Study and review the following:
- Latin America: Vocabulary
- Canal
- Slash and Burn
- North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Favelas
- Deforestation
- Maquiladora
- Natural Disaster
- Rivalry
- Peninsular
- Creole
- Mestizo
- Mulatto
- Encomienda System
- Conquistador
- Map Reading
- Read the map title
- Locate and read the key
- Locate compass rose to determine the direction
- Locate the scale to determine the size of the map
- Review line graph from Guided Notes 2 slide show (Venezuela's Crisis)
- Graph & Chart Reading - Tips from courses.lumenlearning.com;
- What is the topic?
- look for the title and reword it in your own words
- What is being measured?
- look for labels to get an idea of what the graph is saying
- How is it being measured?
- look for units
- ask yourself if the units make sense with what you know about the graph so far
- Is color-coding use and if so, how?
- color-coding is often used to add additional information to a graph without taking up extra space
- check for a key that explains the color-coding
- Can I summarize this information in my own words?
- look for a trend or a piece of information that you find interesting and mentally form a sentence about it
- if you are struggling with this step, don’t get frustrated or give up, start over from Step 1. Each time you investigate the graph you are building up your knowledge and understanding of the information.
- What is the topic?
- Characteristics of Culture
- Review Culture One-Pager
- Apply knowledge of culture
- Latin America Revolutions
- Review DBQ
- Steps to close read primary and secondary sources
- Characteristics of a Thesis Statement
- Who led the Latin American Revolutions? why?
- Colonial Latin America Class System
- Names of each class
- Characteristics of each class
- Amount of power held by each class before the Latin American Revolutions
- Venezuela:
- History
- Types of Government throughout Venezuelan history
- Ruled by Caudillos
- Present Day
- Characteristics of Hugo Chavez rule
- Type of Government and Economy led by Chavez
- Events after the death of Chavez
- The current situation in Venezuela
- History