A Student Workbook for Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Young Reader's Edition, Volume 2)

by Wilfred M. McClay, John D. McBride

Overview

A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.

Workbook for students studying the Young Readers Edition of Land of Hope. Middle School, Grades 6-8

The SECOND Student Workbook to accompany the two-volume Young Readers Edition of Land of Hope 

 

This Student Workbook to the Young Reader’s Edition of Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story is an invaluable supplement for students reading the Land of Hope in their courses. Prepared by Wilfred McClay in collaboration with John McBride, a master teacher with more than thirty years of secondary and collegiate teaching experience, the workbook expands on the Land of Hope, offering corresponding primary source documents and hands-on map reading exercises. It will help students develop their close reading and geography skills in order to better understand the materials presented in the Land of Hope.

 

 

This Student Workbook and Teacher’s Guide are complementary and designed to be used together. Both provide chapter summaries which instructors may use in teaching students to read for the main idea. The Student Workbook contains reading questions for each chapter of the Land of Hope text; the Teacher’s Guide has the same questions with answers. Primary source documents, including speeches, diary entries, song lyrics, compacts, letters, essays, legal documents, and more, accompany each chapter and are broken into shorter segments to help with reading comprehension. In the Student Workbook, each primary source is followed by reading questions directed to help students understand the main ideas; the Teacher’s Guide provides the answers. The Student Workbook offers fourteen map exercises; the Teacher’s Guide provides the keys. Both editions offer synthetical essay questions for each chapter and for final exams, learning strategies, and study “tricks.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641773270
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Series:	Land of Hope: Young Readers Edition Student Workbook , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	10 - 15 Years

About the Author

Wilfred M. McClay is Professor of History and the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. 

John D. McBride has 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 of Bloody Dawn: Assault on the Alamo and other rules for reenacting battles with miniatures.

Wilfred M. McClay is Professor of History and the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. 

John D. McBride has 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 of Bloody Dawn: The Final Assault on the Alamo and other rules for reenacting battles with miniatures.

Editorial 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 nation’s 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 America’s 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 accurately—critiquing 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

 

“This Young Readers Edition brings the great American story into the lives of late primary and middle-school children. We use it in Hillsdale College’s 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

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