Creative Teaching Press: Voices of American History
This series makes history come alive through historic
songs and narrative readings on 2 audio CDs.The songs reflect the people and events of the
period of history featured in each title. The first CD features narratives and songs with
lyrics. The second features instrumental music. Lessons in the book contain
thought-provoking questions that encourage students to connect the past to their own
lives. You will also find activities and research topics, oral presentation ideas,
literature links, and vocabulary words. Each book in the series also has three full-color
pullout posters that visually reinforce concepts presented in the lessons. On the back of
each poster you will find reproducible activities to supplement the material in the
corresponding lesson. Each poster back includes a class activity, a five-paragraph essay
assignment, and a page that challenges the students to test their knowledge of the
information on the poster front.
One could teach all of American history through the
Civil War and the Westward Movement using the books in this series as a framework for
cross-curricular unit studies. Or one could use one book to add a cross-curricular
dimension to just one time period. What a way to study history!
Each book has 48 pages, 2 CD's, and three posters.
Price is $17.99-D each book. Please order by title and catalog number. For grades 4-8
Titles in Series
 Colonial America:
A New World, by Steven Traugh. Lessons cover Native American Peoples,
Exploration and Trade; Coming to the New World; Separation; Farming the Land; Earning a
Living from the Sea; Indentured Servitude; A People of Many Nations; Slavery; Home Life
and Children; The Seeds of Democracy; Freedom of Speech; The French and Indian War.
Posters in this book :
American Exploration: Discovering the New World
Colonial America: Making a Life in the New World
Native American Peoples: The Original Settlers of
North America
Some featured songs are "Mountain
Hymn," None But a Seaman Shall Marry with Me," "My Bonnie Lies Over the
Ocean," "When I First Came to This Land," "The Greenland Whale,"
"The Green Grass Grew All Around," and more. Words to the songs are printed in
the book as part of the lessons. Cat. #BTH-19. $17.99-D
 American Revolution: The Journey Toward Independence
by Steven Traugh. The thirteen lessons cover
Taxation without Representation; The English Perspective; Trouble Brews in Boston; The
Continental Congress; The Battles Begin; The Declaration of Independence; The War in the
Northern Colonies; The War in the Southern Colonies; David and Goliath on the Sea; Women
and the War; A Growing Confidence; American Victory; Independence.
Posters in this book:
The American
Flag: A History of the Growth of a Nation
We the
People: The Documents of Revolutionary America
The American
Revolution: From Protest to Rebellion
Some featured songs are "American
Taxation," "American Ballad," "Revolutionary Tea," "Song of
the Minutemen," "Yankee Doodle," "Johnny has Gone for a Soldier,"
"The World Turned Upside Down," "Hail Columbia," and more. Words
to the songs are printed in the book as part of the lessons. Cat. # BTH-664. $17.99-D
 United and Divided: A Young Nation through the Civil War
by Steven Traugh.The thirteen lessons cover
A Self-Sufficient People; Forming a Government; Promoting National Pride; The Industrial
Revolution; Children in the Workplace; The War of 1812; Waterways: Lifelines of the
Nation; The Abolition Movement; Abraham Lincoln; Secession of the South; The Winds of War;
Emancipation Proclamation; Preservation of the Union.
Posters in this book:
The Industrial Revolution: Changing
the Way People Work and Live
The Civil War: The Struggle to Keep
Our Nation Whole
The Underground Railroad: Making the
Journey to Freedom.
Some featured songs are "Green
Corn," "America," "Four Pence a Day," "Star-Spangled
Banner," "The Erie Canal," "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd,"
"Bonnie Blue Flag," " Eating Goober Peas," "Just Before the
Battle, Mother," "Victory Song of Freedom," and more. Words to the
songs are printed in the book as part of the lessons. Cat. # BTH-665. $17.99-D
 Westward Expansion: America
Moves West by Steven Traugh. The thirteen lessons cover Across the
Appalachians; Settling Along the Rivers; The Louisiana Purchase; The Trail of Tears; Texas
and the Mexican War; The Oregon Trail; The California Gold Rush; Settling on the Plains;
Logging and Lumberjacks; Building the Railroads; Native Americans; Cattle Ranching and
Cowboys; From Sea to Shining Sea.
Posters in this book:
Go West!: A Timeline of Westward
Travel and Settlement
Strike it Rich!: The Rush to Find
Gold
Trailblazers: Opening the Routes for
Westward Expansion
Some featured songs are
"Cumberland Gap," "The Lovely Ohio," "Shenandoah,"
"Cielito Lindo," "Remember the Alamo," "Sweet Betsy from
Pike," "Oh, California," "Starving to Death on a Government
Claim," "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill," "The Old Chisholm Trail,"
"America the Beautiful," and more. Words to the songs are printed in the
book as part of the lessons. Cat. # BTH-21. $17.99-D
If you would like more advanced literature links for
the junior high grades, you might want to check out some of our suggestions for nonfiction pioneer literature.
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