Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: geography, Map Drill, map questions

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July 3, 2015 at 8:40 pm
missceegee
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Sonya (and others),
1. What are your thoughts on how Charlotte would have used the questions in her Geographical Readers? For example in Geographical Readers for Elementary Schools, Book II for Standard III on page 75, here are the first 10 questions of 54 in that section.
Questions on the Map of the British Isles.
1. What waters divide the island of Great Britain from the Continent ?
2. What countries have coasts on the further side of the North Sea?
3. The island of Great Britain contains three countries ; name them. Which is the most northerly ? The most westerly ? The most important ?
4. A range of hills partly divides England from Scotland ; name it.
5. What large island lies to the west of Great Britain ? What waters separate these two islands ?
6. How is England separated from France ? Name an island, two or three headlands, and two or three bays on the English shore of this channel.
7. What strait connects the English Channel with the North Sea? Sailing northward from this strait, what is the first headland we pass ?
8. What is the first large opening on the eastern coast? Name the great town upon this river.
9. Name any seaboard towns on the coast of the round eastern shoulder.
10. What rivers flow into the Wash ?
I attended a CM immersion class several years ago that addressed map questions such as these, but I’ve misplaced my notes. I’m interested in your thoughts from your research.
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2. I’m debating assigning dd14 ch. 1-29 instead of 15-29 for the book since all of those chapters deal with Europe. I know the Visits book mentions letting them read the full book, if interested. I’m curious about your reasoning for not assigning it all.
3. Some of the info. is out of date, obviously. Have you used a certain research process that isn’t time consuming or a certain book to bring the knowledge up to date?
4. Do you have any suggestions for modern travel memoirs or other books related to Europe that you might suggest as free reads for middle or high school ages? We will read all of the Visits suggested books, but my kids have loved some go-alongs like Parvana’s Journey trilogy that we read with Middle East this year.
Many thanks,
Christie
July 5, 2015 at 8:10 pm
HollyS
Participant
Christie,
I’m glad you asked this as we’ll be using this book next year as well. I’d love to hear how much of the book you decide to have them read. I ordered a hard copy of the book and am hoping to at least skim through to figure out how much to cover. I’ll have a 13 and 10yo reading it.
July 5, 2015 at 9:53 pm
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
Good questions, Christie.
What are your thoughts on how Charlotte would have used the questions in her Geographical Readers?
I haven’t researched that completely yet, but my thoughts right now are that she would have used those questions to help the student look closely and carefully at the map.
I’m debating assigning dd14 ch. 1-29 instead of 15-29 for the book since all of those chapters deal with Europe.
The decision was mainly a time-oriented one. I had only 15 or so slots for reading assignments and wanted to make sure we covered all the European countries, so I focused on chapters 15-29.
Some of the info. is out of date, obviously. Have you used a certain research process that isn’t time consuming or a certain book to bring the knowledge up to date?
My usual go-to resource for the most recent geography info is the Internet. I like to go to the sites that are written by the country in question whenever possible.
Do you have any suggestions for modern travel memoirs or other books related to Europe that you might suggest as free reads for middle or high school ages?
We supplemented with Rick Steves travel videos that we had picked up at a used book store. Some of them required a little editing/discussion, depending on the maturity level of the student, but they gave us a great look at the modern countries, plus he often added historical information and art relations. I’m not necessarily recommending them, but that’s what we had on hand. You might check Amazon Prime for travel documentaries. I think in geography especially, it’s a good pairing to put video along with the books.
Best, of course, would be a European tour in person. 🙂
July 5, 2015 at 10:09 pm
missceegee
Participant
Thank you, Sonya. There is a very real possibility that dd14 will spend several months in Switzerland and possibly France during 10th grade. 🙂
July 5, 2015 at 10:14 pm
homeschooltraveler
Participant
I’m sorry that this is slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knows where to find either a pdf version, or hard copy of Geographical Readers for Elementary Schools. We are going to be living overseas where the internet is unpredictable at best. I’m trying to find pdf or hard copies of pretty much everything so I don’t have to rely on the internet for essentials. TIA.
July 6, 2015 at 7:47 am
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
Not off topic at all; here’s a link to Geographical Readers for Elementary Schools, Book IV, The Countries of Europe.
July 6, 2015 at 10:53 am
HollyS
Participant
I ordered a hard copy through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Geographical-Readers-Elementary-Schools-Charlotte/dp/0554819406/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436197912&sr=8-1&keywords=charlotte+mason+geographical+readers
July 6, 2015 at 1:03 pm
cedargirl
Participant
I am getting one from chapters.ca, I think their US affiliate is which ever company does Barnes&Noble or Borders stores.