Transcript AP Human Geography: Writing and Reading St. Andrew’s College, 2009-10 David Joiner St. Andrew’s College [email protected].

AP Human Geography:
Writing and Reading
St. Andrew’s College,
2009-10
David Joiner
St. Andrew’s College
[email protected]
Travelogue
Writing and Reading
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Why write the AP Human Geography exam?
Unit Review
Exam Format
Exam Reading
Sample Questions
Practice Exam
Quotes from Students
• “I’m ‘aceing’ my first-year Geography course, sir.
We’re using the same text that we used in your
class last year. Thanks a lot!”
• “My university gave me a first-year credit because
of my good standing on the AP exam. I now have
more time to concentrate on my other courses.”
• “Even though my school doesn’t accept AP
standings, I was much less nervous during my first
university exam.”
AP Human Geography Course
1. Nature and Perspectives
2. Population
3. Cultural Patterns and
Processes
4. Political Organization of Space
5. Agricultural and Rural Land
Use
6. Industrialization and Economic
Development
7. Cities and Urban Land Use
AP Human Geography Exam
• 2.25 hrs; multiple choice and free response
• 39 878 Human Geography exams in 2008
(+37% from 2007; +38% 2006 to 2007)
• Credit accepted at SFU, Victoria, Calgary,
Saskatchewan, Brandon, York, Carleton,
Guelph, Toronto (Scar.), Brock, Ottawa,
Queen’s, McMaster, Waterloo, Nipissing,
Wilfred Laurier, Laurentian, McGill,
Concordia, Bishop’s, St. Mary’s, Memorial
Recent Canadian Exam Statistics
• AP in Canada
– 20 273 exams in 2008 (19 258 in 2007)
– 282 Human Geography exams in 2008
• AP in Ontario
– 137 Human Geography exams in 2008
• 2010 exam Friday am, May 14
Reading AP Human Geography
• June 2001
– 17 readers
• June 2009
– Approx. 200 readers
in Lincoln, Nebraska
Reading AP Human Geography
• Concurrent with
AP Chemistry and
AP German
• Extra Activities
• Great Food
Pass Another Pile
• Follow the rubric!
• Consistency
checks
• Readers,
Table Leaders and
Question Leaders
• Sample
Responses
• Suggestions for
Students
Suggestions for Students
• Read the question
• Read the question again, looking for
– Stimulus material (graphs, maps, charts, diagrams)
– Key words
• Follow question structure when answering
– Blank line between sections
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Each question on a new page
Write legibly
Use key terms
Explain ideas and/or process
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. As an academic discipline, geography is principally concerned
with the
A. nature and meaning of place names.
B. impact of the environment on human understandings and
activities.
C. evolving character and spatial organization of Earth’s
surface.
D. absolute location of places, peoples, and processes on Earth’s
surface.
E. construction of maps that depict places, peoples, and
processes as accurately as possible.
(see course description booklet for more)
Free-Response Questions 2007
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1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model
The drawings above reflect
agricultural activities in the
hinterland of a large urban area.
a)Apply the underlying principles of
von Thünen’s agricultural landuse model to predict the locations
of the activities shown in X and Y
relative to a large urban area.
1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model
The drawings above reflect
agricultural activities in the
hinterland of a large urban area.
b) Choose either activity X or
activity Y and apply the
underlying principles of von
Thünen’s agricultural land-use
model to explain the location of
that activity.
1. Von Thünen’s Agricultural Model
The drawings above reflect
agricultural activities in the
hinterland of a large urban area.
c) Discuss two factors that explain
why agricultural land-use
patterns today differ from those
developed by von Thünen’s
model in 1826.
Practice Exam
• Available to audited instructors
1. Nature and Perspectives
• Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympics
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
• Dorling Cartograms of 2008 Summer Olympics
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
Enjoy the World!