For Map Quiz Prep

Unit Plan/Rationale:
This section of the course introduces students to the nature and significance of the political organization of territory at different scales. Students learn that political
patterns reflect ideas about how Earth’s surface should be organized and affect a wide range of activities and understandings. The course gives primary attention to the political geography of the modern state or country. Students are introduced to the different forces that shaped the evolution of the contemporary world political map, including the rise of nation-states in Europe, the influence of colonialism and the contemporary rise of neoliberalism. Students also learn about the basic structure of the political map and the inconsistencies between maps of political boundaries and maps of ethnic, economic, and environmental patterns. In addition, students consider some of the forces that are changing the role of individual countries in the modern world, including ethnic separatism, devolution, supranationalism, economic globalization, the emergence of regional economic blocs, and the need to confront environmental problems that cross national boundaries. This part of the course also focuses on political units above, below, and beyond the state. For example, at the scale above the state, attention is directed to regional integration schemes and alliances, such as NATO, the European Union, and NAFTA. At the scale below the state, students are introduced to the ways in which electoral districts, municipal boundaries, and ethnic territories affect political, social, and economic processes. In addition, students study how particular policies affect the spatial organization of cultural and social life, as in the case of racial segregation. Through study of these matters, students understand the importance of the political organization of territory in the contemporary world.
Unit 4 Vocabulary
· Ambassador
· Annexation
· Antarctica
· Antecedent boundary
· Apartheid
· Balkanization
· Border landscape
· Boundary, disputes (definitional, locational, operational, allocational)
· Boundary, origin (antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic)
· Boundary, process (definition, delimitation, demarcation)
· Boundary, type (natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric)
· Buffer state
· Capital
· Centrifugal
· Centripetal
· City-state
· Colonialism
· Commonwealth
· Confederation
· Conference of Berlin (1884)
· Consulate
· Constituent Country (Greenland)
· Core/periphery
· Coup d’etat
· Decolonization
· Delimitation
· Demarcation
· Devolution
· Domino theory
· East/WestDivide
· EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)
· Electoral regions/Electoral College
· Embassy
· Enclave
· Ethnic conflict
· European Union
· Exclave
· Federal government
· Forward capital
· Frontier
· Genocide
· Geopolitics
· Gerrymandering
· Global commons
· Heartland/rimland
· Immigrant states
· Imperialism
· International organization
· Iron Curtain
· Irredentism
· Israel/Palestine
· Landlocked
· Law of the Sea
· Lebanon
· Mackinder, Halford J.
· Manifest destiny
· Median-line principle
· Microstate (city-state)
· Ministate
· Nation
· National iconography
· Nation-state
· North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
· Nunavut
· Organic Theory
· Raison d’être
· Reapportionment
· Regionalism
· Relic boundary
· Religious conflict
· Reunification
· Satellite state
· Self-determination
· Separatism
· Shatterbelt
· Sovereignty
· State
· Stateless ethnic groups
· Stateless nation
· Subsequent boundary
· Suffrage
· Superimposed boundary
· Supranationalism
· Territorial disputes
· Territorial morphology (compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated)
· Territoriality
· Terrorism
· Theocracy
· Treaty ports
· UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
· Unitary government
· USSR collapse
Unit Daily Agenda
Date / Unit Concepts / Essential Questions / Activities/Homework
Monday, October 12 / States / · What’s in a state?
· How is space politically organized into states? / 1) Unit 4 Plan
2) Lecture Part I: Political Geography
3) STATE Phase IV/STATE Round 4 Fates
4) STATE Declarations of War/Explanation of War
5) Current Conflict News Article Introduction
6) Work on STATE Phase IV
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7) Unit 4 Vocabulary-BLOG
8) Cast Study: Who are the Kurds?-BLOG
9) News Article
Tuesday, October 13 / Spatial Characteristics / · What are the five spatial characteristics of states? / 1) Lecture Part II/Graphic Organizer: Spatial Characteristics of States
2) Complete STATE Phase IV (due at end of the period)
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3) Case Study: British Partition of South Asia
4) News Article
5) Prepare for Sub-Saharan Africa Map Quiz
Thursday, October 15 / Modern States / · How does a territory define a society? / 1) Sub-Saharan Africa Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part III: The Modern State Idea
3) Declarations of War/STATE Battles
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4) Prepare for Europe Map Quiz
Friday, October 16 / STATE / · What causes boundary disputes among states? / 1) News Article due
2) Europe Map Quiz
3) STATE Phase V (Boundary Disputes, Supranationalism, Politics)
4) STATE Battles
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5) Prepare for Middle East Online Map Quiz
Monday, October 19 / Boundaries / ·
· How are boundaries established?
· Why do boundary disputes occur? / 1) Middle East/North Africa Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part IV: Boundaries and Boundary Disputes
3) Video Clip: How the States Got Their Shapes
4) STATE Battles
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5) Prepare for Oceania and South, East, SE Asia Map Quiz
6) Article: Two Surveyors Restore Mason Dixon
Tuesday, October 20 / Gerrymandering and Electoral Geography / · How do states partition themselves into electoral districts? / 1) Lecture Part V: Gerrymandering
2) Lab Activity: Predicting Election Results
3) STATE Battles
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4) Prepare for Oceania, SE Asia, E Asia and S Asia Map Quiz
Wednesday, October 21 / Geopolitics and Balkanization / · How do geopolitics and critical geopolitics help us understand the world? / 1) Oceania, SE Asia, E Asia, S Asia Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part VI: Geopolitics and Balkanization
3) STATE Geopolitical Strategy(Analyzing Declarations of Wars)
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4) Prepare for Latin America Map Quiz
Thursday, October 22 / Spatial Organization and Forces of Fragmentation and Cohesion / · How do states spatially organize their governments?
· What causes devolutionary movements? / 1) Latin America Map Quiz
2) Lecture Part VII: How do states spatially organize their governments?
3) Governments around the World Scavenger Hunt
4) STATE Battles
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5) Power of Place Video: Supranationalism-BLOG
Friday, October 23 / Forms of Governing and the Geography of Governing / · What forms of governing are present in the world today? / 1) Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz
2) Lecture Part VIII: Governments from Around the World
3) An Isolated North Korea
4) Video Clip: Inside North Korea
5) STATE Battles
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6) Article Review: Democracy or Not?
7) Article Review: Democracy in Hong Kong
Monday, October 26 / War and Terrorism / · Should the spread of democracy end?
· What forms of terrorism are prevalent in the 21st century? / 1) Democracy Discussion
2) Lecture Part IX: Forms of Terrorism
3) ISIS and Other Terroristic Organizations
4) STATE Battles
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5) Socratic Seminar Prep
Tuesday, October 27 / War and Terrorism / · Who is currently at war?
· Where are potential breakouts of conflict likely to occur?
· Should the U.S. get involved with “boots on the ground” vs. ISIS? / 1) Mini Socratic Seminar: U.S. involvement vs. ISIS (ISIL)
2) Nuclear Capability and the World
3) STATE Battles
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4) Unit 4 Test Prep
Wednesday, October 28 / Unit 4 Test / 1) Unit 4 Test-FRQ
2) Unit 4 Test-MCQs
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3) Midterm Prep
Thursday, October 29 / STATE Battles/Review / 1) STATE Battles (Midterm Prep)
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2) Midterm Prep
Friday, October 30 / Midterm / 1) Midterm
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
· CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.10 By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Europe

Middle East

South Asia

East Asia

SE Asia, Australia and Oceania

Latin America

Formative Assessments-Unit 4 Test, Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz

Summative Assessments-Map Quizzes, Socratic Seminar

Differentiation-

Content-lab assignments, STATE groups amended based on level of achievement

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