Shelly Kintisch, Wilma Cordero

Breaking Away from the Textbook

A Creative Approach to Teaching American History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Third Edition updates the decades of the 1980s and 1990s and moves into the events and issues of the 21st century. Designed as a teaching supplement for any U.S. history course of study, it can be used in its entirety or selectively to fill in gaps left by traditional textbooks and curricula. The authors seek to bring U.S. history to life for students by providing them with skills to analyze the past and to make history a part of their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• 3rd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781578862931
• ISBN-10: 1578862930
• Artikelnr.: 21618330

Autorenporträt

Shelly Kintisch and Wilma Cordero have worked together for over thirty years. They are firmly committed to public education and through the years have developed multicultural curriculum for heterogeneous classes, team-taught, supervised student teachers, coached the debate team, and mentored new teachers.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction to the First Edition Part 2 Introduction to the Second
Edition Part 3 Introduction to the Third Edition Chapter 4 1. Exploration
of the New World Chapter 5 2. The Colonists Chapter 6 3. The American
Revolution and the Declaration of Independence Chapter 7 4. The
Constitution and the Bill of Rights Chapter 8 5. Establishing the New
Nation Chapter 9 6. Expansion and the Frontier Chapter 10 7. The Civil War
Chapter 11 8. Reconstruction Chapter 12 9. Life Across the United States,
1865-1900 Chapter 13 10. The Industrial Revolution Chapter 14 11.
Immigration Chapter 15 12. The United States Becomes a World Power Chapter
16 13. The Twenties Chapter 17 14. The Great Depression Chapter 18 15.
World War II Chapter 19 16. The Postwar Years, 1945-1959 Chapter 20 17. The
Sixties Chapter 21 18. The Seventies Chapter 22 19. The Eighties and
Nineties: Ending the Twentieth Century Chapter 23 20. Facing the
Twenty-First Century Chapter 24 21. Current Events Chapter 25 22. Term
Papers Chapter 26 23. A Special Classroom Library: Beyond Reference Chapter
27 24. Debates