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    GEOGRAPHY 12

    September 4-6

    Distribute text books Review Course Outline, Expectations, Course Organization Assessment: Core Competencies vs Curricular Competencies Homework vs Assignments/Formal Assessments Utilizing MOODLE, Teacher BLOG, TEAMS Set up GEO12 Digital Portfolio/Blog; post link on TEAMS *Ongoing until END of SEMESTER 1: (own initiative for blog entries) Observations of the World Create a section in your […]

    PEPS12

    Feb 8: Meeting 5 PHILOSOPHES Hobbes Locke Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau Choose one key idea/quote and comment in a blog post #2 your thoughts on that idea/quote. Post/share by Feb 9 Troubleshooting/Work on: Digital Portfolio/Blog Assignment 1 – Personal Realities Infographic CIVIL WAR Viewing: MCU Captain America – Civil War CIVIL WAR – BLOG POST […]

    HISTORY 12

    May 13

    Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

    Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change” USA Russia Video: “Russian Revolution” Video: “Life Under Stalin” Some key terms (part 1): Tsar Bloody Sunday October Manifesto/Fundamental Laws “Dark Forces” Potemkin Mutiny Duma Social Democratic Party/Bolsheviks/Mensheviks Vladimir Lenin Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – Communist Manifesto bourgeoisie/proletariat Soviet Okhrana Cossacks Russo-Japanese […]

    Q1 Schedule

    Images of Our Time

    From Twitter:

    “I don’t want to be anywhere near you!” @oscarthegrouch is discovering the perks of social distancing. “This social distancing thing is kind of a grouch's dream.” #CNNSesameStreet https://t.co/XTrBRtkCGu pic.twitter.com/3Z9iMhNQQi

    — CNN (@CNN) April 25, 2020

    UPDATE: IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO STUDENTS/PARENTS

    APRIL 8 – MESSAGE to STUDENTS/PARENTS

    CARTOGRAPHY and Video Games

    https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/inside-intricate-world-video-game-cartography

    Inspiration for IDS ideas

    A teenager won a $25,000 award for inventing a solution to eliminate blind spots for cars https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/us/teenager-invention-blind-spot-trnd/index.html

    FEDERAL ELECTION – to read

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-trudeau-minority-government-2019-election-1.5324496?cmp=rss

    https://vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/what-happens-if-nobody-wins-a-majority-on-monday/wcm/3966166d-2a20-404b-9581-825b06319f9e

     

    GEOGRAPHY 12

    COURSE OUTLINE + DIGITAL PORTFOLIO DISTRIBUTE TEXTBOOKS VSB MOODLE ACCOUNTS FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

    Homework/Readings due Friday, September 13:

    Read Chapter 1 PLANET EARTH WORD CLOUD: GEOGRAPHY

    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What is meant by “geography?”

    2. What is the difference between physical and human geography?

    3. Why might it be important to study geography?

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