In class today, I collected your New Africa maps - a bit disappointed in some efforts. You'll write your paragraphs explaining the rise, solidification, successes, and/or setbacks of your two chosen countries in class tomorrow.
We went over the Africa chart, which I saw some of you frantically trying to fill in/complete in class. Again - a little disappointed. I hope everyone picked up the info about:
- the diamond trade (Blood Diamonds and DeBeers' hoarding through monopolization)
- 8-10 key physical features of Africa (maybe someone can be kind and leave them in a comment)
- Parallel of nothingness (where is that, again?
- European Imperialism (taking any resources OUT of Africa)
- The differences between South Africa and Zimbabwe in dealing with post-Apartheid solutions.
- Salt-Gold/Copper Trade and Empire trends in West Africa
- US withdrawal from Somalia
- Immigration supporters
- And many other things.
I distributed the Asia map, for which we'll have a test next Tuesday. I have decided to add Oceania for next week as well - so there will be another map test on Friday. That means the week after next will see Europe, followed by Latin America & Caribbean, and ending with USA/Canada (with states and provinces).
Non-Geography tidbits:
We can void nearly ALL baseball stats from the mid1990's through 2006. How sad.
And continue feeding me more funny vid clips - I am downloading them for future in-class viewing.
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I was just wondering how to do those two countries we chose. Did we just have to choose two countries, and, using what we know about their resources, tribes, water access, etc., supposed to "invent" their events/problems/setbacks/successes and write what we think will happen? I am still a little confused.
ReplyDeleteOn our New Africa, I mean.
ReplyDeleteWill it's no wonder you're confused because we haven't gotten the assignment yet. Just chill out.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I was just zoning or what but I didn't hear anything about post-Apartheid at all and I don't really know what Apartheid was in the first place so if someone could explain it to me that would be great.
Will - chill. You will find out what you need to know tomorrow. Regarding apartheid - it deals with S Africa and Zimbabwe when a White minority population unilaterally ruled over a Black majority in a region/nation. I'll show a 3 minute vid that says it all quite nicely. I could not show the 4 clips I wanted to show due to our status as nomads. Anyone watch the prez tonight? A lot of econ. I hope everyone understands now why I pounded it through your thick little skulls last quarter. Think of how much you should have learned by now...
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ReplyDeleteOur new room is super sexy awesome.
ReplyDeletei barely made it to my bus from the new room. if it wasnt so far away from my locker and everything it would b good. but its all good.
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ReplyDeletecan i come into class early tomorrow to get the stuff we did on monday??
cause i have no clue what any of the africa stuff is that you said we should know.
and i also don't have an asia map.
so if i come in early tomorrow could you fill me in?
thanks.
yup.
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