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MONDAY: Review for Wednesday's TEST on basic geography. Please note:

Pages 4-5 Five Themes of Geography. Use your notes to name the five themes and their two-three components. You will also be required to provide an example of one of the components.
Pages 5-8 Globes. Know vocabulary in blue.
Pages 9-11 Maps. Know vocabulary in blue
Pages 12-15 Name five types of maps and explain their use.
Pages 22-27 Physical Geography. Understand environment, identify three climate zones and describe, know vocabulary.
Pages 28-29 Cultural Geography. Be ready to explain how you can understand government of a country by asking four questions. List the three basic economic questions. What comprises a culture? What is an ethnic group? List the eight cultural regions of the world and explain how geographers compare and contrast these different regions in order to understand them.
Students should use their Chapter Review, notes on PowerPoints, and page 32 in the text as study guides. The Review on page 33 will also be helpful.

TUESDAY: We'll play games and have study time for Wednesday's test.
Don't forget, OPEN HOUSE tonight at 6:30. Parents only.

WEDNESDAY: GEOGRAPHY TEST and DEAR.

THURSDAY: We'll begin Chapter 24, The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia, pages 481-503. Students will take notes using a Chapter Review as we do for each chapter we study. This will be finished for homework.

FRIDAY: I am out for medical reasons until Wednesday. The substitute will go over the Chapter Review answers with the students.
In partners,students will examine graphs and charts and complete a visual organizer about the various features of the Indian subcontinent. They will next examine a physical map of Asia and identify landforms, rivers, bodies of water and other physical features. There should be time in class to finish this, if not,it is due on next Wednesday.

Posted by Mrs. Glenn