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Social Studies Curriculum – High School
Adopted 2012
Geography
Mission Statement:
The Social Studies Department at Alton High School is committed to helping students understand physical and human interactions on the Earth, to become informed citizens who recognize how events in one location affect people and events in other parts of the world, and to develop an understanding and appreciation for different cultures.
Essential Question:
Location, place, region, movement and human-environmental-interaction are the essential themes of geographical study. How can these geographical themes be utilized to compare and contrast countries and cultures?
These essential skills prompts will be utilized to determine student mastery through use of conventional questions and advanced essay questions utilizing who, what, when where, and why. The following items are used as essential skills prompts:
1. Utilize fundamental geographical knowledge and vocabulary to identify basic geographic patterns and processes. (Five Themes: Location, place, region, movement and human-environmental-interaction)
2. Read and interpret information from visual and technological tools such as photographs, maps, charts, graphs, and globes.
3. Describe and illustrate geographic aspects of a region using fundamental geographic vocabulary and give reasons for current human distribution.
4. Discuss cultural similarities and differences and recognize how an event in one location can have an impact upon another location.
5. Identify Earth’s different physical features and physical systems.
Social Studies Curriculum – High School
Adopted 2012
Geography A: Essential Skills
Chapter 1 (Looking at the Earth) • TT1: Complete Questions- Locate basic facts
• TT2: Sentence Completion- Locate important details
Chapter 2 (A Living Planet) • TT3: Mixed Format- Locate basic facts
• TT5: Pertinent Information in the Stem- Identify the main idea
Chapter 3 (Climate and Vegetation) • TT8: Map and Graph- Visual Skills
• TT10: Interpreting Visuals- Visual Skills
Chapter 4 (People and Places) • TT12: Information in different forms, Extended Response- Summarize
• TT14: Data Chart- Visual Skills
Chapter 5 (A Land of Contrasts) • TT16: One- Paragraph Quotation- Identify the main idea
• TT18: Map Showing Movement- Visual Skills
Chapter 6 (Shaping an Abundant Land) • TT19: Horizontal Time Line- Visual Skills • TT21: Economic Activity Map- Visual Skills
Chapter 7 (Developing a Vast Wilderness)
• TT22: Interpreting Visuals- Visual Skills • TT23: Pie Graph- Visual Skills
Chapter 8 (Today’s Issues in the United States and Canada)
• TT26: Four Speakers’ Statements- Cause and Effect • TT27: Timed Essay, Extended response- Summarize
Chapter 9 (From the Andes to the Amazon)
• TT29: Using Context Clues- Summarize • TT30: Photograph- Constructed Response- Locate important details
Chapter 10 (A Blending of Cultures)
• TT31: Embedded Quotation- Identify the main idea • TT32: Compare and Contrast- Compare and Contrast
Chapter 11 (Today’s Issues in Latin America) • TT36: Making Judgments- Sequence of Events
• TT37: Document-Based Questions- Summarize/Cause and Effect
Chapter 12 (The Peninsula of Peninsulas) • TT39: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion- Locating important details
• TT40: Summarizing/Constructed Response- Summarize
Chapter 13 (Diversity, conflict, union) • TT42: Population Density Map- Locating basic facts
• TT43: Historic Cartoon- Political Cartoon
Chapter 14 (Today’s Issues in Europe)
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• TT45: Three Headlines- Identify the main idea • TT47:Interpreting Visuals- Visual Skills
Geography B: Essential Skills
Chapter 15 (A Land of Extremes)
• TT48: Main Ideas and Details- Identify the Main Idea • TT49: Making Generalizations- Summarize
Chapter 16 (A Diverse Heritage)
• TT51: Newspaper Headline- Identify the Main Idea • TT53: Drawing Conclusions- Summarize
Chapter 17 (Today’s Issues in Russia and the Republics) • TT54: Chronological order- Time Line/ Sequence of Events
• TT56: Interpreting Visuals- Visual Skills
Chapter 18 (The Plateau Continent) • TT57: Table and Graph- Visual Skills • TT58: Short Quotation- Summarize
Chapter 19 (From Human Beginnings to New Nations)
• TT62: Historical Map- Visual Skills • TT63: Identifying Bias- Summarize
Chapter 20 (Today’s Issues in Africa)
• TT65: Two Graphs- Visual Skills • TT67: Two-to-Three Paragraph Quotation- Locate Important Details
Chapter 21 (Harsh and Arid Lands)
• TT69: Data Chart- Compare and Contrast • TT70: Two-to-Three Paragraph Quotation- Identify the Main Idea
Chapter 22 (Religion, Politics, and Oil) • TT71: Horizontal Time Line- Visual Skills
• TT72: Photograph/Constructed Response- Locate Important Details
Chapter 23 (Today’s Issues in Southwest Asia) • TT74: Pie Graph- Visual Skills
• TT76: Map/ Constructed Response- Locate Important Details
Chapter 24 (The Land Where Continents Collided) • TT78: Bar Graph- Visual Skills
• TT79: Drawing Inferences- Summarize
Chapter 25 (A Region of Contrasts) • TT81: Two-to-Three Paragraph Quotation- Identify the Main Idea
• TT83: Political Map- Locate Important Details
Chapter 26 (Today’s Issues in South Asia) • TT85: Compare and Contrast- Sequence of Events
• TT86: Current Events- Political Cartoon
Chapter 27 (A Rugged Terrain) • TT88: One- Paragraph Quotation- Locate Basic Facts
• TT89: Transportation Map- Visual Skills
Chapter 28 (Shared Cultural Traditions)
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• TT91: Map Showing Movement- Sequence of Events • TT92: Information in Different Forms- Sequence of Events
Chapter 29 (Today’s Issues in East Asia) • TT94: Summarizing- Cause and Effect
• TT95: Four Speakers’ Statements- Identify the Main Idea
Chapter 30 (A Region of Extremes) • TT97: Economic Activity Map- Visual Skills
• TT99: Two- to- Three Paragraph Quotation- Identify a Clear Main Idea
Chapter 31 (Migration and Conquest) • TT100: Two Maps from Different Times- Sequence of Events
• TT101: Main Ideas and Details- Identify the Main Idea
Chapter 32 (Today’s Issues in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica) • TT103: Identifying Bias- Summarize
• TT105: Using Context Clues- Locate Important Details
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Geography A: Vocabulary
Chapter 1
Geography
Hemisphere
Equator
Prime Meridian
Latitude
Longitude
Globe
Map
Cartographer
Map Projection
Chapter 2 Continent
Magma
Hydrologic Cycle
Landform
Relief
Tectonic Plate
Earthquake
Volcano
Weathering
Erosion
Chapter 3 Weather
Climate
Precipitation
Convection
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
Ecosystem
Biome
Rain Forest
Savanna
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Chapter 4 Culture
Diffusion
Rate of Natural Increase
Population Density
State
Nation
Urbanization
Economy
Infrastructure
GDP
Chapter 5 Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
Canadian Shield
Great Lakes
Mackenzie River
Prevailing Westerlies
Everglades
Lock
St. Lawrence Seaway
Chapter 6 Migration
Columbian Exchange
Suburb
Representative Democracy
Free Enterprise
Service Industry
Postindustrial Economy
Multinational
Megalopolis
Metropolitan Area
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Chapter 7
New France
Dominion of Canada
Province
Prime Minister
First Nations
Atlantic Provinces
Quebec
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Chapter 8
Terrorism
Global network
Coalition
Biological Weapons
Urban Sprawl
Infrastructure
Smart Growth
Sustainable Community
Chapter 9
Andes Mountains
Llanos
Pampas
Orinoco River
Amazon River
Rain Forest
Slash-and-Burn
Terraced Farming
Push Factors
Infrastructure
Chapter 10
Tenochtitlan
Institutional Revolutionary Party
NAFTA
Cultural Hearth
United Provinces of Central America
Panama Canal
Inca
Mercosur
Treaty of Tordesillas
Carnival
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Chapter 11
Biodiversity
Deforestation
Global Warming
Debt-for-Nature Swap
Oligarchy
Junta
Caudillo
Land Reform
Chapter 12
Fjord
Uplands
Meseta
Massif Central
Peat
Mistral
Polder
Seaworks
Terpen
Zuider Zee
Chapter 13
City-State
Republic
Benelux
Nationalism
Berlin Wall
Nordic Countries
Euro
Cultural Crossroads
Balkanization
Satellite Nation
Chapter 14
Slobodan Milosevic
South Slavs
Ethnic Cleansing
KLA
Vojislav Kostunica
Cyanide
European Environmental agency
Particulates
Smog
Ozone
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Geography B: Vocabulary
Chapter 15
Chernozem
Ural Mountains
Eurasia
Transcaucasia
Central Asia
Siberia
Continentality
Taiga
Runoff
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Chapter 16
Baltic Republics
Czar
Russian revolution
USSR
Cold War
Command Economy
Collective Farm
Red Army
Silk Road
Yurt
Chapter 17 Caucasus
Chechnya
Nagorno-Karabakh
Privatization
Distance Decay
Chapter 18
Nile River
Rift Valley
Escarpment
Sahara
Oasis
Serengeti Plain
Sahel
Desertification
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Aswan High Dam Silt
Chapter 19
Berlin Conference
Pandemic
Islam
Stateless Society
Ashanti
Bantu migrations
Fang Sculpture
Great Zimbabwe
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Chapter 20
“One-Commodity” Country
Commodity
Diversify
AIDS
Cholera
Malaria
Tuberculosis
UNAIDS
Chapter 21 Golan Heights
Wadi
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Oasis
Salt Flat
Drip Irrigation
Desalinization
Crude oil
Refinery
Chapter 22 Mecca
Islam
OPEC
Western Wall
Dome of the Rock
Zionism
Palestine Liberation Organization
Sunni
Shi’ite
Taliban
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Chapter 23 Guest Workers
Stateless Nation
Palestinians
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Strategic Commodity
Human Resources
Chapter 24 Himalaya Mountains
Subcontinent
Archipelago
Atoll
Monsoon
Cyclone
Hinduism
Ganges River
Storm surge
Estuary
Chapter 25 Mughal Empire
Nonviolent Resistance
Caste System
Partition
Kashmir
Microcredit
Sherpa
Mandala
Sinhalese
Tamils
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Chapter 26 Basic Necessities
Illiteracy
Summer Monsoon
Winter Monsoon
Chapter 27 Kunlun Mountains
Huang He
Chang Jiang
Xi Jiang
Typhoon
Taklimakan Desert
Gobi Desert
Three Gorges Dam
PCBs
Landfill
Chapter 28 Dynasty
Boxer rebellion
Mao Zedong
Confucianism
Pacific Rim
Three Kingdoms
Seoul
Pyongyang
Samurai
Shogun
Chapter 29 Ring of Fire
Great Kanto Earthquake
Tsunami
UNICEF
Global economy
Jakota Triangle
Recession
Sweatshop
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Chapter 30 Archipelago
Oceania
High Island
Low Island
Great Barrier Reef
Outback
Voyaging Canoe
Outrigger Canoe
Atoll
Bikini Atoll
Chapter 31
Indochina
Vietnam War
ASEAN
Micronesia
Melanesia
Polynesia
Subsistence Activities
Penal Colony
Aboriginal People
Maori
Chapter 32 Assimilation
Stolen generation
Land Rights Act of 1976
Mabo Case
Pastoral Leases
Wik Case
Industrialization
Push-Pull Factors
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