“This curriculum was perfect! Any student living in America can and should benefit from this well-designed, easily and interestingly presented curriculum. It has been a joy!
- Mila Varner
East Area Adult School
Auburndale, Florida

This completely revised and updated version of Being an American: Exporing the Ideas that Unite Us explores the Founding documents and civic values that have shaped American from the Founders to today.

This curriculum will strengthen your students' understanding of the foundations behind their rights and people who have stood for those values. Students will analyze:

• Historical foundations of American freedoms
• Compelling American heroes and their influence
• Ways to exercise values in their lives

Being an American examines who we are and what we stand for as Americans. The curriculum provides you with six days of core lesson plans and a variety of activities to help your students understand the meaning and responsibilities of citizenship, while helping them meet national standards and developing their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Includes new Character Cards, new Declaration of Independence unit, and a password protected online "Being an American Today," that explores current issues and is updated regularly.

Table of Contents:
The Declaration of Independence
The U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Bill of Rights
America’s Civic Values
American Heroes: Past and Present
American Citizenship

American Heroes Examined:
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Carnegie
Cesar Chavez
Henry Clay
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Fannie Lou Hamer
Anne Hutchinson
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
John Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
William Penn
Jackie Robinson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Mary Beth Tinker
Mary Tsukamoto
Harriet Tubman
George Washington
Ida B. Wells
Orville and Wilbur Wright

Price: $19.95