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Unit Four Pacing Guide

UNIT FOUR: Political Organization

RUB – Chs 7 & 8; FGG – Ch 12

*NOTE* Many topics/issues are covered in Feldman, Getis & Getis (FGG) that AREN’T in Rubenstein for this unit. This is the pdf posted on the blog!

*B DAY IS LISTED FIRST*

Monday/Tuesday, 12/2 & 12/3

Reading: (Rub pgs. 230-237 All of Chapter 7 Key Issue 2) (FGG pgs. 445-448 End at “Geographic Characteristics of a State)

1. EQ: What’s in a state? (Geographic Characteristics of a State)

a. INTRO: TedTALKS: Parag Khanna Maps the Future of Countries

b. Evolution of the modern state (Intro comments)

c. State vs. Nation vs. Nation-State (overhead)

d. Basic characteristics of a state (4 on board)

i. Case Study – Stateless nation: Kurdistan (website/map/video clip)

2. Vocab: state, nation, nation-state, self-determination, sovereignty, stateless nation, city-state, microstate, ministate, enclave/exclave)

Wednesday/Thursday, 12/4 & 12/5

Reading: (FGG pg. 454 “Boundaries: The Limits of the State” to pg. 458 Stop at “State Cohesiveness”) (RUB-pg. 268 “Types of Boundaries” to pg. 272 Stop at “Boundaries Inside States”) READING QUIZ!

1. EQ: How do international boundaries come to exist? Why do they cause problems?

a. OPENER: Political Cartoons

b. Class Questions: Natural boundaries

c. Graphic Organizer: Students create showing relationships of boundary terms WITH EXAMPLES

d. Case Studies: Conference of Berlin & British Partition of South Asia (VIDEO)

e. Discussion: Boundary disputes? U.S./Mexico

Friday/Monday, 12/6 & 12/9

Reading: (Rub pgs. 254-264) READING QUIZ!

1. Centripetal/Centrifugal Forces

a. NOTES: Centripetal/Centrifugal examples

b. India: Primary Source Activity

c. Vocab: centripetal/ centrifugal

Tuesday/Wednesday, 12/10 & 12/11

Reading: (Rub pg. 264 “Shapes of States – pg. 268 Stop at Types of Boundaries) (FGG pgs. 448 “Geographic Characteristics of States to pg. 454 Stop at “Boundaries: The Limits of the State”) READING QUIZ!

1. Korea: Reunification and centripetal forces @ work

i. Clips on Inside North Korea

2. Size, shape, location – Shape Graphic organizer

Vocab: enclave/exclave, compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated, landlocked, antecedent, subsequent, superimposed, relic, delimitation, demarcation, natural/physical, ethnographic/cultural, geometric, buffer state, frontier, Antarctica, irredentism

1. EQ: How can the internal organization of a state lead to cohesion or division?

a. NOTES: Government structure & locating a capital

2. Vocab Work (time remaining)

3. Vocab: reunification

Thursday/Friday, 12/12 & 12/13 (pgs. 273-274 “Electoral Geography”, 280-286 “Key Issue 4”) READING QUIZ

1. EQ: How can the internal organization of a state lead to cohesion or division?

b. NOTES: Government structure & locating a capital

2. Vocab: federal, confederation, unitary, capital, core/periphery, forward capital,

exclusive economic zones, gerrymander, electoral regions, reapportionment

Monday, 12/16/19 LEADERSHIP UNIT TEST – ALL SECTIONS

***B DAY LISTED FIRST BELOW***

Tuesday/Wednesday, 12/17 & 12/18

1. Devolution

-Lecture/notes

-Children of Beslan: Video/reflective writing

-500 Questions review activity (Topics we’ve covered – right/wrong?; Issues still

to come/Seemingly most important topics

Thursday, 12/19/198 – LEADERSHIP FINAL EXAM – ALL SECTIONS

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