History Makers

TRISMS is proud to announce the inclusion of the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) in the language arts assignments of History Makers.
The structure and style of the Institute is applied to the existing assignments in the volume.
Thirty-eight new assignments with source texts are provided and cover all nine units in the IEW syllabus. These stories will expand further the study of history and the student’s writing skills. With a greater emphasis being placed on writing for evaluation purposes, IEW is a choice for excellence.

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Sample IEW assignments for Lesson 5

You will be working on descriptive words in Lesson 5.
Add new words to your collection of replacement words on your Banned Word List.

More Dress-ups
Using adverb clauses that come in the middle of a sentence: when, while, where, since, as, if, although. Ex. Joan mounted her charger as the soldiers looked on in surprise.
Other advanced “dress-up” ideas: page 18 in Syllabus. Noun clause Ex. Joan believed that the Dauphin should rule France.
Adverbial and adjectival “teeter-totters” See page 18 for examples. View DVD 4 Underline the adverb and adjective. Draw a small triangle under the verb. In the margin draw a small teeter-totter.
Read and rewrite Joan of Arc.
Use all dress-ups and use appropriate markings.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc grew up in the small French village of Domremy. She was the daughter of peasants. Like most girls her age, she didn’t attend school but stayed home doing housework and learning to sew. Though she couldn’t read or write, Joan learned her prayers and the teachings of the Catholic Church. The people of her village were loyal to Charles, the blood king of France. When Joan was about thirteen, she had a vision. After several more visions she recognized the visitors in her visions as being Saints of the Catholic Church. Through her visions, Joan came to believe God had a mission for her – to locate Charles and escort him on a dangerous trip to the cathedral in Reims. There he would be crowned king. She eventually succeeded in her mission. There was a widespread prophecy in Joan’s day. It said that France would be lost by a woman and saved by a virgin. Many people believed Joan was the virgin. She bravely encouraged the French troops to continue to fight for freedom from England. She faced danger with unparalleled bravery and was twice wounded in battle. The French were so inspired by Joan that the tide of the dreadful Hundred Years’ War began to turn. Joan was betrayed and sold to the English. King Charles made no attempt to rescue her. The English took Joan to England and burned her at the stake. She was only nineteen. Almost five hundred years after her death, the Catholic Church made Joan of Arc a saint.