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America Year 1 An Integrated American History Curriculum

The America series is a literature-based integrated American history curriculum. The children's books by Mr. Marshall and Mr. Manuel are used in year 1 to present American history in an easy-to-read story format with a Christian perspective. The unit study uses these popular books and adds more historical information, lessons, and activities to create a complete curriculum that includes: American history, geography, reading/vocabulary, Bible/life application, English grammar and writing, health, music and art, science, and a complete answer key. Suggestions are also included for using the America series with younger and older home school students.

Though written for grades 3 through 6, instructions are included for adding earlier and later grades. For example, secondary students would read the adult version of the Peter Marshall books. This homeschool curriculum consists of three 11-week units studies that form a complete one-year curriculum (except math).

For Grades 3, 4, 5, or 6

America Year 1 An Integrated American History Curriculum

The three guides are sold as a set. You will need additional books for each part. Each part needs the appropriate Peter Marshall children's book and the reading books for either grades 3 and 4 or grades 5 and 6. If you click on the

Let Freedom Ring From Every Mountainside Land of the Pilgrims' Pride
America Year 1

By Chris Roe  Publisher: Christian Novel Studies

America Year 1 has three parts. You will need additional books for each part. Each part needs the appropriate Peter Marshall children's book and the reading books for either grades 3 and 4 or grades 5 and 6. If you click on the links below, you will see the required books for each guide.

This set of three studies includes one of each of the following unit study guides that make up the America Year 1 An Integrated Curriculum:

  1. Land of the Pilgrims' Pride Features The Light and the Glory for Young Readers, by Peter Marshall and David Manuel.
  2. From Every Mountainside Features From Sea to Shining Sea for Young Readers
  3. Let Freedom Ring Features Sounding Forth the Trumpet for Young Readers

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0970771207 set

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Books needed for "Land of the Pilgrims' Pride" Part One: 1492-1789

The Light and the Glory for Young Readers

The Light and the Glory for Children 9780800754488
The Light and the Glory For Young Readers 1492-1793

By Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson Fishel

Rewritten for young readers, use The Light and the Glory for Young Readers to teach them about the Christian history of the United States. In the back of the book are study questions and answers by chapter .

Paperback, ages 9-12

ISBN-13:
9780800733735

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 3 and 4 for "Land of the Pilgrims' Pride"

Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad
Pedro's Journal

By Pam Conrad

Pedro's Journal is used in weeks 1 and 2 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780590462068

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Mayflower Secret

By Dave and Neta Jackson

The Mayflower Secret is about William Bradford in 1620’s New World.

Is it used in weeks 3 and 4 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780764220104

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The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
The Courage of Sarah Noble

By Alice Dalgliesh

The Courage of Sarah Noble is used in weeks 5 and 6 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780689715402

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The Matchlock Gun
The Matchlock Gun

Walt Edmonds

The Matchlock Gun is used in weeks 7 to 9 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

Ages 8 and up.

ISBN-13:
9780698116801

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Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz 9780698119369
Cabin Faced West

Jean Fritz

Frontier girl in PA.

The Cabin Faced West is used in weeks 10 and 11 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780698119369

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 5 and 6 for "Land of the Pilgrims' Pride"

Pedro's Journal

By Pam Conrad

Pedro's Journal is used in weeks 1 and 2 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780590462068

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The Double Life of Pocahontas

By Jean Fritz

The Double Life of Pocahontas is used in week 2 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780698119352

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Mayflower Secret

By Dave and Neta Jackson

Story about William Bradford in 1620’s New World

Is it used in weeks 3 and 4 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780764220104

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The Light in the Forest
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 Light in the Forest is used in weeks 5 and 6 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9781400077885

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Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

Johnny Tremain is used in weeks 7 to 9 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780440442509

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Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz 9780698119369
Cabin Faced West

Jean Fritz

Frontier girl in PA.

The Cabin Faced West is used in weeks 10 and 11 of Land of the Pilgrim's Pride.

ISBN-13:
9780698119369

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Books needed for America Year 1 An Integrated Curriculum Part 2  From Every Mountainside" Part 2 1787-1837

From Sea to Shining Sea for Yound Readers

From Sea to Shining Sea For Young Readers 9780800733742
From Sea to Shining Sea For Young Readers 1787-1837

By Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson Fishel

From Sea to Shining Sea For Young Readers was written for the elementary age group. It is a repackaged version of the original edition. Study questions and answers are located in the back of the book.

Paperback, ages 9-12

ISBN-13:
9780800733742

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 3 and 4 for "From Every Mountainside"

Ben and Me

Robert Lawson

Ben and Me is used in weeks 1 and 2 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-13:
9780316517300

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Sacajawea, Guide to Lewis and Clark
The Story of Sacajawea

By Della Rowland

The Story of Sacajawea is used in weeks 3 and 4 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-13:
9780440402152

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Abandoned on the Wild Frontier

By the Jacksons

Abandoned on the Wild Frontier is used in weeks 5 and 6 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-10:
1556614683

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Soft Rain - A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

By Cornelia Cornelissen

Soft Rain - A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears is used in weeks 9 and 10 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-13:
9780440412427

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 5 and 6 for "From Every Mountainside"

Ben and Me

Robert Lawson

Ben and Me is used in weeks 1 and 2 of From Every Mountainside. 

ISBN-13:
9780316517300

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Sacajawea, Guide to Lewis and Clark
The Story of Sacajawea

By Della Rowland

The Story of Sacajawea is used in weeks 3 and 4 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-13:
9780440402152

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Abandoned on the Wild Frontier

By the Jacksons

Abandoned on the Wild Frontier is used in weeks 5 and 6 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-10:
1556614683

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Beneath the Sky of an Angry God

By John Jenkins and Mark Weaver, Reconciliation Press

"Daniel Sweetwater is a sixteen-year-old Delaware Indian living with his preacher father among the Cherokee in 1838. He and father are forced to march with the last remnants of the Cherokee nation on a 1000-mile journey from their homes in Georgia to a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory.

"Beneath the Sky of an Angry God is the first book in the Discovery historical fiction series that follows the lives and adventures of young people over several generations. Like Daniel, they struggle to make their way in a growing and changing 19th-century America and to triumph amid the century-long spiritual conflicts that have shaped our nation past and present.

Beneath the Sky of an Angry God is used in weeks 9 and 10 of From Every Mountainside.

Grades 5 to 8

ISBN-13:
9781888565027

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Moccasin Trail
Moccasin Trail

By Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Moccasin Trail is used in weeks 10 and 11 of From Every Mountainside.

ISBN-13:
9780140321708

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Books needed for America An Integrated Curriculum Part 3 "Let Freedom Ring" Part Three 1837-1860

Counding Forth the Trumpet for Yound Readers

Sounding Forth the Trumpet For Young Readers 9780800733759
Sounding Forth the Trumpet For Young Readers 1837-1860

By Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Anna Wilson Fishel

Sounding Forth the Trumpet For Young Readers tells the story for children. In the back this repackaged version of the original edition, you will find study questions and answers divided by chapter.

Paperback, ages 9-12

ISBN-13:
9780800733759

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 3 and 4 for "Let Freedom Ring"

What Are You Figuring Now?, A Story of Benjamin Banneker

By Jeri Ferris

What Are You Figuring Now? is used in weeks 1 and 2 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780876145210

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Trouble for Lucy by Carla Stevens
Trouble for Lucy

By Carla Stevens

Trouble for Lucy is used in weeks 3 and 4 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780899195230

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Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush

By Jim Rawls

Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush is used in week 5 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780811480628

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Listen for the Whippoorwill

By Dave and Neta Jackson

Listen for the Whippoorwill is used in weeks 6 and 7 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9781556612725

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Little Pilgrim's Progress

By Helen L. Taylor

Little Pilgrim's Progress is used in weeks 8 and 9 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780802449245

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Cobblestone Magazine, "Pony Express" Vol. 2., #10, October, 1981

Pony Express is used in weeks 10 and 11 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-10:
0382403118

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Reading Books - Use with students in grades 5 and 6 for "Let Freedom Ring"

The Sign of the Beaver
Amos Fortune, Free Man

By Elizabeth Yates

Amos Fortune, Free Man tells the story of Amos Fortune an American slave. Born the son of an African king, he was captured when he was 15 by slave traders. He dreamed of freedom as he worked as a slave for 45 years. He finally began to see those dreams come true when he was age 60.

Amos Fortune, Free Man is used in weeks 1 and 2 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780140341584

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Bound for Oregon
Bound for Oregon

By Jean Van Leeuwen

Bound for Oregon is used in weeks 3 and 4 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780140383195

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Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush

By Jim Rawls

Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush is used in week 5 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780811480628

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Listen for the Whippoorwill

By Dave and Neta Jackson

Listen for the Whippoorwill is used in weeks 6 and 7 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9781556612725

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Little Pilgrim's Progress

By Helen L. Taylor

Little Pilgrim's Progress is used in weeks 8 and 9 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-13:
9780802449245

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Cobblestone Magazine, "Pony Express" Vol. 2., #10, October, 1981

Pony Express is used in weeks 10 and 11 of Let Freedom Ring.

ISBN-10:
0382403118

Out of Stock