Teaching Aids for American History: Songs for Learning American Documents

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Teaching Aids for American History: Songs for Learning American Documents

Homeschool parents would like their children to learn the ideals that created our American democracy. Key American documents, penned by the founding fathers and great presidents contain these ideals.

When homeschoolers can memorize these key documents, they can better internalize and apply those ideals.

The problem is that memorization of old documents can be difficult…and BORING!

That’s why homeschool graduate, Ezra Tillman, created a series of videos and shared them on YouTube.

In each of these videos, he show engaging historic paintings and photos that are accompanied by a catchy song with the words of one of our of important American documents. (In most cases, just the most critical parts of the document are included in the song and video.)

Ezra Tillman is a middle school American History and Geography teacher. He composed these songs for his students to help them memorize important American documents. Then he shared the recordings of his songs on YouTube so that other young people can learn the documents that formed the ideals of America.

Feel free to download the links and use the YouTube videos with your students. They will enjoy memorizing these fundamental American documents. THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THESE SONGS!

Currently there are 4 videos, but keep an eye out here, because Ezra is working on more songs to help memorize important American documents.

These are the 4 songs:

• Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of Independence – We Hold These Truths

  First Amendment of the Constitution Song

  Gettysburg Address Memorization Song

We’ve put all the links in one PDF for you. It’s free. Just download! We want to see American homeschoolers know and love their foundational documents!

Need more inspiration for helping teens understand how meaningful and important it is to study history? Check out this on why History is boring and how to make it better.

Here are some other great American History ideas:

• High School Unit Study for Native American Heritage Month
• 5 Ways to Earn American History Credit
• Combining Credits: American History, Literature and Art
• Books for American History.
  

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