CPWC Day 4 - Geography Skills & Basics of Culture

 Objective:   Establish strategies for taking successful reading notes.  Identify and label oceans, continents, and cultural regions on a world map.

Task:  When you arrive to class, please pick up the map skills packet on the podium and get out your chapter 1, section 2 reading notes.   Work on the packet while Mrs. Bonenberger and I check your homework.

After the homework check, we'll set up your notebooks with your dividers and the unit summaries.  At this point, you should have the following papers in your notebook:

• Regulations (before unit 1)
• Course Overview (before unit 1)
• Reading strategies (before unit 1)
• "Importance of Geography"
• "Dreaming Upside Down"
• Map skills packet
• Cultural regions map

Next, we'll begin our examination of culture with some guided notes.  Finally, we'll spend the last portion of class labeling major cultural regions on a world map.

Homework:  

• TODAY  - Book cover, binder and 8 dividers due in class
• TODAY - Geography chapter 1, section 2 notes due in class
• Monday, February 2 - Geography chapter 1 reading quiz (notes may be used)
• Wednesday, February 4 - Unit 1 Quiz
• Thursday, February 5 - Foundations Investigation due by 3:00
• Monday, February 9 - Unit 1 Test

Using SQ4R to take effective reading notes:


A short YouTube video on how to take better notes in class: