Social 20-1
I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class today. If you didn't hand in your letters today, please make sure that you hand it in tomorrow. I finished off the lecture on "Nation and Identity". If you missed class on Thursday, please make sure that you get the notes from a classmate so you know what I emphasized. One week from today, you'll have a World Geography Test, please check out the study guide below. Tomorrow, I will lecture on "The Enlightenment", you will write a matching quiz on this on Wednesday.
Key dates for Social 20-1 students:
- Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz (matching quiz, please see the study guide below) is on Wednesday, February 8th
- Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, February 8th
- World Geography Test is on Monday, February 13th (please see study guide below)
Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide:
This test will take place on Monday, February 13th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
- any of the EU countries (there are 28 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265, but it's out of date, it says that there's 27 countries in the EU. I'm not even talking about Brexit here...)
- any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
- any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
- full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
- to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
- other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
Israel - **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**
GEOGRAPHY GAMES
- World Geography Games
- Test Your Geography Knowledge
- Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)
Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz Study Guide:
This quiz is a matching quiz. Please make sure that you focus your review on the following Enlightenment thinkers:
- John Locke
- Montesquieu
- Rousseau
- Adam Smith
- Francois Quesnay
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Voltaire
Social 10-1
I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class. I gave feedback to each of on your Google Doc paragraphs this weekend, so please check out my suggestions. We played global bingo today, and a few of you will get prizes this week. You have a homework assignment tonight, you need to find 25 items from 25 different countries, and put the information that you collect into a chart. It would probably be smart to categorize the information right from the beginning, since you will have to use this data when you use it for an upcoming mapping assignment.You will have a World Geography Test next Monday, the study guide for this test can be found in today's post on the blog if you scroll down completely.
25 Item Chart Instructions:
- find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
- find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
- don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
- try to find 4-6 items from each category
- collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
- don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS4 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
- for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.) - the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!
SOCIAL 10-1 WORLD GEOGRAPHY TEST STUDY GUIDE:
This test will take place on Monday, February 13th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
- any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
- any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
- any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
- full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
- to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
- other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
- **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**
Please use the following links for studying for this test:
- World Geography Games
- Test Your Geography Knowledge
- Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)
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