Human Geography Enrichment Requirements
Enrichment assignments are a way to connect the learning that goes on in class to the world around you. Each term you will be required to complete eight enrichment assignments. With the exception of documentaries that will be shown during intervention, during lunch and after school, enrichment assignments offer you the opportunity to choose the learning activity.
Some examples include:
non-fiction, geography related books (see reading list below)
documentary films: Guns, Germs & Steel, Food Inc., Fuel, Power of Place
commercial feature films: (seel list below)
articles from magazines and newspapers
games or simulations
trips, museums and festivals
For the most part, enrichment assignments will take the form of a one-page, single spaced response. A response has two basic parts; a detailed summary of what was learned and a half page explanation of personal connections. This includes: opinions, related ideas, related experiences and hypothetical applications.
Once you have completed a response, you will keep it in your binder until it is called for.
*important note*
Some of the books and movies listed below contain themes or images that assume a mature reader/viewer. The choice to read/view an item on the list left to the discretion of the parent. No one book or movie is required, therefore, if you (the parent) feel that a book or movie is inappropriate for an adolescent, you should make a selection that is in line with the maturity of the child and the values of your family.
Reading List for AP Human Geography
Diamond: A Journey into the Heart of an Obsession Matthew Hart
Dinner at the New Gene CaféBill Lambrecht
Fateful Harvest Duff Wilson
If it Bleeds, It Leads: Anatomy of Television News Matthew Kerbel
Live from the Battlefield Peter Arnett
Reading Lolita in TehranAzarNafisi
Tunnel KidsTaylor Lawrence
Botany of Desire Michael Pollard
Confucius Lives Next Door T.R. Reid
Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a DifferenceMalcolm Gladwell
Chaos James Gleick
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
The Mole People Jennifer Toth
And the Band Played On Randy Shilts
SaltMark Kurlansky
CodMark Kurlansky
The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas Friedman
Garbage Land Elizabeth Royte
The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central AsiaLutz Kleveman
Amazon StrangerMark Tidwell
Nickel and DimedBarbara Ehrenreich
Every Drop for SaleJeffrey Rothfeder
We Just Want to Live HereAmalRifa’i and OdeliaAinbinder
Our Final HourMartin Rees
Gideon’s TrumpetAnthony Lewis
The Hot ZoneRichard Preston
The Skeptical EnvironmentalistBjorn Lomborg
Coming of Age in the Milky WayTimothy Ferris
Mountains beyond MountainsTracy Kidder
FreakonomicsSteven Levitt
NamesakeMira Nair andJhumpaLahiri
A Thousand Splendid SunsKhaledHosseini
Kite RunnerKhaledHosseini
The Geography of NowhereJames Howard Kunstler
In Defense of FoodMichael Pollan
The World is FlatThomas L. Friedman
Hot Flat and CrowdedThomas L. Friedman
How Soccer Explains the WorldFranklin Foer
Why Geography MatterssH.J. De Blij
Confessions of an Eco-SinnerFred Pearce
Tipping PointMalcolm Gladwell
CollapseJared Diamond
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans,
the Middle East, and the CaucasusRobert Kaplan
The Wealth and Poverty of NationsDavis S. Landes
Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond
Ecological ImperialismAlfred W. Crosby
The Colombian ExchangeAlfred W. Crosby
City of EmberJeanne Du Prau
Life of PiYann Martel
Slobbering Love AffairBernard Goldberg
A Long Way GoneIshmael Beah
Tao of PoohBenjamin Hoff
Te of PigletBenjamin Hoff
American GodsNeil Gaiman
SiddarthaHermann Hesse
Wal-Mart EffectCharles Fishman
Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng
Left to TellImmaculeeIlibagzia
One Thousand White WomenJim Fergus
A Long Way GoneIshmael Beah
SoldPatricia McCormick
The Bottom BillionPaul Collier
Outcasts UnitedWarren St. John
Confessions of an Economic Hit ManJohn Perkins
Commercial Feature Films
BabelBehind Enemy LinesBlood Diamond
Cars 2The City of Joy
Gandhi
Hidalgo
Hotel Rwanda
The Kite Runner
The Last Samurai
Memoirs of a Geisha
Slum Dog Millionaire
Whalerider