Booklets FAQ

How many booklets are there?

We have more than a dozen publications, which include curriculum booklets, reading booklets, primary source booklets and a citizenship booklet.

Curriculum Booklets (all of these are 2019-2020 editions):
- Critters and Maps [for 1st grade]
- Your Land, My Land [for 2nd grade]
- Around the World [for 3rd grade, 1st of 2]
- Across the Ocean [for 3rd grade, 1st of 2]
- Upon a Pivot [for 4th grade, 1st of 2]
- Torn Union [for 4th grade, 2nd of 2]
- The American Machine [for 5th grade, 1st of 3]
- Long March to Tennessee [for 5th grade, 2nd of 3]
- Work for Freedom [for 5th grade, 3rd of 3]
- Free and Independent State [for 8th grade]
- Don’t Keep Them In Doubt [for the high school American history class]
Reading Booklet:
- The Kings Letter, The Captain’s Flag, and other Stories [reading booklet for 5th grade]
Primary Source Booklets
- Powerful Words 5th: Primary Sources and Questions for Grade 5
- Powerful Words 8th: Primary Sources and Questions for Grade 8

Are there teacher’s guides?

There are free, online teacher’s guides that contain teaching tips; information; helpful links; larger versions of illustrations, photographs and maps; and more.

The online teacher’s guides do not contain the answers to the questions found in the booklet. To get those, email bill@tnhistoryforkids.org from your school email address. Tell him your name, school and what booklet you are using. He will send you a pdf of the answers.

Here are the teacher’s guides for the new, 2019-2020 edition booklets:

Critters and Maps [for 1st grade]
Your Land, My Land [for 2nd grade]
Around the World [for 3rd grade]
Across the Ocean [for 3rd grade, 1st of 2]
Upon a Pivot [for 4th grade, 1st of 2]
Torn Union [for 4th grade, 2nd of 2]
The American Machine [for 5th grade, 1st of 3]
Long March to Tennessee [for 5th grade, 2nd of 3]
Work for Freedom [for 5th grade, 3rd of 3]
Free and Independent State [for 8th grade]
Don’t Keep Them In Doubt [for the high school American history class]

Do the new booklets cover the old social studies standards or do they cover the new/revised standards?

The booklets that were commonly used to cover the previous standards which remain in stock are Powerful Words 5 and Powerful Words 8–both of which contain primary sources that are still great teacher supplements.

What do the curriculum booklets cover?

Curriculum booklets for grades 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cover ALL the social studies standards for those grades. (For instance: Three Grand Divisions of Tennessee for first grade; the Star-Spangled Banner for second; latitude and longitude for third; early U.S. history for fourth; Tennessee history for fifth.)

Curriculum booklets for grades 8 and 11 cover all of the Tennessee-specific topics which the standards require teachers to cover, but which are probably not discussed in nationally published textbook (the Civil War in Tennessee, the lost state of Franklin, the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee, etc.)

Can you tell me about the reading booklet?

The King’s Letter, the Captain’s Flag and other Stories contains fascinating stories that will make your students LOVE non fiction and Tennessee history! Each story has been written at a grade appropriate level — a wonderful ELA and teaching tool.

What do the primary source booklets cover?

Primary source and question booklets for grades 5 and 8 contain excerpts from ALL of the primary source documents required for those grades in the 2013 standards (The “Ain’t I a woman?” speech, the Donelson Party journal, Frederick Douglass’ autobiography, etc), along with questions about their context and content.

How much do the booklets cost?

We have worked very hard to keep the price of booklets low. Therefore, booklets cost only $2 each.

We ask you absolutely not to make copies of them. After all, at $2 a copy, you can buy another one for MUCH cheaper than it costs to copy them.

How can booklets be purchased?

Information on how to order booklets can be found HERE.

To download a hard (pdf) copy of the order form click here.

Booklets can also be purchased at events such as the tent revival, LEAD conference, Title I Conference, TASL conference, TCSS conference and the other events attended by Tennessee History for Kids.