Week 4
Monday Block Day
Daily Entry #10
Objectives What type of farming is done in Africa? What type of resources do they have?
Vocabulary
Work review 529
Film:African farming
Work Read 537-542 #1,3,4 538#1,2
Accelerated: projects
Wednesday PLC-Start at 8:45 1-7
Daily Entry #11
Objectives: Can you define, explain, give examples for the 4 vocab words?
Vocabulary Day 2
Work review
Accelerated: projects
Friday Block Day
Daily Entry #11
Objectives: What is famine/malnutrition? What are some of its causes? Other problems facing region? Causes?
Quiz 3 Vocab and map
Read 543-547 #1, 4 and 1,2 on 544 and 545 Skills for life
Study for test next week
Accelerated: projects
Week 3
Monday
Daily Entry #7Objective: Where did mankind begin? What was Africa’s early history like? Who colonized the continent?
Vocabulary
Early history of Africa beginning of mankind
Read parts of 519-524 together do map studies together
Work review on problems
Web sites showing standard of living in SSA
Work: Read 519-524 #1,5 Map study 521 1,2; and 522 1 and 524 #2
Accelerated: projects
Wednesday
Objectives: What problems do they face? Why are there so many conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Vocabulary
Work review
Thursday
Daily Entry #9Objective: What types of religion are common in Africa? What is meant by mass culture?
Film: Africa farming
Quiz 2
Work: Read 525-529 #1,3
Accelerated: Projects
Week 2 Four Day Week
Tuesday
Daily Entry #4Objectives What are the dominant climate and vegetation zones in Africa? Can you describe what they are like?
Class Work Look at climate and vegetation maps together (506,507) Discuss and answer #1,2 and 1,2
Film: Serengeti
Grade web sites (click here for instructions)
Work: Work: Map due next class
Quiz on map
Read 505-509 Explain what each of the following climates are like and what type of vegetation each has: desert, tropical rain forest, tropical savanna.
Draw what the vegetation is like for tropical rain forest, tropical savanna, and desert, steppeAccelerated: work on projects
Thursday
Daily Entry #5Objectives: Where do people live in Africa? How does climate and vegetation affect pop. patterns?
Go over work on climate and veg
Quiz #1 map and vocab
Read parts of 515 to 518 together.
Population Patterns: Look at page 488 Why do they live where they live?
Work time
Work: Use 515-518 and what we discussed in class to describe the following: what problems does AFrica face? Explain why they are problems.
Week 1 Four Day Week
Tuesday 1-7
Daily Entry #1 GoalsObjectives: Goals for Semester 2
How was the break?
Review rules: notebooks, materials, behavior,
Introduce Sub-Saharan Africa: why is it a separate cultural region from the North?
Slideshow: Sub-Saharan Africa
Wednesday 1-7 Late start 8:45
Daily Entry #2
Objective: What landforms dominate Africa? What types of natural resources does Africa have?
Preview Unit Pgs 480-494
Work: Read 499-504 #1,3,4 and FGT on 501 #1 Label maps
Handout map due in one week, then quizzes start
Thursday-Friday Block Days (1,3,5 then 2,4,6)
Daily Entry #3
Objectives: What is 4 square vocabulary? Why are we doing it? Do you understand what is expected of you?
First vocabulary terms
Lecture: PPT on Physical Africa
Work review
Go over maps. Know location of countries by Wednesday first quiz
Film on African Geography
Work: maps