Colonization reading in the textbook

Colonization: For each of these pages/chunks, START where you left off with the Indigenous people and end at the bottom of the last page listed unless otherwise noted. 

Read pictures/captions/maps/etc.

Read: ­241-242, 303-306, 334- 336 (You may stop reading at “Independence” on page 336)

For the Latin America Early Civilizations booklet

·    Put a red box around Inca Fact 1 and then RE-Read it.  This is important to Secret of the Andes.

·    Highlight your favorite fact for each of the three cultures.  That means a total of 3.

·    Write two questions you have close to the fact or picture that inspired the questions.  What are still wondering about these people?

·    On the bottom of the front page, make a prediction or a connection about something you read in this booklet. What is something you anticipate learning or seeing based on this.  OR What is something from this reading that reminds you of something else you have seen, learned, read or watched?

If you didn't do the map on the front, use page 362 in the textbook to do it. :)

Latin America Map Quiz 11/1/17

Bodies of Water that may be on the quiz: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Amazon River, Rio Grande River.

Landforms that may be on the quiz: Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Occidental and/or Oriental, Tierra Del Fuego archipelago. Isthmus of Panama.

ALL Latin American COUNTRIES may be on the quiz.

Only the following CAPITALS may be on the quiz: Bogata, Buenos Aries, Brasilia, Caracas, Havana, Lima, Panama City, Mexico City, Quito, Santiago.


I highly recommend you start singing this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAoj0IuVoes

2nd Nine Weeks Big Dates

This is an ongoing list.  Look for periodic additions and updates. :)

10/20 - North America Cultural Unit and Cultural Values Quiz
11/1 - South America Map Quiz
11/13-16 Brazilian Rain Forest Conference
11/17 - Latin America Unit Test

North American Cultural Region Quiz

The quiz will be a 10 question, multiple choice and short answer over the U.S. and Canada as a cultural region.

Please Study:

• Pages 14-16 in your ISN.

• Pages 130-137 and 170-175 in the SS textbook.

There will be two questions about dominant cultural values.  You can't really "study" anything for these two questions, but you can review the DAVs on page 13 in the ISN for examples of cultural values.  These questions will require analysis and inference based on all the reading and viewing and discussion we have done in class this week.


Below is what you should have on page 14 in your ISN:

North American Cultural Region -Physical

Having read pages 130-137 and 170-175 in the textbook about the geography of North American, answer the following questions.

1. How has all the access to waterways helped North American economically?________

_______________________________________________________________________

2. What landform does the Continental Divide run through? ______________________ 

What does it delineate?____________________________________________________

3. What sort of landscape do we live on here in Houston? _________________________

4. Why do the Appalachian Mountains have rounded tops?________________________

5. The Rocky Mountains cross political borders.  Explain. __________________________

________________________________________________________________________

6. The four largest cities in the US (who happen to have the four teams currently competing for the World Series) are (in order, starting with the largest): New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston.  While these cities are far apart, they all owe their success in large part to their location.  Explain why that might be.___________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

7. State is to U.S.A. as __________________ is to Canada.

8.  Where do MOST Canadians live? __________________________________________

9.  Based on what you’ve read and know about Canada, why do you the think the US/Canadian border isn’t “defended”. ________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

What famous lakes do the US and Canada share?________________________________

10. Which three oceans border Canada?_______________________________________ 

MAPS & GLOBES AND CULTURE TEST OVERVIEW

• The test will be on Friday, October 13.  
• You should do well, but on the off chance you earn less than a 70, please come Monday ready to do a retake.  
• Since we didn’t have time to do the extra credit activity we would normally do with this unit, I am putting bonus point questions on the test.
• In addition to what is listed below, re-reading the textbook pages listed for this unit in a previous post may be helpful when doing analysis and bonus questions.

Things to Study for Maps & Globes:

• -      Be able to find and name the continents, oceans and Mediterranean Sea on a map of the world (SS textbook).
• -      Be able to identify landforms by picture or definition; be able to compare and contrast landforms (ISN pages 4-7).
• -      Be able to answer questions about any of the terms and skills on the Maps and Globes Review and Quiz including: time zones, types of maps, latitude, longitude, TODALSIGS (ISN 4-5, 8, 11-2; practice sheets; ISN inside back cover)

Things to Study for Culture:

• -      Be able to name and explain each element of P.E.R.S.I.A. (ISN inside front cover; practice sheet)
• -    Be familiar with the cultural vocabulary (ISN page 2) and which element(s) of P.E.R.S.I.A. it fits into (practice sheet).
• -      Be able to identify the type of government given a description of who has the power (ISN pages 9-10; practice sheet).

DAVs

Dominant American Values Homework

Cultural values are the behaviors and standards a society expects of its members.  The following is a list of some of the Dominant American Values – beliefs that are widely admired and held in modern American society.  While there will always be exceptions, these are valued by the majority Americans.

1. Achievement and Success – In our competitive society, stress is placed on personal achievement. This is measured in accomplishments, such as economic ones.  Success lays emphasis on rewards.  Success is involved with activity; failure is often assigned to character defects.  Success is often equated with bigness and newness.

2.  Activity and Work – Americans also value busy-ness, speed, bustle, action.  The frontier idea of work for survival is still with us, as is the Puritan ethic of work before play.  Work becomes an end in itself.  A person’s worth is measured by his performance.

3.  Moral Orientation – Americans think in terms of good and bad, right and wrong – not just in practical terms. Early Puritan ideals of working hard, leading and orderly life, having a reputation for integrity and fair dealing, avoiding reckless display, and carrying out one’s purposes still holds weight.

4. Humanitarianism – Much emphasis is placed on disinterested concern, helpfulness, personal kindness, aid and comfort, spontaneous aid in mass disasters, as well as impersonal philanthropy. 

5. Efficiency and Practicality – Germans refer to our “Fordismus” or belief in standardization, mass production, and stream lined industrialism.  We like innovation, modernity, expediency, getting things done.  We value technique and discipline in science. We enjoy it when things work out well.

6. Progress – Americans look forward more than backwards.  We resent the old-fashioned, the outmoded. We seek the best yet through change. Progress is often identified with the Darwinian idea of survival of the fittest and with the free private enterprise system.

7. Material Comfort – Americans enjoy passive gratification – drink this, chew that, take a vacation.  We prefer happy endings in movies.  We enjoy consumption, and heroes before 1920 were more from social, commercial, and cultural worlds of production; but after 1920 the heroes came more from the leisure-time activities of sports and entertainment. Yet, Americans also enjoy culture and “work” at do-it-yourself hobbies and vacations.

8. Equality – Our history has stressed the quality of opportunity, especially economic opportunity.  We feel guilt, shame, or ego deflation when in-equalitarianism appears.  While discrimination exists, there is much lip service to formal rights, legal rights. Equality is not a pure concept, but largely two-sided: social rights and equality of opportunity.

9. Freedom – American also seek freedom from some restraint, having confidence in the individual. Freedom enters into free enterprise, progress, individual choice and equality.  It has not meant the absence of social control.

10.  External Conformity – Americans also believe in adherence to group patterns, especially for success. Economic, political, and social dependence and interdependence call for some conformity.  The thinking is: if all men are equal, each has a right to judge the other and regulate conduct to accepted standards.

11. Individual Personality – We protect our individualism by laws and by the beliefs in one’s own worth.

12. Science – Americans have faith in science and its tools. Science is rational, functional, and active. Science is morally neutral. It adds to our material comfort and progress.

13. Nationalism-Patriotism – Americans feel some sense of loyalty to their country, its national symbols and its history.  Foreigners observe how we value our flag and our national anthem; how we believe that America is the greatest country in the world.

14. Democracy – Americans have grown to accept majority rule, representative institutions, and to reject monarchies and aristocracies.  We accept law, equality and freedom (as long as we have a say in the laws).

Homework: Select ONE of the following activities to do and bring to class on ____________:

a. Clip ads from newspapers and magazines (print or online) that represent at least 5 of the D.A.V.s – label with values they represent and explain (in detail) how they represent those values. These must be current advertisements.

b. Watch a domestically produced (made in the USA) children’s cartoon.  Tell the name of the show, the time it aired and the channel it was on or when it was produced and how you accessed it.  Write a one page analysis of the D.A.V.s being transmitted or reinforced in that show (You must identify and discuss at least 5 D.A.V.s.)

c. Watch one local news program. Keep track of how long each story is and what it was about.  Write a one page analysis on how the D.A.V.s are reflected in the program i.e. the order of presentation, the time given to each story, the use of graphics, the use of on-the-spot reporting.  Be sure to tell the time it aired and the channel it was on.  (You must identify and discuss at least 3 D.A.V.s.)

d. Some cultural observers claim that Walt Disney has created our American Dream, our mythology.  Watch any Disney movie or show and write a one page analysis of the D.A.V.s being transmitted or reinforced in that show.  Be sure to tell the name of the movie/show and the year it was produced. (You must identify and discuss at least 5 D.A.V.s.)

e. The faces of heroes and heroines are often found on the covers of popular national magazines.  Read any cover story from a national magazine (like Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek) and analyze (at least one page) the hero in terms of the D.A.V.s.  Which values do they seem to have/represent?  How do you know?  Be sure to give the: title of the magazine and article, author or the article, and publication date. (You must identify and discuss at least 4 D.A.V.s.)