GEOGRAPHY Assignments
- Instructors
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- Fall 2012
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- Special Education
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- G42
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Warm-up: Select Nelson Mandela Quote for Final Project
Study Guide: Africa's Bodies of Water, Africa's Rainforests, and Mr. Kiliminjaro (20 points)
*** Complete revised drafts (2nd draft) of African Biography Paragraphs are due (20 points)
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Periods 4 & 8:
Warm-up: What are a country's valuable resources? Share ideas and take notes. -- 5 pts.
Africa's Resources Study Guide : Overview, Oil Production, Mining for Gold and Diamonds, Cacao and Coffee -- 40 points.
Homework: Complete 1st or revised draft of African Biography Paragraph (20 points each).
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ALL LATE AND MAKE-UP WORK IS DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH...late assignments after that date will not be accepted towards the final grade of the semester.
11/26 -- Library Visit Today: Students will use their hand-outs and record at least two different search drives used and two different websites investigated, to research and list at least 12 facts about their assigned African figure (20 points). Later this week, on Wednesday, they will write a biographical paragraph using their research (20 points). Next Monday, a revised paragraph is due (20 points).
11/26 -- Library Visit Today: Students will use their hand-outs and record at least two different search drives used and two different websites investigated, to research and list at least 12 facts about their assigned African figure (20 points). Later this week, on Wednesday, they will write a biographical paragraph using their research (20 points). Next Monday, a revised paragraph is due (20 points).
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ALL LATE/MAKE-UP WORK IS DUE TOMORROW, 11/29.
Research is due on your influential African person.
Turn in applications for LAUSD websites.
Participate in another Library Visit to practice working with data bases -- work on Culture Grams (10 points).
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Periods 4 & 8:
Library Today: Work with culture grams data bases. Using the country of origin (birthplace) of your biographical figure, find at least 5 facts to include in your biographical paragraph due Friday.
Homework: Using your research, write the 1st draft of your African biography paragraph, including a strong topic sentence and at least 8 other sentences. Use correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation for full credit. -- 20 points.
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Short Answer Questions For Invictus (30 points) -- Due 11/16
1. Nelson Mandela stayed calm and grounded by repeating to himself, "I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul."
A. Why are those words soothing to him?
B. What do you use for your personal inspiration?
2. Mandela told his security teams to work alongside their opponents, urging them to smile while pushing people away. mandela overcame challenges posed by his own party, the ANC.
A. What was he trying to achieve?
B. How do you feel about his message?
C. To behave in a similar way, what would one have to overcome?
3. When one can't use the universal language of sport, what can one use to overcome ongoing adversity?
4. President Mandela says: If we remove the rugby team, "we prove that we are who they feared we would be." What does mean, what is he describing?
5. What is it about the Springboks that Mandela values most?
6. How do people determine who is an "enemy" and who is a friend?
7. How would you describe the relationship among Mandela's security guards as the story progresses:
1st --
Later --
By the end of the film --
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Warm-up: Copy, discuss and reflect: "There is no passion to be found playing small -- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." -- Nelson Mandela (5 points)
African Safaris -- Map, Hand-out (10 points)
Finish film and scr's for Invictus (30 points)
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Warm-up quote to consider: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -- Nelson Mandela. Discuss how you can use your education to change your world and your family's world.-- 5 pts.
Study-Guide: The Region of North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, and Sudan) - 10 pts.
Continue viewing the film, Invictus, and answering questions in the Study Guide. -- 10 pts.
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Warm-up: Quote of the Day, "There can be o keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." -- Nelson Mandela
1. Check out Western Africa -- Map and Study Guide (10 pts)
2. Hand-out -- African Languages (10 pts)
3. Begin viewing Invictus, using study guide and questions. (questions will be 30 pts).
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Warm-up Quote to copy and discuss: "I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or white man." -- Nelson Mandela
Central Africa Hand-out: Study Guide and questions (10 points). Extra credit opportunity: color map of region -- countries different colors (up to 5 more points).
Invictus: Read Plot Summary from Wikipedia. Devise 4 Section Study Guide for the film and readings and begin with notes from Plot Summary...: People, Places, Dates, Vocabulary (10 points)
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All work due for quarterly grade.
Prepare Portfolios for quarterly grade -- 30 points possible:
Portfolio Rubric (30 points)
6 points: Neatness and organization
(chronological order, with most recent assignment log and assignments on top; papers
facing right side up, front forwards, etc., work is legible and ready to present)
12 points: Assignment completion and accuracy
(all assignments included, completed accurately)
6 points: Assignment log is current and updated
6 points Assignment log is complete.
Africa's Most Populate Cities (10 points)
Geography squares and all other assignments are due.;
View film about the wildlife in Africa's bush and the wildlife in Sudan, Living Planet's, Seas of Grass
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" I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." -- Nelson Mandela
1) Warm-up: Copy quote. Discuss. Summarize. (5 points)
2) Study Guide: Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland (10 pts.)
* Read and follow directions, fill-in map.
3) Begin Mandela's Fight For Freedom and answer the following questions (10 pts)
1. Who is Nelson Mandela (5 facts):
2. Discuss one incident where Nelson Mandela demonstrated moral courage/strenght (10 pts).
Geography Squares and all work for the 3rd quarter is due today!!!
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Warm-up: Timed contest for chocolate: List two African countries that begin with the letter "A", two that begin with the letter "B", two that begin with the letter "C", five that begin with the letter "M", three that begin with the letter "N", three that begin with the letter "Z" and at least two others,... (20 points).
Using Glencoe text maps (RA 18- 19), chart pp. 490-494) and index, and internet and library resources, to complete 5 Country Squares for Madagascar, Kenya, Morrocco, Angola, Libya (25 points)
Color map of the continent of Africa (countries that share boundaries should be different colors) - (15 points)
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Warm-up: Timed contest for skittles: Write down the name of every African country you know...
Share out homework --
Population Facts about Africa -- interpret and extapolate census information from hand-out (10 pts)
Use maps (RA 18 & 19), charts (pp.490-494), index in our Glencoe text, or internet and library resources for homework to complete
5 Country Squares on Chad, South Africa, Botswana, Sudan, Nigeria: (country's name, use in a sentence, 6 facts including but not limited to: popualation, region, area/size).(25 points)
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Standard 5 EE2 -- Places and Regions
Warm-up (5pts) :
1) Why is Africa located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
2) Why is Africa located in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Hand-outs and Readings:
Refer to text for maps RA 18 and RA 19
Refer to Unit 7 in Glencoe Text, beginning on p. 480
1) Review: Using a Projection Map to Study Africa (5 pts)
2) Crossword Puzzle: Africa's Location (5 pts)
3) Political "Map of Africa" -- (10 pts)
***Homework: Research 3 interesting and NEW facts about a NEW African country. (15 pts)
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Final project of our Egyptian Unit: Two-Dimensional Art, Re-visited....
5 pts. Neatness, use of color
5 pts. Originality, combined use of figure(s) and hieroglyphics
5 pts. Creativity with own or colored 2 dimensional Egyptian-style drawing
5 pts. Resourcefulness --Use of border, framed paper, and multi-media (comb. crayons, markers, pencils)
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Egyptian Art Projects Due Today !!!
Continent of Africa -- Overview - hand-out (10 pts)
Africa's Relative Location - hand-out (10 pts)
Africa's Absolute Location -- hand-out (10 pts)
Homework: Vocabulary Word Squares for Relative Location & Absolute Location
Glencoe World Geography Text -- Maps RA 4, RA 18, RA 19, pp. 486-487
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Warm-up: See if you remember how to write your name using ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics for English letter sounds. Can you? Was it easy or difficult? Why do you think so? (5 pts).
Discussion of Egyptian art (two vs. three dimensional art explanation), medicine, ancient deities, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom contributions and important figures. Q's and A's -- (25 pts.)
EC: Egyptian Art (5pts)
Coming soon...the rest of the great continent of Africa!!!
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Warm-up: Find definitions for two new vocabulary words: hieroglyphics and cartouche (10 pts).
Classwork: 1. Complete hand-out, translating 3 names written in hieroglyphics. (10 points). Using alphabet hand-out and overhead, make your own Egyptian Cartouche with your name. (10 points).
Homework: Complete word squares for hieroglyphics and cartouche.(10 points)
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Warm-up: Turn in and share your three pieces of new Egyptian trivia!
Read, discuss and complete questions from hand-outs on:
1, The Old Kingdom (5 pts)
2. Mummies (5pts)
3. What Were The Pyramids? (5pts)
4. Who's Who? -- societal class structure -- (5pts)
Classwork/Homework: Make 5 word squares (paper divided into four parts for the (1) word; (2) definition from text; (3) word used in a sentence -- from text is okay; (4) drawing or photo; for the following 5 vocabulary words: the Nile, pharoah, Egyptian pyramids, mummification, Age of the Pyramids
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Warm-up: KWL Egypt
1. 2 Maps - modern and ancient Egypt. Highlight the Nile River. Readings, Discussions, written q & A's from article. (5 pts).
2. Egyptian Trivia Hand-out, with written Q & A's. (5 pts.)
3. "The Gift of the Nile" T & F questions (5 pts.)
4. Homework: Write down three NEW trivia to share about Egypt.(5 pts.)
Come in before school or at lunch to make-up missing work !!!!
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1. Warm-up: List three things you have learned and learned to like about India (5 points).
2. Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Hinduism and Buddhism. (5 poitns).
3. Read articles about Bhutan and Seoul, South Korea. (5 points).
4. Create and use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast two Buddhist countries, Bhutan and South Korea. (10 points).
5. Write a rough draft of a compare and contrast paragraph and tell the reader which country you think would be better to visit and why... (10 points)
2. Use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast Hinduism and Buddhism. (5 poitns).
3. Read articles about Bhutan and Seoul, South Korea. (5 points).
4. Create and use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast two Buddhist countries, Bhutan and South Korea. (10 points).
5. Write a rough draft of a compare and contrast paragraph and tell the reader which country you think would be better to visit and why... (10 points)
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1. Using a dictionary, define strength and stability. Think of at least two symbols from your world for each term. (10 points)
2. Look at photos of the elephant festival and Jaipur and other Indian ceremonies on the internet and using library books. Cut out, decorate and put together paper "elephant boxes" using symbols, colors, and motifs significant to India. "How to Draw An Elephant" hand-out is available. Write five sentences explaining the relevance of your elephant box (20 points).
3. Homework: Complete Silk Road hand-out as we prepare to "leave India".
4. Complete any missing work and prepare your Portfolios following rubric for next week's grade (25 points).
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Indian Culture Week -- Parcheesi and Chess Hand-outs and game practice. Understanding the role of the elephant in Indian history and mythology.
****Also, please feel free bring supplies for our Elephant Boxes -- bring sequins and glitter and glue to share and use.
****Also, please feel free bring supplies for our Elephant Boxes -- bring sequins and glitter and glue to share and use.
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Indian Architecture Hand-outs and Indian Silk Road Activity Hand-outs (what would you take along on a journey -- what do you really need to survive, make money, and live with?)
Extra Credit: Find and share pictures of the decorated elephants of India...
Extra Credit: Find and share pictures of the decorated elephants of India...
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Readings on Indian culture and religion. Make word squares for the following terms:
Chandragupta Maurya ; jainism/Jains ; Mahavira ; the Vedas
the Caste System
Hinduism ; dharma, karma, reincarnation, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, nirvana
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Read (highlight) and discuss Asian tourist attractions.
Read (highlight) and complete regional map of India.
Begin Vocabulary Terms of India with: the Himalayas, the Indus River Valley, the Ganges and the Deccan Plateau
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Complete compare and contrast "Diversity" paragraph between the country of Bhutan and the city of Seoul, Korea.
Complete hand-out on Asian tourist attractions.
Begin work on Subcontinent of India packet.
Update vocabulary terms list: culture, subcontinent, diversity, region.
Complete hand-out on Asian tourist attractions.
Begin work on Subcontinent of India packet.
Update vocabulary terms list: culture, subcontinent, diversity, region.
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Admit Ticket - Grade Reflection
Complete packet (20 points) -- Regions of Asia, Cultural Attractions of Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent
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Fortune Cookie History Admit Ticket and Exit Ticket (including student's favorite fortune cookie fortune)
Begin Continent of Asia Packet -- complete readings and crossword puzzle regarding Asia's absolute location, an overview, Asia's population and the countries of Asia.
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Optional after-school meeting in Ms. Hernandez's Room, G43, at 4:00 pm for parents of students interested in attending the June 2013 trip to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on an EF Educational Tour. At this meeting, participants will have a chance to enroll. This is an opportunity for your child to be educated through an incomparable cultural experience that will change what they expect from themselves and their future.
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Admit Ticket: Draw the best map possible from your home to Chatsworth High School and our classroom.
Review Hand-out on Latitudes and Longitudes: South Asia and extra credit South Asia political map to color.
Begin "Exploring Geography Packet", Glencoe text pp. 19-22.
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Access National Geographic's Web site for current events, activities, links, interactive features, and archives.
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Review World Geography Standards and highlight at least three subjects that interest you.
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Define vocabulary terms:
globe
hemisphere
continent
poles
longitude/meridians
prime meridian
latitude/parallels
equator
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(3) Longitude and Latitude Hand-outs using class notes and student map practice notes.