A Teacher's Guide to Founding Mothers
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For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core?aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This free teaching guide for Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts is designed to help you put the new Common Core State Standards into practice.
"Instructive and inspiring."?New York Times Book Review
Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington?proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived.
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Cokie Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She won countless awards and in 2008 was named a ?Living Legend? by the Library of Congress. She was the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah.
