INSTRUCTOR’S RESOURCE MANUAL The American Promise

INSTRUCTOR'S RESOURCE MANUAL

The American Promise

A History of the United States

Fourth Edition

SARAH E. GARDNER

Mercer University

CATHERINE A. JONES

Johns Hopkins University

Bedford/St. Martin's Boston New York

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ISBN?10: 0?312?47006?1 ISBN?13: 978?0?312?47006?7

Instructors who have adopted The American Promise, Fourth Edition, as a textbook for a course are authorized to duplicate portions of this manual for their students.

Preface

This manual draws upon instructor experiences teaching with The American Promise. Intended to help make your American survey course as successful as possible, it offers chapter-by-chapter suggestions and resources for teaching with fourth edition. The following features are designed to help you make the most of your course.

Anticipating Student Reactions discusses common misunderstandings that new students of U.S. history typically bring to class and addresses topics that students frequently find difficult to grasp. This points to ways in which instructors can debunk misconceptions, complicate generalizations, clarify topics, and incite students into active thinking about history.

Features

Chapter Learning Objectives offer an overview of the chapter's content for easy reference and act as a starting point for class discussions.

Annotated Chapter Outline gives an in-depth review of each chapter, covering major topics and sub-themes, and serves as a guidepost for those new to the book.

NEW Chapter Questions includes model answer guidelines for the new Review Questions and Making Connections questions, along with the Map and Visual Activities and the questions that accompany the Documenting the American Promise feature. The guidelines include page references to help you efficiently guide your students back to the narrative for reinforcement of major points. The model answers can also be used as a guide for class discussions and to help establish grading guidelines when the questions are used for assignments, quizzes, or tests.

Lecture Strategies in each chapter provide flexible approaches to teaching the chapter's major themes and events. Each suggests ways to use the textbook's images, boxed features, and maps to illustrate or reinforce points in the narrative and to provoke discussion.

In-Class Activities offer suggestions for engaging students, such as debates and simulations based on important topics in the text, and is divided into four subsections. Class Discussion Starters help stretch students' historical imagination and impress upon them the conditional nature of history, unseating the notion that history moves forward as a predetermined sequence of events. Historical Debates point to major points of contention among scholars and offer suggestions for setting up classroom debates on thoughtprovoking topics. Reading Primary Sources suggests ways to introduce students to primary sources, to develop their analytical thinking skills, and to encourage them to think about the past like historians. Finally, Using Film and Television in the Classroom offers numerous titles of documentaries and relevant Hollywood films for students to view.

Additional Resources appear at the conclusion of each chapter. These detailed guides list chapterspecific elements from the many supplements available with the book, including transparencies and digital images for classroom use, supplementary readings for students, and customized online activities that are fully integrated with the text and allow students to practice the skills historians use while reinforcing chapter content. A full list of the resources available with The American Promise, Fourth Edition, follows.

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NEW Research Paper Topics are designed to encourage students to integrate material and think analytically. The sample research paper questions cover material from multiple chapters and ask students to interpret political, social, religious, and economic patterns and changes over time.

Discussing The American Promise: A Survival Guide for First-Time Teaching Assistants appears in Appendix I of this manual. This unique resource supplements the chapter-specific teaching suggestions with concrete advice for T.A.'s on teaching the U.S. history survey course--working with professors, overcoming problems with students, running discussion sections, designing assignments, grading tests and papers, relating thesis and dissertation work to classroom teaching, and more.

Sample Syllabi, which appear in Appendix II, offer suggestions for structuring survey courses using this textbook as well as other supplemental Bedford/St. Martin's materials. Syllabi are included for quarter schools, semester schools, and the one-semester survey.

lecture, assignment, and research materials such as PowerPoint chapter outlines and the digital libraries at Make History. The Web site also contains additional instructor materials including an online version of this manual, a guide to changing editions, a guide to using the Bedford Series in History and Culture with the fourth edition, and chapter questions for i>clicker, a classroom response system.

Computerized Test Bank. This test bank, by Bradford Wood (Eastern Kentucky University), Peter Lau (University of Rhode Island), and Sondra Cosgrove (Community College of Southern Nevada) contains easy-to-use software to create tests. Over 80 exercises are provided per chapter, including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, map analysis, short essay, and fulllength essay questions, including the questions from the textbook. Instructors can customize quizzes, add or edit both questions and answers, and export questions and answers to a variety of formats, including WebCT and Blackboard. The disc includes correct answers and essay outlines as well as separate test banks for the associated telecourses Shaping America and Transforming America.

Supplements Available with The American Promise, Fourth Edition

This manual serves as the keystone to the comprehensive collection of supplements available with The American Promise, Fourth Edition, that provide an integrated support system for veteran teachers, firsttime teacher assistants, and instructors who lecture to large classes. As noted above, chapter-specific suggestions for incorporating many of the supplements can be found throughout this manual.

Supplements

For Instructors

Transparencies. This set of over 160 full-color acetate transparencies of full-size maps and images from both the full and compact editions of The American Promise helps instructors present lectures and teach students important map and image-reading skills.

Book Companion Site at roark. The companion Web site gathers all the electronic resources for the fourth edition, including the Online Study Guide and related Quiz Gradebook, at a single Web address, providing convenient links to

Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. This disc provides instructors with ready-made and customizable PowerPoint multimedia presentations built around chapter outlines, maps, figures, and selected images from the textbook. The disc also includes selected images from the textbook in jpeg and PowerPoint format, and outline maps in PDF format for quizzing or handouts.

Make History at roark. Comprising the content of our five acclaimed online libraries--Map Central, the U.S. History Image Library, DocLinks, HistoryLinks, and PlaceLinks, Make History provides one-stop access to relevant digital content including maps, images, documents, and Web links. Students and instructors alike can search this free, easyto-use database by keyword, topic, date, or specific chapter of The American Promise and can download any content they find. Instructors using The American Promise can also create collections of content and post them to the Web to share with students.

Using the Bedford Series in History and Culture in the U.S. History Survey at usingseries. This online guide helps instructors integrate volumes from the popular Bedford Series in History and Culture into their U.S. history survey course. The guide not only correlates themes from each series book to the survey course but also provides ideas for classroom discussions.

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Course Management Content. E-content is available for this book in Blackboard, WebCT, Angel, and Desire2Learn course management systems. This e-content includes nearly all of the offerings from the book's Online Study Guide as well as the book's test bank and the test banks from the associated telecourses Shaping America and Transforming America.

Videos and Multimedia. A wide assortment of videos and multimedia CD-ROMs on various topics in American history is available to qualified adopters. Also available, Reel Teaching, featuring 59 short clips from the telecourses Shaping America and Transforming America in DVD and VHS formats for presentation during lectures.

The American Promise for Distance Learning via Telecourse. We are pleased to announce that The American Promise has been selected as the textbook for the award-winning U.S. history telecourses Shaping America: U.S. History to 1877 and Transforming America: U.S. History since 1877 by Dallas TeleLearning at the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications, Dallas County Community College District. Guides for students and instructors fully integrate the narrative of The American Promise into each telecourse. For more information on these distance-learning opportunities, visit the Dallas TeleLearning Web site at , e-mail tlearn@dcccd.edu, or call 972-669-6650.

For Students

Reading the American Past. Selected Historical Documents, Fourth Edition. Edited by Michael P. Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), one of the authors of The American Promise, and designed to complement the textbook, Reading the American Past provides a broad selection of over 150 primary source documents as well as editorial apparatus to help students understand the sources. Emphasizing the important social, political, and economic themes of U.S. history courses, thirty-one new documents (one per chapter) were added to provide a multiplicity of perspectives on environmental, Western, ethnic, and gender history and to bring a global dimension to the anthology. Available free when packaged with the text.

NEW The American Promise and Reading the American Past e-Book. Not your usual e-book, this one-of-a-kind online resource integrates the text of The American Promise with the 150 additional written sources of the companion sourcebook, Reading the American Past, along with the self-testing activities of the Online Study Guide, into one easy-to-use e-book.

With search functions stronger than in any competing text, this e-book is an ideal study and reference tool for students. Instructors can easily add documents, images, and other material to customize the text, making this e-book especially suited to instructors who wish to build dynamic online courses or use electronic texts and documents. Available free with the print text or stand-alone for about half the price of the textbook.

NEW Audio Reviews for The American Promise, Fourth Edition at roark. Audio Reviews are a new tool that fits easily into students' lifestyles and provides a practical new way for them to study. These 25- to 30-minute summaries of each chapter in The American Promise highlight the major themes of the text and help reinforce student learning.

Online Study Guide at roark. The popular Online Study Guide is a free and unique learning tool to help students master themes and information presented in the textbook and improve their historical skills. Assessment quizzes, short answer and essay questions, and interactive activities allow students to evaluate their comprehension and provide them with feedback and text references for further study. Instructors can monitor students' progress through the online Quiz Gradebook or receive e-mail updates.

The Bedford Glossary for U.S. History. This handy supplement for the survey course gives students clear, concise definitions of the political, economic, social, and cultural terms used by historians and contemporary media alike. The terms are historically contextualized to aid comprehension. Available free when packaged with the text.

History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online. This resource, written by Alan Gevinson, Kelly Schrum, and Roy Rosenzweig (all of George Mason University), provides an illustrated and annotated guide to 250 of the most useful Web sites for student research in U.S. history as well as advice on evaluating and using Internet sources. This essential guide is based on the acclaimed "History Matters" Web site developed by the American History Social Project and the Center for History and New Media. Available free when packaged with the text.

Maps in Context: A Workbook for American History. Written by historical cartography expert Gerald A. Danzer (University of Illinois, Chicago), this skillbuilding workbook helps students comprehend essential connections between geographic literacy and historical understanding. Organized to correspond to

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