<p>AP Human Geography Auld/Rankenburg Unit Four Pacing Guide</p><p>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. *NOTE*</p><p>Thursday/Friday, 12/5 & 12/6/13 Reading: (Rub pgs. 230-237 All of Key Issue 2) (FGG pgs. 445-448 End at “Geographic Characteristics of a State) *** You will have a quiz starting today*** 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, colonialism/imperialism, microstate, ministate, enclave/exclave, compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupt, perforated, landlocked</p><p>Monday/Tuesday, 12/9 & 12/10/13 Reading: (Rub pgs. 254-264) 1. Centripetal/Centrifugal Forces a. NOTES: Centripetal/Centrifugal examples b. India: Primary Source Activity c. Korea: Reunification and centripetal forces @ work i. Clips on Inside North Korea d. Vocab: centripetal/ centrifugal, reunification</p><p>Wednesday/Thursday, 12/11 & 12/12/13 Reading: (FGG pg. 458 at “State Cohesiveness” to p. 465 stop at “The Projection of Power”) 1. EQ: Why do states go through balkanization? a. Case study: Iraq i. Creating a successful Iraqi government ii. Analyzing centripetal & centrifugal forces inside Iraq b. OVERHEAD: Shatterbelt/European Regional Autonomy mvmts. c. Nationalism & centrifugal forces i. Video segment: HBO Documentary on Chechen rebels d. Video: Power of Place #3 (second part) e. Revisit Yugoslavia Friday/Monday, 12/13 & 12/16/13 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”) 1. EQ: How do international boundaries come to exist? Why do they cause problems? a. OPENER: Questions re: natural boundaries b. Graphic Organizer: Students create showing relationships of boundary terms WITH EXAMPLES c. Case Studies: Conference of Berlin & British Partition of South Asia (VIDEO) d. Discussion: Boundary disputes? U.S./Mexico?</p><p>Tuesday/Wednesday, 12/17 & 12/18/13 (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”) 1. MAP QUIZ – E/SE Asia 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 2. EQ: How can the internal organization of a state lead to cohesion or division? a. NOTES: Government structure & locating a capital 3. Vocab Work (time remaining) 4. Vocab: federal, confederation, unitary, capital, core/periphery, forward capital, exclusive economic zones, gerrymander, electoral regions, reapportionment</p><p>Thursday/Friday 12/19 & 12/20/13 Leadership Final Exam</p>