Exploring World Geography Curriculum Package

By Ray Notgrass, Publisher: Notgrass Company

ISBN-13: 9781609991609

Exploring World Geography by Ray Notgrass is a one-year high school course that describes and explains the world God created.

Features

• Learn about about mankind’s interaction with the world both in the past and in the present.
• Study how the physical world made a difference in what people have done, how they have lived, and how they live today.
• Examine how people have made a difference in the physical world, and how they are making a difference in it today.
• Designed to be easy-to-use for parent and student.
• Each of the 30 weekly units has an introduction that features a summary of the material covered, a list of lessons, Bible memory work, books required for that unit, and suggested writing assignments and hands-on projects.
• Each of the 150 daily lessons (five lessons per week) includes a list of specific assignments for that day.
• Focused students can be self-directed with parent interaction as needed.
• Lesson time averages 2-3 hours each.
• Completing the Geography credit requires reading the lessons and doing the assignments in the Gazetteer.
• Provides your student with one year of high school credit in World Geography.
• OPTIONAL: For additonal English credit, your student will complete several writing assignments, including one research paper; and reading the assigned literature. As always, the author has chosen good books for the literature portion.
• OPTIONAL: For additional Bible credit, your student will complete the survey course on worldview and worldview assignments.
• Unit projects offer a wide variety of activities that tie into geography, English, and Bible.

The Exploring World Curriculum Package includes these books:

• Exploring World Geography Part 1 (ISBN-13: 9781609991548)
  This is the first volume of the student text used in semester one. Hardcover
• Exploring World Geography Part 2 (ISBN-13: 9781609991555)
  This is the second volume of the student text used in semester two. Hardcover
• Exploring World Geography Gazetteer (ISBN-13: 9781609991562) is a resource book with maps and assigned readings. Hardcover

Download samples at the publisher’s website:

• Table of Contents/Intro
• Sample Part 1 Unit 8: East Africa
• Sample Part 2 Unit 20: Southeast Asia
• Gazetteer

For the Optional English Credit Additional Literature Books are Necessary (NOT INCLUDED In this kit).

You can choose to add an optional half-year credit in English by reading these books and completing the writing assignments. These books should be available at your local library or on inter-library loan. ISBNs included to help you find them if you wish to purchase.

• Know Why You Believe by Paul Little (Units 1-2)
• Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour with David Hazard (Units 3-4)
• Patricia St. John Tells Her Own Story by Patricia St. John (Units 5-7)
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (Unit 8)
• The Day the World Stopped Turning by Michael Morpurgo (Units 10-11)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Units 12-13)
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat (Units 14-15)
• Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth (Units 16-17)
• Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine (Units 18-19)
• Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma by Sharon James (Units 20-21)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (Units 24-25)
• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Units 27-28)

See the Notes About the Literature in the Guide for Parents and Answer Key. The authors have written a synopsis of each book, why it is important, and includes notes to parents.

Grades 9-12, One-year course

List $140.00

Price $125.00