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AMERICAN GEOGRAPHYReading British & American CultureWeek 10Professor Hayashi
TODAY’S CLASS
• attendance• article presentations – CHAT CHAT!• review: the american people• KWL chart• American Geography
Review
• American families • Rise in one parent families
• More single mothers
• Household Expenditures• More on health• Less on
travel/food
#1
Leisure & Sport • Most popular participation sports:MEN- swimmingWOMEN- walking• Both enjoy cycling• Aerobics are more popular for
women• Fishing & basketball for men
American College students:• Top concern- environment• New concern- government hand-gun control efforts• More conservative about- drugs & crime• More liberal about- abortion
Pop Music/Economy• Rap and heavy metal were under attack
Positive Changes Negative Changes
- GDP doubled during the 1980’s - GDP doubled through borrowing
- lots of people prospered - national debt tripled
- 20 million new jobs were created - corporate & personal debt soared
- booming international trade is spreading wealth around the world
- widening gap between rich and poor
- poverty increased
-new jobs were low paid service positions
- USA was the world’s biggest creditor then largest debtor
K-W-L Table• Know – Want to know – Learn
K W L
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:waD_rFqaBXQJ:users.manchester.edu/Student/GJTribbett/Webpage/Example%2520KWL%2520Chart.pdf+kwl+chart+example&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj5ZWAxXkoQgO3HHZZoxFafLWnraMh2Fo1YksvqZP_GdKH9rqYCTw34vuZtd5b2vJFIc7pqesPPq_Mr1zdLNM9kJvLAvzr7px-TcJ1LgDpFk7Rga58hFy0Gf-jMmtgkwP4Edv-y&sig=AHIEtbQMfkPIabzlU19jbhufPEXjGOIcGw
KWL Chart
• In partners, write down what you know about American geography
• Next, write down what you want to know, what you’re curious about
• Go through the chapter together and write down what you’ve learned
Important Facts• the 50 states – 48
continental/conterminous• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WhDrGnjacvA• Surrounded by the Atlantic & Pacific
Oceans• Coastal Plains – East, long, gently rolling
lowland• Rockies – high, discontinuous chain of
mountains containing metals• Appalachians – West of Atlantic coastal
plain, low, unbroken, contain iron, coal
Important Facts
• Mount McKinley in Alaska is the highest point; Death Valley in California the lowest
• Longest river: Missouri• Population 245,000,000 (317 M now)• flow chart – pg. 59• most of country has humid continental climate
– hot summers/cold winters• US has ¼ of world’s coal, 1/7 of petroleum
Important Facts• People go by cars, trucks, planes• Commercial goods go by trucks• Freight goes by rail
Important Facts• Main industrial area: midwest• Banking & Insurance: New York• almost half of the land (47%) is farmland• Midwest: agriculture• South: traditional crops• West: cattle, wheat farming• Texas: cattle, sheep, cotton and rice