The Listening Grove

This Country of Ours

H. E. Marshall’s story of America, read aloud one chapter per page, with vocabulary, Key Places, narration support, and a Charlotte Mason lesson. This is a Kindred Thicket Revised Edition: factual and historical errors are corrected and dated wording put right, and the accuracy notes tell you plainly what we changed and what we left for you to weigh.

One lesson, three ways

Watch on YouTubeThe chapter read aloud with the words and illustrations on screen.Listen in the GroveEach chapter on its own page below, with the full lesson.Listen on YotoScreen-free in the car or at rest time. Coming soon for this book.

The chapters

1How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands
2The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus
3How Columbus Fared Forth Upon the Sea of Darkness
4How Columbus Returned in Triumph
5How America Was Named
6How the Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of the New World
7How the Flag of France Was Planted in Florida
8How the French Founded a Colony in Florida
9How the Spaniards Drove the French Out of Florida
10How a Frenchman Avenged the Death of His Countrymen
11The Adventures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

More chapters are added to the Grove as they are prepared.