Our Star-Spangled Story

Our Star-Spangled Story ​is a one-year course centered in God's Word that makes learning U.S. history exciting for elementary students and parents. This curriculum features:

• Open-and-go lessons that require minimal planning
• Colorful photographs and illustrations
• Audio recordings of the songs and video demonstrations of the dances
• Recipes, crafts, and other hands-on activities

Here's what Jaclyn in California said about this curriculum:

Notgrass is so easy to teach to my kids. We are using Our Star-Spangled Story, and I like how nicely it’s written, the beautiful pictures and maps, and we are enjoying all the unit projects.​

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Our Star-Spangled Story combines the flexibility and richness of a literature-based unit study with the simplicity of a textbook. Students can use this one-year curriculum successfully at any point during the elementary years. Whether you’re teaching one child or several, you can select the activities that best suit your family’s needs.

The Our Star-Spangled Story Curriculum Package includes six books:

• Our Star-Spangled Story Part 1
• Our Star-Spangled Story Part 2
• Star-Spangled Rhythms and Rhymes
  
• A Star-Spangled Timeline
  
• My Star-Spangled Student Workbook
  
• Our Star-Spangled Story Answer Key and Literature Guide

Our Star-Spangled Story Part 1 and Part 2 are full-color, richly illustrated hardcovers that include the lessons to read and all instructions you need for using the other components. Star-Spangled Rhythms and  Rhymes features 60 songs, poems, and dances.

The Timeline book is the perfect way to reinforce and review key people and events from the lessons. The Student Workbook includes two hands-on activity sheets and one review page for each weekly unit. The Answer Key and Literature Guide provides all necessary answers along with helpful notes and discussion questions for the eight recommended literature titles.

Each literature title is assigned at a particular point in the course and focuses on a different period of U.S. history. All eight titles are in print and available for purchase individually or as a package.

Table of Contents / Introduction

Below you can flip through sample pages from the books in the Curriculum Package. For a more detailed look at how the curriculum works, you can watch a video walkthrough with the authors.

Video Walkthrough