U.S. History Workbook for Grades 5-8

U.S. History Workbook for Grades 5-8: 1877 to Modern America covers American history from the end of Reconstruction through 2020 in twelve chapters, pairing substantial readings with the practice work middle school students need to retain what they read.Each chapter opens with a reading built around a key question, supported by a chapter timeline and a Historian’s Toolkit box that teaches one thinking skill: reading a dissent, separating a stated reason from a cause, asking whose words are in the record and whose are missing. Ten vocabulary terms follow, then comprehension questions, a map activity, a comparison organizer, a primary source page, a puzzle, a writing prompt with a planning organizer, and a chapter quiz.Every primary source is a real document drawn from public domain or federal records: Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Dawes Act, mill worker testimony before the Senate in 1883, Jacob Riis on the tenements, Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, Executive Order 9066, the Army-McCarthy hearings, Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 voting rights address, and Barbara Jordan on impeachment. Each is glossed for unfamiliar vocabulary and followed by questions that ask students to weigh evidence rather than recall a verdict.The book closes with a five-part Final Review Challenge drawing on all twelve chapters and a complete answer key.Secular and classroom-ready. Companion volume to U.S. History Workbook for Grades 5-8: Beginnings Through Reconstruction.