It’s Time to Crank Out Some Tunes: Teaching American History With Music

It’s Time to Crank Out Some Tunes: Teaching American History With Music
Children can delve into the history of America through its musical heritage. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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Whatever schools our children are attending, the resources for teaching and learning U.S. history have never been more abundant.

Even if not used as the main text, Wilfred McClay’s excellent “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story” makes a great addition to any classroom. It now comes with a student workbook, a teacher’s guide, and a two-volume version for younger students. Likewise, public libraries are true treasure troves of histories and biographies for students of all ages, books that enhance textbooks in bringing alive people and events from bygone days.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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