Our Star-Spangled Story Bundle

Our Star-Spangled Story Bundle (Includes the book study set)

By Charlene Notgrass, Publisher: Notgrass Company

ISBN-13: 9781609991647

Designed for students in first through fourth grades, this course combines the best features of the traditional textbook-based approach with the unit-study approach! In addition to narrative lessons about children and families in American history, students can learn through songs, dances, and hands-on activities. You will find all the lessons and assignments to complete the course in the kit.

In the literature portion, your student will read eight additional works of literature along with the lessons in Our Star-Spangled Story. Each book is set in a different time period in American history.

• View Table of Contents and Sample Lesson.

Our Star-Spangled Story Bundle Includes of Each Item:

• Our Star-Spangled Curriculum Package It contains:
  • Our Star-Spangled Story Part 1
    Forty-five Lessons covers life in America before Europeans came and continues through the late 1800s.
    View Sample Lessons.
  • Our Star-Spangled Story Part 2
    Forty-five Lessons cover from the late 1800s through modern times.
    View Sample Lessons.
  • Star-Spangled Rhythms and Rhymes (book and MP3 CD)
    Features sixty songs, poems, and dances that go along with the lessons in Our Star-Spangled Story. It includes access to stream or download audio recordings.
    View Rhythms and Rhymes Sample.
  • A Star-Spangled Timeline
    This timeline reference book features people and events from the lessons in chronological order.
    View Timeline Sample.
  • My Star-Spangled Student Workbook
    For each weekly unit, the Student Workbook includes one coloring page related to a lesson, one assignment where the student can either draw or write something related to a lesson, and one review page about key ideas from the unit.
    View Student Workbook Sample.
  • Our Star-Spangled Story Answer Key and Literature Guide
    Contains answers for all of the lesson review questions and the review pages in the Student Workbook. It also features brief introductions to each of the literature titles with discussion questions and suggested answers.
    Free Download.
• Our Star-Spangled Story Literature Package It includes:
  • Benjamin West & His Cat Grimalkin By Marguerite Henry ISBN-13: 9781481403948 “Today Benjamin West is remembered because he was the father of American painting . . . but I like to remember him as the boy who wanted so very much to paint that he dug his colors out of the ground and made his brushes from his cat’s tail.”–Marguerite Henry. Used in Units 1-4 Paperback
  • Toliver’s Secret By Esther Wood Brady ISBN-13: 9780679848042 When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret Patriot mission. Disguised as a boy, she manages to smuggle a message to General George Washington. Used in Units 5-9 Paperback
  • Freedom Crossing By Margaret Goff Clark ISBN-13: 9780590445696 When Laura Eastman comes home from a vacation with relatives in the South, her loyalties are challenged by abolitionist ideals. Her own father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape. Will Laura help them? Used in Units 10-12. Paperback
  • Farmer Boy By Laura Ingalls Wilder ISBN-13: 9780064400039 Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories. Used in Units 13-15. Paperback
  • Mountain Born By Elizabeth Yates ISBN-13: 9780890847060 In Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates, she used her experiences from her early years of living on her father’s large farm and the hours spent with a News Hampshire shepherd in writing this fiction story. Wolves, weather, a black lamb, a trusty dog—all are part of Peter’s life on a mountain farm. His best friend is Benji, a wise old shepherd, and Benj teaches Peter to care for the sprightly lamb that becomes his special pet, his cosset. As Biddy grows into her place as leader of the flock, Peter grows too, learning the skills and joys of the shepherd’s life. Mountain Born is a Newbery Honor Book. Check out her Iceland Adventure and Someday You’ll Write. Used in Units 16-18. Paperback
  • Emily’s Runaway Imagination By Beverly Cleary ISBN-13: 9780380709236 Set in the 1920s, in small-town America, this joyful story will tickle the imagination of middle-grade readers. Fourth-grader Emily Barlett’s runaway imagination keeps her busy. Whether it’s getting the farm pigs drunk on rotten apples or bleaching the plow horse to keep him really white, Emily’s adventures will keep readers laughing. Used in Units 19-22. Paperback
  • The Year of Miss Agnes By Kirkpatrick Hill ISBN-13: 9780689851247 Told in a young girl’s simple, honest voice, this is the touching story about Alaska, the old ways and the new, and about a special teacher who touches thelives of everyone she meets. Used in Units 23-26. Paperback
  • Katy By Mary Evelyn Notgrass ISBN-13: 9781609991128 Katy Porter likes to climb trees, play with her sister, and ride bikes with her brother. The Porters are a close family. They are brought even closer through a family vacation, a surprise in the middle of the night, and an important decision that will affect them all.
    Katy is enjoying her summer break from school when her parents tell her that they are thinking about homeschooling in the fall. Katy likes being an average girl and is afraid that being homeschooled will make her too different from everyone else.
    Katy’s parents will have to decide soon. This summer could bring a big change for the Porter family. Whatever they decide, it has already brought a big change in Katy’s heart, for she is learning that being different is okay after all.
    Katy is a pure story of strong character, simple faith, and a loving family. Used in Units 27-30. Paperback

Our Star-Spangled Story Resource Links

• Resource Links for Our Star-Spangled Story (at the publisher’s website) The publisher’s database contains recommended videos, websites, field trip ideas, and other resources that go along with specific lessons in this curriculum. It is a very helpful and extensive list of supplementary resources for studying American history for primary grades. NOTE: Access to the full list comes with the purchase of the bundle.

Grades 1-4 United States History