Week of Feb. 13-17 Period 5

2/13/12
1. HSC Practice Test
2. Check Ch. 5 VIS Charts
3. HSC T/F & M/C test
4. Homework: work on vocab; study chapter

2/14/12
1. Collect vocab. Ch. 5
2. Show CNN Video on Japan romance/discussion
3. CNN Video on India Arranged marriages/discussion
4. Model Ch. 5 outline section 1.
5. Homework: Using section 1 model, outline section 2 "The Geography of Local and Regional Politics"

2/15/12
Warmup: review section 1 "What is Political Geography"
Test Tip challenge, p. 182.
What are the challenges of stateless nations?
Computer: Choose a stateless nation and summarize the problems associated with stateless nations. Summarize in a paragraph or using bullets.
Homework: Review Section 2, Ch. 5. Write 2 questions you don't understand. If you understand the section, write 2 question the section raises. These will be discussed on Friday.

2/16/12
Objective: Students will be able to identify an Asian city that is in the South part of the divide, but has both wealth and poverty.
1. Summarize North/South Divide concept; identify Mumbai on map and give statistics.
2. View google images of Mumbai
3. Listen to an interview with Katherine Boo who wrote about Mumbai slums.
a. As you're listening ask yourself the following: What is the critical information from this interview? Write one-two sentence summary identifying what you think is the main point of the interview.
b. Divide into groups of four and share summaries. Choose the one (or combination of more) that your group would like to share with the class.


2/17/12
Discussion of Section 2
Share 2 questions you didn't understand on Section 2. What questions were raised by the section?
Discussion questions: