While just doing the History Memory Work alone is enough for the Foundations level of Classical Conversations, I have decided to dig a little deeper into American History with my girls this year basically through reading some good books together.

Here is the list of books that we will be reading together this year! If the book corresponds to a particular week’s Memory Work for Cycle 3, I will put the week number in parenthesis after the book title.

Living Literature Book Titles

Christopher Columbus Step into Reading Level 3 (Week 1)

The Story of the Pilgrims (Week 2)

If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 (Week 2)

Who Were the First North Americans?

The Trail of Tears

If You Lived At the Time of the American Revolution (Week 3)

The 4th of July Story (Week 4)

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution (Week 23)

A Picture Book of George Washington (Week 5)

Lewis and Clark A Prairie Dog for the President Step into Reading Level 3 (Week 6)

Red, White and Blue, The Story of the American Flag (Week 7)

Ox-Cart Man (Week 8)

Journey of a Pioneer (Week 10)

The Drinking Gourd Step into Reading Level 3 (Week 9)

A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman (Week 9)

A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee (Week 12)

Pink and Say (Week 11)

America the Beautiful (Week 13)

Alexander Graham Bell Kids Can Read

The Story of the Statue of Liberty

The Wright Brother’s Kids Can Read

The Long Way to a New Land (Week 16)

Titanic Usborne Young Reader (Week 16)

Usborne’s See Inside the First World War (Week 17)

The Little Ships The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II (Week 15)

I Survived The Bombing of the Pearl Harbor (Week 18)

The Story of Ruby Bridges (Week 20)

Moonwalk, The First Trip to the Moon Step into Reading Level 5 (Week 21)

Saved by the Boats (Week 22)

History Notebook

After reading a book, the girls will have the opportunity to draw, color or paint a picture about something they learned in their History Notebook. Their History Notebook is just a blank drawing pad I picked up at the Convention for $3.50 each! I bought Draw Write Now Book 5 for drawing ideas as it correlates well to a lot of Cycle 3’s history.

Read Alouds

I have several titles for Read Alouds that correlate to our History Memory Work!

Pedro’s Journal

The Thanksgiving Story

Pochahontas and the Strangers

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt

Other Resources

I have some fun resources that we will also enjoy this year as we study American History.

Story of the World Volume 3 and 4 - Last year we started listening to SOTW during lunch and it was a huge hit with the girls, so we will continue on with volumes 3 and 4 this year (which cover American History as well as other history that was happening all over the world).

Adventures in Odyssey For God and Country - We gave this to Little Bug for her birthday. Both girls will enjoy listening to this.

Liberty’s Kids The Complete Series DVD - I bought this a couple years ago while it was on sale on Amazon for $5. To add a little variety to our history lessons, I have planned for us to watch a Liberty’s Kids episode.

- Elaine