The teacher’s guide (395 pgs, pb) provides student book chapter summaries and a copy of the primary-source readings. In addition, you’ll find succinct answers to all subjective questions, objective answers to primary source reading study questions, and four Special Units (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the two-party system).
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story - Teacher's Guide
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082132
ISBN
9781641771405
Grade 9-AD
Classical
Medium Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
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Publisher's Description of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story - Teacher's Guide
This Teachers’ Guide to Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable aid to classroom teachers who use Land of Hope as a textbook for courses in United States history. McClay has coauthored the Guide with John McBride, a master teacher with over thirty years of secondary and collegiate teaching experience. The result is an exceptionally rich and useful resource for the enhancement of the classroom experience. Each chapter of Land of Hope has a five-part treatment: a short summation of the chapter’s contents, a lengthy set of questions and answers about the text of the chapter, materials that can be deployed in testing or used to sharpen classroom discussion; a set of short objective tests, suitable for quizzes and exams; a primary-source document for class study and analysis; and questions and answers to accompany the document.
In addition, there are special units to assist teachers in the giving special coverage to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Origins of the Two-Party System. Like Land of Hope itself, these materials are designed to help students come away from the study of the American past with a coherent sense of the larger story, and a sense of history as a profoundly reflective activity, one that goes to the depth of our humanity.
Category Description for Land of Hope
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story is an informative, theme-driven course that surveys US history. Propelled by historical patterns and themes (including successes and failures), this course focuses on the nation's formation, government, and development to present day. Students will process and discuss, with the aim at building responsible citizens. The Land of Hope materials shine with versatility. Use the textbook alone as an informative US history analysis or use the student text, student workbook, and teacher's guide together for a straightforward 1-credit high school course. Or, add to the three texts an optional, free, online, lecture-based course available directly from Hillsdale College for enhanced depth (registration required). The author, Wilfred McClay, is a personable lecturer. Each of the 25 roughly 30-minute videos (with additional, shorter, supplemental videos) provides an "in-class" experience, helping students process concepts. Note that this video course, according to Hillsdale, "runs contrary to the prevailing academic view of America as irredeemably racist, sexist, and unjust."
The Land of Hope Textbook is written under the premise that no culture is void of influences. The text fleshes out main themes such as the American ideas of self-rule, the "common man," the lingering effects of reconstruction, and more. While no writing is devoid of the author's perspective, this text conveys events and movements with a focus on historical significance, maintaining that a nation's condition and values are the aggregate of all that has come before. In addition, rather than promoting religious influences or completely ignoring them, McClay discusses, when appropriate, how religions have shaped our country's development. Although leaning more conservative, the text assumes a fairly balanced political presentation. Printed just before the 2020 national elections, the text ends with cautions about current national divisiveness. While an engaging read, don't worry if you're not able to read along with your student.
The Teacher's Guide provides student book chapter summaries and a copy of the primary-source readings. In addition, you'll find succinct answers to all subjective questions, objective answers to primary source reading study questions, and four Special Units: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the two-party system. For each of the 21 chapters, the Student Workbook provides study and objective questions, with one or two primary-source documents (such as The Northwest Ordinance, songs of American slavery, or Woodrow Wilson's speech, "What is Progress?"). Questions range from objective to open-ended short answer or discussion-focused questions. Since this is a consumable text, you may want to write more in-depth answers in a separate notebook.
The Land of Hope Young Reader's Editions cover the same material as above but are more manageable for middle school students.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 9-AD |
| Brand: | Encounter Books |
| ISBN: | 9781641771405 |
| Length in Inches: | 10 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.7 |
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