Tonight's homework and reminders- 9/27

In your writer's sourcebook create a list of all 50 states with their capitals and 2 major cities. This will be checked in your notebook check tomorrow.

For the notebook checks, please make sure you have both your reader's and writer's sourcebooks in class tomorrow. I will do my best to get through them by the end of the day.

You should be reviewing your 50 states every day and starting to think of them in terms of region. Where are the states? How does their location contribute to the way people live there? What crops are grown there? How do natural resources and land formations contribute to the lifestyle of each area?

You can use physical maps which represent all land formations and other natural occurances (topography - surface features of the earth) or you can use political maps which are maps that show such things as national and state boundaries and the names and locations of towns and cities.