❡ Come, here’s the map: Teaching your students to be fluent with high-quality maps - not just basically competent, but fluent - is one of the best educational gifts you can give them. ❡ Read and think critically: The country links above go to official websites, which are not always in English and which may well be propagandistic in one way or another, thus offering older students a good opportunity to exercise their critical reading and thinking skills. ? What grand global geographical excursions (real or virtual) have you made in your homeschool this Cygnus Term? ? The almanac, for example, has profiles of the nations of the world on pages 752–859 the endpapers of the atlas are index maps that will show you where each of the individual national and regional maps can be found the history encyclopedia includes individual national histories on pages 489–599 and you can find additional illustrations, flags, and other mentions through the indexes in each of these volumes.
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These all appear in your current almanac, atlas, and history encyclopedia as well. Government: Parliamentary constitutional republic.
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Using each state’s official website (above), find and copy the preamble to that state’s constitution into a commonplace book over the course of the year. Read the almanac’s one-paragraph history aloud each week. Look up the state bird in your bird guide. Find the location of the state capital in your atlas each week. Website: ❡ Little lessons: You can teach a hundred little lessons with our state-of-the-week posts, using your reference library as a starting point. State bird: Northern Cardinal (bird guide page 522). Divided into North and South Carolina in 1710″ (almanac page 459). Charles II granted a new patent to Earl of Clarendon and others. Name origin: “In 1619, Charles I gave patent to Sir Robert Heath for Province of Carolana, from Carolus, Latin name for Charles.
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North Carolina can be found on page 587 in your almanac and on plates 42 and 142 in your atlas (10th and 11th eds.).
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Our own annual review begins at the start of the River Houses year in September and goes through the states in the traditional order of admission to the Union (almanac page 458), so this week’s state is: states and the nations of the world each year, and our recommended homeschool reference library includes a current world almanac, a world atlas, and a history encyclopedia that make these reviews fun and easy. Many homeschoolers like to review the U.S. Our Sunday States & Countries posts will point the way. Tour the United States and travel the countries of the world each week with the River Houses.