Communities USA

Academic Concepts & Vocabulary
Social Studies

Careers
artist, carpenter, doctor, farmer, lawyer, mail carrier, postmaster, storekeeper, surveyor, teacher, etc.

Communities
buildings, city, community, country, government, houses, land, roads, rural, street, suburban, transportation, urban


U.S. Civil War
Abraham Lincoln, battlefield, Civil War, citizens, Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, soldiers, war.


U.S. Government
amendment; bill; branch; campaign; candidate; Congress; Constitution; election; executive; government; judicial; leader; legislative; monument; President; speech; Supreme Court; titles of elected officials; vote; Washington D.C.; White House

Mathematics

Computation
subtract, take away


Sequence
events, finally first, next, sequence, then, time line

Physical Science

Simple Machines

pulley

Language Arts

Debate
agree, arguments, debate, disagree, issue, no, true, yes


Elements of Nonfiction
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm
autobiography, biography



Postcards

address, caption, message, picture, postcard



Reference Sources

telephone directory

Everyday Vocabulary

Family Member
father, mother, son, etc.


Greetings and Social Courtesies

dear, thank you, etc.
 
 

Books

Sing a Song of People
Lois Lenski
The Gettysburg Address Arbraham Lincoln
 
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Andrea Pinkney
Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery 
 William Miller
General Store 
 Rachel Field
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King!
 David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
Allice and Martin Provensen
Town & Country
 
   
   
   
   
   
   

 
The vocabulary and book list on this page are provided in the series
"Into English!"
by


Hampton Brown.