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Pennsylvania Keystones History Curriculum Grades 4-6

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Pennsylvania Keystones by Susan Kemmerer meets all legal requirements for teaching Pennsylvania history to your home school students and introduces them to great, godly men. God’s providence is evident all through the history of this great story. True stories will encourage your student in his/her Christian faith as well as challenge him in his walk with God. Your student will do map studies, timelines, nature studies, and creative writing and create a keepsake notebook, which introduces him to government, geography, industry and agriculture, flora and fauna, etc. Flexible enough to use with one or more students. Use as a full year history/literature course or a weekly supplement to your current studies.

Pennsylvania Keystones Set

Susan Kemmerer

The Pennsylvania Keystones Set includes one student text, one teacher key, and one activity pack.

You will also need the books in the Pennsylvania Keystones Books Set which no longer includes Indian Drums or Christms Surprise because both are out of print. If you plan to use the library, Indian Drums and Broken Arrows and The Christmas Surprise are usually difficult to find.

Pennsylvania Keystones Student Text

Susan Kemmerer

Pennsylvania Keystones Activity Pack

Susan Kemmerer

(Reproducible for family use) Or buy an extra if you don't care to make "lotsa" copies!

Pennsylvania Keystones Teacher Manual Key

Susan Kemmerer

Required Books for Pennsylvania Keystones

Pennsylvania Keystones requires the following books which you may purchase from Lamp Post Homeschool Store or perhaps locate in your local public library.

Spy for the Night Riders

Trailblazer Books

9781556612374

List $6.99

Sale $5.99

Indian Drums and Broken Arrow

Craig Massey

During the Revolutionary War Jeff Lockwood sets out to find out if his father defected to the redcoats. Suspense, conflict, and espionage.

The Sign of the Beaver

Elizabeth George Speare

9780440479000

$6.50

The Christmas Surprise

Ruth Nolton Moore

When Indians burn her home, kill her parents, and take her young brother captive, Kate has no one to turn to but Uncle Josh.

The Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter

"When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic."

The Cabin Faced West

Jean Fritz

9780140322569

List $5.99

Skippack School

Marguerite de Angeli

Skippack School tells a treasured tale about a boy and the praying pioneer schoolmaster, Christopher Dock, the first in America to write a book on pedagogy.

Henner’s Lydia

Marguerite de Angeli

 Henner's Lydia is the story of a young Amish girl who lives on a farm near Lancaster. Lydia must finish her first “piece,” a small hooked mat, before she can go to market with her father.

Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

Marguerite Henry

This lovely book has been republished at last by Bradford Press. I love using Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin for Pennsylvania history when my children are in second grade! Makes a great extra book for Pennsylvania Keystones!

9780970561800

List $14.95

Sale $13.49