UNIT 5: Agriculture and Land Use in the Rural Sector
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Go over Semester Exams; begin watching Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 3 - Into the Tropics

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Watch Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 3 - Into the Tropics; Episode 3 Transcript

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Classifying Economic Activities; The Rise of Farming

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Subsistence Agriculture; The Second Agricultural Revolution; the Von Thünen Model

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Free Response Workshop

Organize & plan ahead; read 311-14; guide Read 314-18; continue guide; video Read 318-22; finish guide; video Review the Von Thunen Model Finish Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 3

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Due: answers to Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 3; What the World Eats; introduce What's For Breakfast?; watch Human Geography: Program 5

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Finish watching Human Geography: Program 5; The Third Agricultural Revolution; work on Green Revolution in India : A Case Study ; An Indian Paradox


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Work on Agriculture Chart (pp. 330-39); Global Agriculture

[textbooks & laptops]

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Map Quiz: Sub-Saharan Africa; receive Your Morning Coffee's Amazing Journey (questions); introduce Commodity Chains in the US

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Half Day; work on assignments


[laptops]

Read 322-25; guide Read 330-39; guide; Agriculture Chart Study for map quiz; Africa map (no labels) (Sub-Saharan Africa)   Finish Green Revolution in India : A Case Study ; An Indian Paradox

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No School: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Due: answers to Green Revolution in India : A Case Study & An Indian Paradox (Art. 39); Village Patterns and Settlements

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Due: Agriculture Chart (have a copy for yourself); Environmental Impacts & Agribusiness

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Due: answers to Your Morning Coffee's Amazing Journey; Modern Agricultural Trends

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Due: answers to Commodity Chains in the US; What's For Breakfast? (optional; 5 pts); review for test

Read 326-30; finish guide

Read 339-41; guide; watch The Meatrix (Relaunched); finish Agriculture Chart (have a copy for yourself)

Read 341-45; guide; complete answers to Your Morning Coffee's Amazing Journey Finish work on Commodity Chains in the US; What's For Breakfast? (optional; 5 pts); review for test review

Review for test

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Unit 5 Test; Objective & Free Response; extra vocab

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Watch Human Geography: Program 7 (Cities and Urban Land Use); viewing guide

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Finish watching Human Geography: Program 7 (Cities and Urban Land Use); work on World Cities

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World Urbanization Through Time; The First and Second Urban Revolutions

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World Urbanization Through Time; The First Urban Revolution; watch video; finish World Cities
bring headphones
  Read 245-54; guide; watch video Work on World Cities; fully answer critical thinking questions Read 254-59; watch video Read 254-59; guide; finish answering all parts of the viewing guide (restaurant quality)

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