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All American History Vol 1 Student Reader

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When I first received Volume 1 of this curriculum, I thought it was going to be just another history textbook. However, I was pleasantly surprised! This one is unique and worth considering for your children.

The reader is excellent and the information is well presented. I think students will enjoy the text. Each unit includes easy-to-read text, illustrations of famous people and events, maps, and a section on the impact of the unit's events on our nation. The illustrations, however, are black and white which makes it somewhat less interesting than a similar book in color. Maybe a future edition will add color illustrations.

What I like the most is the activity book! Each unit includes activity worksheets to accompany the text. The fun part is that Celeste has included small images of famous people and flags to cut out and paste on the worksheets. Visual learners and your younger children will like this part and it will help them to remember what they learned. The worksheets also include a fill in the blank and multiple choice quiz to check older student's memory, as well as map work and additional ideas and resources for further study.

This curriculum comes in three parts: The Student Reader, a Student Activity Book, and the Teacher Guide with Answer Key. Normally, I don't like having to purchase a separate teacher book, but in this case, it's not that expensive ($16.95) and it is well worth getting. It includes a lot of background information as well as additional activities that will make multi-level teaching a lot easier. For instance, in the lesson on the Revolutionary War, students will make invisible ink secret messages, create a newspaper, make candles, go on a nature hike to identify trees and animals, learn how to fly and store a flag, and much more.

I particularly recommend this to parents who have visual learners and who have to teach multiple grade levels at one time. The author recommends it to be used for grades 5-8, but I would not be afraid to use parts of it with younger children.

We are now 13 weeks into this product and it is all that I thought it would be. It is a great overview of American history and I can add to it easily with supplemental books for more details if I like.

nicely written, but lessons are a little long. the student book is a little confusing too, but overall we like it and is what we wanted.

My son (13) has been using this as his history curriculum. We LOVE it! He's learned so much and never complains about the work! It definitely has a Christian theme but it is full of amazing, accurate content. We've been extremely happy with it and it's a great purchase.

We plan to use the curriculum with our younger children in the next few years and will only need to purchase All American History: Student Activity Book, Vol. 1for each of them, I love that!!

I purchased this book along with the student activity book and teacher's guide for our homeschool curriclum. As a set this has worked well for my 11 and 12 year old children. The text is well laid out and easy to understand. I tend to read the lessons aloud focusing on one topic per day (lining it up with the next page in the student activity book). Reading it aloud allows for more discussion and lets them focus on their activity book to answer questions while I read. It is challenging to find a quality history curriculum that isn't heavily swayed towards an individuals beliefs or viewpoint. I feel that this text does make an effort to focus on basic facts.