Unit 1 Lesson 4: How have California's landforms and water affected settlement?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
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Unit: 1, The Land of California
Lesson: 4, How have California's landforms and water affected settlement?
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1. The Beckwourth Pass is named for James Beckwourth.
2. The Donner Pass is named for Jacob Donner.
3. The settlers who made it across the mountains mostly settled in the Sacramento Valley or San Joaquin Valley.
4. The Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley get their water from the American, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Rivers.
5. The first California cities that were trading posts were San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Unit 1 Lesson 3: How are the areas of California different?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
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Unit: 1, The Land of California
Lesson: 3, How are the areas of California different?
Page: 11-18

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1. An area in which places share similar features is called a region.
2. California has 4 regions.
3. The regions are called coast, mountain, valley, and desert.
4. A landform is a natural feature of Earth's surface, such as a mountain or hill.
5. A capital is a city where a country's or state's central government is located.
6. The coast region is located next to the Pacific Ocean.
7. The mountain region is in Northern California next to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
8. The valley region is located between the coastal region and the mountain region.
9. The desert region is located in the southern part of the state.
10. A desert gets less than 10 inches of rain.
11. Creosote bushes and sagebrush
12. Tourism is the business of providing services to visitors.
13. Douglas Fir is the name of California's most important timber tree.
14. San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley are the names of the Central Valley.
15. The Imperial Valley gets its water from the All-American Canal that brings it from the Colorado River.

Unit 1 Lesson 2: How is Earth divided?

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Lesson: 2, How is Earth divided?
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1. North Pole is the northernmost part of our planet.
2. South Pole is the southernmost part of our planet.
3. Earth's axis is the name of the imaginary line that connects the North and South poles.
4. Earth's axis is what Earth spin around once every twenty-four hours.
5. True, Earth's axis spin is what creates night and day.
6. Hemisphere is what we call one half of Earth.
7. Northern Hemisphere is the area north of the equator.
8. Southern Hemisphere is the area south of the equator.
9. Western Hemisphere is the area west of the equator.
10. Eastern Hemisphere is the area east of the equator.
11. Climate is the weather patterns in one place over a long period of time.
12. The weather is hot and tropical at places near the equator.
13. The weather is cold at places near the equator.
14. Tropics is what we call the areas near the equator that receives the most direct sunlight.
15. Tropic of Cancer is the name of the area northernmost point where the sun shines directly overhead.
16. Tropic of Capricorn is the name of the area southernmost point where the sun shines directly overhead.
17. A fact is something that is generally believed to be true.
18. An opinion is a person's belief or judgment.  It cannot be proven true or false.

Unit 1 Lesson 1: How do you locate places on Earth?

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Lesson: 1, How do you locate places on Earth?
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1. North, South, East, West are main or cardinal directions.
2. A compass rose is a symbol that shows the main directions on a map.
3. A line of latitude is the name of the imaginary lines that run east-west around Earth.
4. A line of longitude is the name of the imaginary lines that run north-south around Earth.
5. Latitude and Longitude lines form a coordinate grid system.
6. Latitude and Longitude lines are measured in degrees.
7. Absolute location is what we call the exact or nearly exact location of a place on Earth.
8. The equator is the line of latitude that circles the middle of Earth.
9. True, the equator is the starting point for measuring degrees of latitude.
10. Prime Meridian is Earth's main line of longitude.

China's Soccer Pitch by Charlie Campbell

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 18, 2016
Article: China's Soccer Pitch
Page: 43
Author:  Charlie Campbell
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1. Evergrande Football School is the world's biggest soccer school.
2. Evergrande Football School is located in Guangzhou/Qingyuan
3. Evergrande Football School is located in China.
4. Evergrande Football School has 2,800 students.
5. Evergrande Football School opened in 2012.
6. Zarco Diaz is the U12 Coach.
7. Chinese Super League (CSL) is the name of China's professional soccer league.
8. The Chinese Super League starts its season in March.
9. $300 million was the amount the Chinese Super League spent on transfer fees.
10. The Chinese Super League spent the most in transfer fees in 2016.
11. The English Premier League spent the second most in transfer fees in 2016.
12. China's second tier league or second division spent the third most in transfer fees.
13. Alex Teixeira and Ramires Santos play in China.
14. Alex Teixeira and Ramires Santos' combine transfer fees were $92 million.  $56 million for Alex Teixeira and $36 million for Ramires Santos.
15. The teams have government-linked investment funds.
16. China Media Capital is a state-backed investment company.
17. China Media Capital paid $1.3 Billion for the Chinese Soccer League television rights for 2016-2020.
18. Chinese President Xi Jinping is sponsoring the growth of soccer in China.
19. The plan includes to open 20,000 soccer schools with regular schools attached to them in the next five years, 50,000 in ten years.
20. China wants to host 2026 FIFA World Cup.
21. Wanda Group is the first Asian company to sign up as a top-tier FIFA Sponsor.
22. Wang Jianlin owns the Wanda Group.
23. China won 51 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
24. The name of China's National Team is the "Chinese Dragons."
25. Cameron Wilson is the founder of the Wild East Football Chinese Soccer Blog.
26. Yes, the Chinese have a culture of corruption.
27. Qingdao Hailifeng FC and Sichuan FC were involved in a match fixing scandal in 2009.
28. Lu Jun is a referee who has been jailed for corruption.
29. Christopher Atkins is a soccer agent from Guangzhou.
30. Academia rules in China.
31. In Brazil and Argentina soccer is seen as a way out of the barrio or favela.
32. Swimming and gymnastics are the sports placed high for Chinese youth to practice.
33. Tom Byer is a household name in Japan.
34. Oha Suta is the TV show that "Tomsan's Soccer Technics" appear.
35. Coro Coro is the best-selling manga comic.
36. Tom Byer is the Chief Adviser to the Ministry of Education's soccer-in-schools program.
37. Tom Byer said, "Everyone thinks it's a kicking game when really it's about controlling the ball."
38. Dr. John Ratey, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School backs Tom Byer's research.

The New College Application by Eliza Gray

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 18, 2016
Article: The New College Application
Page: 47
Author:  Eliza Gray
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1. Hannah Chapman won a state title in tennis.
2. Answers will vary
3. Some of the colleges and universities are dropping or de-emphasizing standardized tests as an admissions requirement because too many students are getting overlooked.
4. The colleges and universities are trying to find "authentic" students rather than "ideal" students.
5. The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success is an organization of the entire Ivy League, state universities and private colleges.
6. The coalition's aim is "to increase economic and racial diversity on campus, and to make the application process more relevant and less frenzied."
7. 3,000 degree-granting schools exist in the U.S.
8. The Justice Department ended fixed financial-aid awards in 1991.
9. The Common Application started in 1998.
10. Stanford University received 43,997 college admission applications
11. Stanford University accepted 4.7% of their college admission applications.
12. The four things you need to have a leg up on the college acceptance process is (1) test prep courses, (2) private coaches to polish personal essays, (3) take challenging courses, and (4) volunteer.
13. Andrew Belasco, CEO of the Admissions Consultancy College Transition, said that students are prepping for college admissions in 8th grade.
14. True, the digital locker is meant as an outreach tool.
15. Answers will vary
16. Answers will vary
17. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, said that the coalition is an attempt to create an exclusive pipeline to the next generation of students.
18. Answers will vary
19. Buzzwords coming from admission offices are terms like genuine, caring, and creative.
20. Answers will vary
21. Answers will vary
22. Answers will vary

After a Most Violent Year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope by Josh Sanburn

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 25, 2016
Article: After a Most Violent year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope
Page: 13
Author:  Josh Sanburn
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1. On April 12, 2015, in West Baltimore, Freddie Gray was thrown into a police van before dying of a spinal injury.
2. Baltimore had 344 murders.
3. The criminal trials of the six police officers have been stalled.
4. The Police Commissioner was fired.
5. The Mayor of Baltimore did not run for re-election.
6. 13 candidates will be running for Mayor of Baltimore.
7. Catherine Pugh is running a campaign on improving schools and creating jobs.
8. Sheila Dixon is running a campaign that when she was in office, there was less crime.
9. DeRay Mckesson is a Black Lives Matter activist and social media star.
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11. Kevin Davis is the new Police Commissioner.
12. Arrests have increase by 20% with the new police commissioner.
13. True, before the unrest, Baltimore halted a decades-long population decline.
14. Baltimore's downtown's Inner Harbor started looking like a real neighborhood instead of a tourist showpiece.
15. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is leading the multi-billion dollar effort in Port Covington.
16. There will be a distillery, manufacturing space, publicly accessible waterfront area, and Under Armour's headquarters.