America and the World

Welcome to America and the World…

…a reading comprehension curriculum catering to all learning styles, from students struggling with the basics to those craving advanced critical thinking exercises. Our material keeps your students engaged in a variety of stimulating and fun activities by using history to teach reading and writing skills.

Each unit is presented with video staging of the historical lesson, followed by a transcript of the video to provide the learner with an audio read of the text. We also offer a variety of activities to reinforce literacy skills.

Teacher and student lesson plans can be customized to align with regular and special education objectives. This saves the teacher time when a curricular modification is needed and she doesn't have the time to provide it.

Our curriculum also fosters critical thinking skills. This is all the rage in education, but here are a few examples of what it actually means:

• It means understanding why the United States is a constitutional republic, and why the word "democracy" does not appear once in the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution.
• It means capturing the aching sorrow of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, and how its absence after his assassination delayed civil rights for a century.
• It means recreating the squalor of World War I trench warfare to know why appeasement of Nazi Germany reigned supreme in the 1930s.
• It means understanding how deflation destroyed American wealth during the Depression and profoundly changed the global economic order after World War II.