Daily Calendar for 
Geography 10 sec.01 M-Th at 12:30
Fall 99 - Forsberg

 Week One
9/21-9/24

 Week Two
9/27-10/1

  Week Three
10/4-10/8

  Week Four
10/11-10/15 

Week Five
10/18-10/22

  Week Six
10/25-10/29

Week Seven
11/1-11/5

Week Eight
11/8-11/11

Week Nine
11/15-11/19

Week Ten
11/22-11/24

Week Eleven 11/29-12/3

  Final Exams

This Calendar is Subject to Change
 (Last updated December 7, 1999)
Attend class and check this Calendar and the Schedule of Assigned Readings to keep up to date.
 Readings

 Monday

 Tuesday

 Wednesday

 Thursday

Week One
9/21-9/24


BGL:Ch.1

G99/00: 1 & 19

"Overviews" pp. pp. 8, 48, 88, 138, 174

Flex Day

Introduction to class

Assignment A: Elective Assignment
due December 1

Lecture on Regions

Atlas of Cyberspaces 1, 2, 3

 The textbook was delayed, so quiz one is scheduled for next week as a practice quiz.

Week Two 9/27-10/1 


G99/00: 2, 15

BGL: 2, & pp. 31-55

Quiz 1
Continents and Oceans

Introduction to Maps

.

 

Assignment B: Cartographic Communication

 Quiz 2:
Continents and Waterways

.

 Week Three 10/4-10/8


G99/00: 6 & 10

BGL: your region

Quiz 3: Projections, World regions

.


Assignment C: Make a Map
due the Wednesday before you present.

Meet in regional groups


Video:
The Apocalypse and Al Gore
(Global Warming)

Systems Theory


Meet in regional groups
Initial Presentation Proposal Due

Week Four 10/11-10/15 


G99/00: 8, 24, 28

BGL: 4

 

Quiz 4: Cities and Megalopoli of the U.S.

Assignment D:
American Cities

.

Library visit in regional groups

Initial citations for presentations due

Documenting Electronic Sources

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

Using APA Format

 Week Five 10/18-10/22 


G99/00: 9, 36

BGL: 13

 

Quiz 5:

Latin American countries

Assignment B due date extended 

 

Assignment E:
Connections to the Rainforest.

Video: Chico Mendez
Rainforest Links

student presentation on the rainforest

Week Six 10/25-10/29


G99/00: 37 & 38

BGL: 5, 6

 Quiz 6
Countries of Europe & FSU (USSR)

Ethnologue Database

Assignment A: class notes due 

Assignment F:
The Search for the True Nation-State

Caucusus Ethnolinguistic Groups

student presentation:
Life in Paris

Paris Maps 1716-1887

Assignment E due

Midterm Review

Study Guide - sec 1

Week Seven 11/1-11/5


Read for Tuesday:
G99/00: 23 & 31

BGL: 8

 

MIDTERM

 

 

Assignment G: Geography Awareness

Quiz 7: Countries of East Asia


Assignment F due

student presentation on East Asia
 Readings

 Monday

 Tuesday

 Wednesday

 Thursday

 

Week Eight 11/8-11/11


G99/00: 32

BGL: 9 & 12

population simulation program:
IntlPop

Quiz 8: Countries of the Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia

Assignment H:
Online Geography Glossary

Guest Speaker:
Maha el Genaidi

The Islamic Network

student presentation on Iran

Assignment G due
Week Nine 11/15-11/19
 Geography Awareness Week
Handouts

.

 Quiz 9:
On Handouts

Assignment I: - Mapping Data with Online GIS

.

.

Week Ten 11/22-11/24


G99/00: 33

BGL: 11

Quiz 10: African countries South of the Sahara


Subsistence Farming versus Cash Crops

Lecture on African Colonialism

Assignment J:
Mapping Core and Periphery

 

student presentation on Madagascar
Assignments H & I due

Thanksgiving Holiday
11/25-26

 Week Eleven 11/29-12/3 


G99/00: 16

BGL: 7 & 10

 Quiz 11: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia.

Assignment A: class notes due 

 

 

Assignment J due

Division of Labor

 

student presentation on the Great Barrier Reef
Assignment A electives due

Assignment D due date extended

No assignments accepted after today.

The WTO and Free Trade
1, 2, 3,

Global Exchange

Finals


 

Review for the Final Exam

Study Guide Sec 1

Exams

 Sec.2 @ 1:30 pm

Final Exam Time:
1:45-3:45 pm
December 8

Sec.1 @ 12:30

Final Exam Time:
11:30-1:30 pm
December 9

*Readings abbreviations:

BGL - Building Geographic Literacy
G99/00 - Geography 99/00
Check the Schedule of Assigned Readings for more details.