WORLD GEOGRAPHY SYLLABUS
Stromie and Carden
Text: World Geography, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1997. Restitution for lost & damaged textbooks will be made by the student. Make sure you put your name, our name & the date in your text. The cost is $48!!!! Supplemental in-class texts will consist of Mastering Social Studies Skills and Studying Smart.
Course Description: This two semester course provides the content knowledge & skills necessary to understand the roles, responsibilities, and relationships of people & places throughout the world, both past and present. To prepare students for the remaining required social studies courses, topics will include the themes of Historical Geography, Political Geography, and Economic Geography. This course will focus on Geography objectives assessed on the Georgia High School Graduation Test. Opportunities to develop and refine writing competencies will help prepare students for the 10th Grade Gateway Writing Assessment. Integrated throughout the course, students are instructed on efficient and effective methods and strategies to read, write, think, organize, take notes and demonstrate what they have learned. Students who successfully complete both semesters of World Geography will earn one of the required units of state elective credit toward the College Endorsement Seal of Distinction (CP+) program of study. When possible, notes & assignments will be posted on the world wide web at
www.homestead.com/cardenstromie/main.html.
Information provided on the web is for the benefit of the student. However, this does not
preclude taking notes in class. If students choose to use the notes from the web, the notes must be brought to class and must be on the desk when the teacher is lecturing. It is advisable that other notes be taken in conjunction with the web notes. Overhead notes and web notes are only an outline of the subject matter. Explanations, examples and illustrations will be used to fill in the outline notes.
Course Requirements: All students will take a test over each unit of study. In addition, all students will be required to keep & turn a notebook consisting of assignments from the text, in class readings and handouts. Your notebook is your homework for the unit. There will also be several quizzes during each unit. These will be over maps, assigned readings from the text, videotapes and content information discussed in class. Honors Geography classes will also have a project to present to the class - further information about the project will be forthcoming.
Grading Scale: A point system will be in effect for this course with tests, notebooks, quizzes, projects, etc. determining your grade. Your grade will be posted daily by your student number. There should never be any confusion as to what your grade is at any given time during the semester!!!
A = 100 to 92% To determine your grade at any time during the
B = 91 to 83% semester, simply add yourpoints and divide by
C = 82 to 74% the total points possible!
D = 73 to 70%
UNITS OF STUDY
FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER
Unit One - Looking at the World Unit Six - N. Africa & the Middle East
Unit Two - The United States & Canada Unit Seven - Sub-Saharan Africa
Unit Three - Latin America Unit Eight - South Asia
Unit Four - Europe Unit Nine - East Asia
Unit Five - Russian/Eurasian Republics Unit Ten - Southeast Asia
Unit Eleven - Australia, Oceania &
Antarctica
Due Dates/Makeup Work: When a student has an excused absence, he/she has five
school days in which to complete all work missed. It should be understood that it is to be done at the teachers convenience, outside the regular classroom period. If the work is not completed in five days, the student will receive a zero for the incomplete work. This does not apply to long-standing due dates - assignments that you've known about for a week or more (like your notebooks). In those cases it is expected that the student will turn in the assignment on his/her first day back in school. If you have an assignment due on a day where you check in/out and you miss our class, you must turn in your work prior to
checking out, or once you check in to school. Otherwise you will receive no credit for the assignment.
E-Mail Address: The e-mail address to the computers on our school desk is
Dennis_Stromie@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
George_Carden@gwinnett.k12.ga.us.
Parents are encouraged to use this to inquire about their students progress. This will
be a much more efficient way to contact us than by phone. Students are encouraged to use this method of communication if they are out of school due to an illness and need class information & assignments.
Attendance/Tardies: The county policy limits a student to ten absences (three tardies equal one absence). After ten absences a student will not receive credit for the course unless approved by an attendance committee under unusual circumstances. BE HERE!! Students are expected to be on time to class. Repeated tardies will not be tolerated. Detention for repeated tardies will be assigned. After the fifth tardy, students will be referred to the appropriate administrator.
BE HERE ON TIME!!
NO HATS ALLOWED IN CLASS
