A Student Workbook for Land of Hope - by Wilfred M McClay & John D McBride (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Student Workbook is intended to be used with the Teacher's Guide. Both provide chapter summaries which teachers 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 documents accompany each chapter, broken into shorter segments to help with reading comprehension. These documents also have reading questions; the Teacher's Guide provides the answers. Documents are often the text of speeches, but may include diary entries and song lyrics. There are about two dozen map exercises; the Teacher's Guide has the keys. There are synthetical essay questions for each chapter and for final exams. Learning strategies and study "tricks" are also given.

The purpose of the Student Workbook is to assist students in working through the LAND OF HOPE text with a close reading, and also to add some depth through the supplementary documents. The map exercises are "hands-on" and should help students master the crucially important geographic knowledge that the subject requires.

Review Quotes

"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