CPWC Day 77 - Geography & Indigenous Populations

Objective: Label the physical and political features of Latin America.  Explore the culture and influence of indigenous populations in Latin America.

Task:  When you arrive to class, please pick up the packet from the front of the room.  Use the information on the charts and the maps to summarize the geography of the regions of Latin America.  I'll check your homework while you work on the summaries.  After a discussion, you'll label and color a map of the Caribbean island states.  Finally, we'll spend the last portion of class considering the cultures of the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas.

Homework:

• TODAY - Chapter 9, section 1 reading notes due
• Wednesday, January 7 - Chapter 9, section 2 reading notes due
• Thursday, January 8 - Chapter 9, section 3 reading notes due
• Friday, January 9 - Chapter 11, section 1 reading notes due
• Monday, January 12 - Latin America map quiz
• Tuesday, January 13 - Chapter 11, section 2 reading notes due
• Wednesday, January 14 - Reading quiz (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 11.2 - reading notes may be used)
• Thursday, January 15 - Cumulative map quiz
• Tuesday, January 20 - Pd. 3/4 Final Exams at 11:15 am (Study Guide distributed 1/5)
• Wednesday, January 21 - Pd. 6-9 Final Exams at 7:35 am (Study Guide distributed 1/5)
• Wednesday, January 21 at 3:00 - Extra Credit due (see below)

South America Map

Central America & Caribbean Map

CPWC Current Events - Extra Credit Opportunity (due by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, January 21)
Use one or more of the news sources below to find recent news articles relating to topics we've studied in quarter 2.  Create citations and annotations in NoodleTools.  The annotation MUST include a summary AND an explanation of how the article relates to our studies.  Share your work with the "CPWC Quarter 2 Extra Credit" dropbox.

• Al-Jazeera America
• BBC World Service
• Christian Science Monitor
• The Economist
• Euronews
• The Guardian
• National Geographic News
• New York Times
• Newseum
• NPR
• Reuters
• The Washington Post
• The Week
• The World

Each citation/annotation is worth up to 5 points and you may complete up to 3 per unit (East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia, Australia, & Oceania; Latin America).