How can you utilize the imaginative power of reading to help your geography studies?Ĭonsider “reading” your way around geography! This approach combines geographical studies with geographically-focused literature. Campbell, which studies the earth’s ecosystems, landforms, and climate). In high school, geography is typically a subject in and of itself (for example, Homeschool Connections’ Physical Geography course with Mr. During the younger ages, geography is often studied as ancillary to other subjects (ex., a history lesson on the growth of the United States will incorporate maps of the country at various times to help students understand the historical development of the country). There are so many ways this aspect of reading can be utilized in a Catholic homeschool, but today I’d like to apply it to U.S. Reading is a medium that allows us access to all the collective experiences of the human race. He who reads about France “travels” to France in his mind she who reads Pride and Prejudice “becomes” Lizzy Bennett. “I can go anywhere…I can be anything.” These simple lines speak to literature’s extraordinary ability to literally open our minds to new vistas through the power of imagination. It was memorable for the books it introduced us to through Levar Burton’s narration, but also for the earworm theme song that we can still recall decades later. Many of us remember the television show Reading Rainbow. Booklist: Reading Your Way Around America
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