AP Human Geography
Unit 4 Plan
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Unit Plan/Rationale:
This section of the course introduces students to the nature and significance of the political organization of territory at different scales. Students learn that political
patterns reflect ideas about how Earth’s surface should be organized and affect a wide range of activities and understandings. The course gives primary attention to the
political geography of the modern state or country. Students are introduced to the different forces that shaped the evolution of the contemporary world political map,
including the rise of nation-states in Europe, the influence of colonialism and the contemporary rise of neoliberalism. Students also learn about the basic structure of the
political map and the inconsistencies between maps of political boundaries and maps of ethnic, economic, and environmental patterns. In addition, students consider some
of the forces that are changing the role of individual countries in the modern world, including ethnic separatism, devolution, supranationalism, economic globalization, the
emergence of regional economic blocs, and the need to confront environmental problems that cross national boundaries. This part of the course also focuses on political
units above, below, and beyond the state. For example, at the scale above the state, attention is directed to regional integration schemes and alliances, such as NATO, the
European Union, and NAFTA. At the scale below the state, students are introduced to the ways in which electoral districts, municipal boundaries, and ethnic territories
affect political, social, and economic processes. In addition, students study how particular policies affect the spatial organization of cultural and social life, as in the case
of racial segregation. Through study of these matters, students understand the importance of the political organization of territory in the contemporary world.
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Annexation
Antarctica
Apartheid
Balkanization
Border landscape
Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)
Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)
Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)
Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)
Buffer state
Capital
Centrifugal
Centripetal
City-state
Colonialism
Confederation
Conference of Berlin (1884)
Constituent Country (Greenland)
Core/periphery
Decolonization
Devolution
Domino theory
EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)
Electoral regions
Enclave/exclave
Ethnic conflict
European Union
Federal
Forward capital
Frontier
Geopolitics
Gerrymander
Global commons
Heartland/rimland
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Immigrant states
International organization
Iron Curtain
Irredentism
Israel/Palestine
Landlocked
Law of the Sea
Lebanon
Mackinder, Halford J.
Manifest destiny
Median-line principle
Microstate
Ministate
Nation
National iconography
Nation-state
Nunavut
Raison d’être
Reapportionment
Regionalism
Religious conflict
Reunification
Satellite state
Self-determination
Shatterbelt
Sovereignty
State
Stateless ethnic groups
Stateless nation
Suffrage
Supranationalism
Territorial disputes
Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated)
Territoriality
Theocracy
Treaty ports
UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
Unitary
USSR collapse
Unit 4 Plan
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AP Human Geography
Unit 4 Plan
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Date
Unit Concepts
Essential Questions
Wednesday,
March 12
States
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What’s in a state?
How is space politically
organized into states?
Thursday,
March 13
Spatial Characteristics
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What are the five spatial
characteristics of states?
Friday,
March 14
Modern States
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How does a territory define a
society?
Monday,
March 17
STATE
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What causes boundary disputes
among states?
Tuesday,
March 18
Boundaries
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How are boundaries
established?
Why do boundary disputes
occur?
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Activities/Homework
1) Unit 4 Plan
2) Lecture Part I: Political Geography
3) STATE Phase IV
4) STATE Declarations of War
---------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Unit 4 Vocabulary-BLOG
6) Cast Study: Who are the Kurds?-BLOG
1) Lecture Part II/Graphic Organizer: Spatial Characteristics of
States
2) Current Conflict News Article Introduction
3) Video: How the States Got Their Shapes
4) STATE Declarations of War/Battles
-------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Case Study: British Partition of South Asia
6) News Article
7) Prepare for Sub-Saharan Africa Map Quiz
1) Sub-Saharan Africa Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part III: The Modern State Idea
3) STATE Battles
--------------------------------------------------------------------------4) Prepare for Europe Map Quiz
1) News Article due
2) Europe Map Quiz
3) STATE Phase V (Boundary Disputes, Supranationalism and
Politics)
4) STATE Battles
--------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Prepare for Middle East Online Map Quiz
1) Middle East/North Africa Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part IV: Boundaries and Boundary Disputes
3) Article: Two Surveyors Restore Mason Dixon
4) STATE Battles
---------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Prepare for Oceania and South, East, SE Asia Online Map Quiz
6) Gerrymandering PPT-Print BLOG
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Unit 4 Plan
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Wednesday,
March 19
Geopolitics and
Balkanization
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How do geopolitics and critical
geopolitics help us understand
the world?
Thursday,
March 20
Spatial Organization and
Forces of Fragmentation and
Cohesion
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How do states spatially
organize their governments?
What causes devolutionary
movements?
Friday,
March 21
War and Terrorism
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What forms of terrorism are
prevalent in the 21st century?
Monday,
March 24
War and Terrorism
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Who is currently at war?
Where are potential breakouts
of conflict likely to occur?
Tuesday,
March 25
Unit 4 Test
Wednesday,
March 26
Review for Midterm
Thursday,
March 27
Midterm
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1) Oceania, SE Asia, E Asia, S Asia Map Quiz
2) Go over Gerrymandering PPT
3) Lecture Part V: Geopolitics and Balkanization
4) STATE Geopolitical Strategy(Analyzing Declarations of War)
5) Activity 4.1-The Rise of Nationalism and Fall of Yugoslavia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------6) Prepare for Latin America Map Quiz
1) Latin America Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part VI: How do states spatially organize their
governments?
3) Governments around the World Scavenger Hunt
4) STATE Battles
-----------------------------------------------------------------------5) Power of Place Video: Supranationalism-BLOG
6) Supranationalism Research
1) Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz
2) Modern Military Conflicts
3) Terrorism 101
4) Al Qaeda Today
5) STATE Battles
------------------------------------------------------------------------6) Supranationalism Research
1) Supranationalism Research Due
2) The Future of State Conflicts
3) Nuclear Capability and the World
4) STATE Battles
------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Unit 4 Test Prep
1) Unit 4 Test-FRQ
2) Unit 4 Test-MCQs
------------------------------------------------------------------------3) Midterm Prep
1) Midterm Prep (STATE Battles)
------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Midterm Prep
1) Midterm Exam
AP Human Geography
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Unit 4 Plan
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Common Core Standards
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the
information.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas
develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic
aspects of history/social science.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and
emphasize in their respective accounts.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and
proficiently.
For Map Quiz Prep…
http://www.lizardpoint.com/geography/index.php
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe
Middle East
South Asia
East Asia
SE Asia, Australia and Oceania
Latin America