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APHG Unit 3

Unit focus

Unit 3 Enduring understandings - what you need to know & understand

  • Concepts of culture frame the shared behaviors of a society.
  • Culture varies by place and region.
​Source: CollegeBoard AP Human Geography Course Description 2015.
Unit Concepts: Cultural Patterns & Processes
A. Concepts of culture
  • Traits
  • Diffusion
  • Acculturation, assimilation, and globalization
  • Cultural regions​
B. Cultural differences
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Ethnicity
  • Gender
  • Popular and folk culture
C. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity
  • Values and preferences
  • Symbolic landscapes and sense of place
  • Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices​
Targeted Learning Activities
Assessment Strategies
  • 3 Formative MCQs and 1 Formative FRQ; culminating summative is an MCQ and FRQ on November 20th
  • Socratic Seminar Discussions on one or more articles discussing culture

Resources for study & preparation


APHG TextBOOK resources

Fouberg (9th)        
  • CH 4: Local Culture, Pop Culture...  (pp. 110-138)
  • CH 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender…   (pp. 139-163)
  • CH 6: Language (pp. 164-192)
  • CH 7: Religion  (pp. 193-236)​
Rubenstein (10th) 
  • CH 4: Folk & Pop Culture (pp.104-133)
  • CH 5: Language (pp. 134-167)
  • CH 6: Religion (pp.168-205)
  • CH 7: Ethnicity (pp.206-237)​
Wood (2nd)        
Unit 3  Cultural Patterns & Processes       
(pp.
 64-97)
 

presentation Slides

Culture Presentations:
  • CH. 4 Folk & Pop Culture Lecture Slides 
  • Folk Culture (another teacher's PPT)
  • Fouberg Chapter 5/Rubenstein CH. 7 PPT (Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality)
  • Unit 3, CH. 6 Languages -  Lecture Slides
  • Languages (another teacher's PPT)
  • Fouberg CH. 7 - Religion Overview- Lecture Slides
  • Diffusion of Religions (another teacher's PPT)
  • Religious Landscape (another teacher's PPT)
  • Religious Conflicts ​

Flashcards & study guides

Culture Flashcards (Quizlet):
  •  Rubenstein Chapter 4: Folk & Pop Culture (17 terms)
  • Fouberg Chapter 4 Folk & Pop Culture (26 terms)
  • Fouberg Chapter 5 Identity (15 terms)
  • Rubensteing Chapter 7: Identity (19 terms)
  • Language (66 terms)
  • Rubenstein CH. 5 - Languages​
  • Religion Vocab - (36 terms)
  • Religion (66 terms - vocab & concepts review)
Unit 3 - Mixed Flashcards (Quizlet):
  • Folk & Pop Culture terms (35 terms)
  • terms from Unit 3 (108 terms)
  • Quizlet Vocab - Fouberg/Woods CH. 6 - Languages (short list)
Study Guides/Reading Guides
  • Folk & Pop Culture Study Guide (Fouberg CH. 4)
  • Identity Study Guide (Fouberg CH. 5)
  • Languages Study Guide​ 
  • Religions Study Guide ​​
  • CH. 4 Reading/Study Guide (Rubenstein)
  • Unit 3 Test Study Guide​
  • Unit 3 Summative FRQ - Diffusion of Religion HINTS
  • Unit 3 Summative MCQ - Culture Test HINTS
  • QR Code - Languages (Stations)

Practice Quizzes & Tests

  • CH. 4 (Fouberg): Folk & Pop Culture: Practice Quiz
  • CH. 5 (Fouberg): Ethnicity & Race: Practice Quiz
  • CH. 6 (Fouberg) Languages: Practice Quiz​
  • ​CH. 7 (Fouberg) Religions: Practice Quiz
  • Unit 3 Kaplan Test Prep Quiz (20 questions)
  • ​Culture & Ethnicity Quiz (Geographyquiz.org)
  • Religion & Language Quiz (Geographyquiz.org)
  • Folk & Pop Culture (Rubenstein CH. 4 Kahoot!)
  • Local/Folk/Pop Culture (Kahoot!)
  • Identity (Kahoot!)
  • Religion (Kahoot!)
  • Kahoot Unit 3 Review
  • Folk & Pop Culture Quiz (Hill McGraw Textbook)
  • Ethnicity Quiz (Hill McGraw Textbook)
  • Language & Religion Quiz  (Hill McGraw Textbook)

Websites

  • ThoughtCo - Articles and Information on Culture
  • Maps of Religious War throughout History
  • The World's Women 2015
    • Gender Analysis Activity

Misc.  news Articles, etc. 


  • IKEA Food Around the World (Apartment Therapy, 2014)
  • "Do We Talk Funny?" 51 American Colloquialisms (NPR History Department, 2015)
  • Its "Chinatown" (stereotypes, 99%Invisible, 2018)
  • ​24 American Dialects, a map (Business Insider, 2013)
  • Pop vs. Soda: U.S. map
  • Why Mandarin Won't be a Lingua Franca (Time)
  • In Malaysia, Women Cover Up But in Colorful, Trendy Way [But they didn't always] (NYTimes)
  • How a Dialect Differs from a Language (The Economist)
  • Disappearing Lives: The World's Disappearing Tribes - in picture (The Guardian.com, 2013)
  • Walking While Black (Vox/Propublica)
​​

Videos

Tutorial videos (Provided by Andrew Patterson Educational Channel)​​
-- Good for Review --or-- If you Were Absent from Class: 
  • Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 1: Where are Folk & Leisure Activities Distributed?
  • Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 2: Folk & Pop Culture
  • Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 3: Why is access to folk and pop culture unequal?
  • Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 4: Why do folk and pop culture face sustainability challenges?
  • Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 1: Where are languages distributed?
  • Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 2: Why is English related to other languages?
  • Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 3: Why do individual Languages vary?
  • Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 4: Why do people preserve local languages?
  • Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 1: Where are religions distributed? 
  • Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 2: Why do religions have different distributions?
  • Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 3: Why do religions organize space in distinctive patterns?
  • Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 4: Why do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups? 
  • Rubenstein CH 7, KQ1: Where are ethnicities distributed?
  • Rubenstein CH 7, KQ 2: Why do ethnicities have distinctive distribution?
  • Rubenstein CH 7, KQ 3: Why do conflicts arise among ethnicities?
  • Rubenstein CH 7, KQ4: Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Other Useful Videos:
Identity: Gender & Sexuality:​ 
  • Sex and Gender Identity - An Intro (Now This)
  • Every Sex and Gender Term Explained (Science Plus)
  • Sex and Sexuality (Crash Course Sociology)
  • Gender Stratification (Crash Course Sociology)
  • Gender Stereotypes (European Institute for Gender Equality)
  • Girl Toys vs. Boy Toys: The Experiment (BBC Stories)
  • What it Means to be Cisgender (CBSNews)
  • Non-Binary People Confront Piers Over Gender-Neutral Controversy (Good Morning Britain)
  • We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDx)
  • Osama
Identity: Ethnicity, Nationality & Race:

  • Race & Ethnicity (Crash Course Sociology)
  • Walking While Black: Jacksonville, Florida (Vox)
  • We Are Not All That Different: Race & Cultural Identity (Seconde Nemenya, TEDx)
  • I am Not Your Asian Stereotype (Canwen Xu, TEDx)
  • Journeyman Pictures: Belgium Divided, 2008​
  • Hotel Rwanda (Movie Trailer; Scene: "How Can They Not Intervene?"
  • The Danger of a Single Story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED)
Pop Culture & Folk Culture:
  • Consuming Kids: Commercialization of Childhood, 2008 (Documentary)
  • PBS Frontline : Merchants of Cool, 2001 (old but still relevant)
  • TEDTalk: Wade Davis: Cultures at the Far Edge of the World, 2007​(note: Sophomores may remember this from Grade 9 WH Class)
  • TEDTalk: Wade Davis: The World Wide Web of Belief & Culture, 2008
  • TEDTalk: ​How Cultures Drives Behaviours
Language:
  • The History of English
  • Where did English Come From? (TEDEd)
Religion: 
  • Animated Map Shows How Religion Spread Around the World (Business Insider)
  • The Muslim on the Airplane (Amal Kassir, TEDx)
  • What Are the Most Athiest Countries? (NowThisWorld)
​Interesting for "edutainment" value:​​
  • PBS: A Hot Dog Program, 1999
  • Weatherman nails town's super long name
  • Americans Don't Understand English (The Jonathan Ross Sow)
  • Singlish is a Language for our Future, Lah (TEDxSingapore)
  • ​What if English were phonetically consistent?
  • ​Mysteries of the Vernacular: "Hearse" (TEDEd)
  • Whitewashing: Last Week with John Oliver (LastWeekTonight)
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