All assignments and dates are subject to change at the discretion of the teacher.

For a more comprehensive list of weekly topics and assignments, check the course webpage.

AP Human Geography – August 2010
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
22 / 23
Introduction to the course; review syllabus; expectations / 24
Classroom procedures
Recommended resources / 25
Historical development of geography
Article – Why Geography Matters / 26
Article – The Four Traditions of Geography
HW: Summer reading assignment and signed syllabus form due / 27
SUMMER READING DUE
Summer reading discussion
Environmental determinism v. possibilism / 28
29 / 30
The five themes of geography
HW: Read Rub. 1 / 31
ARGUS Activities A and B: Physical geography, Site and situation
AP Human Geography – September 2010
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Defining locations: Latitude and longitude
HW: Lat. & long. / 2
Geographic technologies: GPS, GIS
Compass activity / 3
Scale
Video: P.o.P. 1:
One Earth, Many Scales
HW: Read Rub. pgs. 488-493 / 4
5 / 6 / 7
Cartography:
Mapping St. James
Assign map analysis essay / 8
Kuby, chapter 1:
True Maps, False Impressions
(Comp. lab) / 9
Place names: Toponomy / 10
READING QUIZ
ARGUS Activity C:
Place names
HW: Map analysis essay due / 11
12 / 13
ESSAY DUE
Pearce, chapter 1:
Maps for Human Geography / 14
Writing an FRQ: Write, edit, score, and discuss in class / 15
Unit I review
Work on note cards / 16
UNIT I TEST: MC / 17
UNIT I TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 18
19 / 20
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Population maps
HW: Complete map / 21
Introduction to demographic and population geography
HW: Read Rub. 2 / 22
Pearce, chapter 7:
Population Indicators
Demographics at St. James / 23
Population theorists
Video: World Population: A Graphic Simulation
Article: Principal of Population / 24
The demographic transition model / 25
26 / 27
READING QUIZ
Population pyramids
(Comp. lab)
HW: Finish pyramid / 28
Article: The Fertility Bust
Video: G.P,P,C 6:
Population Transition in Italy / 29
Kuby, chapter 5:
One Billion and Counting
(Comp. lab) / 30
Complete Kuby activity
(Comp. lab)
HW: Article: Before the Next Doubling
AP Human Geography – October 2010
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Articles: The Population Implosion and The Global Baby Bust / 2
3 / 4
Pro and antinatalist policies
Class debate / 5
Populations shifts in the United States
The effects of the baby-boom / 6
Spatial patterns of health and disease
ARGUS Activity V:
Tuberculosis
HW: Read Rub. 3 / 7
Introduction to migration; Ravenstein’s laws / 8
Video: P.o.P. 21:
Population Geography / 9
10 / 11
Historical and current global migration patterns; Obstacles to migration / 12
Waves of immigration in the United States
ARGUS Activity CX: Immigration / 13
Internal migrations in the United States
ARGUS Activity F:
East-west migration in the US / 14
READING QUIZ
Kuby, chapter 4:
Newton’s First Law of Migration: The Gravity Model / 15
Complete Kuby activity
Short-term migration, local movements, and activity space / 16
17 / 18
Population, migration, and natural disasters / 19
Population correlation analysis activity
(Comp. lab) / 20
Unit II review
Work on note cards / 21
UNIT II TEST: MC / 22
UNIT II TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 23
24 / 25
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Article: Two Elements of Culture / 26
Introduction to cultural geography
HW: Read Rub. 4 / 27
Folk and popular cultures
Pearce, chapter 2:
Folk Cartography / 28
Kuby, chapter 2:
Layers of Tradition: Cultural Regions at Different Scales (Act. 1)
(Comp. lab) / 29
Video: America Eats: History on a Bun
Discuss US and SC food regions / 30
31
AP Human Geography – November 2010
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Article: The Nine Nations of North America
Assign analytical essay on cultural regions / 2 / 3
READING QUIZ
Globalization of popular culture; Placelessness / 4
Anti-globalization and neo-localism / 5
Architecture: folk and popular traditions
HW: Cultural essay due / 6
7 / 8
ESSAY DUE
American housing styles
Virtual field-trip / 9
Introduction to language
HW: Read Rub. 5 / 10
Distribution of languages around the world
HW: Pearce, chapter 4: Locating Vernacular Dialect / 11
The history of English / 12
Pearce, chapter 4:
Linguistic Regions and Ecology
(Comp. lab) / 13
14 / 15
Synthetic languages
HW: Esperanto translation / 16
READING QUIZ
Overview of religious distributions
HW: Read Rub. 6 / 17
Origins, beliefs, and spread of Judaism / 18
Origins, beliefs, and spread of Christianity / 19
Pearce, chapter 3:
Adherents, Memberships, and Sects
(Comp. lab) / 20
21 / 22
Origins, beliefs, and spread of Islam / 23
Group research on Asian faiths
(Media center) / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
28 / 29
Complete research and presentations on Asian faiths / 30
READING CHECK
Video: Varanasi: City of Light
Pearce, chapter 3:
Maps for Pilgrims (Complete for HW)
AP Human Geography – December 2010
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Assign house of worship virtual tour
(Comp. lab) / 2
Complete research
(Comp. lab) / 3
Conduct house of worship virtual tours
Debriefing assignment / 4
5 / 6
New-age religious movements and revivals / 7
Conflict over Jerusalem case-study / 8
Introduction to ethnicity
Video: P.o.P. 25:
Ethnic Fragmentation in Canada / 9
Expert groups on cultural articles / 10
Pearce, chapter 5: Census Tools for Mapping Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Diversity as Cultural Perception / 11
12 / 13
Unit III practice FRQ – write and score in class / 14
Unit III review
Work on note cards / 15
UNITIII TEST: MC / 16
UNITIII TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 17
Cultural case-study: Holidays around the world / 18
19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25
26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31
AP Human Geography – January 2011
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
2 / 3
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Introduction to political geography
HW: Read Rub. 7 / 4
Nations, states, nation-states, stateless nations, etc.
Video: P.o.P. 2:
Boundaries and Borderlands / 5
Kuby, chapter 13: The Rise of Nationalism and Fall of Yugoslavia / 6
Kuby, chapter 13: Iraqaphobia / 7
READING QUIZ
Defining the state
Discuss semester exam
HW: Read Rub. 8 / 8
9 / 10
Territorial morphology
ARGUS Activity R: State borders
HW: Relic boundaries / 11
Morphology and boundary security issues / 12
US political geography
Gerrymandering activity
ARGUS Activity S:
Electoral districts / 13
MIDTERM EXAM
(UNITS I, II, III) / 14
MIDTERM EXAM
(UNITS I, II, III) / 15
16 / 17 / 18 / 19
READING QUIZ
Return and discuss exams / 20
Centrifugal and centripetal forces
Video: P.o.P. 3:
Supranationalism and Devolution / 21
Assign political issue research project
Complete research
(Comp. lab) / 22
23 / 24
Political, economic, and military cooperation / 25
International boundaries and maritime law
HW: Prep for UN Simulation / 26
United Nations Simulation
HW: Pearce, chapter 6: Political boundaries / 27
Kuby, chapter 12:
Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland
(Comp. lab) / 28
Complete Kuby activity
Prepare presentation handouts
(Comp. lab) / 29
30 / 31
Political issue presentations and discussion
AP Human Geography – February 2011
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Political issue presentations and discussion
Debriefing activity / 2
Unit IV review
Work on note cards / 3
UNIT IV TEST: MC / 4
UNIT IV TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 5
6 / 7
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Introduction to agricultural geography
HW: Read Rub. 10 / 8
Agricultural revolutions
Video: Guns, Germs, and Steel: Out of Eden / 9
Whittlesey’s agricultural regions
HW: Finish Whittlesey map / 10
US agricultural regions
ARGUS Activities K and KX:
Agricultural regions and activities / 11
Kuby, chapter 8: Food for Thought(activities 1, 3)
HW: Kuby 8, act. 2 / 12
13 / 14
READING QUIZ
von Thünen’s model / 15
Rice: The global crop
Assign agricultural product video project
Movie-maker tutorial
(Comp. lab) / 16
Research agricultural products and work on videos
(Comp. lab) / 17
Video: China Rises: Food is Heaven / 18
Rural land use patterns
ARGUS Activities F and FX: Rural settlement patterns
HW: Pearce, chapter 8: Perception / 19
20 / 21 / 22
The Green Revolution
Debate genetically modified crops / 23
Industrialized agriculture and agribusiness
Video: The Meatrix / 24
Complete agricultural product videos
(Comp. lab)
HW: Videos due / 25
Watch agricultural product videos
Debriefing activity / 26
27 / 28
Prepare for field study at Freewoods Farm
AP Human Geography – March 2011
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
Field study: Freewoods Farm / 2
Unit V review
Work on note cards / 3
UNIT V TEST:
MC / 4
UNIT V TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 5
6 / 7
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Introduction to economic/industrial geography
HW: Read Rub. 9 / 8
Human development index and other measurements of development
HW: Bring calculator / 9
Kuby, chapter 7:
Rags to Riches: The Dimensions of Development / 10
Strategies for development
Rostow’s model / 11
Core-periphery distinction, the Brantley model / 12
13 / 14
READING QUIZ
ARGUS Activity W:
Pubic investment
HW: Read Rub. 11 / 15
The Industrial Revolution and early distribution of industry / 16
Pearce, chapter 9: Industrial Locations of the Past
(Comp. lab) / 17
Site and situation factors
Weber’s theory of industrial location
Hotteling’s model / 18
ARGUS Activities L and M: Locating industries
HW: Pearce, chapter 9: Industrial regions / 19
20 / 21
READING QUIZ
Video: China Rises: Getting Rich
HW: Read Rub. 14 / 22
Basic and non-basic jobs
Kuby, chapter 6:
The Changing Geography of Jobs / 23
Environmental impact of economic development
HW: ARGUS activity Z: Nuclear waste / 24
Kuby, chapter 14:
Preserving the Planet
HW: Prepare for climate debate / 25
READING QUIZ
Debate – Global climate policies / 26
27 / 28
Video: P.o.P. 15
Global Interaction
Foreign exchange rates / 29
International production and trade activity / 30
Unit VI review
Work on note cards / 31
UNIT VI TEST: MC
AP Human Geography – April 2011
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
UNIT VI TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 2
3 / 4
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Introduction to urban geography
Services
HW: Read Rub. 12 / 5
Origins and evolution of cities and urbanism
Map-reading activity / 6
Models of urban structure
Bid-rent
HW: Pearce, chapter 10: Planning urbanization / 7
Central place theory and local applications
(Comp. lab) / 8
READING CHECK
ARGUS Activity N: Locating baseball teams
HW: Complete ARGUS N / 9
10 / 11
Suburbanization and edge-cities
ARGUS Activity HX: Suburbanization
HW: Read Rub. 13 / 12
Video: P.o.P. 24:
Cityscapes and Suburban Sprawl
Debate – Urban sprawl / 13
Recentralization movement, gentrification, and urban renewal / 14
Urban structures outside of North America
Article: WorldCity Network / 15
READING CHECK
Design ideal cities
Prepare for field study / 16
17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23
24 / 25 / 26
Field study:
The Boulevard
HW: Field study report due / 27
Unit VII review
Work on note cards / 28
UNITVII TEST: MC / 29
UNITVII TEST: FRQ
Note cards due / 30
AP Human Geography – May 2011
Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1 / 2
Return, discuss, and correct tests
Exam Overview
Unit I Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 3
Unit II Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 4
Unit III Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 5
Unit IV Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 6
Unit V Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 7
8 / 9
Unit VI Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 10
Unit VII Review
HW: Practice FRQ / 11
Exam Review / 12
Exam Review / 13
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY EXAM DAY
8:00 AM / 14