The Antebellum West

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• A History of Us: Liberty for All? 1820-1860 by Joy Hakim
• We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose

Lesson 2

• The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History, 1775-1865 by John Grafton, ed.

Materials

Common Materials

• crayons, markers, or colored pencils
• tape or glue
• timeline cards
• US History Timeline
• scissors
• drawing paper
• large sheet of paper or poster board
• colored pencils

Lesson 3

• blank paper* (3.2 - Option 2)

Lesson 4

• poster board or blank paper* (4.2 - Option 1)

Lesson 7

• art materials* (7.2 - optional)

Lesson 8

• notecards* (8.1 - optional)

Lesson 9

• 2 envelopes
• 4 or more friends or family members
• access to a large space with a defined perimeter (like a basketball court or playground)

Final Project

• construction paper or card stock* (Final Project.2 - Option 2)

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used