Student Workbook for Land of Hope

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 FIRST 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 the 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.”

John D. 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 the David Brainerd Christian School. He has also taught political science and history as an adjunct for twenty-five years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. After retirement, he spent six years mentoring and teaching as a volunteer at Walker State Prison, Georgia’s faith- and character-based prison.