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Index:
Directions:
This Unit is recommended for K- 5th+. It has been designed
to be completed in four weeks. Your students will learn about
. If needed, read over General
Directions for Cindy's Unit Studies for more information
on multi-level teaching.
Textbooks
Needed:
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Additional
Reading Suggestions - Using A Beka, Our American Heritage,
3rd ed:
- Pgs
38-47 (Miles Standish, Pilgrims, Mayflower), 3+
- Pgs.
48-61 (Squanto, Thanksgiving), 3+
Additional
Reading Suggestions - Using Literature (All of these could
be use as read-alouds):
- Daily
Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636 by Paul Erickson. 48pgs,
color illus.
- Don’t
Know Much About the Pilgrims by Kenneth Davis. 45 pgs,
color.
- If
You Sailed on the Mayflower by Ann McGovern.
-
Mayflower, The. by Susan Whitehurst. 24 pgs, illus.
- Mayflower
Secret, William Bradford, Excellent historical fiction with
Christian emphasis.
- Miles
Standish: Plymouth Colony Leader by Susan Martins Miller.
76 pgs, color.
- Our
Strange New Land : Elizabeth's Diary by Patricia Hermes.
(Dear America series), 110 pgs.
- Squanto's
journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac.
unpaged, illus. Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured
by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately
returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for
the colonists.
-
Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne. Magic Treehouse
series. 73 pgs, b/w illus.
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Suggested Videos:
- A
Journey to the New World, Plymouth, 1920. (Check your library)
Activities:
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Internet
Activities:
Be
sure to enter these topics on your copy of The
Checklist.
Please
let me know if any of these links do not work. Email:
contact@oklahomahomeschool.com.
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