1. Advanced Placement Human Geography

2. Expectations
Read a college level textbook (approx ½ hr a night) & prepare for reading quizzes and unit exams
Respond frequently to Free Response Questions (writing)
Study for unit exams (units lengths vary – see syllabus)

3. What is AP Human Geo? Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Population
Cultural Patterns and Processes
Political Organization of Space
Agricultural and Rural Land Use
Industrialization and Economic Development
Cities and Urban Land Use

4. Why should a student take Advanced Placement?
To develop skills and study habits necessary to succeed in college
To prepare for the AP exam
High AP exam scores help students get into competitive colleges

5. What can students expect to do in AP Human Geo?
Lecture notes
Free Response Questions
Geography Quizzes
Reading Quizzes
Unit Exams

6. Successful students Work every day Request & respond to feedback
Take responsibility for their success or failure
Come in for extra help when needed 

7. The Advanced Placement Exam
75 multiple choice questions (60 min)
Free Response Section (75 min)

8. FRQ Sample
The high-tech centers of Silicon Valley in California and the Research Triangle in North Carolina developed in the past 40 years.
Discuss the following three factors that contributed to the rise of such industrial regions
Investment capital
Labor
Government
Define the concept of agglomeration and explain its role in the continuing expansion of such regions

9. Common problems
The student has always done well with little or no help from parents…...until now.
The student is having trouble with the quizzes

10. Concerns Difficulty reading the text
Fixation with grades – it’s a journey not a destination

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