• For 2015-2016 our daily schedule will be on our Google Classroom site.  
    The link is on the AP Human Geography Page 
     
    September 2 - Online textbook registration - teacher website - see chapter 1 PowerPoint
    Sept. 3 - AP Test info, Online textbook overview, test schedule, homework schedule
    Sept. 4 - Tech Thursday - Finish Online book registration, Google Group Sign up, Online Textbook Exploration
    Sept. 5 - Chapter 1 - Begin Homework assignments
    Sept. 8 - Maps: history and scale - Ch. 1 Test Date Sept 17 - Check google drive current event article
    Sept. 9 - Maps: Grid System, Time, Contemporary Mapping - GPS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRlbboMvb0&feature=player_embedded
    Sept. 10 - Place Names and Regions Notes
    Sept. 11 - Tech Thursday - Sept. 11 - What does $100,000 buy you http://realestate.msn.com/what-you-can-buy-for-100000
    Sept. 12 - Review IPad lab - Spatial Association - Writing Prompts - Chapter 1
    Sept. 15 - Why are different places similar? Globalization of Economy and Culture, Space Notes - Chapter 1 Writing Review
    Sept. 16 - Diffusion and Sustainability notes - Writing Question Review
    Sept. 17 - Chapter 1 Test
     
    Sept. 19 - Population Density and Where people live - from Chapter 2 notes
    Sept. 22 - Ecumene and CBR, CDR, NIR - notes - Chapter 2 Test: October 3, Google Group Discussion Sept 29
    Sept. 23 - NIR, TFR, IMR and Population Pyramids
    Sept. 24 - PSAT presentations by counseling office - Population Pyramids - Test review in Homeroom, beginning of period 2, or at 2:30
    Sept. 26 - The Demographic Transition Model notes
    Sept. 29 - Chapter 2 Essay Prompts - Demographic Transition and Malthus
     
    October 1 - Epidem. Stage 5- Health Care access/cost
    Oct. 2 - Tech Thursday - Population Pyramids - Population Pyramids
    Oct. 3 - Chapter 2 Test
    Oct. 6 - Intro to Chapter 3 - Migration 
    Oct. 7 - 1st period - work on chapter 3 homework; period 7 immigration notes
    Oct. 9 - Immigration patterns globally and USA - Chapter 3 test October 21 - Google Groups - due 10/12. 10/14. 10/17 
    Oct. 10 - 1st period - interregional migrations patterns in  USA - Period 7 - work on chapter 3 homework 
    Oct. 13 - Migration in the world's largest countries 
    Oct. 14 - Intraregional Migration - rural - urban, urban - suburban, counterurbanization - China article about urbanization - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 
    Oct 15 - PSAT in the am - 7th Period - Refugee, IDP, Asylum Seeker notes and discussion
    Oct 16 - Homework day 
    Oct. 17 -  Push and Pull Factors and Migrants face obstacles notes
    Oct. 20 - Obstacles for Migrants - USA and Europe 
    Oct. 21 - Chapter 3 Test 
    Oct 22 - This is Life with Lisa Ling - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/us/this-is-life-with-lisa-ling - Boomtown USA, North Dakota - Make connections to migration patterns from Chapter 3 - Article - http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rules-and-paperwork-keep-long-island%E2%80%99s-immigrant-children-from-classroom/ar-BBaqln2 - Challenges for immigrant children in the US
    Oct. 23. - Tech Thursday - Folk and Popular Culture Lab 
    Oct. 24 - Intro to Folk and Popular Culture Notes - Review IPad Lab
    Oct. 27 - Folk and Pop. characteristics, distribution - Music and Sports 
    Oct. 28 - Folk and Pop clothing and food characteristics - New Google Discussion is posted on the Google Group page - 1st response by 10/31; critique by 11/4 - Chapter 4 and 1st MP final test on November 6.
    Oct. 29 - Chapter 4 Homework Day
    Oct. 30 - Food Preferences and Folk Housing Notes - TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/shereen_el_feki_pop_culture_in_the_arab_world#t-285590
    Oct. 31 - American Housing Styles and Access to Popular Culture
    Nov. 3 - Diffusion of Popular Culture - TV & Internet - Barriers to Popular Culture
    Nov. 5 - Sustainability of Folk and Popular Culture
    Nov. 6 - Chapter 4 and MP 1 Review Test 
    Nov. 7 - Intro to Language - Chapter 5
    November 10 - Language Families, Branches, and Groups - PPT notes
    Nov. 11 - Distribution of languages - Political impact, migration patterns, religion 
    Nov. 12 - Diffusion and development of English notes - Satellite landing - http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta
    Nov. 14 - Dialect and Regional Language differences in the US
    Nov. 17 - Writing Prompts for Chapter 5 Test - Google Group assignment - Language Diversity Notes 
    Nov. 18 - Belgium and Switzerland - different approaches to language diversity; Where to dying languages exist? 
    Nov. 19 - Lingua Franca - Pidgin Language - Language of the Internet
    Nov. 20 - Tech Thursday - Language Lab - www.Ethologue.com  - Ethnologue Lab
     
    Nov. 21 - Chapter 5 Review in Class
    Nov. 24 - Homework Day
    Nov. 25 - Chapter 5 Test
    Nov. 26 - Human Planet - Rivers 
    Dec. 1 - Chapter 6 Begin - Religion - Universalizing and Ethnic Religion
    Dec. 2 - John Green - Crash Course World History #11 - Religion Distribution in Europe and West Hemisphere 
    Dec. 3 - John Green Islam - Islam distribution and sects
    Dec. 4 - Tech Thursday - Religious Shrines 
    Dec. 5 - Buddhism and Hinduism - John Green Crash Course Video
    Dec. 8 - HW day for Chapter 6 
    Dec. 9 - Religious Distribution - Universal and Ethnic Religions
    Dec. 10 - Google Discussion, Due 12/17, Ch. 5 Test Review, Distribution Review
    Dec. 11 - Tech Thursday - Religious Extremism - USA and ISIS -  Extremism WS
    Dec. 12 - Importance of holy buildings/sites/rituals
    Dec. 15 -  Shrines and Political organization of Religions
    Dec. 16 - Religious Conflicts - Clash of culture - Fundamentalists/Westernization and Border Conflicts
    Dec. 17 - Religious Conflict - Ireland - Protestant and Catholic
    Dec. 18 - Religous Conflict - Arab-Israeli 
    Dec. 19 - Chapter 6 Test
    Dec. 22 - Introduce Ethnicity Chapter 7
    Dec. 23 - Homework Day 
    Jan. 5 - International Migration Patterns notes - Maps of Ethnic Distribution of US cities - http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=63667.0
    Jan. 6 - Internal Migration Patterns notes - Interregional
    Jan. 7 - Internal Migration Patterns notes - Intraregional
    Jan. 8 - Tech Thursday - Genocide Genocide WS - Link - http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/Countries_at_Risk_Report_2012.pdf
    Jan. 9 - Dividing Ethnicities - India, Kurds, Lebanon, Sri Lanka
    Jan. 12 - Ethnic Diversity in SW Asia & Central Asia
    Jan. 13 - Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing - Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa
    Jan. 14 - Chapter 7 Test
    Jan. 15 - Mid Term Review - Chapters 1-3
    Jan. 16 - Mid Term Review - Chapters 4-6 
    Jan.  27 - Introduction to Political Geography - Define: State, Nation, Country, state, nation-state
    Jan. 28 - Period 1 - Homework Day, Period 7 - notes on disputed borders (Korea, China, Morocco, North and South Pole)
    Jan. 29 - Tech Thursday - Border Disputes WS
     
    Kevin O - Science Fair Survey - http://520690221141712676.weebly.com/ 
    Jan. 30 - Counselor Presentations - student schedules
    Feb. 2 - Nation-states - Europe and former Soviet Union
    Feb. 3 - Nation-states - Europe and former Soviet Union
    Feb. 4 - Colonialism and types of boundaries 
    Feb. 5 - Tech Thursday - Western Hemisphere geography - Western Hemisphere Borders
    Feb. 6 - State Shapes & Types of Government - Trending towards Democracy 
    Feb. 9 - Electoral Geography 
    Feb. 10 - State Cooperation - Cold War Alliances and the EU 
    Feb. 11 - Terrorism 
    Feb. 12 - Test Chapter 8 
    Feb. 18 - Intro to Chapter 9 - Development - HDI and measurement 
    Feb. 19 - Tech Thursday - Development Lab - Development Lab
    Feb. 20 - Primary, secondary, tertiary sector jobs - IDHI
    Feb. 23 - Gender Inequality - http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice?language=en#t-1128515
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2013/09/19/the-geography-of-the-gender-pay-gap-womens-earnings-by-state/
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/do-you-do-that-to-the-guys
    Feb. 24 - Gender Inequality - Resource Distribution 
    Feb. 25 - Energy Development
    Feb. 26 - Tech Thursday - Energy Development 
    Feb. 27 - Renewable Energy - Water, wind, solar - pros and cons
    Mar. 2 -  Development - Self Sufficiency or International Trade - Pros and Cons
    Mar. 3 - Borrowing and Fair Trade
    Mar. 4 - Chapter 9 Test 
    Mar. 5 - Intro to Chapter 10 
    Mar. 6 - Crop and Animal Hearths 
    Mar. 9 - Farmers and Farm Size 
    Mar. 10 - Diet and Consumption 
    Mar. 12 - Dietary needs and undernourishment
    Mar. 13 - Agricultural Distribution 
    Mar. 16 - Whittlesey's Agricultural Regions - Developing Nations
    Mar. 17 - Whittlesey's Agricultural Regions - Developed Nations 
    Mar. 18 - Challenges for farmers in developing and developed countries 
    Mar. 19 - Tech Thursday - Farm Subsidies Farm Subsidies 
    Mar. 20 - Environmental concerns and sustainability in Agriculture 
    Mar. 23 - Chapter 10 Test 
    Mar. 24 - Intro to Industrialization 
    Mar. 25 - Zippers, Beer and Potato Chips
    Mar. 26 - Shipping - pros and cons - air, rail, ship, truck 
    Mar. 27 - Site and Situation Factors - Changing locations 
    Mar. 30 - Site and Situation Factors - People, land and capital
    Mar. 31 - Air Pollution Notes 
    Apr. 1 - Solid Waste Pollution - Developed Developing, Local and Regional 
    Apr. 2 - Tech Thursday - Industry and Sustainability - Industry and Sustainability 
    Apr. 7 - Water Pollution - Local and Regional impact, developed and developing nation pollution,  
    Apr. 8 - Shifting Industry in the Developed World - US and European Patterns
    Apr. 9 - Changing Patterns in the Developing World
    Apr. 10 - Chapter 11 Test and MP 3 Cumulative Test/AP Pre-Registration
    Apr. 13 - Counselor Presentations - Intro to Naviance and Personality Surveys
    Apr. 14 - Intro to Services - Consumer, Business and Public & Central Place Theory 
    Apr. 15 - Services - Central Place Theory and Developed and Developing Countries
    Apr. 17 - Market Area Analysis and Primate City Rule
    Apr. 20 - Business Services in Developed and Developing Countries
    Apr. 21 - Specialization of Cities and Populations and Services in Rural Settlements 
    Apr. 22 - Development of Services - Preshistoric, Medieval, to Modern Urban Areas
    Apr. 23 - Chapter 12 Test 
    Apr. 27 - Intro to Urban Systems
    Apr. 28 - Patterns of Life - Three Models USA
    Apr. 29 - Patterns of Life - Europe and Developing Cities 
    Apr. 30 - Tech Thursday - Urban Systems  Urban Systems
    May 1 - Metropolitan areas - Suburban Expansion - Megalopolis 
    May 4 - Annexation and Density Gradient & Urban Transportation - vehicles of the future, space for cars, public transportation 
    May 5 - Urban population patterns
    May 6 - Last day of Notes Urban Economic Development - Geographer Posters
    May 7 - Practice AP Test MC 
    May 8 - Chapter 13 and Cumulative Test 
    May 11 - Practice Free Response Question
    May 12 - Study Day for AP Test
    May 13 - Study Day for AP Test
    May 14 - Study Day for AP Test
    May 15 - AP Test
    May 18 - AP Test Review & Intro to Final Paper 
    May 19 - Stuffed and Starved - Final Essay Directions 
    May 20 - Popular Culture Documentary - Trophy Kids
    May 21 - Popular Culture Documentary - Trophy Kids 
    May 26 - Agriculture Documentary - Fresh Food Accessibility
    May 27 - Energy and Environment Documentary - Gasland II 
    May 28 - Gasland II
    May 29 - Gasland II
    June 1 - Political Geography Documentary -  Breaking Borders - Rwanda
    June 2 - Agricultural Development and Popular Culture - Man vs. Food - Portland
    June 3 - Political Geography, Folk and Popular Culture - The Monuments Men
    June 4 - Political Geography, Folk and Popular Culture - The Monuments Men
    June 5-June 10 - Final Exams - Schedule of Exams - https://www.methacton.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=661 
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