This guide describes the Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government essential print and digital components.
Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government is organized around Understanding by
Design Essential Questions. Essential Questions help students of all abilities gain an understanding of key American government principles to help them effectively problem solve in this global economy. The content is relevant and accessible so students of all levels understand the key concepts. Each resource in the program helps students acquire the knowledge and skills they need to answer the Essential Question and move toward truly understanding the content.
The Foundations Series is an accessible curriculum that covers the same core content as the on-level version. Features include a lower reading level at a Lexile range between 800 and
900 and explicit skills instruction. The Foundations Series also provides embedded reading support, explicit reading strategies, and integrated vocabulary support with key words that highlight and define terms. The more open and readable single-column text design also helps students reading at a lower level.
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With a variety of student resources, Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government helps students understand key concepts of American government and apply them to real-world situations.
The student edition provides complete course content in the print text and online. It is available both for on-level and the Foundations Series.
P R E N T I C E H A L L P R E N T I C E H A L L
Unit 1 Foundations of American Government
What should be the goals of government?
Chapter 1 Principles of Government
2 Origins of American Government
3 The Constitution
4 Federalism
Unit 2 Political Behavior: Government by the People
In what ways should people participate in public affairs?
Chapter 5 Political Parties
6 Voters and Voter Behavior
7 The Electoral Process
8 Mass Media and Public Opinion
9 Interest Groups
Unit 3
The Legislative Branch
What makes a successful Congress?
Chapter 10 Congress
11 Powers of Congress
12 Congress in Action
Unit 4 The Executive Branch
What makes a good President?
Chapter 13 The Presidency
14 The Presidency in Action
15 Government at Work: The Bureaucracy
16 Financing Government
17 Foreign Policy and National Defense
Unit 5
The Judicial Branch
What should be the role of the judicial branch?
Chapter 18 The Federal Court System
19 Civil Liberties: First Amendment Freedoms
20 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual Rights
21 Civil Rights: Equal Justice Under Law
Unit 6 Comparative Political and
Economic Systems
How should a government meet the needs of its people?
Chapter 22 Comparative Political Systems
23 Comparative Economic Systems
Unit 7 Participating in State and
Local Government
What is the right balance of local, State, and federal government?
Chapter 24 Governing the States
25 Local Government and Finance
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2011 student edition with online student center
6-year access ISBN is: 0-13-317965-6
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The Essential Questions Journal helps students develop the framework for responses to the Essential Questions.
Students build their understanding and answer journal questions, which shape their response to the overarching unit’s Essential Question. The journal provides the opportunity for students to express their opinions through multiple writing opportunities. The journal also provides a visual explanation and organization of the content.
StudentEXPRESS is the DVD version of the student edition with page-by-page audio that ensures that students have what they need to learn, study, and succeed in the classroom. It also contains an interactive glossary with audio in both English and Spanish and reference resources such as Historical Documents, Supreme Court Glossary, and maps.
Students can use a wide array of 21st century learning tools to personalize learning in the online course. No matter where they are or what time of day it is, students have access to their work.
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Online Student Edition
The Online Student Edition has rich digital assets. Two levels of the student edition teach core content, which enable students to use the version of the text that matches their reading level. These are also available in DVD-ROM.
The online interactivities in the program help students gain a deeper understanding of key concepts. Some of these resources include How Government Works, Citizenship Activity
Pack: Agents of Changes, and American Government: Experience It!
Government on the Go
Government on the Go allows students to access audio and video files of each chapter’s interactivities. It includes the Audio Review and Political Dictionary, in both English and
Spanish, the Magruder’s American Government Dictionary, and Audio Tour Animations.
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Essential Questions Videos
Each unit in the program provides an Essential Questions Video that helps students gain a deeper understanding of the Essential Questions in American government. Students watch a combination of historical and contemporary footage that helps them begin thinking about the Essential Question in the unit.
WebQuests
WebQuests include research projects that use online resources to explore issues related to
American government.
The teacher resources offer instructional management tools that save time by letting you plan, teach, assess, remediate, and manage your classroom quickly and easily.
The online teacher resources provide access to a range of teaching support. Some of these resources include editable lesson plans, leveled worksheets, leveled quizzes and tests,
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Monitoring Assessments, answer keys, rubrics, English language learner (ELL) resources, and more.
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The Magruder’s American Government Teacher’s Resource
Library DVD contains all of the same teaching materials found in the online course. It includes the Teacher’s Edition and a wide range of on-level and Foundations Series lesson plans, worksheets, and assessments. The built-in differentiation allows you to pick and choose among the resources that meet the needs of all students.
The American Government: Experience It! Activity Pack is an activity-based and digital program in which students learn about American Government through hands-on activities, simulations, and online interactivities, all centered around the Essential Questions in program. Seven folders contain role cards, maps, charts, newspaper articles and photographs. The Activity Pack also provides a Teacher’s Guide and daily lesson plans for using this resource. The digital interactivities are found in the digital course.
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The Citizenship Activity Pack contains six folders with a range of civics activities, such as how to serve on a jury, how to analyze a new TV program, and how to evaluate leadership.
Each corresponding unit has an animated movie and interactive activities found in the
Citizenship Activity Pack: Agents of Change CD-ROM. These interactivities are also available in the digital course.
The All-In-One Teaching Resources are print versions of the same resources for each unit and chapter available in the Teacher’s Resource Library.
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The ELL Handbook, available in print or online, provides additional support to help accelerate the progress of English language learners (ELLs) in the classroom. In this resource, ELL expert Jim Cummins provides guidelines for teaching ELL students in the
Magruder’s American Government classroom.
The ExamView Test Bank CD-ROM allows you to create customized tests from banks of thousands of questions. The test bank questions—based on textbook content objectives— provide specific text page numbers for content to foster remediation.
This guide described the Prentice Hall Magruder’s American Government essential print and digital components.
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