We will start at the end of the Renaissance time period and touch briefly on Explorers and then onto The First Settlements. This will probably be a year long study broken into different sessions throughout the year. I will be using a combination of Evan-Moor History Pockets, KONOS, "The Light and the Glory", lots of hands-on learning, "The Mayflower Adventure Series" and probably will include a real life simulation of what life would be like in a primitive colony at some point and time. Below is more information about the curriculum:

 

History Pockets series contains 7 to 11 pockets of history activities. For every pocket book there are reading, writing, and “make-it” projects that extend the historical concept being presented and studied. The following resources are provided: historical background information, historically accurate illustrations, maps, charts, and time lines

The following activities are included:

From Christian Forum Book Review
"For those of us who, like the authors, have been exposed mostly to the secular accounts of this period of American history, the information presented becomes a revelation of very great magnitude. ... This book is important. I would that every professing Christian read Gods Holy Bible and this book. There are, of a surety, better and more comprehensive histories than this, but I would recommend none more highly to introduce the student to our Christian American roots as pertains to our beginnings on these shores. "

 

From School Library Journal
"Grade 5-8-John Smythe, 12 years old in Plymouth Pioneers, and his sister Sarah, 10, have come on the Mayflower to the New World. As Separatists, the Smythes believe in practicing their faith in daily life, and their first year in North America gives them ample opportunity to do that. The strength (of these books) is in the children's repeated struggles to choose appropriate behavior and to depend on God in difficult circumstances."