Dear APGEO students,
GREAT work today on the De Blij discussion - I hope you enjoyed that class structure. We will continue that tomorrow after the Do Now.
Our Do Now today was the activity involving the course topic outline - please hole-punch that sheet and add it to the Do Now section of your binder.
During tomorrow's Do Now, I will quickly check your homework and binders. Remember that the homework assigned was the questions on the first three pages of the packet on basic geography and map reading. Please answer these questions on a separate sheet of lined paper. There is no need to take additional notes on the packet unless you want to.
***IMPORTANT: Map Quiz information***
To prepare for the AP test and ensure that we are definitely not what De Blij would call "geographically illiterate," we will be doing a whirlwind tour of the world's locational geography - we will be memorizing country/state/province names, the location of major cities, and major land forms across the globe. I'll try to memorize the same things I ask you to memorize to make sure it is a reasonable amount (and because I think it is very useful knowledge).
You can find the material you will be tested on - as well as a useful online practice system to help you learn - at this website. To start off with something familiar, we will begin with North America. After North America, we will proceed week by week through "Middle America," South America, Europe, and the rest of the eleven regions identified on the website.
The map quizzes will also include basic questions from the "Major Geographic Qualities of (region)" sheets such as the one I passed out today about North America. The North America map quiz will be Friday, 8/26.
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