Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Finish Central/East/South Quiz
- Prepare for Unit Test Feb. 14!! Work on Study Guide
- Turn in any missing work!!
Picture of the day: Joyce Banda, 4th President of Malawi
Daily Did you Know: Four of the five fastest land animals reside in Africa: the cheetah, the wildebeest, the lion, and the Thomson’s gazelle. All of these animals can run at speeds above 50 miles per hour, with the cheetah reaching a top speed of about 70 miles per hour.
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map Quiz
Planners:
- Central/East/South Quiz
- Prepare for Unit Test Thursday, Feb. 14
- Turn in any missing work!!
Picture of the day:The Drakensberg Mountains
Daily Did you Know: Malawi is among the world's least-developed countries, with most of the population involved in subsistence agriculture. The principal crops are corn, cotton, millet, rice, peanuts, cassava and potatoes. Tea, tobacco, sugarcane and tung oil are produced on large estates.
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Finish Prezi
- Review for quiz tomorrow
- Map Quiz tomorrow
- Turn in any missing work
- Pick up projects
Picture of the day: Robben Island, South Africa
Daily Did you Know: The only place on earth that 4 countries meet is the Four Corners of Africa, the area where the four countries Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- South Africa Prezi
- Southern Africa (pink) due Friday
- Turn in any missing work!!
- Take Projects Home
Picture of the day: Table Mountain, South Africa
Daily Did you Know: Namibia has the largest free roaming cheetah population in the world
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Finish Central/East Africa Prezi
- Special Mission: Africa Review and Map- Southern Africa Homework Packet *Due Friday
Picture of the day: Blyde River Canyon
South Africa is also home to the ‘largest green canyon in the world’ and it is known as the Blyde River Canyon and this is also the 3rd largest Canyon in the world.
Daily Did you Know: Tanzania has the largest concentration of wildlife animals per square kilometer, with more than 4 million wild animals and representatives of 430 species and subspecies
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Central/East Africa Prezi
- Turn in any missing work
Picture of the day: Same as Friday, didn't have time to go over in class
Daily Did you Know:
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map Quiz
Planners:
- Map Warm-up
- Map Quiz
- Project Presentations!
Picture of the day: Lake Assal in Djibouti
Daily Did you Know: Only two African nations have never been under European colonial power: Liberia, an independent nation settled largely by African Americans, and Ethiopia, an Orthodox Christian nation known in Europe as Abyssinia. The rest of the continent was colonized by European imperial powers in the nineteenth century “scramble for Africa
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Map Quiz Tomorrow
- Project Presentations!!!!!
- Project due Feb. 1
Picture of the day:
Mount Kilimanjaro
Daily Did you Know: Kenya only has only two seasons. One rainy season and one dry season. Eritrea, Egypt and Libya are in the number 1,2 and 3 spots respectively for the world’s most dangerous roads. Kenya is pretty bad too.
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- Turn in Vocab and Central East Africa HW Packet
- Project Presentations!!!!!
- Project due Jan. 31, and Feb. 1
Picture of the day:Victoria Falls: the Smoke that Thunders, is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Daily Did you Know: A popular fashion statement in eastern Africa is to wear a kanga, a large cotton cloth with a message printed on it. Kanga are worn by both men and women and they originated during the nineteenth century in Zanzibar and Mombasa.
Warm-up:
- Warm-up Map
Planners:
- How to write a short answer question
- Central / East Vocab
- Central East Africa HW Packet Due Tues, Jan. 29
- Project due Jan. 30,31, and Feb. 1
Picture of the day:Mount Nyiragongo, Dem. Rep. of the Congo
Daily Did you Know: Did you know that the world's biggest frog is found in Cameroon? Named the goliath frog, their body can be one-foot long.
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