This Teachers’ Guide to Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable supplemental resource for teachers who use Land of Hope as a textbook for courses in U.S. history. Prepared by Dr. McClay in collaboration with Dr. 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 the use of classroom instructors. Each chapter of Land of Hope receives a five-part treatment: a short summation of the chapter’s contents, questions and answers about the chapter, short objective tests suitable for quizzes and exams, a primary-source document for class analysis, and questions and answers to accompany the document. In addition, there are special units to assist teachers in helping students to understand the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the origins of the two-party system.
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A Teacher’s Guide to Land of Hope
An Invitation to the Great American Story
Publication Details
Paperback / 416 pages
ISBN: 9781641771405
Available: 6/30/2020
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About the Authors
Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College.
John McBride was educated at Rice University (BA 1968, MA 1971) and the University of Virginia (PhD 1977). He taught high school history in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1974 to 2010 at the Baylor School and David Brainerd Christian School.
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