Teacher's Guide to Land of Hope

A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.Guide for Teachers usingLand of Hope: Young Readers Edition. Middle School grades 6-8The FIRSTTeachers Guideto accompany the two-volume narrativeLand of Hope: Young Readers EditionThisTeacher's Guideto theYoung Reader's Editionof Wilfred McClay'sLand of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Storyis an invaluable supplemental resource for teachers who use the Young Reader's Edition as a textbook for middle-grade courses in US history. Prepared by McClay in collaboration with John McBride, a master teacher with more than thirty years of secondary and collegiate teaching experience, it is an exceptionally rich and useful tool for classroom instructors.Each chapter of thisTeacher's Guidereceives a five-part treatment: a short summation of the chapter's contents questions and answers about the chapter, a list of key names and terms appearing within each one, a crossword puzzle based on those names and terms, and one or more primary source documents for class analysis with accompanying questions and answers. Longer documents are broken into shorter passages with questions interspersed to help younger readers.ThisTeacher's Guidealso features a collection of map exercises as well as special units to assist instructors in teaching students about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the two-party system.