UNIT 9 - A Tale of [a Few] Cities

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Go over Semester Exam; read and analyze World Cities (in class); look over Africa map (no labels) (North Africa & SW Asia); introduce the Urban Investigation



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 Due: answers to World Cities; Origins of Urbanization; Conditions necessary for the First Cities; Fantasy Geopolitics

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Site and Situation; Second Urban Revolution; work on the Urban Investigation

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Map Quiz: North Africa & Southwest Asia; Africa map (no labels) (North Africa & SW Asia); Urban Structure & Models (CZM & SM)

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Urban Models (MNM, GCM & URM); Suburbanization & Edge Cities; look over AP Books (274-77, 281-85); in-class video (click to learn more about Route 66)

[bring AP Books to class]

Read Origin and Evolution of Cities (up to "Classifications of Cities" on pg. 3); Guide; video Read AP Book, Ch. 10 (268-70); finish reading Origin and Evolution of Cities; finish Guide; video Read Models of Urban Structure (up through the Sector Model); Guide; AP Book (270-74); video Read Models of Urban Structure (to the end); finish Guide; video; bring AP Books to class (ETC: 35 mins) Read Urban Hierarchies (up through the Rank-Size Rule); Guide; video (ETC: 30 mins)
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Watch video: X-Ray Earth (click to learn more about the science of cities)

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Rank-Size Rule; work on Urban Investigation



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Central Place Theory; Mapping America; current urban event (check out this site)

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Ranking Urban Centers; work on Article 30

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Half Day; due: answers to questions on article 30; The Changing American City; The Borchert Model

Finish reading Urban Hierarchies; read AP Book (288-89); Guide; video (ETC: 35 mins)

Read AP Book (266-67); finish the Guide; video (ETC: 30 mins)

Read Ranking Urban Centers; Guide; video (ETC: 30 mins)

 Read Article 30 (from Annual Editions; questions); video (ETC: 35 mins) Read Urban Trends in the United States (smaller size version) (up through "Emergence of the Rustbelt"); Guide; AP Book (289-91) (ETC: 35 mins)
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No School: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Due: Urban Investigation; Residential Segregation in the US; Rustbelts; Mapping America

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Urban Trends in the US; mini DBQ practice; question & documents

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Cities in the Global Core; Latin American City; look at AP Book (277-81); mini DBQ rubric

[bring AP Books to class]

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Cities in the Periphery & Semi-Periphery; Southeast Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa ... and more!; look over documents for the mini-DBQ; review for test

Finish the Urban Investigation

 Finish reading Urban Trends in the United States (smaller size version); Guide; AP Book (291-95) (ETC: 35 mins) Read Global Urbanization (up through Modeling the Latin American City); Guide (ETC: 35 mins)

Finish reading Global Urbanization; finish Guide (ETC: 35 mins); score one DBQ (rubric) on the Schoology discussion post; review for test review

 Review for test; look over documents for the mini-DBQ
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Test: A Tale of [a Few] Cities; Objective and Mini-DBQ; optional vocab due

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Read 621-23; video        

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