Getting Started

1. Take out your assignment book and copy the following homework:
Due Wednesday, October 7
Read pp 18-22 in Part A.
On p 22 (textbook) answer q 4 on looseleaf.
2. Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in your Table of
Contents with the following information:
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Homework 4 & 5

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Place

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Look Back to Yesterday

Homework
Model Homework
Homework 4 - p 12
Homework 5 - p 13

Students will be able to explain

the geographic theme of place.

Vocabulary

climate - the type of weather conditions a place

usually has

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I Know a Place...
Work in pairs.
Choose a place. The place may be categorized as
physical geography or cultural geography.
Use the gazetteer, glossary and/or index, in the
textbook, to describe the geography.
Describe the place in as many ways as you can. Include
location, climate, the way it looks, who or what lives
there, what activities go on there, and anything else you
can think of.

I Know a Place...
Mississippi River
Appalachian Mountains
Great Lakes
Erie Canal
Rocky Mountains

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