26 ‘ I " raditionally, white males have dominated American business—earning the highest JL salaries, achieving the greatest successes, and certainly wielding[63] most of the power. They have been the “bosses,” setting the standards and the working conditions for the rest of the working population. But times are changing. 27 The percentage of women entering […]

In the American education system, there is a great deal of emphasis on recognizing and remembering main ideas. Highlighting main ideas as you read helps you remember them. In Chapter 3 (pages 60-61), we discussed identifying topic sentences and how they usually contain the main idea of a paragraph. In Chapter 4 (page 79), and […]

Use Context Clues There are several types of context clues that will help you guess the meaning of words you do not know. By looking at the words around an unfamiliar word, you may be able to figure out its meaning. See the four kinds of context clues on the next page. In the examples, […]

24 ПП he frontier is an expression of individual freedom and self-reliance in its purest (and X most extreme) forms, and it is also a pure expression of the ideal of equality of opportunity. On the western frontier there was more of a tendency for people to treat each other as social equals than there […]

Fill in this graphic organizer with information about how the U. S. government is organized. Take notes about each branch and fill in the boxes with your notes. First write the names of the three branches of government. Then write who the people are in each branch. Finally, write what the responsibilities are for each […]