Early Presidents and Social Reformers: CKHG Student Reader

Early Presidents and Social Reformers is a single volume divided into two separate sections (corresponding to Unit 9 and Unit 10 for schools using the CKHG series in Sequence grade-level order):

• Early Presidents focuses on the first seven presidents of the United States: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. Students learn how these presidents organized the federal government within the framework of the Constitution, saw to the building of a national capital, directed a second war with Great Britain, more than doubled the size of the country, and formulated a “hands-off” foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere. As students learn how our early presidents set precedents for the future of the new nation, they also consider different visions of how the nation and its government should evolve.
• American Reformers focuses on many efforts to improve American society from the early 1800s to the 1850s, including: the temperance movement to decrease the consumption of alcohol; Dorothea Dix’s efforts to obtain better treatment for people with mental illnesses; Horace Mann’s campaign for free public education; the work of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and other abolitionists in their crusade to abolish slavery; and, the early women’s rights movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Students also explore the early reformers’ legacy in ongoing modern-day struggles for equality and civil rights.

Some content is tied to the “Pathway to Citizenship,” an array of civics-focused knowledge, questions, and activities.

Related Components

• Teacher Guide: with detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, additional activities, and assessments
• Timeline Cards: visual aids to reinforce big ideas, chronology, and context

Preview the Book

You may preview this book in its entirety by downloading the CKHG Student Reader in PDF form for either Unit 9 or Unit 10.

Bundles:

• Early Presidents and Social Reformers Homeschool Set:
  1 Student Reader
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards
• Early Presidents and Social Reformers Classroom Set:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards
• Grade 4 American History Set:
  For each of three CKHG titles:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards
• Grade 4 Complete Grade-Level Set:
  For each of seven CKHG titles:
  25 Student Readers
  1 Teacher Guide
  1 set of Timeline Cards (for all except Exploring Maps and World Mountains)

About CKHG

Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) is a comprehensive program in world and American history and geography, integrating topics in civics and the arts. CKHG helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts specified in the Core Knowledge Sequence.

CKHG Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. In general, the content and presentation in CKHG Student Readers for Grades 3-5 are appropriate for young readers from the upper elementary grades through middle school (Lexile levels 650 – 980).

Using CKHG in the Classroom

• For Social Studies: Used in their recommended sequence, CKHG materials can form the basis of an engaging Social Studies program that builds historical and geographical knowledge and skills grade by grade.
• For Language Arts: You can also use CKHG to integrate content-rich nonfiction into your Reading/Language Arts lessons. CKHG objectives are correlated with the Common Core English Language Arts standards, which call for increased reading of nonfiction informational texts.

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Paperback
6.7 in. W x 9.6 in. H
116 pages

ISBN: 978-1-68380-301-0