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9781933339214
History has been taught in a boring way for far too long. A subject as moving and powerful as humanity's past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love with her narrative history, The Story of the World, and its accompanying Activity Book. Now teachers and home educators can take advantage of a new and valuable learning tool. These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style questions gives students a chance to show what they've learned. Used with the "Activity Book" and "The Story of the World," the tests give educators a complete history curriculum for their elementary school students.Rountree, Elizabeth is the author of 'The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Tests for Volume 1: Ancient Times', published 2007 under ISBN 9781933339214 and ISBN 1933339217.
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