August / September 2012
MONDAY
TUESDAY
27 First Day of
School *What is
Human
Geography?/Syllabus
*Will.i.am article
HW: Ch 1 FN & Q1
28 Intro
Can you pass this
basic
geography test?
*Why Maps Matter
*Maps & Scale (IL)
*Kuby Activity 1:
Scale
HW: Ch 1 Q2
29 Intro
*GIS : (IL using Nile
Guide & Google
Earth)
3 No School Labor
Day
4 Population QotD
*World Population
clip
*Demographic
Transition Theory
HW: Ch2 Q2
10 Population
QUIZ: Population
(Chapter 2)
Finish: “The New
Population Bomb”
HW: Ch3FN & Q1
OPTION 2: TEST
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
30 Intro
Building a New
School
*”Guns, Germs &
Steel” clip
*Regions and Cultural
Landscapes (IL)
HW: Ch1 Q4&5
31 Quiz
Create a Maphome, school, mall
Quiz: Vocab & Text
*Globalization &
Diffusion
*Find Examples of
Cultural Landscape
HW: Test Wed
Thinking Geographically – Ch 1 (Fouberg) and
Unit 1 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Aug 30
Chapter 1 quiz
Aug 31
Wood Unit 1 M/C questions
Sept 5
Test
Sept 5
5 Intro to Human
Geography Test
(includes mapping)
HW:Ch2 FN & Q1
7 Continents-area,
pop, countries
Sporcle.com
6 Population
*Scale
*Poverty and the Pill
*The Graying of
Europe
HW: Ch2 Q3 & 4
7 Population
Begin “The New
Population Bomb:The
Four Megatrends That
will Change the
World” – Jack A.
Goldstone
HW: Ch2 Q5
Population & Migration – Ch 2 & 3 (Fouberg)
and Unit 2 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Sept 7
Population Quiz
Sept 8
Wood Unit 1 M/C questions
Sept 5
Test
Sept 5
11 Population
12 Migration
13 Migration
*Cultural Literacy
Quiz
*Population
Indicators
*Population Data
Analysis
HW: Ch 3 Q2
*“Kingsley’s Crossing”
*US
Immigration/Migratio
n
HW: Ch 3 Q3
HW: Ch 3 Q4
14 Migration
QUIZ: Migration
Population & Migration – Ch 2 & 3 (Fouberg)
and Unit 2 (Wood)
Migration Quiz
Sept 14
Wood Unit 2 M/C questions
Sept 18
Test
Sept 18
HW: Ch 1 Q3
OPTION TEST??
NOTES
September / October 2012
MONDAY
17 Migration
In-Class Writing and
Peer Grading
TUESDAY
18 TEST: Population
(Ch 2 & 3)
HW: Ch 4 FN and Q1
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NOTES
19 Culture
The Tapestry of Life
Defining Culture
Research and
Presentation or
Culture Charting
Activities
20 Culture
Finish Defining
Culture Research and
Presentation or
Cultural Charting
HW: Ch 4 Q 3 & 4
21 Culture
* PPT: Folk vs Pop
Culture by Reed or
Folk and Popular
Culture by Lucero
HW: Study for quiz
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Sept 21
Quiz Culture/Identity
Sept 24
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Test Culture/Identity
Oct 2
24 Culture
* QUIZ: Chapter 4
Merchants of Cool
Video
Ticket out: Identify
examples of diffusion
HW: Ch 5 FN and Q1
25 Culture
*“What defines
you?”
“Changing
Latinization of NYC”
PPT by I. Miyares
HW: Ch 5 Q 2 & 3
26 Culture
Discuss Q 2 and 3
Research and writing
activity: National
Identity
HW: position paper
(due Friday)
27 Culture
Thousands of Women
Killed for Family
“Honor” -National
Geographic Article
HW: Ch 4 and 5 Study
Guide; Study for test
28 Culture
1 Culture
Discuss Ch6 FN and Q
1&2
History of English
Article
In The South a “Coke”
Could Be a Pepsi
Article
HW: Study for test
2 Culture
TEST: Culture and
Identity
(Ch 4 & 5)
HW:Ch 6 Q 3 & 4
3 Culture
Discuss Q 3 and 4
Toponyms Activity
4 Culture
QUIZ: Ch 6
*Spread of Religion
*Intro Religion Fair
HW- Ch 7 FN andQ1;
begin gathering
information
5 End of Six Weeks
Early Dismissal
Culture
Discuss Q 1
Religion Fair
HW: Religion Fair
notes and Ch 7 Q3
HW: Study for
Chapter 6 Quiz
QUIZ: Chapter 5
Review/Reteach
HW: Chapter 4 and 5
Study Guide; Ch 6 FN
Q 1& 2
WOMEN LOOK AT HEMISHPHERES
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Quiz Language/Religion
Oct 4
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Wood Unit 3 M/C questions
Oct 12
Test Language/Religion
Oct 12
October / November 2012
MONDAY
8 No School
15 Political Org
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
9 Culture
Discuss Q3
Continue Religion
Fair
HW :Ch 7 Q4
10 Culture
Discuss Q 4
Continue Religion
Fair
16 Political Org
17 Political Org
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NOTES
11 Culture
Religion: Its role in
political conflict
12 TEST: Language
and Religion
(Ch 6 & 7)
HW: Ch 8 FN and Q1
(Begin Political
Organization)
18 Political Org
19 Political Org
Vocab due
Political Geography – Ch 8 (Fouberg) & Unit 4
(Wood)
Vocabulary due
Oct 19
Quiz
Oct 22
PSAT
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Wood Unit 3 M/C questions
Oct 12
Test Language/Religion
Oct 12
22 Political Org
Ch 8 Quiz
23 Political Org
24 Political Org
Chapter 8 Quiz
25 Political Org
26 Test: Political
Organization
(Chapter 8)
HW: Ch 11 FN
Political Geography – Ch 8 (Fouberg) & Unit 4
(Wood)
Wood Unit 4 M/C questions
Oct 26
Test
Oct 26
29 Agriculture
(Begin Agricultural
Geography)
30 Agriculture
31 Agriculture
1 Agriculture
2 Agriculture
Vocabulary is due
Agricultural Geography – Ch 11 (Fouberg) and
Unit 5 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Nov 2
5 Agriculture
6 Agriculture
Chapter 11 Quiz
7 Agriculture
8 Agriculture
9 End of Six Weeks
Early Dismissal
Agriculture Test in
on Monday!
Agriculture Test in
on Monday!
Agricultural Geography – Ch 11 (Fouberg) and
Unit 5 (Wood)
Quiz
Nov 6
Wood Unit 5 M/C questions
Nov 12
Test
Nov 12
November 2012
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
12 Agriculture TEST
13 Urban
The City in History
(major facilitator of
urban centers is
agricultural surplus;
good transition topic)
HW: Ch 9 FN + Q1
14 Urban
City Comparisons
over Time (lab)
Groups – investigate
– due Tues 11/16
15 Urban
19 Urban
Quiz - vocab
Kuby: Take Me Out to
the Ball Game
Urban shifts –
professional sports
20 Urban
Spatial Landscape and
Demographics; Use
census tract data,
follow along intersect
with Google Maps
Presentations of
cities
21
22
26 Urban
Presentations of
cities over time
(finish)
Knox: Megapolitan
Regions; the
Globalization of
Suburbia;
A Place for Waste
27 Urban
Urbanization of LDCs
Read articles –
Favelas
28 Test: Urban
Geography
(Chapter 9)
QotD
Rank size rule and
primate cities
Primate city activity
HW: Ch 9 Q2
FRIDAY
NOTES
16 Urban
Urban Models ppt
Census tract
assignment;
Vocab Due
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Vocabulary due
Nov 16
Ch 10 Quiz
Nov 19
Wood Unit 7 M/C questions
Nov 23
Test
Nov 23
23)
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Quiz
Nov 19
Wood Unit 7 M/C questions
Nov 23
Test
Nov 23
30 Development /
Industry
QotD
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Quiz
Nov 19
Wood Unit 7 M/C questions
Nov 28
Test
Nov 28
Thanksgiving Break
29 Development /
Industry
QotD
December 2012
MONDAY
TUESDAY
3 Development /
Industry
QotD
4 Development /
Industry
QotD
Development
Models
What are the
barriers to and
the costs of
economic
development?
10. Explain Walt
Rostow’s
modernization
theory (ladder of
development).
The Urban game
Give SA reading
11. What are some
weaknesses of a
development
model?
How does the
Geographic
situation affect
Development?
Dependency
Theory
10 Development /
Industry
Quiz Ch 10 and 12
WEDNESDAY
5 Development /
Industry
QotD
Vocab Due
How do Political &
Economic
institutions
influence
uneven
development
within states?
Washing
T-shirt Travels (youtube)
SW create
magnet card (
ticket out)
summary to
show how
Wallerstein's
World Systems
Theory applies
THURSDAY
6 Development /
Industry
QotD
Ch 10 Quiz
T-shirt Travels (youtube)
SW create
magnet card (
ticket out)
summary to
show how
Wallerstein's
World Systems
Theory applies
FRIDAY
NOTES
7 Development /
Industry
QotD
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Dec 5
Quiz
Dec 6
Quiz
Dec 10
14 Development /
Industry TEST
Chapter 10-12
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Wood Unit 6 M/C questions Dec 14
Test
Dec 14
Semester Exams
Winter Break
11 Development /
Industry
12 Development /
Industry
13 Development /
Industry
January 2013
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
7 No School
8 Welcome Back!
Intro *What is
Human
Geography?/Syllabus
*Will.i.am article
HW: Ch 1 FN & Q1
9 Intro
Can you pass this
basic geography
test?
*Why Maps Matter
Geospatial Revultion
10 Intro
*Maps & Scale (IL)
One Earth Many
Scales
*Kuby Activity 1:
Scale HW: Ch 1 Q2
11 Intro
*GIS : (IL using Nile
Guide & Google
Earth)
Kuby Activity 2
HW: Ch 1 Q3
Vocabulary due
Thinking Geographically – Ch 1 (Fouberg) and
Unit 1 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Jan 11
Chapter 1 quiz
Jan 15
Wood ???s
Jan 17
14 Intro
NASA Diffusion
15 Regions of the
World- Hunger Games
Chapter 1 Quiz
16 Intro
Building a New
School
17 Thinking
Geographically Test
HW:Ch2 FN & Q1
18 Population QotD
*World Population
clip
*Demographic
Transition Theory
HW: Ch2 Q2
Thinking Geographically – Ch 1 (Fouberg) and
Unit 1 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Jan 11
Chapter 1 quiz
Jan 15
Wood ???s
Jan 17
Test
Jan 17
21 No School
22 Population
*Poverty and the Pill
*The Graying of
Europe
HW: Ch2 Q3 & 4
23 Population
Begin “The New
Population Bomb: The
Four Megatrends That
will Change the World”
– Jack A. Goldstone
HW: Ch2 Q5
24 Population
Finish: “The New
Population Bomb”
HW: Ch3FN & Q1
QUIZ: Population
(Chapter 2)
25 Population
Cultural Literacy Quiz
*Population
Indicators
*Population Data
Analysis HW: Ch 3 Q2
Population & Migration – Ch 2 & 3 (Fouberg) and
Unit 2 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Jan 23
Population Quiz
Jan 24
28 Migration
*“Kingsley’s
Crossing”
*USImmigration/Mig
ration HW: Ch 3 Q3
29 Migration
HW: Ch 3 Q4
30 Migration
QUIZ: Migration
31 Migration
Migration
In-Class Writing and
Peer Grading
1 TEST: Population
(Ch 2 & 3)
Population & Migration – Ch 2 & 3 (Fouberg) and
Unit 2 (Wood)
Migration Quiz
Jan 26
Wood ???s
Feb 1
Test
Feb 1
4 Culture
The Tapestry of Life
Defining Culture
Research and
Presentation or
Culture Charting
Activities
5 Culture
Finish Defining
Culture Research and
Presentation or
Cultural Charting
HW: Ch 4 Q 3 & 4
7 Culture * QUIZ:
Chapter 4
Merchants of Cool
Video
Ticket out: Identify
examples of diffusion
HW: Ch 5 FN and Q1
8 Culture *“What
defines you?”
“Changing
Latinization of NYC”
PPT by I. Miyares
HW: Ch 5 Q 2 & 3
6 Culture
* PPT: Folk vs Pop
Culture by Reed or
Folk and Popular
Culture by Lucero
HW: Study for quiz
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
HW: Ch 4 FN and Q1
NOTES
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Feb 6
Quiz Culture/Identity
Feb 7
February 2013
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NOTES
4 Culture
5 Culture
6 Culture
The Tapestry of Life
Defining Culture
Research and
Presentation or
Culture Charting
Activities
7 Culture *
Finish Defining
Culture Research and
Presentation or
Cultural Charting
HW: Ch 4 Q 3 & 4
8 Culture* PPT: Folk
vs Pop Culture by
Reed or Folk and
Popular Culture by
Lucero
HW: Study for quiz
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Feb 8
Quiz Culture/Identity
Feb 11
11 Culture
QUIZ: Chapter 4
Merchants of Cool
Video
Ticket out: Identify
examples of diffusion
HW: Ch 5 FN and Q1
12 Culture *“What
defines you?”
“Changing Latinization
of NYC” PPT by I.
Miyares
HW: Ch 5 Q 2 & 3
13 Culture
QUIZ:Discuss Q 2 and
3
Research and writing
activity: National
Identity
HW: position paper
(due Friday)
14 Culture
Thousands of Women
Killed for Family
“Honor” -National
Geographic Article
HW: Ch 4 and 5 Study
Guide; Study for test
15 Chapter 5
Review/Reteach
HW: Chapter 4 and 5
Study Guide; Ch 6 FN
Q 1& 2
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Quiz
Feb 13
Test Culture/Identity
Feb 20
18 No School
19 TEST: Culture and
Identity
(Ch 4 & 5)
HW:Ch 6 Q 3 & 4
20 Discuss Ch6 FN
and Q 1 & 2
History of English
Article
In The South a “Coke”
Could Be a Pepsi
Article
21 Language &
Religion
Discuss Q 3 and 4
Toponyms Activity
HW: Study for
Chapter 6 Quiz
22 End of Six Weeks
Early Dismissal
*Spread of Religion
*Intro Religion Fair
HW- Ch 7 FN andQ1;
begin gathering
information
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Feb 25
Quiz Language/Religion
Feb 26
25 Language &
Religion
Culture
Discuss Q 1
Religion Fair
HW: Religion Fair
notes and Ch 7 Q3
26 Language &
Religion Discuss Q3
Continue Religion Fair
HW :Ch 7 Q4
Language & Religion
QUIZ: Ch 6
27 Language &
Religion Discuss Q 4
Continue Religion Fair
Religion: Its role in
political conflict
Chapter 7 Quiz
28 Language &
Religion: Its role in
political conflict
1Language &
Religion TEST –
Language & Religion
Culture – Ch 4-7 (Fouberg) and Unit 3 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Feb 25
Quiz Language/Religion
Feb 26
Wood Unit 3 M/C questions
Mar 1
Test Language/Religion
Mar 1
4 Political Org
5 Political Org
6 Political Org
7 Political Org
HW: Ch 8 FN and Q1
8 Political Org
March 2013
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NOTES
25 Political Org
26 Political Org
27 Political Org
28 Political Org
1 Political Org
Political Geography – Ch 8 (Fouberg) & Unit 4
(Wood)
Vocabulary due
Mar 8
Quiz
Mar 20
4 Political Org
5 Political Org
6 Political Org
7 Political Org
8 Vocab Due 
Political Geography – Ch 8 (Fouberg) & Unit 4
(Wood)
Wood Unit 4 M/C questions
Mar 20
Test
Mar 22
11
12
13
14
15
Spring Break!!
18 Political Org
19 Political Org
20 Political Org
Chapter Quiz
21 Political Org
22 Test: Political
Organization
(Chapter 8)
Agricultural Geography – Ch 11 (Fouberg) &
Unit 5 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Mar 25
Quiz
Mar 28
Wood Unit 5 M/C questions
Mar 30
Test
Mar 30
25 Agriculture
26 Agriculture
27 Agriculture
28 Agriculture
29 No School
Agricultural Geography – Ch 11 (Fouberg) &
Unit 5 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
Mar 25
Quiz
Mar 28
Wood Unit 5 M/C questions
Mar 30
Test
Mar 30
April/May 2013
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
8 Agriculture
9 TEST - Agriculture
10 Urban The City in
History
(major facilitator of
urban centers is
agricultural surplus;
good transition topic)
HW: Ch 9 FN + Q1
11 Urban City
Comparisons over
Time (lab)
Groups – investigate
– due Tues 4/16
12 Urban QotD
Rank size rule and
primate cities
Primate city activity
HW: Ch 9 Q2
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Vocabulary due
Apr 12
Quiz
Apr 16
15 Urban
Urban Models ppt
Census tract
assignment;
16 Urban Quiz Kuby: Take Me Out to
the Ball Game
Urban shifts –
professional sports
17 Urban Spatial
Landscape and
Demographics; Use
census tract data,
follow along intersect
with Google Maps
Presentations of cities
18 Urban
Presentations of cities
over time (finish)
Knox: Megapolitan
Regions; the
Globalization of
Suburbia;
A Place for Waste
19 Urban
Urbanization of LDCs
Read articles –
Favelas
End of Six Weeks
Early Dismissal
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Vocabulary due
Apr 12
Quiz
Apr 16
AP Exam
May 17
22 Urban
Urbanization of LDCs
Read articles –
Favelas
23 Urban
Test: Urban
Geography
(Chapter 9)
HW Ch 10 FN 1 &
Q1
24 Dev & Ind
25 Dev & Ind
Development Models
Explain Walt Rostow’s
modernization theory
(ladder of
development).
Weaknesses dev
model? HW Ch 10 Q2
26 Dev & Ind
How does the
Geographic situation
affect Development?
Dependency Theory
HW Ch 10 Q 3
Urban Geography – Ch 9 (Fouberg) and Unit 7
(Wood)
Wood Unit 7 M/C questions
Apr 23
Test
Apr 23
AP Exam
May 17
29 Dev & Ind
30 Dev & Ind
How do Poli & Eco
institutions influence
uneven development
within states? HW CH
12 FN 1
1 Dev & Ind
Washing Machine
T-shirt Travels (SW
create magnet
card ( ticket out)
HW: CH 12Q2
2 Dev & Ind
summary to show
how Wallerstein's
World Systems
Theory applies
HW: CH 12Q3
3 Dev & Ind
Location theories of
industry
HW: CH 12Q4
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
May 4
Quiz
May 6
Unit Test
May 9
AP Exam
May 17
7 Dev & Ind
Ch 10 & 12 Quiz
Service Economies
8 Dev & Ind
Service Economies
9 Dev & Ind
TEST – Chapter 10
and 12
10 AP Exam Review
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
May 4
Quiz
May 6
Unit Test
May 9
AP Exam
May 17
Vocab Due
What are the barriers to
and the costs of
economic development?
HW Ch 10 Q 4
6 Dev & Ind
Industrial
Productionchanged?
HW: Ch 12Q5
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
NOTES
May/June 2013
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
29 Development &
Industry
30 Development &
Industry
1 Development &
Industry
2 Development &
Industry
3 TEST –
Development &
Industry
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Vocabulary due
May 4
Quiz
May 6
6 Review AP Exam
7 Review AP Exam
8 Review AP Exam
9 Chapter 10 and
12 Test
Development &
Industry
10 Review AP Exam
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Wood Unit 6 M/C questions
May 9
Test
May 9
AP Exam
May 13
13 Review AP Exam
14 Review AP Exam
15 Review AP Exam
16 Review AP Exam
17 AP EXAM!!
Development/Industrial Geography – Ch 10 &
12 (Fouberg) and Unit 6 (Wood)
Wood Unit 6 M/C questions
May 10
Test
May 10
AP Exam
May 18
20
Research/Current
Event- Book Study
21
Research/Current
Event- Book Study
22
Research/Current
Event- Book Study
23
Research/Current
Event- Book Study
24 In-Class PPT
Review
Book Study Due
May 24
27 No School
28 Review for
Semester Finals
29 Review for
Semester Finals
30 Review for
Semester
Finals
31 Finals Exams
Begin
3rd period
Final Exam
Jun 2
Semester
Exams
3 Final Exams
1st and 6th period
4 Final Exams
2nd and 7th period
Semester Exams
5 Last Day of
School Early
Dismissal
Early Dismissal
Final Exams
4th and 5th period
6
7
NOTES