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 the LAND OF HOPE text; 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 original Wizard of Oz was 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!
