American History Menus Unit 1
Columbus 1451-1496
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-1-christopher-columbus-1451-1496-american-his/
Appetizer/Spine
7-15
Main Course
1-2
Christopher Columbus (Step Into Reading)
The Story of Columbus (DK reader)
3-4
Stories of America 1:7-15
Columbus – D’Aulaire
Pedro's Journal - Conrad
Explorers Who Got Lost
Meet Christopher Columbus
Where Do You Think You're Going, Columbus? - Fritz
5-6
The World of Columbus and Sons - Foster
Pedro's Journal - Conrad
Explorers Who Got Lost
The Light and the Glory for Children: chapters 1-2
Columbus – D’Aulaire
Where Do You Think You're Going, Columbus? - Fritz
Stories of America 1:7-15
Sides
Your Story Hour - Heritage of Our Country - Album 6:
Columbus, coloring sheets, writing prompts, lapbooking,
notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 2
Explorers 1497-1600
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-2-great-discoverers-1497-1600-american-histor/
Appetizer/Spine
9-14
Main Course
1-2
Exploring the Americas - Comix
3-4
Explorers Who Got Lost
Ships - Kingfisher
Exploring the Americas - Comix
Exploring the Americas (Making a New Nation)
Exploring the New World (Choose Your Own Path)
5-6
Explorers Who Got Lost
Exploring the Americas (Making a New Nation)
Exploring the New World (Choose Your Own Path)
Light and the Glory for Children - Marshall: chapter 3
Tree In the Trail
Explorers News
Walk the World's Rim - Baker
Ships - Kingfisher
Sides
History Pockets: Explorers of North America, lapbooking,
notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 3
1607-1630 (English Settlers, Pocahontas, Squanto, Pilgrims, Puritans)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-3-heroic-english-settlers-1607-1630-american-/
Appetizer/Spine
15-22
Main Course
1-2
Tapenum's Day - Waters
Sarah Morton's Day - Waters
Samuel Eaton's Day - Waters
The Pilgrim's at Plymouth (Landmark)
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving - Metaxas
The First Thanksgiving (Step Into Reading)
Squanto's Journey - Bruchac
3-4
Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims - Bulla
The Double Life of Pocahontas - Fritz
A Lion to Guard Us - Bulla
Surviving Jamestown - Karwoski
James Towne: Struggle for Survival
My America: Our Strange New Land
Rebekah in Danger (Sisters in Time)
Sarah's New World (Sisters in Time)
Blood on the River - Carbore
Tapenum's Day - Waters
Pocahontas and the Strangers - Bulla
The Thanksgiving Story - Dalgliesh
Stories of America 1:17-36
Sarah Morton's Day - Waters
Samuel Eaton's Day - Waters
The Pilgrim's at Plymouth (Landmark)
Almost Home - Lawton
The Landing of the Pilgrims - Daugherty
Salt in His Blood - Rang
The Captive Princess - Lawton
Stories of the Pilgrims - Pumphrey
Squanto's Journey - Bruchac
Unit 3 (continued)
5-6
John Winthrop (Let Freedom Ring)
Stories of the Pilgrims - Pumphrey
The Light and the Glory for Children: ch. 4-8
Stories of America 1:17-36
The Captive Princess - Lawton
Almost Home - Lawton
The Landing of the Pilgrims - Daugherty
Salt in His Blood - Rang
The Pilgrim's at Plymouth (Landmark)
The Thanksgiving Story - Dalgliesh
The Double Life of Pocahontas - Fritz
A Lion to Guard Us - Bulla
Surviving Jamestown - Karwoski
James Towne: Struggle for Survival
My America: Our Strange New Land
Rebekah in Danger (Sisters in Time)
Sarah's New World (Sisters in Time)
Squanto's Journey - Bruchac
Blood on the River - Carbore
Sides
History Pockets: Plymouth Colony, unit study, Plimoth Plantation website, Jamestown
website, Safari toobs/action figures, coloring, lapbooks, notebooking, paper dolls
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 4
More Settlers (Hudson, Penn, Quakers)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-4-more-settlers-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
23-28
Main Course
1-2
Beyond the Sea of Ice - Goodman
Thy Friend Obadiah - Turkle
Obadiah the Bold - Turkle
3-4
Stories of America 1: 37-44
William Penn - Benge
Hostage on the Nighthawk (Trailblazer)
Beyond the Sea of Ice - Goodman
Thy Friend Obadiah - Turkle
Obadiah the Bold - Turkle
5-6
World of William Penn - Foster
Henry Hudson: Discoverer of the Hudson River - Young
William Penn - Benge
Stories of America 1: 37-44
Hostage on the Nighthawk (Trailblazer)
Sides
lapbooking, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 5
Southern Colonies
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-5-southern-colonies-1634-1733-american-histor/
Appetizer/Spine
29-34
Main Course
1-2
None
3-4
Stories of America 1: 45-54
5-6
Blackthorn Winter - Wilson
Stories of America 1: 45-54
Sides
Made for Trade game, Early American Trades
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 6
Native Americans http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-6-1492-1700-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
35-42 (with editing suggested)
Main Course
1-2
Children of the Earth and Sky - Krensky
If You Lived with the Iroquois
If You Lived with the Hopi
If You Lived with the Indians of the West Coast
If You Lived with the Cherokee
If You Lived in the Alaska Territory
Life in a Hopi Village
3-4
North American Indian (DK)
Vostaas: White Buffalo's Story
Stories of America 1: 55-63
The Inuit Thought of It
Children of the Earth and Sky - Krensky
If You Lived with the Iroquois
If You Lived with the Hopi
If You Lived with the Indians of the West Coast
If You Lived with the Cherokee
If You Lived in the Alaska Territory
Life in a Hopi Village
5-6
Om-Kas-toe - Thomasma
North American Indian (DK)
Vostaas: White Buffalo's Story
Stories of America 1: 55-63
The Inuit Thought of It
Unit 6 (continued)
Sides
Archaeology USA, coloring, History Pockets: Native
American, Native American art study, Native American
History for Kids, make It Work: Native Americans, Easy
Make and Learn Projects: Northeast Indians, Om-kas-toe
unit, American History Through Art
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 7
Royal Governors 1676-1700 (LaSalle, Penn, Marquette, King James, King Charles)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-7-royal-governors-1676-1700-american-history-/
Appetizer/Spine
43-48
Main Course
1-2
You Wouldn't Want to Be Sir Isaac Newton
3-4
You Wouldn't Want to Be Sir Isaac Newton
Stories of America 1: 65-72
Isaac Newton - Sowers Biography
5-6
The Ocean of Truth - McPherson
William Penn - Benge
The World of William Penn - Foster
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet (Famous Explorers)
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet:
Explorers of the Mississippi
Marquette and Jolliet: Quest for the Mississippi
Stories of America 1: 65-72
Isaac Newton - Sowers Biography
Sides
Isaac Newton experiments, Pennsylvania History website,
lapbooking, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 8
Colonial Life, Daniel Boone
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-8-1700-1820-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
49-54
Main Course
1-2
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Lighthouse Keeper
If You Lived in Colonial Times
3-4
Stories of America 1: 73-80
The Slave Trade in Early America (Cornerstones of
Freedom)
Heroes of History: Daniel Boone - Benge
If You Lived in Colonial Times
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Lighthouse Keeper
The Courage of Sarah Noble - Dagliesh
5-6
Calico Bush - Field
Stories of America 1: 73-80
The Slave Trade in Early America (Cornerstones of
Freedom)
Heroes of History: Daniel Boone - Benge
Sides
Daniel Boone TV series, Great Colonial Projects You Can
Build Yourself, make colonial clothing and accessories,
lapbooking, notebooking, paperdolls, coloring
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 9
The Great Awakening
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-9-great-awakening-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
55-60
Main Course
1-2
None
3-4
Maggies's Dare (Sisters in Time)
Ten Boys Who Made History - Howat
5-6
The Light and the Glory for Children: chapter 10
Maggies's Dare (Sisters in Time)
Ten Boys Who Made History - Howat
Sides
Lapbooking, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 10
George Washington through 1760
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-10-george-washington-thru-1760-american-histo/
Appetizer/Spine
61-66
Main Course
1-2
If You Grew Up with George Washington
George Washington's First Victory
3-4
Stories of America 1: 81-88
If You Grew Up with George Washington
George Washington's First Victory
George Washington – D’Alaire
George Washington (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Skippack School - de Angeli
5-6
George Washington's World: parts 1 and 2
George Washington – D’Alaire
George Washington (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Stories of America 1: 81-88
Skippack School - de Angeli
Sides
25 Great George Washington Projects You Can Build
Yourself, lapbooking, notebooking, American History
Through Art
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 11
French and Indian War
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-11-french-and-indian-war-1754-63-american-his/
Appetizer/Spine
67-72
Main Course
1-2
None
3-4
Stories of America 1: 89-94
Ambush in the Wilderness - Hemphill
The French and Indian War (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Benjamin West and His Cat - Henry
Meet Kaya (American Girl)
Calico Captive - Speare
The Boy Who Loved to Draw - Brenner
5-6
Battles of the French and Indian War - Smolinski
Calico Captive - Speare
The Sign of the Beaver - Speare
Stories of America 1: 89-94
Ambush in the Wilderness - Hemphill
The French and Indian War (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Benjamin West and His Cat - Henry
Meet Kaya (American Girl)
Sides
Art study: Benjamin West, Kaya painting studio, crafts,
paperdolls, Kaya lapbooking, notebooking, Sign of the
Beaver DVD
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 12
Colonies Want Independence 1764-1776 (P. Revere, Tea Party, B. Franklin, King George
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-12-1764-1776-colonies-want-independence-aneri/
Appetizer/Spine
73-80
Main Course
1-2
The Fourth of July Story - Dagliesh
Paul Revere's Ride - Longfellow
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? - Fritz
Benjamin Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step Into
Reading)
You Wouldn't Want to be at the Boston Tea Party
Benjamin Franklin - D'Aulaire
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? Fritz
3-4
Crispus Attucks (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Kate and the Spies (Sisters in Time)
Give Me Liberty - Elliot
Ben and Me - Lawson
The Matchlock Gun - Edmonds
Benjamin Franklin of Old Philadelphia (Landmark)
Liberty! Landmark Books
Liberty or Death - Maestro
Benjamin Franklin (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Abigail Adams (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin - Fritz
The Declaration of Independence (Cornerstones
of Freedom)
The Boston Tea Party (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Benjamin Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step
Into Reading)
You Wouldn't Want to be at the Boston Tea Party
Stories of America 1: 95-110
Meet Felicity (series of 6 American Girl)
Tree in the Trail (chapter 9)
Paul Revere's Ride - Longfellow
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? - Fritz
The Fourth of July Story - Dagliesh
Benjamin Franklin - D'Aulaire
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? Fritz
Unit 12 (continued)
5-6
NOTES
Johnny Tremain - Forbes
George Washington's World: parts 3-4
The Light and the Glory for Children (chapter 11)
The Declaration of Independence (Cornerstones of
Freedom)
The Boston Tea Party (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Liberty or Death - Maestro
Benjamin Franklin (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Abigail Adams (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
Benjamin Franklin of Old Philadelphia (Landmark)
Liberty! Landmark Books
Stories of America 1: 95-110
Tree in the Trail (chapter 9)
Benjamin Franklin - D'Aulaire
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? Fritz
Paul Revere's Ride - Longfellow
The Fourth of July Story - Dagliesh
Crispus Attucks (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Kate and the Spies (Sisters in Time)
Give Me Liberty - Elliot
Ben and Me - Lawson
The Matchlock Gun - Edmonds
Unit 12 (continued)
Sides
Adventures from the 1700's, Felicity DVD, Felicity lapbook,
Felicity cookbook, Felicity crafts, Felicity lesson/unit study,
Nest DVD and Activity Book - Ben Franklin, Make It Work
Electricity, science experiments with electricity, Snap
Circuits, UShistory.org, sew doll clothes and costumes,
Amazing ben Franklin inventions You Can Build Yourself,
Benjamin Franklin American Genius with 21 Activities,
Liberty's Kids series (Netflix or DVD), Paul Revere art study,
Paul Revere house and website, notebooking, coloring,
paper dolls, American History Through Art
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 13
Fighting For Freedom 1776
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-13-fighting-for-freedom-1776-american-history/
Appetizer/Spine
81-86
Main Course
1-2
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
George Washington's Breakfast - Fritz
The Winter at Valley Forge - Knight
Katie's Trunk - Himler
George the Drummer Boy - Benchley
3-4
Liberty or Death - Maestro
The Cabin Faced West - Fritz
Stories of America 1: 113-120
Amos Fortune Free Man - Yates
Meet George Washington (Landmark)
Phoebe the Spy - Griffin
From Colonies to Country (My American Journey)
The Winter at Valley Forge - Knight
Katie's Trunk - Himler
George the Drummer Boy - Benchley
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
George Washington's Breakfast - Fritz
Traitor - Fritz
George Washington's Spy - Woodruff
Toliver's Secret - Wood
George Washington's Socks - Woodruff
NOTES
5-6
Unit 13 (continued)
George Washington's World: 192-216
The Light and the Glory for Children: chapters 12-14
Traitor - Fritz
George Washington's Spy - Woodruff
Toliver's Secret - Wood
George Washington's Socks - Woodruff
Liberty or Death - Maestro
The Cabin Faced West - Fritz
Stories of America 1: 113-120
Amos Fortune Free Man - Yates
Meet George Washington (Landmark)
Sides
art study: John Singleton Copley, lapbook, paper dolls,
American Revolution for Kids with 21 Activities, Art in
History, George Washington interactive website, History
Pockets: American Revolution, coloring, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 14
Naval Battles
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-14-naval-hero-1776-79-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
87-92
Main Course
1-2
No new
3-4
Liberty or Death - Maestro
Stories of America 1: 121-128
Attack of the Turtle - Carlson
The Arrow Over the Door- Bruchac
5-6
George Washington's World: 217-226
Liberty or Death - Maestro
Stories of America 1: 121-128
Attack of the Turtle - Carlson
The Arrow Over the Door- Bruchac
Sides
History Pockets American Revolution, coloring,
notebooking, lapbooking, continue previous projects
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 15
Revolutionary War through 1783 (The Swamp Fox, Patriotic Women)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-15-the-swamp-fox-through-1783-american-histor/
Appetizer/Spine
93-98
Main Course
1-2
No new
3-4
Stories of America 1: 129-133
Red Coats and Petticoats - Kirkpatrick
Molly Pitcher (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Betsy Ross (Childhood of Famous Americans)
5-6
Stories of America 1: 129-133
Red Coats and Petticoats - Kirkpatrick
Molly Pitcher (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Betsy Ross (Childhood of Famous Americans)
George Washington's World:226-228
Sides
Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution,
American Revolution game, Revolutionary War Women
website, lapbooking, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 16
Grand Republic, Constitution
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-16-grand-republic-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
99-104
Main Course
1-2
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution - Fritz
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution
3-4
Stories of America 1: 137-148
The Story of Our Flag
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution - Fritz
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution
5-6
The Light and the Glory for Children: chapter 15
George Washington's World: 229-283
Stories of America 1: 137-148
Sides
Constitution lapbook, Ben's Guide to the US government
for Kids website, Constitution for Kids website,
notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 17
End of a Noble Life 1789-1799
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-17-1789-1799-end-of-a-noble-life-american-his/
Appetizer/Spine
105-108
Main Course
1-2
John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Ready to Read)
3-4
John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Ready to Read)
John Adams (Childhood of Famous Americans)
5-6
John Adams (Childhood of Famous Americans)
George Washington's World: 284-344
Heroes of History: John Adams - Benge
Sides
art study - Gilbert Stuart, Early Health and Medicine, art
study: Charles Willson Peale, American History Through
Art, lapbooking, notebooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 18
1800-1810 (Lewis and Clark, Sacajawea, Whitney, Bowditch)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-18-1810-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
106-116
Main Course
1-2
3-4
The Crossing - Napole
Sacajawea: Her True Story - Milton
Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson - Alder
Thomas Jefferson's Feast - Murphy
Thomas Jefferson and the Ghostriders
Stories of America 1: 149-161
Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark)
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Freedom - Mullin
The Broken Blade - Durbin
Betsy's River Adventure (Sisters in Time)
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
The Story of Eli Whitney – Latham
Naya Nuki - Thomasma
Kamehameha: The Boy Who Became A Warrior King
The Crossing - Napole
Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark)
Eli Whitney - Welch
Robert Fulton Boy Craftsman - Henry
Robert Fulton: From Submarine to Steamboat - Kroll
Head Full of Notions -Bowen
Maker of Machines - Mitchell
How We Crossed the West - Schanzer
The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Louisiana
Purchase
From East to West with Lewis and Clark
(My American Journey)
Making a New Nation: The Louisiana Purchase
The Story of Sacajawea - Rowland
Streams to the River, River to the Sea - O'Dell
Sacajawea: Her True Story - Milton
Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson - Alder
3-4
5-6
Unit 18 (continued)
Thomas Jefferson's Feast - Murphy
Thomas Jefferson and the Ghostriders
Tree in the Trail (chapters 10-13)
Carry on Mr. Bowditch - Latham
The Story of Inventions (24-54 Robert Fulton;
121-140 Eli Whitney)
The Year of the Horseless Carriage - Foster
Robert Fulton's Steamboat - Rebman
Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark)
Eli Whitney - Welch
Robert Fulton Boy Craftsman - Henry
Robert Fulton: From Submarine to Steamboat - Kroll
Head Full of Notions -Bowen
Maker of Machines - Mitchell
How We Crossed the West - Schanzer
The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Louisiana
Purchase
From East to West with Lewis and Clark (My American
Journey)
Making a New Nation: The Louisiana Purchase
The Story of Sacajawea - Rowland
Streams to the River, River to the Sea - O'Dell
Stories of America 1: 149-161
Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark)
Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Freedom - Mullin
The Broken Blade - Durbin
Betsy's River Adventure (Sisters in Time)
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
The Story of Eli Whitney - Latham
The Story of Inventions (24-54 Robert Fulton; 121-140
Eli Whitney)
Tree in the Trail (chapters 10-13)
Carry on Mr. Bowditch - Latham
Naya Nuki - Thomasma
Kamehameha: The Boy Who Became A Warrior King
Unit 18 (continued)
Sides
Corps of Re-Discovery Crafts, Westward Bound game, timeline,
worksheets, interactive online maps, Discovering Lewis and Clark
website, action figure play, Your Story Hour - Great Stories 7: Eli
Whitney, Your Story Hour - Great Stories 3: Sacajawea, Great
Inventors and Inventions, Lewis and Clark Hands On - Jeffus,
plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark - Patent, Animals on the
Trail with Lewis and Clark - Patent, Cooking on the Lewis and
Clark Expedition - Gunderson, Thomas Jefferson for Kids: His Life
and Times with 21 Activities, American Adventures 1700's, Lewis
and Clark coloring, Go exploring, lapbooking, notebooking,
paperdolls, Art study Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney museum website,
Make Whitney models and watch invention videos, mapping,
American History Through Art
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 19
1810-1835 (War of 1812, etc.)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-19-1810-1835-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
117-122
Main Course
1-2
Dandelion - Bunting
The Boy Who Drew Birds - Davies
Jean LaFitte: The Pirate Who Saved America
Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner (Step Into
Reading)
Daniel's Duck - Bulla
3-4
Dandelion - Bunting
The Boy Who Drew Birds - Davies
Jean LaFitte: The Pirate Who Saved America
Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner (Step
Into Reading)
Daniel's Duck - Bulla
Stories of America 1: 163-172
Abandoned on the Wild Frontier - Jackson
Justin Morgan Had A Horse - Henry
Andrew Jackson (GTKUSP)
James Monroe (GTKUSP)
John Quincy Adams (GTKUSP)
Meet Caroline (American Girl)
The Smuggler's Treasure (American Girl Mystery)
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal - Harness
Old Ironsides - Weitzman
Jed Smith: Trailblazer of the West
A Gathering of Days - Blos
John Audubon: Young Naturalist
Andrew Jackson: Childhood of Famous Americans
Emma's Secret (Sisters in Time)
Grace and the Bully (Sisters in Time)
Davy Crockett: Childhood of Famous Americans
Meet Josefina (American Girl)
Johnny Appleseed (Sowers)
Swift Rivers - Meigs
The Pirate Lafitte - Tallant
3-4
Unit 19 (continued)
Old Ironsides (Cornerstones of Freedom)
The Town that Fooled the British (Tales
of Young Americans)
Battles of the War of 1812 (Americans at War)
5-6
Once on This Island - Whelan
Tecumseh - Zimmerman
The Town that Fooled the British (Tales of Young
Americans)
Battles of the War of 1812 (Americans at War)
Stories of America 1: 163-172
Abandoned on the Wild Frontier - Jackson
Justin Morgan Had A Horse - Henry
Andrew Jackson (GTKUSP)
James Monroe (GTKUSP)
John Quincy Adams (GTKUSP)
Meet Caroline (American Girl)
The Smuggler's Treasure (American Girl Mystery)
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal - Harness
Old Ironsides - Weitzman
Jed Smith: Trailblazer of the West
A Gathering of Days - Blos
John Audubon: Young Naturalist
Andrew Jackson: Childhood of Famous Americans
Emma's Secret (Sisters in Time)
Grace and the Bully ( Sisters in Time)
Davy Crockett: Childhood of Famous Americans
Meet Josefina (American Girl)
Johnny Appleseed (Sowers)
Swift Rivers - Meigs
The Pirate Lafitte - Tallant
Old Ironsides (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Sides
audubon.org, art study: Audubon, coloring, Josefina and
Caroline paperdolls, crafts, lessons, unit study, etc., USS
Constitution unit, lessons, website, American Adventures, Davy
Crockett (1855 film), ipad app: A Sailor's Life, web, lessons,
printables, art study: Thomas Cole, American History Through Art,
notebooking, lapbooking
NOTES
American History Menus Unit 20
1836-1860 (Underground RR, Texas, Transcontinental RR, Pioneers, Trail of Tears, etc.)
http://www.pinterest.com/autismfrog/unit-20-1836-1860-american-history-menus/
Appetizer/Spine
123-128
Main Course
1-2
Who Owns the Sun - Chbosky
Pioneer Cat - Hooks
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express - Coerr
The Josefina Story Quilt - Coerr
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain - Dagliesh
Riding the Pony Express - Bulla
The Secret Valley - Bulla
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Follow the Drinking Gourd - Winters
Trouble for Lucy - Stevens
Keep the Lights Burning Abbie - Roop
Moses - Weatherford
A Picture book of Frederick Douglass - Adler
Escape North (Step Into Reading)
The Drinking Gourd - Monjo
3-4
Susanna of the Alamo - Jakes
Stories of America 1: 173 to end
Stories of America 2: chapters 1-2
Attack in the Rye Grass - Jackson
Soft Rain - Cornelissen
The California Gold Rush (Landmark)
Sam Houston The Tallest Texan (Landmark)
The Alamo (American Battlefields)
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation - Erickson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Starts)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Starts)
Westward Ho! (Landmark)
Buffalo Bill - D'Aulaire
The Light Across the River - Reed
Carolina's Courage - Yates
Caddie Woodlawn - Brink
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell
Children of the Covered Wagon - Carr
3-4
NOTES
Unit 20 grades (continued)
We Were There - Steele
The Transcontinental Railroad (True Book)
They're Off: The Story of the Pony Express - Harness
Dragon's Gate - Yep
The Story of Inventions (McCormick 169-192;
Samuel Morse 247-270; Elias Howe 141-168)
Tree in the Trail (chapter 14 to end)
The Birchbark House - Erdrich
Bound for Oregon - Leeuwen
The White stallion - Shub
Meet Kirsten (and the rest of this American Girl series)
How I Survived the Oregon Trail
Spotlight on America: Underground Railroad
From Slavery to Freedom (My American Journey)
Brave Buffalo Fighter - Fitzgerald
A Pioneer Sampler
The California Gold Rush (True Book)
A Tale of the Western Plains - Henty
The Trail of Tears (American Adventure)
Westward to the Pacific (Making a New Nation)
Nellie the Brave (Sisters in Time)
Meg Follows a Dream (Sisters in Time)
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?
Harriet Tubman (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Who Owns the Sun - Chbosky
Pioneer Cat - Hooks
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express - Coerr
The Josefina Story Quilt - Coerr
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain - Dagliesh
Riding the Pony Express - Bulla
The Secret Valley - Bulla
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Follow the Drinking Gourd - Winters
Trouble for Lucy - Stevens
Keep the Lights Burning Abbie - Roop
Moses - Weatherford
A Picture book of Frederick Douglass - Adler
Escape North (Step Into Reading)
The Drinking Gourd - Monjo
Unit 20 (continued)
5-6
Born in the Year of Courage - Crofford
The Siege of the Alamo - Riehecky
Freedom Seekers Series - Johnson
Susanna of the Alamo - Jakes
Stories of America 1: 173 to end
Stories of America 2: chapters 1-2
Attack in the Rye Grass - Jackson
Soft Rain - Cornelissen
The California Gold Rush (Landmark)
Sam Houston The Tallest Texan (Landmark)
The Alamo (American Battlefields)
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation - Erickson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Starts)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Starts)
Westward Ho! (Landmark)
Buffalo Bill - D'Aulaire
The Light Across the River - Reed
Carolina's Courage - Yates
Caddie Woodlawn - Brink
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell
Children of the Covered Wagon - Carr
We Were There - Steele
The Transcontinental Railroad (True Book)
They're Off: The Story of the Pony Express - Harness
Dragon's Gate - Yep
The Story of Inventions (McCormick 169-192; Samuel
Morse 247-270; Elias Howe 141-168)
Tree in the Trail (chapter 14 to end)
The Birchbark House - Erdrich
Bound for Oregon - Leeuwen
The White stallion - Shub
Meet Kirsten (and the rest of this American Girl series)
How I Survived the Oregon Trail
Spotlight on America: Underground Railroad
From Slavery to Freedom (My American Journey)
Brave Buffalo Fighter - Fitzgerald
A Pioneer Sampler
The California Gold Rush (True Book)
A Tale of the Western Plains - Henty
The Trail of Tears (American Adventure)
Westward to the Pacific (Making a New Nation)
Nellie the Brave (Sisters in Time)
Meg Follows a Dream (Sisters in Time)
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?
Harriet Tubman (Childhood of Famous Americans)
Unit 20 (continued)
Sides
Artist studies: Samuel Morse, Robert Fulton, George Catlin,
Underground Railroad for Kids with 25 Activities, The
Underground Railroad online, Your Story Hour: Great Stories 5
(Sojourner Truth), Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself,
Westward Ho Activity Book, Frederick Douglass for Kids with 21
Activities, Frederick Douglass historic website, Fredrick Douglass
Junior Ranger book download, Oregon Trail computer game,
American Adventures, sewing costumes, make models,
lapbooking, notebooking, pioneer meals, Hemlock Mountain
online unit study and printable, Ultimate Fieldtrip: A Week in the
1800's, History Pockets Moving West, Meet Kirsten paperdolls,
crafts, cookbook, Pioneer Days (projects, games, recipes),
American History Through Art, Westward Expansion: You Choose
NOTES
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