America the Beautiful combines the flexibility and richness of a unit study with the simplicity of a textbook-based approach to history. Daily lessons guide your child chronologically through American history, highlighting key events, people, and places. With 150 lessons, this curriculum is designed to be completed in one year. If your homeschool year has one hundred and eighty days, you can do one lesson a day and take time off for field trips and other activities. The curriculum package includes these six books:
The package does NOT include the following, but we recommend them:
Assigned literature for this edition of America the Beautiful:
The student is given 1-2 weeks to read each book, with 1-3 chapters assigned each day.
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Units 4-5)
- Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Units 6-7)
- Brady by Jean Fritz (Units 9-10)
- Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen (Units 12-13)
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Units 14-15)
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Units 16-17)
- All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (Units 19-20)
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Units 21-22)
- Homer Price by Robert McCloskey (Unit 25)
- Katy by Mary Evelyn Notgrass (Units 29-30)
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