American History for High School

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  • April 19, 2011 at 1:47 am
    Anonymous
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    Does anyone know of any free resources that could be used for American History for high school?

    April 19, 2011 at 2:23 am
    Anonymous
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    Could the SCM’s Stories of America, Volume 1 be used for high school American History?

    April 19, 2011 at 2:50 am
    missingtheshire
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    Mrs K – have you looked at this site – they have free resources for all age groups

    http://oldfashionededucation.com/americanhistory.htm

    there may be something there you could use.  I have utilized quite a few resources from this site in all subjects.  Hope it helps a bit, if I think of anything else I will post it.  Blessings, Linda

     

    April 19, 2011 at 3:38 am
    Anonymous
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    Thanks Linda! I actually was just looking at that site a little bit ago. There are a lot of resources listed for American History. Have you used any of the American History resources?

    April 19, 2011 at 12:08 pm
    missingtheshire
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    I thought of this site as well, they sent me some wonderful things

    http://www.americanheritage.org/

    it may be of help.  You can order a free disc from them or a binder – it is very good.  Blessings,  Linda

    April 19, 2011 at 2:27 pm
    missingtheshire
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    Mrs K, sorry I did not answer the last part of your question,  we did not use the resources as a whole, but we did read The Oregon Trail and various things from various resources, I used a lot of the Beacon Lights of History especially vol XII which was about American Leaders and then we read biographies like The Real Geogre Washington and things from the American Heritage organization among other things.  I already had a fair few history books from my college days, and so we utilized those as well.  We rented historical documentaries from the library and had lots of discussion.  If you look on Project Gutenberg, you can download a lot of older history books and some are very good, they have the Beacon Lights books at this link

    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?default_prefix=titles

    if you then search the rest of the site you can find all sorts of good books covering all subjects.  If you have a kindle or reader you can download them to that – if not you can download Kindle for PC on amazon.com and then load them into that – or you can save them to your documents and either read them online or print them off to read, though some are thousands of pages. 

    Blessings,  Linda

    April 19, 2011 at 5:55 pm
    Anonymous
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    Linda, are the Beacon Light books conversational style or more academic?

    April 19, 2011 at 6:04 pm
    Anonymous
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    I’ve been looking at the sample of SCM’s Stories of America, Volume 1 and I think that it might be a really nice resource to work with and add in the supplemental materials (literature, poetry, biographies, etc.) to make a really good year of American History for the high school level.

    April 19, 2011 at 6:05 pm
    missingtheshire
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    I would class them a little of both, the writing of that era is more academic yet the style is easily read in my opinion.  Why don’t you download one and see if you like it.  You can download and save as a document.  Linda

    April 20, 2011 at 1:33 am
    Anonymous
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    Thanks for your input Linda. I really appreciate it!

    April 20, 2011 at 2:23 am
    missingtheshire
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    You are welcome, I hope sme of it is useful.  There are many free and good resources, and it is not hard to put a program together for high school – I wish you luck.  Blessings,  Linda

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