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Syllabus

World Geography

Grade 9

Buckeye High School

Coach Crain – [email protected]

 

Course Goal:      To gain a working knowledge of our physical environment and its impact on our history and life styles, thus allowing us to better understand the nature of the world and the events that take place in it.

 

Course

Objectives:         Demonstrate a basic knowledge of location, landforms, and resources of cultural regions.

 

                           Develop skills in the use of maps, globes, and other graphic tools to acquire and process geographical information.

 

                           Relate how geography has affected the economic, social, and cultural development of cultural regions.

 

                           Analyze problems that challenge people from various cultural regions.

 

Content/

Topics:                 

Topics of Study:

Unit 1 Enhancing Geography Skills and the United States and Canada

Unit 2 Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and Europe

Unit 3 Russia, Northern Eurasia, Middle East, North Africa, Africa South of the Sahara

Unit 4 South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania

 

Basic Text:           Boehm, Richard G., World Geography.  New York: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2003

 

Expectations:     Students should be in their assigned seat and ready to work as the tardy bell rings. The bellringer will be available for them to start at this time and that is expected. If tardy, students will be given one warning then every other time be given a lunch detention. All RPSB behavior expectations will be followed in this class.

 

Evaluation:         

The following areas will the graded:

  • Chapter Tests
  • Vocabulary Tests
  • Map Tests
  • Bellringers
  • Projects/Maps
  • Midterm/Final Exam
  • Vocabulary test are usually on Wednesday or Thursday of a week and the Chapter tests on Friday.
  • Bellringer grades will be given on Friday.

 

Grading:              

The following grade scale will apply:

  • 100--93 A
  • 92--85 B
  • 83--75 C               
  • 74--67 D
  • 66--0 F

 

Make-UpWork:                   

The criteria in the Student-Parent Handbook will be enforced

  • Work assigned prior to a student’s absence will be due when the student returns
  • Work assigned during the student’s absence will be due on a date agreed upon by the teacher and student
  • Planned absences require the student to inform the teacher in advance and develop a plan for completing all work to be missed
  • Missed tests and quizzes will be made up on the date of return unless otherwise coordinated with the teacher.

 

Materials:            Pencils (most tests will be on scantrons)

                           3-ring binder or notebook with pockets

                           1 Small Package of Color pencils