"Our Country [ USA ! ]" Open Court Basic Readers

How does our country look to an astronaut high above the earth 🌎 so high in the sky?

An astronaut sees the big things first. There is so much more water than land that he will see the great oceans around our country.
"Our Country [ USA ! ]" Open Court Basic ReadersHow does our country look to an astronaut high above the earth so high in the sky?An astronaut sees the big things first. There is so much more water than land that he will see the great oceans around our country.
"Our Country [ USA ! ]" Open Court Basic ReadersHow does our country look to an astronaut high above the earth so high in the sky?An astronaut sees the big things first. There is so much more water than land that he will see the great oceans around our country.
He will see that our country is just a part of a big piece of land that we call North America. Way up north the astronaut will see Alaska 🐻 & Canada. South of our country he will see Mexico🌵💀
Looking down at our country, an astronaut might then want to find places that mean most to him. He would see rivers and the Great Lakes and the mountains in the East and West. He would look for the places that he knew when he was on earth.
He would be thinking of his family and friends 👪 and his home 🏡 He would be so far, far above our country that our land would be spread out like a map below him.
Understanding maps of your own block, your street, your path to school 🏫your city 🌆 your state will help you understand the map of your country.

This book 📙 will tell you how our country grew to be the way it is.
[ This book] will tell you about our early explorers, our brave pioneers, and our heroes.

When you have read this book from cover to cover, you will understand better why our country [ the United States ] is a great country, and you will be very glad that you live in it.
Questions

1 Look on your map of the United States & tell the names of the oceans🚢 which touch our country. What are the names of the countries which touch our country? What else can you learn from this map?

2 What are the names of the mountain ranges🏂? The lakes?🚣The rivers?
3. Look at the maps of our country on the inside front and back of your book. What can you learn from them?

4. What states have you visited? What big cities?🌃 What important places? 🗽
5. What do you think can be done to make our country a better country?

A. Get rid of stinking commie hippies #McCarthyWasRight
"How America Was Discovered" 🔭

One sunny 🌞 day in Italy, a long time ago, a boy named Columbus was sitting on the seashore 🌅 (selling sea shells) looking out over the water.

"I'm going to be a sailor ⛵ when I grow up," he said to himself. "
""I want to sail on unknown seas to find new lands."

Columbus loved the ocean, and when he grew up he did become a great sailor.

In Columbus' time people did not know much about the world- 🌎 Many of them thought it was flat. But Columbus thought it was round.
[ Columbus ] said that he could sail ⛵ around the world 🌎just as a fly can walk around an apple 🍎

Columbus wanted most of all to go to India because India was a rich country. In those days people [ from Europe ] went to India by travelling east...
...but because Columbus thought the world 🌎was round, he wanted to reach India by sailing ⛵ west [ to avoid Islamic terrorists from the Ottoman Empire ].

Columbus was a poor man. He had no ships and no money. 🙅💰

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When [ Columbus ] asked people to help him, they only laughed 😂 at him and thought he was out of his mind. But he kept trying.

Finally he went to Isabella, the queen 👑 of Spain. The queen gave Columbus three ships and 120 sailors and wished him good luck.🍀
The sailors did not want to go on the voyage because they were afraid 😨 that they would never see their homes again.🙅🏡 They had heard stories about monsters and sea serpents attacking ships and killing sailors. 💀⛵🐲🐉

At last the ships were ready.
Columbus and his sailors set out across the Atlantic Ocean in the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. The ships sailed for many days, and the farther the ships went, the more frightened the sailors became.
At last [the sailors] said to Columbus, "We have been on the ocean for more than thirty days, 📅and still there is no sight of land. We are hungry and afraid. We will go no further."

But Columbus answered, "Wait ✋ a few more days. If by that time we have not found land...
...we will turn around and go back."

The very next day the sailors saw a bird 🐦, and they knew that land must be near. The following morning, October 12, 1492, they heard the cry "Land ho!" There ahead of them lay a beautiful island. The sailors cheered and sang songs...
...and the ships' cannons boomed. When the sailors reached shore, they kissed the ground because they were so glad to be on land again. They begged Columbus' pardon for wanting to give up the voyage and return home.

On his way home from his first trip across the Atlantic Ocean..
Columbus wrote about the lands and the Indians he had seen.

"The lands are all most beautiful and full of trees 🌴 so high they seem to reach the sky. The nightingale was singing 🎼🎵🎶🎵 and other birds of a thousand sorts...
...The people of this island, and of all the others that I have found and seen, are kind and generous with what they have.

"When I first came to the Indies, they thought I had come from heaven. They ran from house to house and to the nearby villages with loud cries...
Columbus thought that the island he had discovered was near India; he did not know that it was near America. He returned to Spain and died many years later without ever knowing that he had discovered America.
Questions

1 Where did Columbus want to go with his ships?
2 Who gave him the ships and the sailors to make the voyage?
3 Why were the sailors afraid to go on the voyage?
4 Why were the sailors glad when they saw a bird?
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6 Do you think Columbus was a brave man? Why?
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