Legacy: The West and the World
Features
Reading level is appropriate for a grade 12 course
- Text has been broken into manageable sections of information
- Strong visuals - with outstanding photos, charts, maps, and illustrations - all selected and designed to enhance understanding and bring meaning to the text.
- Review...Reflect...Respond... throughout the text, helps students assess their understanding.
Diversity is reflected in the presentation of content
- Every chapter has connections to the world beyond Europe and the West, in art and in politics.
- Focuses on the interactions between the West and the rest of the world in art, politics, and everyday life.
Engaging Interest
- Focus on Genius - Highlights individuals who have made key or pivotal contributions or discoveries in a wide variety of fields.
- Music as History - Specific musical compositions or performances are directly linked to world events.
- Wit and Wisdom - A quotable quote, that sums up the age or is thought provoking, begins each chapter.
- Pleasures and Pastimes - Popular pastimes, games, sports, or crazes of the era.
- History Bytes - Fun, interesting or unusual historical ideas or events.
Outstanding Skills Development
Legacy helps students better understand past events and how those events shape our lives today.
- Time Lines aligns events and people into an historical perspective
- Key Concepts and Events, and Key People outline the major figures and events that form the basis of each chapter
- Chapter Review - Each Chapter Review covers the chapter content according to the four strands: Knowledge & Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Application, and Communication.
- Unit Review - Each Unit Review covers the information and ideas presented in the unit according to the four strands: Knowledge & Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Applications, and Communication.
- A Skills Focus related to the Culminating Activity follows each Unit Review.
- Skills Focus Appendix - Six essential skills are sequentially presented and assist students in developing their major history essay for course completion.
Scholarship and Resources Second to None
Legacy: The West and the World has the depth of background required for a rigorous study of the material.
- Primary Sources - Allows students to examine reproductions of key historical documents that have generated considerable debate and are key to the period being studied.
- The Fourth Estate - These primary sources demonstrate the importance of public opinion and how the media changed or affected public opinion.
- Historiography - Focuses on historians of the past and examines how reported history can change depending upon the views of its writer.
- Website - gives students and teachers access to web links for more primary source documents.
