The Will of the People 250th Anniversary Edition - Leader's Guide (Digital)

This one-year subscription gives you access to all teacher materials for the 250th anniversary edition of The Will of the People: Reading in American Democracy through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.

The Will of the People 250th anniversary edition brings together 16 texts reflecting significant moments in the history of American democracy, in a format intended to invite discussion of their meaning and continuing significance. 

The digital teacher’s license includes: 

• An instructional framework for how to implement Shared Inquiry in the classroom through a structured sequence of activities
• Shared Inquiry discussion guidelines
• Interpretive, evaluative, and close reading activities for each unit
• Guide to question types and their uses
• Student learning objectives for each activity

In Junior Great Books Digital Classroom, teachers can: 

• Receive notes submitted by students, enabling them to track questions students pose as they read. This private communication
  enables one-on-one support and helps ensure comprehension of the text.
• Review students’ preparation and reflection responses in the digital classroom gradebook or as a printable spreadsheet.
• Review students’ annotations and note-taking directly in the digital classroom.
• View student analytics on student progress and time spent within the platform. 
• Work with both digital texts and print books seamlessly because both formats match page-by-page.

If you are interested in purchasing Junior Great Books Digital Classroom for multiple grade levels or in learning how The Will of the People can be used alongside Junior Great Books Series 6–8, please contact your Great Books K–12 partnership manager.

To get the most out of your experience leading exploration of these texts, we recommend you consider Shared Inquiry professional development courses. Learn more!