Joy Hakim's History of the U.S.

by Cindy
(Cortland, IL)

Product: History of the U.S.
Subject: American History
Levels Used: 9th grade
Dates Used: 2007-2008

Likes: Ten book set is a compact, paperback series that is colorful and laid out very well. The pictures and amount of information in the series is outstanding and my 9th grader had very little trouble reading and comprehending the author's writing.

Dislikes: What I didn't like was that some of Ms. Hakim's opinion sometimes was given as "fact" in certain lessons. There are no lesson plans for these books, but you can access teacher's plans on PBS.org for the series that was aired a few years ago. There was a DVD collection of that PBS series, but it is out of print and hard to find.