Notgrass History's Our Star-Spangled Story is a one-year American history and literature course designed for students in grades 1-4. This textbook features engaging, narrative-style chapters with full-color photos and illustrations. This flexible program combines the richness of a unit study with the simplicity of a traditional textbook curriculum. Lesson activity ideas, review questions, and hands-on history ideas conclude each chapter; parents can pick and choose which would be best for their individual students to complete. These activities include instructions for the optional resources Star-Spangled Rhythms and Rhymes, A Star-Spangled Timeline, My Star-Spangled Student Workbook and the 8 optional literature books. Units include a project idea connected with one of the lessons, an include things like arts and crafts, recipes, and games.
Volume 2 covers life in America from the late 1800s to modern times, including stories of Helen Keller, the Tuskegee Institute, Theodore Roosevelt, Jim Thorpe and the 1912 Olympics, The Great Depression, Japanese internment camps, WWI & WWII, technological advances, and more. 45 lessons; each unit contains 3 lessons. Each lesson takes approximately 10-15 minutes to read through, with additional time as needed for activities. Pages 323-630, hardcover. NASB Scripture used.
