Hertiage

The 2011-2012 educational heritage year will cover the following chapters and areas.


In order for the world to be better one must, must, must reflect on the past.  This reflection lends its way to understanding and understanding lends its way to the service of God.  There are tons of people on this small planet that all, somehow, must get along and live together for at the moment there is no other place to go and, there may never be.  Happy one is who understands that God, our Father, has authority over us and that we aren't left to ourselves.

Chapter 1 - We the People    (Government)

• New Country, New Problems
• Shay's Rebellion
• The Constitutional Convention
• The Mayflower Compact
• The House of Burgresses
• Roger Sherman
• The Preamble
• After the Convention

Chapter 2- The Fires of Freedom   (World History)

• Liberation of France
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Declaration of Independence (Echos in History)
• Paris, France
• Making Up National Songs
• To Find Charts and Facts

Chapter 3 - From Sea to Shining Sea    (Geography)

• To Read a Physical Map
• The Big Forest
• The Wide Open Prairie
• Snowcapped Mountains
• Desert
• By the Beautiful Sea
• Traveling Across the Continent
• Exploring America
• Sacajawea
• St. Louis

Chapter 4 - The American Frontier   (American History)

• Starting to Go West
• James Beckwourth
• Another War
• Washington, D.C.
• Writing an Athem
• More People Go West
• The Mormons
• The Trail of Tears
• Mountain Men
• Missionaries and Preachers
• California Bound

Chapter 5 - Stories from Long Ago   (Culture)

• Parables
• Parable of the Lost Coin
• Fables 
• The Game
• Legends
• Johnny Appleseed
• Folktales
• The Alligator and the Deer
• Tall Tales
• The Best Steel Man

Chapter 6 - The United States    (Geography)

• Regions of the United States
• The Northeast
• Indian Nations of Long Ago
• The Southeast
• The Middle West
• Surveying
• The Southwest
• Spanish Flavors
• The West
• To Use a Grid Map
• Island of Hawaii
• Keeping Important Objects

Chapter 7 - War Coming!    (American History)

• The Slavery Question (Echos in History)
• Texas
• War with Mexico
• More Trouble
• Freedom for Slaves
• Harriet Tubman
• The Right to Choose
• A Man Named Lincoln
• Fort Sumter

Chapter 8 - Songs of War and Peace   (Culture)

• Singing in Times of Peace
• Oh, Susanna!
• Git Along, Little Dogies
• Go Down, Moses
• Playing Musical Instruments
• Lowell Mason
• Singing in Wartime
• Dixie
• The Battle Hymm of Republic

Chapter 9 - North Against South    (American History)

• The Beginning
• Keeping Journals
• The First Big Battle
• Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
• New Leaders for the Armies
• Spying in Balloons
• Freedom at Last
• Mathew Brady
• The Union Hotel Hospital
• Gettysburg
• The End, at Last
• The Thirteenth Amendment

Chapter 10 - America Celebrates    (Culture)

• Famous Birthday Celebrations
• Building Monuments
• Easter
• Memorial Day
• Flag Day
• Independence Day
• Columbus Day
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas

Chapter 11 - Railroads    (Economics)

• Early Ways to Travel
• The First Railroads
• Building Model Railroads
• How Railroads Worked
• From Coast to Coast
• Changes, for Better and Worse
• Times Zones

Chapter 12 - The Wild West   (American History)

• Everyday Life
• Sod Busters and Homesteaders
• Ranchers
• Soldiers
• Lawmen
• Jesse and Frank James
• Native Americans
• The West Today