This manual provides teacher guidance, answers, and additional activities (along with reduced student pages) for this Hillsdale College inspired course. Effective for individual students and co-ops, this theme-based course follows Hillsdale College K-12 Education aligned themes. Suggested literature and poetry are included in the back, as well as an Appendix for Mechanics, Vocabulary, and an Answer Key for Vocabulary quizzes. If you desire to add these to make a complete language arts, you’ll want to preview content and readability of the suggested literature with your particular student in mind. The publisher assumes a familiarity with the IEW Structure and Style© methodology and will reference terminology and techniques unique to this method. Use this Teacher’s Manual alongside the student consumable. 284 pages, softcover. ~ Ruth
Journeys in Writing Teacher's Manual
Product Overview
- Requires the teacher have access to the Structure and Style® method
- Uses US History-focused source texts to develop writing skills
- Instructor’s direction surrounds reduced student text
Description
Discover a wide variety of fascinating subjects in Journeys in Writing! Students write about intriguing topics such as Niagara Falls, Monet, the symphony, and other interesting subjects while they learn to write with the Structure and Style® writing method. Offering a full year of Writing Across the Curriculum for students in 7th grade, these lessons cover the nine IEW Units. Literature suggestions and access to vocabulary cards and other helpful PDF downloads are included. Journeys in Writing was written in collaboration with Hillsdale College K-12 Education.
This complete Teacher’s Manual contains answer keys, embedded images of student pages, teaching tips, vocabulary quizzes, and game suggestions for review.
This book is designed to be used by an instructor who has been through or is currently viewing the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video seminar.
This theme-based study provides a year’s worth of opportunity for any student familiar with the Structure and Style© method. Students will retell narratives; write from notes and pictures; and summarize multiple references. After practicing these skills, they’ll learn how to summarize multiple references focused on colonial education and the US Constitution. Next, students practice the five-paragraph model (including an intro and conclusion) with inventive writing, a formal essay, and a critique of literature. When it’s time for formal essays, the course provides essay structures (outlines), planning charts, integrating questions and quotations into writing, and more. A large focus of this theme-based level is learning how to engage with primary sources and to summarize key documents in research.
Typical of the IEW theme-based curriculum, writing selections from professional authors are included. Students will use these to provide content in their own compositions. Vocabulary studies are also pulled from these selections. You’ll want to examine the Unit 9 literature selections, in particular. This unit provides 7 weeks of study, directing students to respond to 3 short stories: The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant; The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry; and the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (the narrator in this piece insists on his sanity after killing a man). While Tell-Tale Heart is often studied in upper middle school or high school, you’ll want to preview for your student and family. Studying this short story can be a good opportunity to discuss unreliable narrators.
Both the Student consumable book and the Teacher’s Manual are required for this composition course and can be purchased as a combo package. If you wish to add literature studies to make a complete language arts, you’ll find Appendix I provides a list of fiction and a poetry list organized by month. Literature includes Fahrenheit 451; Cyrano de Bergerac; A Christmas Carol; The Call of the Wild; Romeo & Juliet; and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The Teacher’s Manual includes a scope and sequence for 30 weeks of lessons, listing the topic of the writing used, the style focus (alliteration, openers, etc.), and the weekly vocabulary words to study. Follow along with the student book using the reduced student pages that include teacher guidance and helps. Included with purchase of this manual are PDF downloads of Vocabulary Cards, reproducible assignment checklists, and Writing Exemplars. The Teacher’s Manual includes appendixes for adding literature, tips for handling grammar and mechanics, and the vocabulary from each lesson with definitions and quizzes for each chapter. Appendix IV provides Review Games. The Teacher’s Manual is not reproducible. The consumable Student Book provides all your student needs for each lesson, along with digital access to Vocabulary Cards, reproducible checklists, and exemplars. This text includes a scope and sequence and appendixes on adding literature, mechanics review, and vocabulary by lesson. Student and Teacher texts are ©2025. See individual descriptions for more specifics. ~ Ruth
| Product Format: | Paperback Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 6-8 |
| Brand: | Institute for Excellence in Writing |
| ISBN: | 9781623414269 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 9.0625 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.9375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.5 |