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Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher/Student Combo

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068567
ISBN
9781623413330
Grade 6-8
Neutral
High Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
No other materials needed
Conceptual/Topical
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Charlotte Mason
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Classical
A methodology based on the Latin Trivium (three stages of learning), including the grammar stage (memorization and facts), logic stage (critical thinking), and rhetoric stage (developing/defending ideas).
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Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher/Student Combo

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Publisher's Description of Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons Teacher/Student Combo
The world is at your fingertips! This theme-based writing curriculum allows students to experience world history through cultural literature and the study of famous people and events while learning to write with the Structure and Style® writing method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in grades 6–8, these lessons cover all nine IEW Units. Literature suggestions and access to vocabulary cards and other helpful PDF downloads are included. Purchase the Teacher’s Manual and Student Book together and save!

The Student Book contains assignments, instructions, engaging source texts, blank outlines, and checklists. The Teacher’s Manual contains answer keys, embedded images of student pages, teaching tips, vocabulary quizzes, and game suggestions for review. Literature suggestions and access to vocabulary cards, Simplified Source Texts, Advanced Additions and other helpful PDF downloads are included.

These lessons are designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style seminar, either live or on DVD/video.


Additional Info

This package contains the following items:

The new edition does not come with the Student Resource Packet as a download because it is a resource that is not essential for completing the course. Here are the downloads included with the new edition of WHB-S.

  • Advanced_Additions
  • Checklists.pdf
  • Exemplars.pdf
  • Simplified_Source_Texts.pdf

Category Description for Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons (IEW)

Covering events and themes of modern world history, the 30 lessons cover all nine Structure and Style units. Students will produce a formal essay and a formal critique in addition to writing from notes, summarizing a reference, writing from pictures, summarizing multiple references, and inventive writing. Each lesson is designed to take a week and there is a four-day plan provided at the beginning of each lesson to break down assignments for each day. While writing activities make up the majority of each lesson, there are also vocabulary studies. The Student Book is consumable but is reproducible (for single family purchasers). Both the Student Book and the Teacher Book include a blue page at the beginning of the book with information on accessing PDF downloads that are also needed for the course.

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Product Format:Paperback
Grades:6-8
Brand:Institute for Excellence in Writing
Author:Lori Verstegen
ISBN:9781623413330
Length in Inches:11
Width in Inches:9.875
Height in Inches:1.625
Weight in Pounds:3.7
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