Exploring American History is a two-book reading series that promotes academic success by developing critical reading, vocabulary, and test-taking skills around compelling narratives of major events and key people in U.S. history.
This teacher's manual is designed to accompany the low intermediate level student book.
Chapter 1: Ellis Island: A Door to Opportunity
Chapter 2: The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Flight
Workshop I: Word Power - Number Prefixes
Chapter 3: The San Francisco Earthquake
Chapter 4: Women Win the Right to Vote
Workshop II: Test-Taking Strategies- Reading Comprehension Tests
Chapter 5: The Jazz Age
Chapter 6: Dorothea Lange: Photographer of the Great Depression
Workshop III: Word Power- Suffixes
Chapter 7: Jesse Owens: The Fastest Man
Chapter 8: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Workshop IV: Test-Taking Strategies - Vocabulary Tests
Chapter 9: Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
Chapter 10: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Workshop V: Word Power- Word Parts and Meanings
Chapter 11: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream
Chapter 12: The Race to the Moon
Workshop VI: Test-Taking Strategies- Reading Tests
Chapter 13: Watergate
Chapter 14: Remembering the Vietnam War
Workshop VII: Word Power- Idioms
Chapter 15: The End of the Cold War
Chapter 16: The Attack on the World Trade Center
Workshop VIII: Test-Taking Strategies - Vocabulary Tests