This manual will help the teacher employ our story-based text, Lands of Hope and Promise, in the most effective way in the classroom or the home. It includes a discussion of ways to use a story-based text in the classroom and several other features:

• a scope and sequence for all the chapters
• a discussion of the major divisions in each chapter
• a summary for each chapter, with some additional facts and details included
• a discussion of the basic facts students should take from each chapter, with a brief review of each fact
• a listing of the key terms presented in each chapter with their definitions
• a listing of the historical characters central to each chapter
• answer keys for end-of-chapter review questions as well as for quizzes and tests
• suggestions for carrying out end-of-chapter activities
• an offering of additional activities not included in the book
• a timeline of the events discussed in each chapter
• a list of resources for further reading

“Less is more” — unlike other publishers, we do not burden teachers with supplement upon supplement. Indeed, we don’t need to: our books do most of the work, by drawing students into the exciting story of history. Our teacher’s manuals and workbooks only help complete the work the textbooks have begun.