Globalization Video
Hello students,
Here is the link to the video mentioned in class today. Have a lovely semana santa!
Information for the Exam
GEOGRAPHY 3º ESO TEST CONTENTS
UNIT 4 SETTLEMENTS
DEFINITIONS:
Rural settlement
Urban settlement
Site
Plan
Nuclei
Hamlet
Scattered
Linear village
Nucleated village
Radial village
Agrotown
Metropolitan area
Conurbation
Megalopolis
Checkerboard
Outskirts
Suburban
Centre
Dormitory town
Pollution
Waste
Caserío
Rural exodus
Rural Tourism
Obama´s State of the Union
Population Pyramids and Urban Settlement Information
Reminder
Hi students,
This is just a reminder that this Thursday, December 11th, we will host a mock debate in the school library from 9:45-11:15. We will go over more this week on how this will work. Please email with any questions.
Sources for Country Info
Parliament:
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Women Government
http://www.ipu.org/iss-e/women.htm
Beijing Conference 2005
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/followup.htm
Plan of Action
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/Planactn.htm
How women have rebuilt Rwanda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fast_track/9752411.stm
World Bank Data Search
http://search.worldbank.org/data?qterm=gender+equality&language=&format=
UN Speech for Women
Students,
Below is a speech from the UN about the position of women globally. The speech has a great outline and may be useful for when you are perfecting your own opening speeches. On the link, you can read the speech or watch the speech.
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/11/ed-message-for-25-november
Have a good weekend!
How to Answer your Position Paper Outline
Hola chicos,
Some of you have been having trouble finding the answers to the questions on the position paper outline. I wanted to give you an example of how to do this. Let’s look at question 3 in the case of Yemen:
“Your country’s national past policies/actions about Gender Equality. What happened? Why?”
**To answer this question, I typed into google “Yemen policies for women.” I found a source (http://www.refworld.org/docid/47387b712f.html) that tells me that there is no law against women in Yemen, but discrimination is very present. This is because “those governing women’s rights in the family that have been created by Yemeni legislators under the pretext of Islamic Shari’a. For example, women have fewer rights than men in Yemen’s Personal Status Law, which governs matters of marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.”
^This tells me that although no formal policies discriminate women, it is unlikely that there are laws for women’s rights. So I would rewrite in my own words about this issue.
**To answer questions about quotas, there is a link below. If you have any questions, please email us.
And finally, here is the source about Ending Violence Against Women that we are looking at this week: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/end-violence-against-women
Quotas
Definition:
a limited or fixed number or amount of people or things, in particular.
In our case, we’re trying to see if our countries have a limited number of women in government.
A useful source about quotas: http://www.quotaproject.org/uid/search.cfm
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