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A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.Workbook for High School Students studying Land of HopeThis workbook accompanies Land of Hope This
Student Workbook for Wilfred M. McClay's
Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable supplemental resource for students and 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 classroom instructors. The
Student Workbook is designed to be used in tandem with the
Teacher's Guide to Land of Hope and includes additional materials, such as extensive map exercises, that will build students' geographical knowledge. In the
Student Workbook, each chapter of
Land of Hope receives a four-part treatment: 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, the
Student Workbook contains special units to assist students in understanding the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Finally, in addition to the map exercises, the
Student Workbook features handy reference tools for student use and an extensive list of suggested topics for research papers and further investigation.
About the author
Wilfred M. McClay is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University
of Oklahoma. He served from 2002 to 2013 on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory
board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is currently serving on the U.S.
Semiquincentennial Commission, which is planning for the 250th anniversary of the United States in
2026. Among his books is
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, which won the 1995
Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American
intellectual history. He was educated at St. John's College (Annapolis) and received his Ph.D. from
the Johns Hopkins University.
Summary
When we published Land of Hope in May of 2019, we had an immediate response from teachers
and students that (1) they loved the book, and (2) they would need ancillary materials to aid them in
the use of the book for classroom instruction. We jumped right on that, and produced a Teacher's
Guide, which appeared in spring of 2020, and we're now following up with a Student Workbook, which
is completely coordinated with the Teacher's Guide, featuring study questions (which can also be
used for testing by teachers), objective exercises (matching, identification, temporal ordering),
primary-source documents and accompanying study questions, a section of map exercises which
include in-text outline maps for student use, as well as back-of-the-book resources such as reference
tables for the British monarchy, the American presidency, and a list of suggestive questions that are
suitable for extended essays or term papers. It is the perfect resource for both classroom teaching,
home education, and hybrid versions of both.
