Around California with Children's Books Teacher Guide

Author: Rea Berg

Recommended For: Intermediate (4th through 6th grade)

This year-long homeschool curriculum is a literature approach to the fascinating history of California, the Golden State!

Designed for the intermediate homeschooling student, this teacher guide and the required literature curriculum fulfills the California History requirement for fourth or fifth-grade. In addition to the award-winning books and corresponding Socratic questions prompting discussion and discovery, students will also study art, poetry, geography, music, and culinary history. Beautiful drawings of plants and animals familiarize students with the unique gifts of nature indigenous to this state, cultivating respect and wonder for the natural world.

A journal accompanies the course where students will record all they learn, creating a memorable keepsake.

•This homeschooling curriculum contains 80 lessons.

•Complete 3 lessons per week for a one-year study.

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About the Author:

Rea Berg homeschooled her six children and it was her determination to teach history using quality literature rather than standard textbooks that inspired her to research what was available to accomplish that purpose. The result has been a series of History Through Literature teacher guides all designed to acquaint the reader with the best children's literature available on the subject. Rea holds a Masters Degree in Children's Literature from The Center for the Study of Children's Literature, Simmons College in Boston.