American Government

Ancillary Descriptions

Instructor's Resource Manual
This comprehensive teacher resource helps teachers plan their daily lessons. It provides an overview of each chapter of the text, plus suggested lecture and discussion topics, additional background notes, questions for class discussion, student activities, and more.

Study Guide
This self-study aid includes learning objectives, a glossary, and practice test questions in various formats (true/false, multiple-choice, sequence, identification, matching, and map exercises) for each chapter. The Handbook helps students sharpen the critical-thinking and analysis skills that will be needed for success in the AP course, on AP examination, and in future studies.

Test Bank
A printed test booklet offering more than 4,000 multiple-choice, free response, and true/false exam questions referenced to each chapter of the textbook. The multiple-choice questions offer five possible answers, to reflect the format of the Advanced Placement examination.

HM ClassPrep CD-ROM with Test Generator
This teaching tool provides course planning, lecture, and testing resources. The test component provides the same questions found in the printed Test Bank, but also allows teachers flexibility to add their own questions and to create virtually limitless variations. The CD also includes PowerPoint slides that instructors can use to enhance classroom presentations and/or to stimulate discussion.

Textbook Companion Web Site
The Web site offers a variety of resources for students to reinforce and extend the textbook lessons, including ACE self-assessment quizzes, outlines, vocabulary exercises, and skill-building activities tied to maps and other illustrations from the text. There is a separate section for teachers, which provides the contents of the Instructor's Resource Guide, the testing program, and other teaching tools.

State and Local Government Supplement
This concise booklet is approximately the length of a chapter in the student textbook. It provides teachers with the option of presenting a separate unit on state and local politics to extend the coverage of national institutions and processes which are the main focus of the course.

Overhead Transparencies
A set of 55 full-color transparency acetates of key illustrations from the student textbook.




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