America the Beautiful Curriculum, Student Workbook, and Lesson Review

"America the Beautiful" by Charlene Notgrass is a one-year American history, geography, and literature course designed for students in grades 5-8. Written from a Christian perspective, it 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.

"America the Beautiful Part 1" has 75 lessons beginning with life in America before Europeans came and continuing through the first years after the Civil War.

"America the Beautiful Part 2" has 75 lessons beginning with America's expansion into the lands west of the Mississippi River and continuing to modern times.

"We the People" is a collection of 150 original journal entries, newspaper articles, advertisements, poems, songs, letters, short stories, speeches, and other historic documents from American history.

"Maps of America the Beautiful" contains 30 maps drawn especially to accompany the lessons in this curriculum.

"Timeline of America the Beautiful" is an illustrated timeline of American history from AD 1000 to the present designed specifically to include facts learned in the lessons.

"America the Beautiful Student Workbook" contains crosswords, find-a-words, matching, codes, drawing assignments, and other handwork activities which review and reinforce information learned in the daily lessons.

"America the Beautiful Lesson Review" features daily lesson review questions, literature review questions, and weekly quizzes.

"America the Beautiful Answer Key" includes answers for the Timeline, Student Workbook, Lesson Review, and the vocabulary assignments included in the main text.