AP Human Geography
Unit 4 Plan
Date
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Topic
Essential Question (s)
Monday, Oct. 15
States
What is in a state?
How is space politically
organized into states and
nations?
Tuesday, Oct. 16
Spatial
Characteristics
What are the five spatial
characteristics of states?
Wednesday, Oct. 17
State Shapes
How did the sub-states of
America get their shapes
Thursday, Oct. 18
Modern States
How does a territory define a
society?
Friday, Oct. 19
Boundaries
How are boundaries established?
Why do boundary disputes
occur?
Monday, Oct. 22
Geopolitics and
Balkanization
How do geopolitics and critical
geopolitics help us understand
the world?
Activities
Homework
1) GPIS/World is Flat Project Intro
2) Toponyms: What’s in a Name?
3) Lecture Part I: Political Geography
4) STATE Declarations of War
5) Label Map of Africa
1) Lecture Part II/Graphic Organizer:
Spatial Characteristics of States
2) STATE Battles
1) Video: How the States Got Their
Shapes (4 and 5 only)
6) Unit 4 Vocabulary-BLOG
7) Map of Africa
8) Case Study: Who are the Kurds?BLOG
1) Map Quiz: Sub-Sahara Africa
2) Lecture Part III: The Modern State
Idea
3) Map of Europe
4) STATE Battles
1) Map Quiz: Europe
2) STATE Phase V (Boundary
Disputes, Supranationalism and
Politics)
3) STATE Battles
5) Map of Europe completion/study
1) Map Quiz: SW Asia (Middle East)
2) Lecture Part IV: Boundaries and
Boundary Disputes
3) Video: How the States Got Their
Shapes (2 and 3 only)
4) East, South, SE Asia Map Label
5) STATE Battles
5) Gerrymandering PPT
6) Article: Two Surveyors Restore
Mason Dixon
7) E, S, SE Asia, Oceania Map
Label/study
3) Case Study: British Partition of
South Asia
2) Map of Africa study
4) Map of SW Asia
completion/study
AP Human Geography
Unit 4 Plan
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Tuesday, Oct. 23
Spatial
Organization
and Forces of
Fragmentation
and Cohesion
How do states spatially organize
their governments?
What causes devolutionary
movements?
What criteria is used to
determine who enters the
European Union?
1) Map Quiz: E, S, SE Asia, Oceania
2)Lecture Part V: Geopolitics and
Balkanization
3) STATE Geopolitical Strategy
(Analyzing Declarations of War)
4) Activity 4.1 The Rise of
Nationalism and the Fall of
Yugoslavia
5) STATE Battles
6) Latin America Map Label (Central
and South America, Caribbean)
Wednesday, Oct. 24
War
What forms of terrorism are
prevalent in the 21st century?
5) Power of Place Video:
Supranationalism-BLOG
Thursday, Oct. 25
Terrorism
What forms of terrorism are
prevalent in the 21st century?
Friday, Oct. 26
Unit 4 Test
1) Map Quiz: Latin America
2) Lecture Part VI: How do states
spatially organize their
governments?
3) War around the World Map
Label and Discussion
4) STATE Battles
1) Forms of Terrorism Discussion
2) American War on Terrorism
3) Map of Terrorism/Potential
Terrorism
4) STATE Battles
1) Unit 4 Test Part I
(Vocabulary)
2) Unit 4 Test Part II (FRQs)
3) Unit 4 Test Part III (MCQs)
Monday, Oct. 29
Review for
Midterm
Midterm
1) STATE Battles
1) Midterm Prep
Tuesday, Oct. 30
1) Midterm Exam
PLAN IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED OF ANY CHANGES WELL IN ADVANCE.
4) Sample FRQs
5) Unit 4 Test Prep
4) Midterm Review-BLOG
AP Human Geography
Unit 4 Plan
Copeland