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While retaining most of the books, we have added some new award-winning titles like Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Crossing Bok Chitto, Encounter, The Discovery of the Americas, Dear Benjamin Banneker, Thee Hannah!, Phoebe the Spy, and A Picture Book of Sacagawea that provide a more complete picture of our nation’s history.

Students will learn about the people who shaped our nation’s heritage beginning with the Indigenous Peoples who first settled the American continents and ending at the conclusion of the Civil War.

The open-and-go teacher’s guide makes it easy to use the best literature to teach the story of the United States. We have poured over dozens of titles to choose the best books available so you and your students can dive into engaging stories accompanied by beautiful illustrations as you travel through time to meet Leif Erikson, Benjamin Banneker, Myles Standish, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, and dozens of others.

An invaluable resource, the included updated and expanded teacher guide takes out all the guesswork so that you can enjoy hours of reading great books together, learning about the formation of our country, and having valuable discussions that will help you connect with your kids.

This study contains 94 lessons.
Complete 2-3 lessons per week for a one-year study.
Complete 1-2 lessons per week for a two-year study.

Be sure to download the free picture packet that accompanies this study. These are the colouring pictures referenced in the Teacher Guide.

Related Resources:

Early American History Intermediate Jumbo Package
Early American History Intermediate Timeline

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Many parents and teachers asked for a set of example lessons to help them apply the Teaching the Classics model in their classes.

Ready Readers: Children’s Literature fills this need with complete discussion notes for 10 classic picture books.  Each lesson includes a full set of Socratic discussion questions with comprehensive answers keyed to the text.  Questions cover Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, Literary Devices, and Context. In addition, a completed Story Chart graphically outlines the major structural and thematic elements of each story.

This exciting resource is appropriate for use with students of all ages, depending on their needs:

READING COMPREHENSION

Ready Readers helps develop good reading comprehension in the very youngest students.  It encourages them to ponder well-designed questions about structure, style, context, and theme in every story they read.

LITERARY ANALYSIS

Though the books discussed here were written for children, they provide excellent examples of the structural elements common to all stories.  They are therefore useful even in discussions with older students, who read at a higher level but may be new to the techniques of literary analysis.

The first volume in the Ready Readers series provides a discussion of ten children’s picture books. Although the content is primarily useful as a tool for teaching K-3 students the basics of literary structure and style, it is also helpful for introducing older students to literary analysis at a more approachable level.

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This open-and-go teacher’s guide makes it easy to use the best literature to teach the story of the United States. We have sifted through 150+ titles to choose the best books available so you and your students can dive into engaging stories accompanied by beautiful illustrations as you travel through time to meet Leif Erikson, Benjamin Banneker, Myles Standish, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, and dozens of others.

Students will learn about the people who shaped our nation’s heritage beginning with the Indigenous Peoples who first settled the American continents and ending at the conclusion of the Civil War. 

Learning history is most useful when it shows us what we can aspire to and what we ought to avoid or correct. When students complete this study, we hope that they will hold in honor those heroic individuals who sacrificed for the good of our country, that they will understand the basic foundations of civil and religious liberty unique to America’s founding, and that they will be able to celebrate the rich mosaic of people who contributed to the founding and development of this nation.

An invaluable resource, this teacher guide takes out all the guesswork so that you can enjoy hours of reading great books together, learning about the formation of our country, and having valuable discussions that will help you connect with your kids.

Be sure to download the free picture packet that accompanies this study. These are coloring pictures referenced in the Teacher Guide.

Scope and Sequence? Click here to download

Companion Products:

Early American History Primary Pack 
Early American History Timeline

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The complete set includes:

• Eight one-hour DVD presentations by Adam Andrews
• A 120-page syllabus notebook with complete teacher resources
• Full texts of all stories used in the seminar
• Our exclusive Socratic list of 173 discussion questions applicable to any story
• In-depth essays on Conflict, Plot, Setting, Characters, Theme, and Context
• Annotated readings lists for students of all ages
• Reproducible story charts for classroom use
• Scope and sequence models
• Daily lesson plans
• Glossary of literary devices
• Suggestions for writing assignments
• Video FAQ session with Adam Andrews

Running time: 7 hours 38 minutes
Syllabus page count: 120

Click here for extra workbooks.

For lesson plans to get you started using Teaching the Classics, click here.

Related Product:

Teaching the Classics – Workbook

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