Dear Honors World Geography Students,

Welcome to Honors Geography! As noted in the Course Selection Book, there is a summer assignment required for this course.

Follow the directions for each carefully.

Mapping the World’s Locations

Honors World Geography isn’t about memorizing where places are. It is about learning what goes on in those places. That being said, you must know the features of our planet before we can begin to learn about what goes on here. Think of it this way, you can’t do algebra and geometry without knowing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Honors Geography is like algebra and maps are like basic math.

So..instead of a summer reading, you will take a map test the first week of school on a program called Lizardpoint. Go to www.lizardpoint.com and choose GEOGRAPHY. Bookmark this as you will be going to it throughout Honors World Geography!

When you are on the Geography tab of the website, practice and take following quizzes:

• Required o Continents and Oceans (Under the World Tab) o Top 30 Countries by Population (Under the World Tab) o AP Human Geography: World Regions (Under the World Tab) • Highly Recommended (there will be quizzes over these throughout the semester) o o o o o Asia o Oceania

The quizzes will have many features that you can explore to help you learn the locations. Throughout the semester, you will have weekly quizzes using this program, so familiarize yourself with the way it works. NOTE: Your quizzes will be online with the “strict” setting, so be sure you study using that feature. Additionally, there will be some countries from these quizzes on the semester comprehensive final.

Questions? I am available by email all summer. Do know that my family and I will be traveling at various times throughout the summer, so it may not be a quick turnaround for a response. I LOVE to help my students learn and achieve. PLEASE, PLEASE do not hesitate to contact me!