufacturing, Key Issue 1 (Distribution of Industry)
Homework Assignment: Where's It Made?
3/11 [Half Day - Day of Service]
Ch. 11 Industry and Manufacturing, Key Issue 3 (Pollution)
Homework Assignment: Where's It Made?
Socratic Seminar 20 (/)
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3/14
Due: Where's It Made?
Ch. 11 Industry and Manufacturing, Key Issue 2 (Site and Situation Factors)
Video: The Story of Stuff
3/16
Ch. 11 Industry and Manufacturing, Key Issue 4 (Shifts in Industrial Regions)
Project Time
3/18 (PTO #3)
Test - Unit 6
CRQ Questions x3 (1 hour 15 minutes)
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3/19 [Saturday - History Day - Alameda]
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REVISE BELOW
3/21
Test - Unit 6 (Industrial and Economic Growth)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
3/23
Socratic Silent Reading Time
Project Time
3/25
Map Quiz #7 (Africa)
Socratic Seminar 22 [Anya / Emily]
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3/30 [BABA Week]
Model UN - Development
All Project Work Due
Quarter Four
4/1 [BABA Week]
Finish Speeches
Finish Where It's Made
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SPRING BREAK
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4/11
Socratic Seminar: Unintended Consequences of the Panama Papers
4/13
4/15
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4/18
Video: Living on One Dollar
Read: Socratic Seminar
4/20
Map Quiz #8 (Asia)
Video: What it's like to get Kicked Out of your Neighborhood
Read: Socratic
4/22
Socratic Seminar - The Fight to Develop West Oakland [Leader Extra Credit Opportunity]
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4/25 [ABAB Week]
Test - Unit 7 (Cities and Urban Land Use)
75 questions Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
CRQ (25 minutes)
4/27 [ABAB Week]
Speaker 1 - Logan A./Marcus T./Spenser C. - Basic Concepts, p. 2
Speaker 2 - David B./Aastha A. - Population and Health, p. 42
Speaker 3 - Jack B./Diella B. - Migration, p. 76
4/29 Sir Thomas More Day
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5/2 [Review Lectures]
Speaker 4 - Angelica B./Madhangi C. - Folk and Pop Culture, p. 106
Speaker 5 - David D./Kailey O./Jay C. - Languages, p.140
Speaker 6 - Ethan F./Anna M. - Religions, p. 180
Speaker 7 - Clayton F./Anya W./Micaela G. - Ethnicities, p. 224
5/4 [Review Lectures]
Speaker 8 - Josh G./Nipun S./Ethan E. - Political Geography, p. 258
Speaker 9 - Sebastian G./Emily M. - Development, p. 298
Speaker 10 - Alex H./Sarah P./Carmen B. - Food and Agriculture, p. 344
5/6 [Review Lectures]
Speaker 11 - Shwena K./Ashley Z./Larry R. - Industry and Manufacturing, p. 392
Speaker 12 - Madeline K./Zaynab W. - Services and Settlements, p. 428
Speaker 13 - John L./Jacob Z. - Urban Patterns, p. 458
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STUDY SESSIONS - EXTRA CREDIT (up to 5% extra credit on final exam; partial credit given for each hour in attendance)
5/7 - Saturday Library Cram Session - Civic Center Library
10am-11am - Organize and Devise a Study Plan, Execute Study Plan
11am-1pm - Execute Study Plan
1pm-3pm - Execute Study Plan
5/8 - Sunday Library Cram Session - Civic Center Library
12pm-1pm - Organize and Devise a Study Plan, Execute
1pm-3pm - Execute Study Plan
3pm-5pm - Execute Study Plan
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5/9
FINAL - CRQ (75 minutes)
5/11
FINAL - Multiple Choice (60 minutes)
5/13 [AP Exam Date]
School is optional
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JUNIOR CLASS SMARTER BALANCE TESTING - Banducci will be occupied proctoring exams
5/16 [Period 2]
Study Hall [Bude's Room]
5/17 [Period 4]
Study Hall [Mr. Lim's Room]
5/18 [Period 2]
Study Hall [Bude's Room]
5/19 [Period 4]
Study Hall [Mr. Lim's Room]
5/20 [R Day]
Name: Banducci
Password: bacon
Movie
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Week of 5/23
Kickball
Movie: Living on One Dollar
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Week of 5/31
National Holiday
Trivial Pursuit
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Week of 6/6 (POL Week)
Socratic Stocks (see articles) + Craps
Camping Challenge
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Week of 6/13
Short Film
Winners of AP Olympics
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COURSE STRUCTURE
Topic 1: Geography
# of Weeks: 5 (Revise in 2016/17 to 3-4)
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 1-3
Test: 35 Questions
Field Trip: Del Valle
Project: The Fictional Land Of... (Part I - Written and Art)
Speaker:
Book:
Movie:
Topic 2: Population
# of Weeks: 5
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 4
2. Ch. 2 Population/Health, Key Issue 1-4
3. Ch. 3 Migration, Key Issue 1-4
Test: 75 Questions
Field Trip: Del Valle
Project: The Fictional Land Of... (Part II - Technology and Presentation)
Speaker:
Book:
Movie: Living Old (Frontline)
Topic 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
# of Weeks: 5
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 4 Folk and Pop Culture, Key Issue 1-4
2. Ch. 5 Language, Key Issue 1-4
3. Ch. 6 Religions, Key Issue 1-4
Field Trip:
Project: Model UN (Part I - Written and Art)
Speaker: Interfaith Speakers
Book:
Movie: Generation Like (Frontline), Growing Up Online (Frontline), The Mormons (Frontline), From Jesus to Christ (Frontline)
MIDTERM WEEK
Topic 4: Political Organization of Space
# of Weeks: 4
Rubenstein Text:
Ch. 7 Ethnicities, Key Issue 1-4
Ch. 8 Political Geography, Key Issue 1-4
Field Trip:
Project: Model UN (Part II - Technology and Presentation)
Speaker:
Book:
Movie: Secret State of North Korea (Frontline), Tank Man (Frontline)
Topic 5: Agriculture and Rural Land
# of Weeks: 4
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 10 Agriculture, Key Issue 1-4
2. Ch. 12 Services and Settlements, Key Issue 1
Field Trip: Livermore Winery - Agribusiness (Wente, Concannon)
Mini-Project: Agriculture Video (wevideo)
Speaker:
Book: Fast Food Nation
Movie: Climate of Doubt (Frontline), Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown (Frontline), The Trouble with Chicken (Frontline), The Trouble with Antibiotics (Frontline)
Topic 6: Industrialization and Economic Growth
# of Weeks: 4
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 1 Basic Concepts, Key Issue 4
2. Ch. 9: Development, Key Issue 1-4
3. Ch. 11 Industry and Manufacturing, Key Issue 1-4
Field Trip:
Project: LDC Development (Part I - Written and Art)
Speaker: An Ta w/panel
Book: Freakonomics
Movie: Poor Kids (Frontline), Flying Cheap (Frontline), Is WalMart Good for America? (Frontline)
Topic 7: Cities and Urban Land Use
# of Weeks: 4
Rubenstein Text:
1. Ch. 12 Services and Settlements, Key Issue 1-4
2. Ch. 13 Urban Patterns, Key Issue 1-4
Field Trip: Central Business District
Project: LDC Development (Part II - Technology and Presentation)
Mini-Project: Range/Threshold of Barbers in the Tri-Valley
Speaker:
Book:
Movie:
Repository
Urban Geography Lesson (46 pages)
Life and Debt: Stephanie Black
Jonathan Foley: The Other Inconvenient Truth (Agriculture)
Barry Shuler: Genomics 101 (Food)
Chimanda Adichi: Danger of A Single Story
Chris Abani: On Humanity
Dan Ariely: Our Buggy Moral Code
Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West (Religion)
Hans Rosling: Global Population Growth Box by Box (Population)
Mark Bittman: What's Wrong With What We Eat (Food)
Nina Jablonski Breaks the Illusion of Skin Color (Ethnicity)
Parag Khanna Maps the Future of Countries (Political Geography)
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
Stefan Wolff: The Path to Ending Ethnic Conflicts (Ethnicity)