U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons (Student/Teacher Set)

Grades 6 - 8

Travel back in time to early United States history with IEW's US History-Based Writing Lessons! This theme-based writing curriculum allows students to delve into the excitement of explorers, battles, land expansion, famous ships, and founding fathers while learning to write with the Structure and Style writing method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in grades 6-8, these lessons cover all nine IEW Units.

The Student Workbook contains vocabulary cards, literature suggestions, and access to helpful PDF downloads are also included. This Student Book contains assignments, instructions, engaging source texts, blank outlines, checklists, sample compositions, and clever vocabulary cards.

This Teacher's Manual contains answer keys, embedded images of student pages, teaching tips, vocabulary quizzes, student exemplars, simplified source texts, and advanced source texts for older students.

These lessons are designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Institute for Excellence in Writing Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar, either live or on DVD.

This kit includes:

• Teacher's Guide, 354 pages, spiralbound. 2nd Edition. Non-reproducible.
• Student Workbook, 378 pages, spiralbound. 2nd Edition. Reproducible for children within the same immediate family.