SOUTH ASIA AND EAST ASIA
WEEKLY CALENDAR – MARCH 4 – MARCH 8
Monday, 03/04
Topic: India’s Geography
Hand out copies of National Geographic textbook
Hand out study guides for S Asia and E Asia – terms, map work, questions
Materials: journal, study guide, National Geo packet, pen/pencil
Terms for today: subsistence farming, subcontinent, monsoons, Green Revolution, sustainable
agriculture, famine
Questions from study guide: 2,3,6,13
Objective: Explain in detail how Sough Asia’s geography (mountains and water systems)[Himalayas and
the Ganges River] affects how people in the region live.
Read together pages 303-311; answer questions and define/illustrate terms in journal as we read
Draw map of India in journal and follow instructions in study guide.
Tuesday, 03/05
Topic: India’s Geography
Complete terms, questions, and map in journal
Also, complete illustrating your title page for Asia. This will be a completion grade
HOMEWORK: Complete the “Show Me!” DBQ. DUE WEDNESDAY, 03/06
Wednesday, 03/06
GRADE THE DBQ
Topic: Brief history of India: Two cultural hearths – Indus and Ganges
Early history (Aryan invasion), empires, colonial (British), and partition (role of M. Gandhi)
Birthplace of many eastern religions: Hinduism and Buddhism
Materials: study guide, journal, Nat Geo packet, pen/pencil
Handout – “Gandhi and the Bhagavad Gita” if we have time to complete
Terms: civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi, Aryans, caste system, Hinduism, reincarnation, karma,
Buddhism
Questions: 1,9,10
Objective: Explain how physical features (rivers, mountains, and passes), religion (Hinduism, Buddhism,
Islam) empires (British), shaped South Asia’s borders? (Partition)
Read pages 318-319; 328-329; 320-321 together; answer questions and define/illustrate terms in journal
as we read.
Read “Gandhi and the Bhagavad Gita” document-based question exercise if time – pages 322-323
Thursday, 03/07
Topic: India Today: Government, Economy, Urbanization, and Golden Quadrilateral
Materials: study guide, journal, Nat Geo packet, pen/pencil
Terms: push/pull factors, microlending, outsourcing, Golden Quadrilateral
Questions: 8,11,12
Objectives: Explain how diversity is reflected in South Asia’s culture? (Hinduism today – no
discrimination)
Explain why India has experienced an economic boom!
Identify some effects of South Asia’s rapid changes. (urban growth)
Read pages 336-343 together; answer questions and define/illustrate terms in journal.
Friday, 03/08
QUIZ over terms and map of South Asia
Topic: Brief look at Pakistan and Bangladesh today
Materials: study guide, journal, Nat Geo packet, pen/pencil
Questions: 4,5,7
No terms.
Objective: Identify some effects of South Asia’s rapid changes.
Read pages 344-347 together; answer questions in journal
If we did not complete the DBQ over Bhagavad Gita, we will do so today.