March 4, 2015

Welcome to our Geography class blog! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the drop down boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). If you have ANY questions, please let me know! Tip: If you have any doubts or fears about losing your work, do as I do, and copy and paste your answers into a Word document, Notepad, e-mail to yourself, etc., so you have an electronic copy as backup. I will be posting to the class blog on a weekly basis from now on, so stay tuned and check back frequently!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Wednesday Schedule:

1^st hour:           11:45-12:15 pm

2^nd hour:          12:20-12:50 pm

3^rd hour:           12:55-1:25 pm            

4^th hour:           1:30-2:00 pm                                      

5^th hour:           2:05-2:35 pm

6^th hour:           2:40-3:10 pm

7^th hour:           3:15-3:45 pm

Activity:

World Geography – Here are the objectives for today: I can identify three countries of Latin America that do not speak Spanish. Tasks: First, click on this link to go to the CIA World Factbook. Explore the interactive map on the home page to look more closely at countries in Latin America. Identify three countries that do NOT have Spanish as an official language and report them in the comments section of the blog. Explore the site to learn more about those countries you listed and others. When you are done, you may also go to Sheppardsoftware.com to take take a tutorial and learn about Latin American countries.