Course Description: The first half of this course will help serve to review

and expand upon student’s knowledge of geographical terms, physical maps,

continents, countries, and oceans. We will explore current events across the
globe and how they affect the students’ daily lives. The second semester will
be focused upon world economies and how they are different and similar to
our own. We will explore the roots of capitalism, and how it has evolved over
time.

Daily Expectations:

- Daily journal assignments

- Daily geography assignments

- Participation in class assignments, projects, and debates

- Bi-Weekly quizzes, tests, and final.

Course Goals:
Upon completion of this course:

• Understand major concepts in human geography including place, space,

scale, and landscape.
• Understand the geography of population, the environment, culture, identity,
the economy, politics, agriculture, and of cities.
• Understand that human landscapes are not only a product of nature, but are
constructed by man to support and sustain a desirable outcome.
• Be able to interpret everyday landscapes and understand some of the spatial
processes that help to structure them.
• Be able to develop a keen sense of world events and current issues and why
they are important in their own lives, and how they are interrelated with
international economy and geography.
• Develop an understanding of how their lives are interrelated with the lives of
people in other places.
• Understand the nature and history of capitalism, and where it is going in the
future.
• Understand the difference between capitalism, and other forms of distribution
of wealth.

Grading Policy:
90-100%=A

80-89% = B

70-79% = C

60-69% = D

0-59%= F

Grading Assessment

Participation and attendance: 15%

Journals: 10%

Quizzes: 10%
Mid-term: 15%

Final: 20%

Activities/ assignments: 30%

Daily Schedule Geography/ Econ 4A

Day & Week Tuesday Thursday

1) 9/1- 9/3 Introduction to class, class rules, Choose a survivor
team building activities. game. Sketch out our
neighborhood. The
World as I see it. Which
End is Up? World Map.
2) 9/8-9/10 Questions of neighborhood. US Geographical
Map. Geographical landmarks. landmarks. Plotting
points of latitude and
longitude.
3) 9/15-9/17 Journal. Guidelines for longitude. Journal Question.
Longitude and distance. Mapping a Location and Time on a
Hurricane. Mercator Map.

Five themes of
Geography.
4) 9/22-9/24 Journal Question Journal Q. Changes
within the Earth
Five themes of geography
(Prentice, p.45-51).
continued.
5) 9/29-10/1 Journal Q. Changes on the Earth’s Quiz. Journal Question.
Surface (Prentice, p 52-57). Review Globalization and
 for Quiz Diversity, Pages 3- 30.
6) 10/6-10/8 Journal Question. Globalization and Journal Question.
Diversity, pages 3-30. Climates and
Ecosystems. Prevailing
Winds, Sun and its
seasons, and Ocean
Currents, The Water
Cycle (Prentice, pages
62-69).
7) 10/13- Journal Question. World Climate Journal Question. The
10/16 Regions (Prentice, 70-71). Changing Global
Environment (p. 32-43).

8) 10/20- Journal Question. Ecosystems (p Journal Q. Political and

10/22 76-84 Prentice). Economic Systems (100-
105, Prentice).
9) 10/27- No class, half day Review for mid- term.
10/29
10)11/3-11/5 Mid- term Journal Q. Resources
and Land Uses (108-
111, Prentice).