ALL GLOBETROTTER AWARDS FINAL DATE: Please fill out and submit your Globetrotter application by or on APRIL 14
Complete all homework:
- Read Rocks Rivers and the Changing Earth
- Do all experiments in Rocks Rivers and the Changing Earth
- Read assigned chapters of Prisoners of Geography (all except USA and Latin America)
- Watch 10 Most Dangerous Way to Schools
- Read/watch 6 literature/movie assignments (1. Esperanza Rising, 2. Butterfly Hill, 3. Heart of a Samurai OR Mountain Meets the Moon, 4. Call it Courage, 5. Wadjda [movie], 6. Running for my Life)
- Finish and present 2 projects
AND Pick two of the following:
- Read one additional book:
- Major Impossible by Nathan Hale
- The Three Princes of Serendip by Rodaan Al Galidi
- Angel on the Square (and companion novel The Impossible Journey) by Gloria Whalen
- The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott
- Black Gold by Albert Marrin
- Death on the River of Doubt by Samantha Seiple
- Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
- Longitude by Deva Sobel
- A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
- Desert Solitaire (essays) by Edward Abbey
- Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai (contains Hunger Games level violence)
- Homes by Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah (contains graphic violence)
You may choose two books. Books are listed from easiest to those most challenging or mature. Ask Sis. Stanfill for recommendations.
- Watch two episodes of Geography now from each of the 7 regions
- Complete Khan Academy’s “Earth geological and climatic history” unit
- Watch Human Planet – Episodes 1,3,4,5,6,7
- Complete Draw the USA by Kristin Draeger
- Complete Draw the World by Kristin Draeger
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