We began with reviewing Joshua's HW FRQ. He incorporated some good points and good geography terminology into this response, but it still could be better. Joshua has been assigned another FRQ to complete this weekend in addition, he will bring his text and Barron's book home to review each of them extensively as this is the last weekend before his AP Human Geography exam. Joshua continued to work answering and evaluating questions from the 2021 AP exam.

Today we began with a review of Joshua's recent FRQ response assignment. Joshua's response needed work and we identified that a brief review of Buddhism was needed. Joshua identified important facts in his FRQ responses, he just needs to support them with explanation and examples. He has 20 min. to answer 3 of the 4 FRQs on the exam. Joshua admits he spent less than 20 min. on this practice FRQ and as a result, it is way too brief and lacking the necessary supporting details necessary to earn the maximum amount of points. We then began to assess questions from the 2021 AP exam to review Unit 4: Political Patterns & Processes.

Joshua did not complete his HW last night. He says he forgot to do it. We looked at a review video on AP Central re: the concepts a student should know about for the AP exam and how students should respond to FRQ questions. It's vital that Joshua practice his writing for the AP exam so has to complete the assignment for our next class. We continued reviewing the concept of diffusion and its specifics types (expansion, hierarchical, cultural, contagious, relocation, spatial, stimulus). We returned to the College Board/AP Central website for Joshua to continue work on answering M/C questions about Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes. He did well with today's M/C questions. The video enforced that Joshua needs to incorporate more detail into his FRQ responses in order to get the maximum amount of points on the AP exam.

Today we began with a review of the concept: diffusion and its specifics types (expansion, hierarchical, cultural, contagious, relocation, spatial, stimulus) returned to the College Board/AP Central website for Joshua to work on answering M/C questions about Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes. He did well with today's M/C questions. We reviewed that Joshua needs to incorporate more detail into his FRQ responses in order to get the maximum amount of points on the AP exam. We'll continue with Unit 3 review tomorrow.

Today we began with a review of Joshua's HW responding to an FRQ about Dhaka, Bangladesh. Joshua had to define:primate city, and discuss what it is, as well as world cities and mega cities. The response needed some more detail and we reviewed these details. We then returned to the College Board/AP Central website for Joshua to work on answering M/C questions about Unit 2: Population Migration Patterns & Process. Joshua's writing has improved. But multiple choice questions remain his area of strength. He did well with today's M/C questions. We reviewed that Joshua needs to incorporate more detail into his FRQ responses in order to get the maximum amount of points on the AP exam.

Today we completed reviewing the FRQ. Joshua wrote about the EU and NAFTA. We spent time on the College Board/AP Central website for review and worked on more practice AP questions from first unit "Thinking Geographically," from the 2021 AP Exam. Joshua did really well with this section and scored 90 on the AP Central M/C questions.

In class today Joshua worked on completing the Social Science portion of the Pearson Stanford Achievement Test. Joshua completed the test in 28 minutes. We began to review the FRQ (Free Response Question) he completed for practice/HW. We will continue to evaluate and discuss it tomorrow.

Political entities exist to govern different geographic regions, and as such, there are many different types. We reviewed what political entities are and discussed some different types of political entities. Countries use different names for specific land areas within their borders. For example: in the U.S., we have states, Canada has provinces, Switzerland has cantons, Japan has prefectures. These are just a handful of the names used to describe similar areas within a nation. We also discussed the difference between an international and a supranational organization using the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as examples.

Today we reviewed the exam weighting on multiple choice questions:
Exam Weighting (Multiple-Choice Section)
Unit 1: Thinking Geographically 8%-10%
Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes 12%–17%
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes 12%–17%
Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes 12%–17%
Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
12%–17%
Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
12%–17%
Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and
Processes 12%–17%
Joshua then worked on a practice test online from The College Board/AP Central comprised primarily of questions from the 2021 AP Human Geography Exam. We will review the answers next week. Josh answered 22 questions. He scored 59%. He said he knows he needs to better prepare.

Today we spent time on AP Classroom through the AP Central website. Joshua is going to spend additional time on it reviewing for HW this evening.