Academic Bowl Content Outline 2009-2010
Last Updated March 2, 2010
Students who are playing in matches 16-18 (week of March 8, 2010): You can prepare for your match by studying and memorizing poems from this list and the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. If you can open PDF files, click on Poems and Amendments to see the text along with the rules and scoring. The number in brackets after the poem or amendment indicates its value in the match. If in doubt, check with your advisor. Good luck! 3/2/10
Poems:
1. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening [11]
2. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost [14]
3. All the world's a stage (from As You Like It, Act 2, scene 7) By William Shakespeare [21]
4. Dreams By Langston Hughes [3]
5. When I was one-and-twenty By E. Housman [8]
6. I’m nobody! Who are you? By Emily Dickinson [4]
7. Where the Sidewalk Ends By Shel Silverstein [13]
8. Dream Deferred By Langston Hughes [5]
9. Not in Vain by Emily Dickinson [4]
10. The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare [12]
11. Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay [12]
12. Stars by Langston Hughes [5]
13. Alone by Maya Angelou [16]
14. The Rose Family by Robert Frost [4]
15. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost [4]
16. The Lesson by Maya Angelou [5]
17. Grass by Carl Sandburg [6]
18. Tiger by William Blake [14]
19. Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost: [4]
20. Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky [12]
21. Mother to Son – Langston Hughes [10]
22. Among the Red Guns By Carl Sandburg [10]
Bill of Rights
Amendment 1 [5], Amendment 2 [2], Amendment 3 [3], Amendment 4 [5], Amendment 5 [10],
Amendment 6 [10], Amendment 7 [5], Amendment 8 [2] , Amendment 9 [2], Amendment 10 [3]
Archive: 2008-2009 Content Outline
Academic Bowl Content Outline 2009-2010Note: While the Academic Bowl will cover many of the topics studied in school, about 30 - 40% of this year's questions will come from the specific areas listed below. Most study and reference materials are available here as PDF files and from your Academic Bowl advisor. Also see the Practice Questions & Resources page for additional general reference materials and to get an idea of the types of questions used in the tournament from other subject areas, such as math.
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World Geography (about 10 - 15%)(Each squad specializes in 1/8 (45 degrees) of the world, pole to pole. Use commonly available resources such as maps and globes.) |
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Match #s |
Squad 1 |
Squad 2 |
Squad 3 |
Squad 4 |
| Focus: | 30 W - 15 E | 15 E - 60 E | 60 E - 105 E | 105 E - 150 E |
| 1-6 | Cities & Countries | |||
| 7-12 | Water (See below for the specific bodies of water and rivers you should be able to identify on a map) added 1/14/10 | |||
| Bodies of Water: Adriatic Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Balearic Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Biscay, Celtic Sea, English Channel, Greenland Sea, Gulf of Guinea, Ionian Sea, Irish Sea, Lake Chad, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, St. George’s Channel, Southern Ocean, Strait of Gibraltar, Tyrrhenian Sea Rivers: Benue, Congo, Danube, Elbe, Loire, Niger, Oder, Po, Rhine, Rhone, Seine, Tagus, Thames, Senegal, Volta |
Bodies of Water: Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Aral Sea, Arabian Sea, Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Black Sea, Bosporus Strait, Cape of Good Hope, Caspian Sea, Dardanelles Strait, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Sidra, Gulf of Suez, Indian Ocean, Ionian Sea, Kara Sea, Lake Chad, Lake Nasser, Lake Nyasa, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Mediterranean Sea, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Sea of Azov, Sea of Marmara, Southern Ocean, Tyrrhenian Sea, White Sea Rivers: Blue Nile, Congo, Danube, Dneiper, Don, Limpopo, Nile, Oder, Orange, Vistula, Volga, White Nile, Zambezi |
Bodies of Water: Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Aral Sea, Arctic Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Mannar, Gulf of Ob, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Thailand, Indian Ocean, Kara Sea, Lake Balkhash, Palk Strait, Persian Gulf, Southern Ocean, Strait of Malacca Rivers: Amu Darya, Brahmaputra, Euphrates, Ganges, Huang He (Yellow), Indus, Irrawaddy, Krishna, Mekong, Ob, Salween, Tigris, Xi, Yangzi (Chang Jiang), Yenisey |
Bodies of Water: Arafura Sea, Arctic Ocean, Banda Sea, Bay of Bengal, Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Flores Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, Indian Ocean, Java Sea, Lake Balkhash, Lake Baykal, Laptev Sea, Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, Savu Sea, Sea of Japan (East Sea), Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Southern Ocean, Sulu Sea, Timor Sea, Yellow Sea Rivers: Amur (Heliong Jiang), Darling, Huang He (Yellow), Lena, Mekong, Xi, Yangzi (Chang Jiang) |
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| 13-18 | Land Forms | |||
U.S. Government & Constitution (about 10 - 15%)Each squad specializes in one area. Advisors have resource materials. Note that each squad needs to know certain terms in the Ben's Guide 6-8 Glossary and certain pages of the White House's "Our Government" document. Know all the terms and definitions in Ben's Guide Glossary (see "Focus" below). |
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Match #s |
Squad 1 |
Squad 2 |
Squad 3 |
Squad 4 |
| Focus: | Legislative Branch (Article I) + definition of underlined terms (see Ben's Guide 6-8: Glossary) | Executive Branch (Article II) + definition of underlined terms (see Ben's Guide 6-8: Glossary) | Judicial Branch (Article III) + landmark cases + definition of underlined terms (see Ben's Guide 6-8: Glossary) | Overview and History, State v. Federal (Article IV) + definition of underlined terms (see Ben's Guide 6-8: Glossary) |
| 1-6 | Ben's Guide 6-8: 1: The Legislative Branch, 2: The U.S. Congress | Ben's Guide 6-8: 1: The Executive Branch, 2: The President of the U.S. | Ben's Guide 6-8: 1: The Judicial Branch, 2: The Supreme Court, 3: WhiteHouse.gov/our-government: The Judicial Branch: (pp. 19 - 21 (middle) in PDF) | Ben's Guide 6-8: 1: The Constitution of the U.S., 2: Branches of Government |
| 7-12 | Ben's Guide 6-8: 3: The House of Rep., 4: The Election of Representatives. 5: The Senate, 6: The Election of Senators | Ben's Guide 6-8: 3: Election of the President & Vice President: Primary Election, 4: The President's Cabinet: State, Treasury, Defense, Attorney General | Ben's Guide 6-8: 4: Cases Brought Before the Court PBS.org/wgbh Africans in America Series: 5: Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom | Ben's Guide 6-8: 3: History of the Constitution 4: WhiteHouse.gov/our-government: The Constitution: pp. 24 - 29 in PDF) |
| 13-18 | Ben's Guide 6-8: 7: How Laws Are Made; 8: WhiteHouse.gov/our-government: The Legislative Branch: How Laws are Made (pp. 14 - 18 in PDF) | Ben's Guide 6-8: 4 (continued): The President's Cabinet (all), 5: Order of Succession, 6: WhiteHouse.gov/our-government: The Executive Branch:The Cabinet (pp. 6 - 13 in PDF) | PBS.org/net The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Series: 6: Plessy v. Furgeson (1896), 7: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | Ben's Guide 6-8: 5: National v. State Government, 6: State Government, 7: Exclusive Powers etc., 8: Powers Denied etc. |
National Parks (about 5 - 10%)Each squad specializes in three national parks and related history. Most resources used are from National Parks Web site: www.nps.gov and Ken Burns PBS Series: The National Parks: America's Best Ideas. Advisors have resource materials.) |
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Match #s |
Squad 1 |
Squad 2 |
Squad 3 |
Squad 4 |
| 1-6 | Denali Denali Nat Pk-PBS-Link 1 |
Grand Canyon Grand Canyon Nat Pk-PBS-Link 1 |
Great Smoky Mountains Gt Smoky Mts Nat Pk-Nat & Sc-Link 1 Gt Smoky Mts Nat Pk-PBS-Link 2 |
Yellowstone Yellowstone-Hist & Cult-Link 1 Yellowstone-PBS-Link 2 |
| 7-12 | Erie Canal Erie Canal-Brief Hist-Link 2 Erie Canalway- Hist & Cult-Link 3 NY St Canals Map-Link 4 |
Gettysburg Gettysburg-Mon & Mem-Link 2 Gettysburg-The Battle-Link 3 Gettysburg-Hist & Cult-Link 4 |
Trail of Tears Indian Removal 1814 - 1858-PBS-Link 3 The Trail of Tears Painting (1942)-PBS-Link 4 Trail of Tears Nat Hist Trail-Hist & Cult -NPS-Link 5 |
Pony Express Pony Express-Hist & Cult-Link 3 American West - Pony Express Info Sheet - Link 4 |
| 13-18 | Sequoia and Kings Sequoia and Kings-Nat & Sc-Link 5 Sequoia and Kings-Photo Gallery-Link 6 Sequoia and Kings-Forest Mstrpc-Largest30-Link 7 |
Glacier Glacier-Hist & Cult-Link 5 Glacier-Nat & Sc-Link 6 Glacier-Map-Link 7 |
Everglades Everglades Enc-Link 6 Everglades Nat Pk-PBS-Link 7 |
Mesa Verde Mesa Verde-Cliff Dwellings-Link 5 Mesa Verde-Hist & Cult-Link 6 Mesa Verde Nat Pk-PBS -Link 7 |
Local and Regional Questions (about 5 %)(Use commonly available resources such as maps, your eyes, curiosity, family and friends.) |
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| Match #s | Applies to All Squads |
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| 1-6 | Trees, plants and shrubs | |||
| 7-12 | Animals and insects | |||
| 13-18 | Geography of Greater Lawrence, especially rivers, hills, and well known landmarks | |||
***The match numbers refer to the numbers on the official schedule of 18 matches, found on the "schedule" page of this web site. Note that matches 1-3, 7-9, and 13-15 are "3-way" matches and matches 4-6, 10-12, and 16-18 are "2-way" matches. Also note that sometimes match numbers get out of chronological sequence due to cancellations and rescheduling. Each team plays three "3-way" matches two "2-way" matches, but the overall team schedules fall into three different patterns: Three teams don't play their first "2-way" match until they've played their second 3-way match; three teams play their last "2-way" match before their last 3-way match; and three teams play their last "2-way" match after their last 3-way match. |
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