Cultural Geography

Cultural Geography

Today in class we started a new unit called Cultural Geography. I thought that we were going to go over the test that we took last Thursday, but maybe we will do that tomorrow. The first thing we  did in class was look at the United States map to see which county's in certain states call a carbonated beverage. The New England region plus Pennsylvania and Maryland calls it soda. The south calls it Coke. Just about the rest of the country calls it pop. Which was all a part of cultural characteristics. Cultural characteristics are parts of a groups everyday life. They are the ideas and themes which the group will teach to all members. These same characteristics can also link or divide a region. The main examples of cultural characteristics are language , religion, and ethnic heritage. That's really all we talked about today in class because the second part of class, Mr.Schick is putting in grades for everyone since mid-quarters are this Friday and people in class need to know what their grades are for sports.