Course Manual HIS121_16A

Lesson Plan Answer Keys Tests Quarter Report Forms

GeographySe to n Ho m e St u dy Sc H o o l

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Day 3Read, study pages 33-36: Earth’s Features.

Day 4Read, study pages 37-40: Earth’s Resources.

Day 5Read, study the “Highlights,” and the Chapter 2 Review. Answer the questions

in a notebook or on the computer. Check your answers in the Answer Key.

Week Three

Day 1Read, study pages 44-47: Chapter 3: Earth-Sun Relationships.

Day 2Read, study pages 48-51: Factors Affecting Climate.

Day 3Read, study pages 52-57: World Climate Patterns.

Day 4Read, study page 58: Map and Graph Skills. Answer the questions on page 58.

Day 5Read, study the “Highlights,” and the Chapter 3 Review. Answer the questions

in a notebook or on the computer. Check your answers in the Answer Key.

Week Four

Day 1Read, study pages 62-65: Chapter 4: Environments, Peoples, Cultures: Limits

and Opportunities.

Day 2Read, study pages 66-68: Environmental Challenges.

Day 3Read pages 72-73: The whole ozone issue is controversial. Just remember that

God is in control. You can read more about this issue on the internet. Try to read articles by good scientists rather than politically-motivated authors.

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Day 4Read, study pages 74-78. World Culture Regions Today. Remember that most

people in our secular society are for population control, so be careful not to quietly accept some of their ideas. God is the Determiner for how many people He wants to create.

Day 5Read, study the “Highlights,” and the Chapter 4 Review. Answer the questions

in a notebook or on the computer. Answer the questions that focus on physical geography, but you can be aware of the other issues that the National Geographic Society brings up, many of which are not from a Catholic perspective.

Week Five

Days 1–4Study the assigned readings from Chapters 1-4, and the supplemental

commentary and analysis within the lesson plans.

Review the terms and concepts in the Study Guide for Test 1 (see next page).

Day 5Take Test 1. You may take this test online from your MySeton page on the

Seton website (www.setonhome.org) and receive your grade immediately, or you may complete the paper test and send it to Seton by mail. If you use the mail, please send both Test 1 and Test 2 at the end of this quarter, along with the Quarter Report Form.

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Geography Test 1 Study GuideThis study guide was prepared to provide the student with terms and concepts

that will be included on the test for this section. The student who masters the items on the list below ought to do well on the test. Most of these terms will be found in the textbook. Those not in the text should be found in the articles in the lesson plan.

It is important to understand the use of maps in the study of Geography. Look at all of the maps included in these chapters, and know things like what is east or west, north or south of each country. For example the Atlantic Ocean is east of the United States, and the Pacific Ocean is west of the United States. Know what hemisphere is being studied. Review all of the special pages, like the World Facts on page 1, and Physical Geography on page 88, and the pages with maps and captions, for example on pages 86-87. For example the capital of a country may only be indicated on a map, rather than in the text pages.

Keep notes of the important items.

Terms and Concepts

archipelagoatoll

continental shelfcontinents

contour linescultureequinox

evaporationexportsglaciers

grid systemimports

internal forcesisthmuslatitudeleeward

longitudemantlemesas

peninsulaplateaus

populationpopulation density

population distributionregionssolsticesteppes

tectonic platesThe Grand Canyon

hydrospherePrime Meridian

water cycletornado

Tropic of CancerTropic of Capricorn

tsunamiwinds

windward

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Week Six

Day 1Read, study pages 84-87: The United States and Canada.

Day 2Read, study pages 88-91: Physical Geography.

Day 3Read, study pages 92-97: Chapter 5: Physical Geography of the United States

and Canada.

Day 4Read, study pages 98-102: The Climate and Vegetation.

Day 5Read, study the “Highlights,” and the Chapter 5 Review. Answer the questions

in a notebook or on the computer. Check the answer key.

Week Seven

Day 1Read, study pages 106-108: Chapter 6: The Cultural Geography of the United

States and Canada.

Day 2Read, study pages 108-110: Urbanization.

Day 3Read, study pages 111-119: History and Government.

North America’s Early Catholic History

The text’s authors ignore North America’s early Catholic history. Long before Protestant settlers arrived in Jamestown in 1607 and on Plymouth Rock in 1620, Catholics had been to many parts of the North American continent.

The Italian Catholic explorer, Christopher Columbus, had, of course, landed in the Caribbean prior to 1500. Sailing for the holy King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I, [who are currently being considered for sainthood] under the Castilian flag of the great Catholic nation of Spain, Columbus reached the Bahamas on October 12, 1492.

In the vast majority of modern secular accounts, Columbus’ devout character and Catholic background are ignored. Columbus had a strong devotion to Our Lady, particularly under her title, “Holy Mary of the Immaculate Conception,” and thus he named his principal ship the “Santa Maria de la Immaculada Concepcion.” He felt called to cross the Atlantic, and to spread the Catholic Faith to the lands he would