Option 1: To be used with students with IEP's, ESL, and lower ability students.

Each student receives a copy of the chapter topics to use when responding in their notebooks.  Each of the notebook assignments can then be graded using the copy of the topic page.  Have students put their names on the topic page and staple to their notebook responses.  Then use the topic page to check off information covered.

Option 2: To be used with students who are unable to express themselves using written language.

Each student is asked to orally respond, point out, and/or demonstrate the topics below.

Option 3: To be used with higher ability students.

Students are given lesson titles to prompt their writing.  They are to include everything they remember about the lesson.

Put a check next to each topic for a definition, another if they included examples or an additional explanation. Don't forget to include checkmarks for any other information they included that was discussed in the chapter. Translate the checklist to a score using the chart below or one of your own.

checkmarks-     28              l00%         A+
                   25-28               98%         A
                   22-24               95%         A-
                   20-21               90%         B+
                   18-20               88%         B
                   16-17               85%         B-
                   13-15               80%         C
                     9-12               70%         D
                below 9               60%         F
 
 
 
 

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chap. 10

Chap.  11

Chapter  12

 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 

Lesson 1-Our country's geography

landforms
elevation
elevation maps

Lesson 2 Our country's climate

weather
precipitation
3 factors that affect climate

Lesson 3- Our country's resources

natural resources
renewable
nonrenewable
conservation
recycling

Lesson 4- Canada's environment

landforms found there
climate
borders
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.

Lesson 1- Our Country's People

culture
custom
growth of population
heritage

Lesson 2- Our Country's Government

branches of government
citizens
rights and responsibility

Lesson 3- Our Country's Ecomony

economy
how a business works
transportation

Lesson 4- Our Country's Regions

regions
names of regions
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 

Lesson 1- Mighty Mississippi

tributaries
river basin
delta
New Orleans
Jazz

Lesson 2- A Long Growing Season

agriculture
growing season
cash crops
effects climate has on crops

Lesson 3- Coal: A buried treasure

coal
miners
electricity

Lesson 4- A River in Egypt

Nile
river uses
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 

Lesson 1- Sequoyah and the Cherokee

Tuskegee
Echota
Sequoyah
Tail of Tears

Lesson 2- Thomas Jefferson in Williamsburg

colony
Thomas Jefferson
democracy
Independence
Declaration of Independence

Lesson 3- A Divided Country

Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglasss
Underground Railroad
abolotion
civil war
Emanicipation Proclamation

Lesson 4- The Changing Southeast

segregation
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
freedom
Mohandas Gandhi
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 

Lesson 1- The Appalachian Mountains

appalachian- trails- mountains
glacier
fall line
Industrial Revolution

Lesson 2- Autumn in the Northeast

seasons
broadleaf
needleleaf
forests

Lesson 3- Harvesting the Sea

harbor
fish of the region
Chesapeake Bay
aquaculture
ship building

Lesson 4- Switzerland's Mountains

timberline
landlocked
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 

Lesson 1- The Iroguios Confederacy

longhouses
confederacy

Lesson 2- Paul Revere and the American Revolution

Paul Revere
Colonial Boston
Patriots
American Revolution

Lesson 3- Immigrants in the Northeast

Ellis Island
tenements
sweatshops
immigrants

Lesson 4- Changing Northeast

megalopolis
suburbs
metropolitan area
commuter
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 

Lesson 1- Interior Plains

plains
livestock

Lesson 2- Far from the Oceans

lake effect
farming
tornado
drought

Lesson 3 -Iron in the Hills

iron
ore
open pit mining
steel mill
skyscrapers

Lesson 4- The Plains of Poland

marshes
perticides
communist
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 
 
 

Lesson 1- Wagons, Ho!

frontier
pioneers
Abraham Lincoln
conestoga wagon
flatboats

Lesson 2- Lakota of the Plains

Lakota
life on the plains
Crazy Horse
George Custer

Lesson 3- Motor City USA

Henry Ford
migration
mass production
assembly line

Lesson 4- The Changing Middle West

combine
grain elevator
food processing
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 
 

Lesson 1- The Grand Canyon

mesa
buttes
Colorado River
erosion
canyon
tourism

Lesson 2- The Dry Southwest

adaptation
aquifers
dust bowl
 

Lesson 3- Black Gold

petroleum
crude oil
refinery
future of oil

Lesson 4- Oil Fields of Nigeria

international trade
urban
rural
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 
 

Lesson 1- The Navajo Then and Now

herding
hogan
Kit Carson
The Long Walk
Dinetah

Lesson 2- The Spanish in the Southwest

conquistador
missions
ranchos
adobe

Lesson 3- The Cattle Drives

working on the range
cattle drive
Chisholm Trail
feedlots
 

Lesson 4- Changing Southwest

Sun Belt
population growth
problems with crowding
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 
 
 
 

Lesson 1 The Central Valley

coast ranges
central valley
irrigation
crops
fertilizers

Lesson 2- Climate and Elevation

Death Valley
rain shadow
rain forest

Lesson 3- Treasures of the Forests

sequoia
logging
deforestation
totem poles

Lesson 4- The Rain Forest of Brazil

Amazon River
latex
threats to the forest
 
 

Please define, explain, and give examples for as many of the topics below that you remember.  Please use complete sentences and give detailed information when you can.  Also include any other information you've learned from this chapter.  If you don't remember a topic, skip it and move on to what you do know.
 
 
 
 
 

Lesson 1- The Hawaiians

taro
Polynesia
Honolulu

Lesson 2- The Gold Rush

Sutter's Mill
Gold Rush
Forty-Niners
panning
ghost towns
transcontinental

Lesson 3- Pioneers of Women's Rights

suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
amendment
Jeannette Rankin
Nellie Tayloe Ross

Lesson 4- The Changing West

movies
Hollywood
Los Angeles