A Teacher's Guide to Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Young Reader's Edition, Volume 2

(Paperback, Combined volume)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Designed to accompany the Student Workbook, the Teacher's Guide provides chapter summaries which teachers may use in teaching students to read for the main idea. There are reading questions with answers for each chapter of theLAND OF HOPEtext; the Students Workbook has the same questions with blank spaces for students to write answers. Primary documents accompany each chapter, broken into shorter segments to help with reading comprehension; these documents also have reading questions with answers. Documents are often the text of speeches but may include diary entries and song lyrics. There are about two dozen map exercises, with keys. (The maps, without the answers, are also in the Student Workbook.) Extensive testing materials are included: multiple choice and put-in-order short answer questions, quote identifications, and synthetical essay questions for each chapter and for final exams. Teaching strategies are suggested, as well as supplementary materials to "thicken" topics covered in the text when teachers or students desire further details or alternate interpretations. The authors have long experience with teaching US History and know, and share here, a lot of tricks.

Did you know the originalWizard of Ozwas a spoof of the Populist Party in the late 18th century The Populists wanted to get off the gold standard (the yellow brick road) and into greenbacks (the Emerald City). Dorothy is accompanied by an industrial worker (no heart), a farmer (no brain), and the Cowardly Lion (William Jennings Bryan). Any student who has seen the movie then remembers the Populists!

Reviews

Professor McClay has brought faith, hope, and charity to this comprehensive and readable narration of our National Story.

Will Fitzhugh,The Concord Review

This affirmative, evenhanded review of American history, institutions, and character is refreshing, and comes none too soon, when so many accounts are merely trying to settle scores. Beautifully written and fair-minded,Land of Hoperanks among the finest surveys of the nations past.

Gilbert T. Sewall, American Textbook Council

Every page pops with the extraordinary achievements, near misses, and frustrating failures of a nation formed by the common pursuit of liberty and happiness.

Robert L. Jackson, Institute for Classical Education

Our children stand at risk of not knowing who they are as inheritors and keepers of American freedom. Enter Wilfred M. McClay. This latest edition of his beautiful narrative forms a compelling vision of Americas past.

Andrew J. Zwerneman, Cana Academy

Students fortunate enough to encounter these volumes will become better readers and more knowledgeable citizens.

Lucien Ellington, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Our nation is facing challenges from those who contend that America was founded on evil principles and should be effectively dismantled. This superbly readable volume tells the story of America accuratelycritiquing what we got wrong but praising the many things we got right. This approach will produce fair-minded citizens who are loyal to our ideals but who are also willing to challenge our leaders to live up to them.

Michael Farris, president & CEO, Alliance Defending Freedom, and founder, Home School Legal Defense Association

ThisYoung Readers Editionbrings the great American story into the lives of late primary and middle-school children. We use it in Hillsdale Colleges affiliated K-12 schools, and enthusiastically recommend it to any teacher or parent.

Dr. Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education, Hillsdale College

Author Bio

Wilfred M. McClayis Professor of History and the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. John D. McBridehas more than fifty years experience in teaching US history. He earned a BA and an MA at Rice University (1968, 1971) and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (1977). After an interruption for the US Army Reserves, he and wife Mary Jane raised two children while working as dorm parents at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he served as head of the History Department and developed a two-year Western Civilization curriculum. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in both the Political Science and the History Departments. He worked as a volunteer instructor at Walker State Prison, Georgia's faith- and character-based prison. John enjoys using simulation games and debates and other group activities in his classes whenever possible. He is the author ofBloody Dawn: The Final Assault on the Alamoand other rules for reenacting battles with miniatures.