GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS ASSIGNMENT: Please watch this explanation of the assignmen

GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS ASSIGNMENT: Please watch this explanation of the assignment!
(DISREGARD THE EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATES I GIVE IN THE VIDEO! Your publication dates
should be between May 27, 2022 and June 22, 2022.)
You will find TEN New York Times articles that relate to one of the “Geographic Approaches to
Understanding the World” listed below. CSI students have a free subscription to the New York
Times. Go to https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass to register USING YOUR CSI
EMAIL ACCOUNT. You can download the NYTimes app to your phone/iPad/Kindle.
It is essential to take the following into account in order to do well on this assignment!
1. YOU MUST USE THIS GOOGLE DOC TO DO THE ASSIGNMENT. Open the document and
save it as LAST NAME IN ALL CAPS, First Name – Geography in the News Assignment.
2. When submitting the assignment to BB, you MUST SUBMIT IT AS A PDF OR Word
DOCUMENT.
3. You must base your assignment on the “Geography in the News” model below. Make sure to
number and put in chronological order from first to last published.
4. The publication date of the articles must be between May 27, 2022 and July 20, 2022.
5. No more than one article per day of publication is allowed. This means, for example, that you
cannot find 10 articles published on July 20 and turn them in for credit.
6. AP/Reuters/Bloomberg News articles, Op-Eds, opinion articles, and editorials are not allowed.
7. You may apply the same geographical approach to no more than two articles.
8. In your “A few things I learned”: This should be IN YOUR OWN WORDS and related to
something that the reader can actually learn from the article.
9. You must submit your final assignment to Blackboard as either a MS Word document or PDF.
10.For an example of a PERFECT ASSIGNMENT, see Content > Geography in the News
Assignment folder.
11.Remember that NOT ALL New York Times articles are geographic! Only select ones that are
clearly related to one or more of the Geographic Approaches to Understanding the World.
10.For an example of a PERFECT ASSIGNMENT, see Content > Geography in the News
Assignment folder.
11.Remember that NOT ALL New York Times articles are geographic! Only select ones that are
clearly related to one or more of the Geographic Approaches to Understanding the World.
Geography in the News Model
(Each of your ten geographic articles should look IDENTICAL to this example! There is no need to submit the actual article when you submit your assignment!)
1. Rachel Knowles, Frances Robles, and Elisabeth Malkin, “In Bahamas, Hurricane Cripples Rescue
Efforts,” New York Times, September 4, 2019.
● How related to a geographical approach: The article, through its discussion of the impact of Hurricane
Dorian on The Bahamas, is related to “How physical systems affect human systems.”
● A few things that I learned:
○ Temporary sea rise (called a “storm surge”) is the main thing that will kill people in a hurricane.
○ The northwestern Bahamas were hit with up to 30 feet of water from the storm surge and waves.
○ Hurricane Dorian is one of the biggest hurricanes to hit The Bahamas.
● 2-10 should look identical to number 1 in format! For a previous student’s assignment on which she
scored a 100%, see Blackboard > Content > Assignments > Geography in the News Assignment >
Example of a Perfect Geography in the News Assignment.
HERE IS A LIST OF GEOGRAPHIC APPROACHES THAT YOU CAN CONNECT TO THE GEOGRAPHIC
ARTICLES THAT YOU FIND:
● The human characteristics of places.
● The use of maps to report information from a spatial perspective.
● The use of regional terms to explain a phenomenon.
● The migration of human populations on Earth’s surface.
● The patterns of economic interdependence on Earth’s surface.
● How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of
Earth’s surface.
● How human actions modify the physical environment.
● How physical systems affect human systems.
● The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
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