1. AGENDA Political Cartoon Analysis & your notebook will be stamped for page 74 Read to Discover and Key Vocabulary Terms. Chapter 4, Reading Questions, answer in complete sentences. Due in 20 minutes. Cornell Notes on “Today’s World Culture Regions.” Vocabulary Practice. Intro to your first Culture Region and Continent we’ll study. Focus on Geographic Themes Questions, pages 70 & 75, and Ques. #3 page 77. Write ques. & answer. Answers must be in complete sentences. Homework; Have Chapter 4 read, and vocabulary should be completed for Tomorrow’s quiz. Current Event News Article

2. OBJECTIVES You Shall All; Carefully read the textbook and answer all of the Chapter 4, reading questions correctly. Add notes to your Notebook which describe the characteristics Geographers use to divide the world into culture regions. Practice your vocabulary knowledge for tomorrow’s quiz.

3. POLITICAL CARTOON, BY DAVID FITZSIMMONS

4. AGENDA, 9/10/10 1. Thanks to everyone who attended College Night. 2. Political Cartoon Analysis, last one of the week. 3. Anyone with Read to Discover & Key Vocabulary Terms from page 74 in the notebook will get a stamp. 4. Periods 4 and 7, last time to turn in page 80, ques. 1-9 for partial credit. 5. Take a few minutes to prepare for the test/quiz. After the quiz, complete the assignments that I post.

5. POLITICAL CARTOON BY JOE HELLER

6. WORLD CULTURE REGIONS

7. WORLD CULTURE REGIONS TODAY Main IdeaImportant Information Culture RegionsGeographers divide the world into culture regions. They do not have clear boundaries. characteristics geographers use to separate the world’s culture regions. Governments are a place’s political system. Some regions have democracies. Others have a monarch and democracy. Some have one all powerful leader called a dictator.

8. WORLD CULTURE REGIONS TODAY Main IdeaImportant Information Characteristics geographers use to separate the world’s culture regions Social Groups, how do different groups of people coexist and how does their society meet the needs of the people. Economic system, the way a country’s people produce, get and use goods (products) and services. Language and Religion, language families help people share history and culture. Religion the way people worship also differs from region to region.

9. PRACTICE ASSIGNMENTS FOR YOUR TEST/QUIZ Focus on Geographic Themes Questions pages 75 Ques. #3 page 77. Write ques. & answer. Answers must be in complete sentences. Page 81, locating places. Turn it in on a separate paper. Add Geographic Setting/Themes and Read to Discover from pages 222 and 223 into your Notebook.

10. VOCABULARY PRACTICE Definition Vocabulary word 1. Government 2. Culture Regions 3. Subsistence Farming 1. A group or nation’s political system. 2. Division of the Earth based on government, social groups, economic systems, language, or religion 3. Traditional agriculture whose goal is to produce just enough to eat for a family or a village to survive.

11. VOCABULARY PRACTICE Definition Vocabulary word 4. Culture 5. Population density 6. Absolute location 4. Way of life of a group of people who share traditions, interests, beliefs and ways of making a living. 5. Average number of people in the square mile or square kilometer. 6. the position of a place on the earth’s surface.