Exploring World Geography by Notgrass History is a comprehensive one-year high school course that provides students with an in-depth understanding of the world God created, exploring both physical and human geography. Students will learn how the physical world has shaped human history and culture and how people have influenced the world in the past and in modern times. Through engaging narrative lessons, mapwork, and literature, students will gain a biblical perspective on world religions and cultures. This course covers 30 weekly units with 150 daily lessons that include Bible memory work, essay writing and mapwork assignments, textbook and literature reading, and hands-on projects. Students completing the course in its entirety may earn high school credit in World Geography, English, and Bible. With the structure of an independent study, students may need an average of 2 hours for each daily lesson. Three hardcovers. Grades 9-12.
Please note that the Student Review Pack is sold-separately and provides extra review with daily review questions, map skill assignments, quizzes and exams, and an answer key.
This kit includes:
- Exploring World Geography Part 1
- Exploring World Geography Part 2
- Exploring World Geography Gazetteer (atlas with assigned reading)
Please Note: In addition to the assigned readings in the Gazetteer, the curriculum also assigns the following twelve books (NOT INCLUDED & sold-separately). It is not necessary to have specific editions as page numbers are not assigned.
- 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)
