Copyright 1998                     Copyright 2004
 

 

Exciting New Eighth Grade Textbook for 2004

  • New and Improved Textbook Design
  • Atlas of West Virginia Maps
  • New Exciting Pictures
  • Special New Feature in each chapter "Preserving Our Heritage"
  • New House of Delegates and Congressional Maps
  • Exciting New Charts and Graphs

Pupil Edition

A beautiful and newly designed textbook of 560 full-color pages featuring:

  • High student appeal
  • Hundreds of interesting photographs, maps, and illustrations
  • Multicultural
  • Fair and consistent treatment of diversity
  • New Preserving Our Heritage Feature in each chapter
  • Written specifically for West Virginia Students and Teachers
  • Correlates to West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives
  • Did You Know? Questions
  • Two-page Chapter Review contains vocabulary, critical thinking exercises, special projects, building skills, trivia, and more

Why West Virginia Students Will Love It...

  • Beautiful use of full color throughout
  • Visually outstanding – hundreds of illustrations
  • Excellent organization and clear and simple writing style make learning easier
  • Special features to motivate, enlighten, and maintain interest
  • Activities to encourage participation and develop skills

Why West Virginia Teachers Will Love It...

  • Written specifically for West Virginia students and teachers
  • Material is up to date and correlates to West Virginia Social Studies Content Standard Objectives
  • Written by experienced educators and historians
  • End-of-chapter activities encourage participation and develop skills
  • Superior teacher support materials:
  • Teacher Guide contains teaching suggestions, textbook, and blackline masters answers, history timeline, and more resources
  • Reproducible Blackline Masters for student activities, chapter and unit tests, source documents
  • Student CD, containing entire pupil textbook, will be sent with each student edition

Noteworthy Features

  • Vocabulary previews designed to increase students’ reading comprehension
  • Complete glossary of vocabulary terms
  • Textbook and student activities recognize the diversity of West Virginia's racial and ethnic groups
  • Interesting and useful maps and charts
  • Two-page chapter review activities provide review/reinforcement
  • Student activities in the Blackline Masters and Teacher Guide incorporate technology, multiple disciplines, diversity
  • Student CD of complete reading of textbook help students who are absent or have reading problems