cjgrubbs Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) Oops - meant Simple Schooling not Simple Days! Currclick currently has it for $3.99. A full year Early American history for 3rd-6th grade. If you have used it, here are my questions: 1. faith based? 2. activities suggested? 3. ciritical thinking or just multiple choice type worksheets? Edited July 4, 2011 by cjgrubbs Wrong Name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occasionally Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Bumping because it's back at 3.99 and I'm curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 It seems to me to be a pretty thorough look at US History using vocabulary multiple choice, as well as narration skills, vocabulary investigation, mapping & timeline work. The John Smith Pocahontas *touched* on the fact that John Smith told of his story about Pocahontas long after it would have happened but didn't infer anything from it. I must say that the early writings about Native Americans come from the standpoint of how the European Settlers viewed them - and words such as "Savages" "Indians". Besides that, the other lessons appear to be pretty complete. It does not appear to be faith-based and speaks of religion in the context of when it is meaningful (Puritans, Quakers, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I could actually see using this as a slide-in to our World History Logic Stage cycles as we approach them. I don't think my kids are ready for this level but I could see how some 3rd graders would be. We're trying to keep history as fun as possible during these early years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 (edited) I briefly had a subscription to that woman's website and downloaded a number of science units as well as part of the US History curriculum. In going through some of the units I noticed numerous factual errors as well as outdated & racist language in the history unit. When I emailed to complain, the author was extremely snotty to me, denied the factual errors, and excused the language in the history unit by saying that it "came from an old book and I don't change other people's words." I then googled whole chunks of text from the history unit and discovered that almost the ENTIRE text of that unit (Explorers) had been taken, word for word, from A First Course in American History by Jeannette Rector Hodgdon (1908) on Google books, without any citation or attribution. In fact, she had put her own copyright on every single page! I then started googling chunks of text from some of the science units and discovered that large parts of those were plagiarized as well, taken from various websites (including their photos and illustrations) without attribution. When I confronted her about the plagiarism, she cancelled my subscription and refused to refund my $97. You can read more details about the errors and my experience with her in this thread. Jackie Edited October 4, 2011 by Corraleno add link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occasionally Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I briefly had a subscription to that woman's website and downloaded a number of science units as well as part of the US History curriculum. In going through some of the units I noticed numerous factual errors as well as outdated & racist language in the history unit. When I emailed to complain, the author was extremely snotty to me, denied the factual errors, and excused the language in the history unit by saying that it "came from an old book and I don't change other people's words." I then googled whole chunks of text from the history unit and discovered that almost the ENTIRE text of that unit (Explorers) had been taken, word for word, from A First Course in American History by Jeannette Rector Hodgdon (1908) on Google books, without any citation or attribution. In fact, she had put her own copyright on every single page! I then started googling chunks of text from some of the science units and discovered that large parts of those were plagiarized as well, taken from various websites (including their photos and illustrations) without attribution. When I confronted her about the plagiarism, she cancelled my subscription and refused to refund my $97. You can read more details about the errors and my experience with her in this thread. Jackie Thanks for letting me know your experience. I think I'll pass on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warneral Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Wow! As I was scanning the information I kept thinking "when was this written? It sounds like something written 100 years ago or more". I say that for me, I could see using the Hogdon text with the modern filter of treating various peoples with more respect and trying to better understand their viewpoint. I am disappointed that I purchased it now! Will have to investigate further when I have time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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