September 11

IB 30/35

You wrote a Paper 1 on the Mexican-American War and manifest destiny in today's class which took most of the class.

IB 20

We looked at OPVL at the beginning of class today. We then started looking at material from Unit 2-The Development of Western European Society, more specifically a PowerPoint presentation on "The Age of Enlightenment". This presentation is already on the wiki under Unit 2 materials. We'll continue with it tomorrow, and start viewing a film called "Age of Light".

Social 10-1

You have a world geography test on Friday, September 14th. I gave you some more time to work on your first writing assignment: the Global Connections Essay. In this informative essay, you are to answer/address the following essay question:

• What are my effects on the world?
• You are really trying to personalize your essay by indicating what are some social, economic, political and environmental effects that you have on the world.
• What impact is globalization having on you, and what impact do have on globalization (in other words, how do you contribute to globalization)?

The Global Connections Essay is due Thursday. I also gave you your Unit 1 Worksheet today. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1 World Geography Test Study Guide:

This test will take place on Friday, September 14th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Please use the following links for studying for this test:
World Geography Games
Test Your Geography Knowledge
Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)