Two Koreas

Assignment website

Uses these sties to gather data:

Population research bureau

CIA World Factbook

Borders and International Organizations

Ch. 8- Political Geography

Lesson 1: Introduction to Political Geography
Shapes & Borders

Country Analysis: What shapes and borders does YOUR country have? What is their significance?
Article: Stories behind oddly shaped countries
In class assignment: ID country shapes/Borders

Lesson 2: Internal Political Boundaries
Gerrymandering Game
Article: CA Redistricting Politics

Lesson 3: Supranational Organizations
Article: Supranational Organizations- Should we have a global government?
REading: Heartland/Rimland Theory of Geography
Country Analysis: To which of the international organizations we covered in class does your country belong?

Extra Credit Opportunity:
in 2011, Frank Jacob wrote a series of ten or so articles that looked at some of the issues surrounding political borders and boundaries. Though a little detailed, they are a fairly entertaining read. For extra credit (20 pts) look over the articles and write up an analysis of the following question:

What is the overall impact of borders for both nations as a whole and the daily lives of individual people? What are your OWN thoughts about international and internal borders?

You must cite 1 relevant quote, image, or fact from each article (use parenthetical citations with the article title)
Extra Credit: Frank Jacob's Article series on Borders (Due. Feb 1st)

Class email information

mail.yahoo.com

username: ehshess1

Password: ehshistory

Links for Leaders

5 Internet Resources:

1 primary source
1 news article
1 reference article
1 academic website (usually ends in .edu) website
1 non-academic website (ends in .com or .org)

Copy and pasted onto a word document
- The title of the website, article, whatever
- The address for the website (from the address bar, even if it's super long)
- a short description of what the website is (reference, news, etc, what its about, where its from)
- the text from the web site you are interested in using

NO MORE THAN 1 PAGE PER SOURCE, 5 PAGES TOTAL

Put your name on it and hit print only when all 5 pages are done.


Useful links for specific leaders

Mao Zedong


Mao Zedong


Nelson Mandela


Napoleon Bonaparte


Emperor Meiji


Thomas Edison


Mohandas Gandhi


Mohandas Gandhi


Mikhail Gorbachev


Mikhail Gorbachev


Mustafa Ataturk


Mustafa Ataturk


Simon Bolivar


Fidel Castro


Fidel Castro



Useful General Links


Modern history internet sourcebook


Lots of Primary resources. Use the search box at the top. 


Google News

Obviously a link to a news website

BBC History

A Large History resource through the british broadcasting corporation

Wikipedia

Internet reference encyclopedia

Racial/Ethnic Survey

http://www.umich.edu/~lawrace/seg.htm

Religion

Ch. 6 Religion

Lessons:

Lesson 1: Universalizing and Ethnic Religions

Lecture

Country Data: Look up the major religions practiced in your country. Which are Ethnic? Which are universal?

Article: Revival of Ethnic Religion in China

Lesson 2: Diffusion of Religion & Traits of religious practice

Where did your country's religion most likely come from? Or, if ethnic, which other countries share this religion, if any?

Lesson 3: Religious spaces

Research one major religious space or site within your country (church/cathedral/pagoda/statue/location, etc)

Article: Modern Religious Spaces

Examine modern spaces for each religion and determine how well they conform to traditional models

Lesson 4: Religious Conflict

Article: Sunni  Shiite potential Conflict during Hajj

Lectures

Religious background

Religious Issues

Reading

Pg. 195-196 : What makes Jews an exception to the rules regarding diffusion of ethnic religion?

Pg. 200-201: Compare and Contrast each religious calendar described. What role does it play for each religion?

Ch. 5 Language

Ch. 5- Language

Bold items need to be looked up for your country 

Lesson 1: Intro to Language and English Dialects

What is the language of your chosen country? Is it an “official language”, are there more than one “official” languages? Are there any regional dialects?

use the everyculture.com

Dialect in politics

Lesson 2: World Languages

What are the other languages around your country? Based on your classwork, how are these languages related to one another? Or, if they're not, where did they come from?

article: Tamil language struggling

Pgs. 161-67

Using the in-class organizer, break down the various world regional language families

Lesson 3: World language issues

Lecture
Immigrant Parents needs kids to read internet for them

Lesson 4: “Standard” English

Article on Language "Gatekeepers"

Assigned readings 

Include these answers with your articles when turning them in.

•       174: English on the internet.

•       Why is English the dominant language on the internet? Do you predict that this will change? Why or why not?

•       176-177: The future of Fr and Sp in America:

•       How does the reaction to non-english languages differ between the USA and Quebec? What might account for this difference?

 151: Differences between British and American English

•       Explain how this divergence occurred, especially the role played by webster