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1 Exploring World Geography Guide for Parents and Answer Key Exploring World Geography Guide for Parents and Answer Key ISBN 978-1-60999-157-9. Copyright 2020 Notgrass History. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced without permission from the publisher. Front Cover: Guanajuato, Mexico, by Rubi Rodriguez Martinez / Printed in the United States of America Notgrass History 975 Roaring River Rd. Gainesboro, TN 38562. 1-800-211-8793. Guide for Parents Using Exploring World Geography Exploring World Geography provides different parts of the world, answers review material for one entire school year in three questions, completes map skills assignments, subjects.

2 To complete one year of credit in reads historical documents, and takes a geography, one year of credit in English, and geography quiz every unit and a geography one year of credit in Bible, the student must exam every five units. read the text in Exploring World Geography English: Literature and Composition. Part 1 and Part 2 and complete the weekly The student completes a project for each unit and daily assignments in those volumes. (unless the parent plans a different schedule), Students should complete each day's reads 12 works of literature and the literary assignments on that day. The student should analysis for each, answers questions on each expect to spend an average of 50 to 60 book, and completes a literature exam every minutes on each subject each day.

3 The actual five units. time spent on each subject on a given day (Note: You have the option of assigning a will vary, but you should allow your student 2,000-2,500 word research paper [see page xvi about 2 1/2 to 3 hours per day to complete all in Part 1]. You also have the option of assigning three subjects. other kinds of projects for each unit as alternatives We believe that you are in charge of your to writing. You will need to decide how often your child's education and that you know best how student will complete a writing assignment and to use this material to educate your child. how often he or she will complete another kind of We provide you with tools and instructions, creative project.)

4 But we encourage you to tailor them to fit Bible: Worldview Survey. The student your child's interests and abilities and your learns what worldview is, the elements of a family's situation and philosophy. You might worldview, how we develop a worldview, need to experiment with the curriculum for common worldviews in our world, and how two or three weeks to know how your student a person's worldview makes a difference in can use it most effectively in your situation. how that person lives. The student explores Being able to do this is one of the benefits of how the Bible uses geography to teach homeschooling!

5 Important spiritual lessons, answers review questions, and completes a worldview exam Course Descriptions every five units. If you use the curriculum as assigned, you Student Review Pack can use the following course descriptions as you maintain your school records, create a The Student Review Pack has a great deal high school transcript, or report grades. of material that you might find helpful for Geography. This course is a survey of the increasing your student's understanding of physical geography of the world and human the course and for giving you a way to know geography how humans throughout and grade your student's grasp of the content.

6 History have interacted with geography. The It is an optional supplement that contains the student reads lessons about the geography of following three components. i The Student Review includes review the literature titles as geography or worldview questions on each lesson and on most of work. For instance, you might count Blood the readings from the World Geography Brothers and A Long Walk to Water as reading Gazetteer. It also includes literary analysis of for geography. You might count Know Why and questions on the books assigned in the You Believe and Ann Judson: A Missionary Life curriculum, and map skills assignments.

7 For Burma as part of the worldview credit. The Quiz and Exam Book has a geography Grades are usually assigned on a quiz to be taken at the end of each unit. In percentage basis for an individual assignment addition, after every five units, it has a and as letter grades for a semester on the geography exam, an English exam, and a basis of the cumulative assignment grades. worldview exam. That makes a total of six We recommend giving an A if the average exams in each subject over the course of the weighted grade is 90% or above, a B for 80- year. 89%, a C for 70-79%, and a D for 60-69%. This book includes the Answer Key, with If your child consistently gets grades answers for all of the review questions and lower than 60%, you might need to evaluate for the quizzes and exams .

8 His readiness to study a course with this level of difficulty. On the other hand, you might Suggestions for Grading need to adjust your expectations. You might consider an additional grading element To earn credit in geography, English, based on your perception of your child's and Bible, the student should complete the overall grasp of the material. This is another assignments listed on the second page of each advantage of homeschooling: you can judge unit introduction and all of the assignments how well your child understands the material listed at the end of each lesson, except for the and how he or she is growing from the study Student Review, which is optional.

9 A weekly in ways that the test and assignment scores assignment checklist is available on our do not reflect. website. We designed this curriculum to cover what You have several activities that you can we believe a high school student should learn include in arriving at a grade for each subject. about world geography. Helping a student These activities include: Bible memory work; pass the CLEP or AP test was not our primary unit projects (writing assignments and other goal. However, this course provides a good creative projects); review questions for each foundation for preparing for those tests, lesson, for the readings in the Exploring World combined with one of the test preparation Geography Gazetteer, and for the literature books that are available.

10 Selections; unit quizzes on geography; and exams every five weeks on geography, Teaching Writing English, and worldview. You can give equal weight to each element, or you might choose The three most important activities to help to give different weight to each component. students write well are reading good writing, Depending on the chosen topic, you writing as frequently as possible, and having might choose to grade some of the weekly his or her writing critiqued by an experienced writing assignments as geography or writer or teacher. worldview assignments instead of as English You can find many aids to help you in assignments.