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Practice FRQ: Make it Stronger

2. Central Place Theory

3. Patterns of Urban Landscape

Today’s Agenda

Rewrite an FRQ focusing on Political Geography to make it more accurate and fully in FRQ style

After reflecting on what threshold and range mean, explore the Central Place Theory

Follow the guided reading in order to understand the three patterns including Gravity Model, Rank-Size Rule, & Primate City

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AP Review

Test Corrections

Reading Notes

Reminders & AP Review

This week is ALL political geography! Next is agriculture!

OPTIONAL guided review for NEXT week is posted
REQUIRED MC practice on AP Classroom due TODAY at 4:00pm
This week’s FRQ is ACTUALLY graded

Your corrections are due THIS FRIDAY!

We will start unit 6 MC corrections next Monday
I encourage EVERYONE to take advantage of corrections as your final will have NO CORRECTIONS!

Turn in your reading notes ASAP!

You have just one final unit! And they will be shorter :)

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I have reopened all of the Progress Checks for ALL units in AP Classroom

These are great resources!!!

A Progress Check has NO due date while a REQUIRED MC PRACTICE assignment will always be due at 4:00 on Fridays

Pro-Tip: do the unit 4 progress check (political geography) THEN do the required MC PRACTICE

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Your FINAL is

25 days away

But I only see you 7 more times!

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The AP Test is…

33 days away

But I only see you 11 more times!

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FRQ: Make it Stronger

Political Geography

You have 25 minutes to read through the current responses to a FRQ and to improve the responses by REWRITING the ENTIRE SECTION in proper FRQ style with accurate, complete responses.

You can use what is in the original response, but be careful to not include accurate information.

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Central Place Theory

For each service, pick you three favorite and then estimate how far you are willing to travel for that service

What is the difference between threshold & range

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Range

Threshold

High vs. Low Order Services

Central Place Theory

the distance someone is willing to travel for that good or service

the number of people needed to support a certain good/service

high order= luxury shopping, amusement parks, professional sports stadium

low order= grocery store, gas stations, Starbucks

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Individually

Read through the description of the Central Place Theory & answer the mini FRQ at the bottom

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With your Group!

Explain this graphic!

Because key words are great for catching your audience’s attention

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Patterns of Urban Landscape

Follow the guided reading in order to understand the three patterns including Gravity Model, Rank-Size Rule, & Primate City

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Finished Early?

Work on test corrections or MC Review!

Because key words are great for catching your audience’s attention