1. Starting Assignment
What caused gentrifi-cation in New Orleans? What effects could it have?

2. Outcomes
Explain the factors that initiate and drive urbanization and suburbanization.
Evaluate problems and solutions associated with growth and decline within urban areas.

3. Gentrification Pro Con
You will either be on the side of pro or con gentrification. Read your position and fill in your appropriate side of the chart.
You and a small group will create a presentation illustrating your position in order to teach the other side.
At the end of both presentations, a mini-debate will take place.
At the end of the debate, you will answer the thought question at the bottom of the chart.

4. Gentrification in New Orleans

5. Closure
What’s the author’s message in this political cartoon?

6. Cadastral systems
the method of land survey through which land ownership and property lines are defined.
Township and Range System (rectangular survey system): Based on a grid system that creates 1-square-mile sections
Metes and Bounds Survey: Uses natural features to demarcate irregular parcels of land
Long-lot Survey System: Divides land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals

14. Do you agree with this woman’s sentiment?
Closure
Do you agree with this woman’s sentiment?