Monday, August 27, 2007

Minneapolis to New Orleans: memorize the map of 10 Mississippi valley states for a quiz Thursday


Minneapolis & Stone Arch Bridge
Originally uploaded by jpnuwat
Last week's test was on reading comprehension and composition. This week the quiz will call upon memorization. Students will pracice this map each day in class. It's worth 20 pts.

* Sketch - by hand - a map of the 10 states that border the Miss R.
* Add the names of 5 major cities (Minneapolis, St Louis, memphis, BR and NO).
* You will get a point for each state (spelling counts) and each city. You will get 5 pts for sketching the states' borders correctly.


In this class we will use the metropolitan population in our demographic notes on cities. In the RMQRWA, the metropolitan number is the one in parentheses.

The metro population of Baton Rouge almost dobled after Katrina, from about 400,000 to 700,000 (correcting my class notes).

Post-Katrina New Orleans has lost about half its population. The city itself was about 400,000, pre-storm. It is perhaps 200,000 today, says wikipedia.org. The Metro area has rebounded to some 1.2 M, down from 1.4 M pre-storm, says the Census Bureau.

Which is the city with the most people on the Miss R?

vocabulary:
proximate (Not approximate)

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