Review Days

Q: Name two things the Chinese are responsible for inventing.

• Assemble quizzes
• South Asia
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica
• Begin review assignment

Review of Quiz/Quiz Bowl

Q: Is the Earth experiencing global warming or not?  Justify your response.

• Review of quiz
• Discuss Final (3.5 class periods to prepare)
• Quiz Bowl!

Quiz Make-up

Q: What was the most difficult concept to understand in this class?

• Good things!
• Students needing to make up tests or other assignments
• Film: Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Bullying and School Violence

ALL: Bring your textbook each day as we prepare for our final.

Quiz Today!

Q: From memory, name 3 countries in Southeast Asia and 3 countries in Oceania.

• Humor!
• Begin quiz over Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica

Quiz Prep

Q: What is the difference between "adapting" to the environment and "modifying" it?

• Australian musical instruments
• Notes for Quiz (Southeast Asia, Oceania, Antarctica)
• Sample quiz questions...

Remember, you can use notes on the quiz...

Southeast Asia, Oceania, Australia & Antarctica

Q: How did the colonial powers positively influence this region?

• Review assignments
• Prezi presentation of Australia & New Zealand
• Photos of Antarctica

Southeast Asia and Oceania

Q: What are the two most populated cities in Australia?

• Yesterday's events in Moore, Oklahoma
• Weather maps
• Complete Chapter 31 Main Ideas (p. 724)

Southeast Asia & Oceania

Q: What religions have influenced Southeast Asia and Oceania?

• Good things!
• Business
• Illustration of ____?____
• Chap 31 discussion and end of chapter questions

Thinking Exercises

Q: “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”- Albert Einstein

• Humor!
• Student assignments
• Thinking exercises

Have a great weekend!!  Bring your books everyday!

Leadership Banquet Prep Day

(No journal entry for today.  Do something quietly while Mr. Williams and Academy members prepare for their Annual Banquet.  Thank you!)

Australia & Oceania

Q: What percentage of Australia are the aborigine people? (ans: 1%)

• Work on the following questions: p. 702, B section: Questions 11-20; Main Ideas: Questions 1-10.
• Turn these in at the end of class.

Southeast Asia (cont.)

Q: When you think of the Pacific Islands, what normally comes to mind?

• Southeast Asia Map Activity
• Instructions for tomorrow

Southeast Asia

Q: Why did we fight the Vietnam War?

• Good things!
• Business
• Discussion of Friday's atlas work
• Southeast Asia

STAAR Prep!

Q: What is missing: Region (formal, ____, perceptual); Location ( ___ and absolute); Human-environmental _____; Place (physical characteristics and ____ characteristics; and Movement (of people, goods, and ____)

• Good things!
• Review of East Asian Quiz
• Scan of South East Asia and Oceania

Crossword Day!

Q: Where is this place?

• Humor!
• Vocabulary Crosswords #1 and #2

Have a great weekend!

East Asia Quiz

Q: What is the gentle slope and steep slope?

• Quiz
• Vocabulary exercise

East Asia Quiz Prep (concl.)

Q: What continent(s) has the greatest area of quarternary economic activity?  What continent(s) has the greatest area of primary economic activity?

• Prepare for quiz (cont.)
• Vocabulary Flashcards A-M

Tomorrow: E. Asia Quiz!!  Friday, Vocabulary assignment!

East Asia Quiz Prep

Q: Look at page 664.  Find 37 degrees north lattitude; 141 degrees east longitude.  This is the location of Fukushima nulear disaster.  What was the expected earthquake magnitude?

• Review of test
• Vocabulary T-Z

Study your vocabulary!! Quiz on Thursday of East Asia.  Vocabulary assignment on Friday.

East Asia (cont.)

Q: "Why has it been difficult for visitors to get to know countries in East Asia?

• Good things!
• Flash Cards N-S
• Chap 28 Assessment, p. 658 (oral if possible; homework if not)

East Asia (cont.)

Q: What do you know about Japanese culture?

• Humor!
• Cultural diffusion in Japan
• Political and Economic systems in E. Asia

East Asia (cont.)

Q: When a major city runs out of room for more people, what adaptations does it make?

• Turn in assignment from yesterday
• Review South Asia quiz
• Modifying the environment of East Asia
• Flash cards N-S (if time)