Containing hundreds of images and dozens of maps, All American History is a complete year s curriculum for students in grades 5-8 when combined with the Student Activity Book and Teacher s Guide. It is also adaptable for younger and older students. The first volume covers Exploration through 1840. There are 32 weekly lessons, and each lesson contains three sections examining the atmosphere in which the event occurred, the event itself, and the impact this event had on the future of America. Designed to be engaging and written in a comfortable style, All American History reads like a good book-bringing America s story to life piece by piece."
All American History: The Explorers to the Jacksonians
Like Volume 1 in this series, All American History Volume II is designed to be engaging and is written in a comfortable style.
When the white people first came, the Indians had nothing to shoot with but bows and arrows. In Philip's time they had given up bows, finding guns much better for killing game. You may be sure that when Philip once got away from the ...
James Axtell, “Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American HistoryTextbooks,” American Historical Review 92 (1987): 627. Essays such as Axtell's, which review college-level textbooks, rarely appear in history journals.
It is also adaptable for younger and older students. The first volume covers Exploration through 1840.
George's eldest brother, Lawrence Washington, had married the daughter of a gentleman named Fairfax, who lived on the banks of the Potomac. Lawrence had a fine home a few miles away on the same river; he called his place Mount Vernon.
And I was actually daring to think that the day was going down much easier than I thought it would when I saw Dean Wyko walking down the hall between second and third periods. He stepped in front of me, one eyebrow raised, ...
... 282 Everett, Massachusetts 109,277, 304 Extramural Sports 18 Fairfield, California 277 Family Entertainment 51, 65, 324, 326 Family Togetherness 65 Fan Club, Kalamazoo, Michigan 138 Fan Clubs 152, 153 Fan Fest, Seattle 312 Fantry, ...
It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.
"This text follows the premise that the central theme of history is to build the kingdom of God and that all of history is Gods. It begins with the creation story and the Fall of Adam.