1. Cornell Notetaking!!
Woohoo!! Yay!! Okay, not so much. But it will help you make better grades and allow you to not write as much. This is a good thing 
Cornell Notes help you PICK OUT ONLY IMPORTANT INFO and SUMMARIZE (pick out the main idea)
(pass out notes) I’m going to teach how to take notes as we learn about regions.

2. NOTES Right hand 2/3 of paper Bullets or outline form
Do not write every word!
Learn to pick out what’s important…we will do this together today

3. Connections left hand 1/3 of paper
Vocabulary, questions, reactions, connections, significance, inference (What conclusions can I draw??? Of what does this remind me?)

4. Summary
Short and sweet, like a text message !!! How would you write the information in these notes to send in a text???

5. Different Types of Regions Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
This is your title of your notes!!!
Different Types of Regions Formal, Functional, and Perceptual

6. I. Formal Region --Areas in which certain characteristics are found
throughout the area
--EXAMPLES: Countries, states, cities (Omaha)
II. Functional Region --A central place and the
surrounding places affected by it
--EXAMPLE: The Omaha metro
region (includes Bellevue,
Papillion, Elkhorn, etc.)
III. Perceptual Region --Area defined by people’s feelings and attitudes
--EXAMPLE: “The Midwest”
The underlined words are the three main sections of your notes.

7. FORMAL REGIONS Formal Regions = Areas in which certain characteristics
are found throughout the area
Formal Regions such as
countries, states, and
cities all share the same
laws, government, etc.
•Would you know if you
stepped in or out of Odenville,AL?

8. FUNCTIONAL REGIONS Functional Regions = A central
place and the surrounding
places affected by it…. Birmingam metro area
•The City of Birmingham is well defined,
but other places
are affected by Bham, too.
Examples: Pizza delivery, cell phone coverage areas, newspaper routes, Transportation Routes
Can you name some of
the places in the
“Birmingham metro region”?

10. PERCEPTUAL REGIONS • Perceptual Region = Area
defined by people’s feelings
and attitudes
• Where is “The Midwest”?
• Is Nebraska
in the
Midwest?
• Is TEXAS in
the Midwest?
• Depends on
each person’s
feelings or
attitudes.
PERCEPTUAL REGIONS

11. “What do people perceive when they think of Alabama? Why?”

13. Regional Change Can regions change? How?
Urban Growth & Land Use—Atlanta moving into the suburbs
Natural Disasters—people move away

14. Let’s Test Ourselves Over Regions:
When the region on the left pops up, you decide if it is
Formal, Functional, or Perceptual
formal = measurable data/borders
functional=business connections
perceptual=stereotype/feelings
State of Alabama
• Formal
• Amazon River
• Functional
• The Bible Belt
• Perceptual
• The Sun Belt
• St. Clair County
• Country of Brazil
• Newspaper routes

15. ACTIVITY!! ACTIVITY!! Partner Interview and Quickwrite
1. Pick a partner. Each of you write the following on a piece of paper: What is a stereotype? GUESS what your partners favorite type of music is and write it down.
2. Ask your partner what is REALLY their favorite type of music. Did you stereotype them?  How did you perceive them?
3. Pick a city in the world.  What is stereotypical about that city?  What do people "perceive" about it? Discuss it and write your answers.
4. Try New York City.  What do you perceive about it?
TURN THIS IN AS YOUR TICKET OUT THE DOOR!