If you would like to help your children learn more about American history in a fascinating way, these new studies should help meet that desire. With interesting stories about Americans like George Washington, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, and many more, this book will help students in 2 - 8th grades enjoy American history while laying a sound foundation for future study.
The stories used in these studies were originally published in the early 1900's, and were written almost 100 years closer to the lives of these heroes than those written today. I have taken the stories and shaped each one into a unique study. The stories are all here, along with some added features that have been included to help with the learning adventure. By having it in PDF format on CD-ROM, the pages are printable so that each student can have his/her own copy of the stories, to read along with you or on their own. They can put these stories in their own notebooks, along with other information that they want to include from the Internet resources that are included on the CD-ROM (they are clickable).
Perfect for a read-aloud book, this will offer interesting insight into many important people and places in American history. With 29 stories (160 pages), your children can work on one each week for 29 weeks, or read one story/study daily to learn more about American history and heroes over a six week period.
Author: Amanda Bennett
Located in: Dunlap, TN
Submitted: August 21, 2005
Tell us a little about yourself. Well, let's see. I am a wife, mom of three, and
hold a degree in mechanical engineering. Two of
our three children are now in college, and one
is still at home, learning along with me. We
live on our tree farm in the Appalachian
mountains in Tennessee, and stay busy growing
kids and trees, surrounded by breath-taking
beauty that God created.
What was your motivation behind this project? My motivation was my own search for "real"
heroes for our children. I believe that kids
need heroes - real heroes, not modern day comic
book kinds of heroes. The results of my
researching and writing - a series of Hero
Studies for children. This is one of the studies
in the series, which now also includes Heroes of
Invention, Heroes of Chivalry, and Athletes of
the Bible.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? I hope that they will enjoy reading the
interesting stories about early American history
and heroes. Not dry reading, these stories are
full of adventure with plenty of American
history woven painlessly into each page.
Who are your influences, sources of inspiration or favorite authors / artists? When I was a child, I loved reading about the
pioneers, Daniel Boone, and other exciting
stories about America's past. My biggest
influence in this area has been Laura Ingalls
Wilder, whose writings about the Little House on
the Prairie still happily come to mind here on
our farm.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: By having the study on CD-ROM, no other books are
required, and the pages are printable so that
each student can have his/her own copy of the
stories. They can put these stories in their own
notebooks, along with other information that
they want to include from the Internet resources
that are included on the CD-ROM (they are
clickable). Useful with 4th-8th grades. Each
CD-ROM also contains an American Hero Timeline
and American Hero Notebook Pages!
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