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Chapter 15: Cultural Geography of Russia Chapter Planning Guide Key to Ability Levels Key to Teaching Resources BL Below Level AL Above Level Print Material Transparency OL On Level ELL English CD-ROM or DVD Language Learners Levels Chapter Section Section Chapter BL OL AL ELL Resources Opener 1 2 Assess FOCUS BL Daily Focus Skills Transparencies 15-1 15-2 TEACH BL ELL Guided Reading Activity, URB* p. 31 p. 32 BL ELL Vocabulary Activity, URB* p. 24 BL OL AL ELL Reinforcing Skills Activity, URB p. 27 OL Enrichment Activity, URB p. 29 pp. 106– pp. 109– BL ELL Reading Essentials and Note-Taking Guide* 108 111 pp. 18, OL Foods Around the World 20 BL OL AL ELL National Geographic World Atlas* ✓✓✓ BL OL AL ELL Map Overlay Transparencies, Strategies, and Activities 5-1 5-4 BL OL AL ELL World Cultures Transparencies, Strategies, and Activities 7, 8 World Art and Architecture Transparencies, Strategies, and BL OL AL ELL 53, 56 Activities BL OL AL ELL Location Activity, URB p. 1 OL AL Real-Life Applications & Problem Solving Activity, URB p. 3 OL AL World Literature Contemporary Selection, URB p. 11 GIS Simulations, Strategies, and Activities p. 18 BL OL AL ELL National Geographic World Desk Maps ✓ ✓✓✓ BL OL AL ELL Writer’s Guidebook for Social Studies ✓ ✓✓✓ OL AL World History Primary Source Documents Library ✓ ✓✓✓ National Geographic World Regions Video Program ✓ ✓✓✓ BookLink for Social Studies ✓ ✓✓✓ StudentWorks™ Plus ✓ ✓✓✓ ✓ Chapter- or unit-based activities applicable to all sections in this chapter. *Also available in Spanish 368A 368A-368D_C15_IL_895263.indd 368A 1/25/10 1:57:58 PM Plus • Interactive Lesson Planner • Printable reports of daily • Interactive Teacher Edition assignments All-In-One Planner and Resource Center • Fully editable blackline masters • Standards Tracking System • Section Spotlight Videos Launch • Differentiated Lesson Plans Levels Chapter Section Section Chapter BL OL AL ELL Resources Opener 1 2 Assess TEACH (continued) BL OL AL ELL Section Spotlight Video Program ✓✓ BL OL AL ELL World Music: A Cultural Legacy ✓ ✓✓✓ BL OL AL ELL High School Writing Process Transparencies ✓ ✓✓✓ High School Character Education ✓ ✓✓✓ Inclusion for the High School Social Studies Classroom ✓ ✓✓✓ Strategies and Activities High School Reading in the Content Area Strategies and ✓ ✓✓✓ Activities Success with English Learners ✓ ✓✓✓ Teacher ✓ ✓✓✓ Resources Differentiated Instruction for the Geography Classroom Literacy Strategies in Social Studies ✓ ✓✓✓ Standards-Based Instruction ✓ ✓✓✓ Presentation Plus! with MindJogger CheckPoint ✓ ✓✓✓ TeacherWorks™ Plus ✓ ✓✓✓ National Geographic Focus on Geography Literacy Teacher Guide ✓ ✓✓✓ ASSESS BL OL AL ELL Section Quizzes and Chapter Tests p. 177 p. 178 p. 179 BL OL AL ELL Authentic Assessment With Rubrics p. 45 BL OL AL ELL ExamView Assessment Suite 15-1 15-2 Ch. 15 CLOSE BL ELL Reteaching Activity, URB p. 25 BL OL ELL Dinah Zike’s Reading and Study Guide Foldables p. 57 pp. 45– Graphic Organizer Transparencies, Strategies, and Activities 46 ✓ Chapter- or unit-based activities applicable to all sections in this chapter. *Also available in Spanish 368B 368A-368D_C15_IL_895263.indd 368B 1/25/10 1:58:08 PM Chapter Integrating Technology Using Study-to-Go Teach With Technology What is Study-to-Go? Study-to-Go provides portable textbook-based content direct from the Glencoe Web site to your students whenever and wherever they want. How can Study-to-Go help my students? Study-to-Go content can be downloaded to a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a cell phone. Students can download Study Sets that include: • Self-Quiz—a series of multiple choice quizzes that provide instant answer feedback • Key Terms—definitions for textbook vocabulary • Flashcards—an assessment tool to help students study textbook key terms Visit glencoe.com and enter a QuickPass™ code to go to Study-to-Go. Geography ONLINE You can easily launch a wide range of digital products Visit glencoe.com and enter code from your computer’s desktop with the McGraw-Hill WGC2630C15T for Chapter 15 resources. widget. Student Teacher Parent World Geography and Cultures Online Learning Center (Web Site) • Section Audio ●●● • Spanish Chapter Audio Summaries ●●● • Section Spotlight Videos ●●● • StudentWorks™ Plus Online ●●● • Multilingual Glossary ●●● • Study-to-Go ●●● • Chapter Overviews ●●● • Self-Check Quizzes ●●● • Student Web Activities ●●● • ePuzzles and Games ●●● • Vocabulary eFlashcards ●●● • In-Motion Animations ●●● • Study Central™ ●●● • Nations of the World Atlas ●●● • Glencoe Graphing Tool ●●● • btw — Current Events Web Site ●●● • Web Activity Lesson Plans ● • Vocabulary PuzzleMaker ● • Beyond the Textbook ●●● 368C 368A-368D_C15_IL_895263.indd 368C 1/25/10 1:58:16 PM Additional Resources • Timed Readings Plus in Social Studies helps stu- The following videotape programs are available from dents increase their reading rate and fluency while Glencoe as supplements to Chapter 15: maintaining comprehension. The 400-word passages • Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis are similar to those found on state and national (ISBN 0-76-701199-6) assessments. • Ivan the Terrible (ISBN 0-76-700517-1) Reading in the Content Area: Social Studies • • Joseph Stalin: Red Terror (ISBN 0-56-501820-6-1) concentrates on six essential reading skills that help students better comprehend what they read. The book • Rasputin: The Mad Monk (ISBN 0-76-700189-3) includes 75 high-interest nonfiction passages written • Faberge: Imperial Jeweler (ISBN 1-56-501878-8) at increasing levels of difficulty. To order, call Glencoe at 1-800-334-7344. To find class- • Reading Social Studies includes strategic reading room resources to accompany many of these videos, instruction and vocabulary support in Social Studies check the following pages: content for both ELLs and native speakers of English. A&E Television: www.aetv.com • Content Vocabulary Workout (Grades 6-8) acceler- The History Channel: www.historychannel.com ates reading comprehension through focused vocabu- lary development. Social Studies content vocabulary comes from the glossaries of Glencoe’s Middle School Social Studies texts. www.jamestowneducation.com Reading List Generator CD-ROM Index to National Geographic Magazine: Use this database to search more than 30,000 titles to cre- The following articles relate to this chapter: ate a customized reading list for your students. • “Signposts to a Lost Culture,” by Peter Gwin, • Reading lists can be organized by students’ reading February 2007. level, author, genre, theme, or area of interest. • “Send Me to Siberia,” by Paul Starobin, June 2008. • The database provides Degrees of Reading Power™ (DRP) and Lexile™ readability scores for all selections. • “Soul of Russia,” by Serge Schmemann, April 2009. • A brief summary of each selection is included. • “Moscow Never Sleeps,” by Martin Cruz Smith, August 2008. Leveled reading suggestions for this chapter: National Geographic Society Products To order the For students at a Grade 7 reading level: following, call National Geographic at 1-800-368-2728: • A Work of Art, by Anton Chekhov • A Terrible Night, by Anton Chekhov • National Geographic Atlas of the World (Book). For students at a Grade 9 reading level: Access National Geographic’s new dynamic MapMachine • The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Web site and other geography resources at: For students at a Grade 10 reading level: www.nationalgeographic.com • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, www.nationalgeographic.com/maps by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 368D 368A-368D_C15_IL_895263.indd 368D 1/25/10 1:58:27 PM CHAPTER INTRODUCTION CHAPTER CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF Focus The movement of people, goods, Russia More About the and ideas causes societies to Photo change over time. Europeans, Asians, and other peoples have Visual Literacy After a long shaped the cultural geography of Russia. The country’s various ethnic winter, the spring celebration of groups have influenced its tumultu- Maslenitsa is a welcome event. ous history and changes in govern- This is a celebration much like ment over time. Mardi Gras, in that it takes place right before the Great Fast that precedes Easter. Also called Blini Essential Questions (or Pancake) Week, Russians cele- brate by dancing, enjoying the Section 1: Population and Culture outdoors, and eating pancakes How might Russia’s diverse popula- that represent the sun. tion have influenced its cultural geography? Section 2: History and Government Teach How have Russia’s history and gov- ernment been shaped by its many As you begin teaching ethnic groups? this chapter, read the Big Idea out loud to students. Explain that the Big Idea is a broad, or high-level, concept that will help them under- stand what they are about to learn. Use the Essential Question for each section to help students focus on the Big Idea. Geography ONLINE Visit glencoe.com and enter code WGC9952C15 for Chapter 15 resources. Women in traditional clothes dance to celebrate the coming of spring in Moscow. 368 Unit 5 368-375_C15_S1_879995.indd 368 1/11/10 3:07:49 PM 368-375_C15_S1_879995.indd 369 1/11/10 3:08:15 PM Section 1 groups, each of which brings its own influences to Population and Culture Russian culture. During the rule of communism in Essential Question How might Russia’s the twentieth century, these influences became diverse population influence its cultural geo- more widespread as the government displaced graphy? Russia is a vast country that spreads people and cultures by moving them from place to from the European west to the east of Asia. It is place. Tell students that in Section 1,
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