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Class Orientation/ Registration

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Half Day

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Syllabus & Year-Long Goals Discussed; Texts & World Maps Disseminated; Discussion on Maps

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Quiz: Canadian Provinces & North America (maps will be numbered, fill in the blanks); visit Mr. Snyder's World; Maps

Bring laptops

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Read Appendix A; Maps

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Read Ch. 1: pp. 1-12; What is Human Geography?; print out and begin filling in the reading guide (part 1) for chapter 1; watch clip from West Wing in class; begin video: Guns, Germs & Steel - Out of Eden

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Guns, Germs & Steel - Out of Eden

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No School - Labor Day

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Guns, Germs & Steel - Conquest; read Key Geographic Skills; receive maps

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Read Pattison's 4 Traditions & 5 Themes of Geography; Usefulness of Maps (12-22); Guns, Germs & Steel - Conquest

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Scale & Regions (22-29); reading guide
 

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Quiz: Central & South America; Power of Place #1; due: all answers to Guns, Germs & Steel; Episode 2; Episode 2 Transcript

Bring laptops