PenKase Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 DH works in education and often brings books home. :lol: Among our most recent possessions are several American/world history texts. I've been looking through some of them and wanted to know if any of you are familiar with and could offer opinions on: McGraw Hill/Glencoe - World History by Spielvogel/National Geographic McGraw Hill -Traditions & Encounters A Global Perspectice on the Past, 4th ed by Bentley/Ziegler TIA BTW-I'm just {{{hearting}}} these forums. I consider coming here part of my "professional development." There have been some juggernaut threads recently that have left me with tons to chew on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tohru Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Score for you! Free books :D That's awesome! Spielvogel is pretty good for history and I like National Geographic books too because they are generally unbiased. I would imagine the combination of those 2 would make a great text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna in Texas Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 We have and use the Spielvogel and are spreading it out over 3 years We're in our second year using it. We use it along with lots of other history reading (fiction and non-fiction). I guess we use it as our framework. As a text, I find it to be okay. It's solid and visually appealing. I can't really get too excited about it. I kind of glaze over. But, dd loves it. She retains quite a bit of information from it. I think textbooks are sort of a novel experience for her, so she gravitates towards those. I think her opinion matters more than mine in this particular instance. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenKase Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 Score for you! Free books :D That's awesome! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: My only real problem is that we live in a smallish house and I'm having a hard time finding places to put them. DH and I are thinking about built ins, but I still don't think it'll be enough. :001_huh: Spielvogel is pretty good for history and I like National Geographic books too because they are generally unbiased. I would imagine the combination of those 2 would make a great text.Yeah, I thought the same thing. We have and use the Spielvogel and are spreading it out over 3 years We're in our second year using it. We use it along with lots of other history reading (fiction and non-fiction). I guess we use it as our framework. I also thought it'd make a good spine. Fleshing a text with living books is always a good idea but not one I ever gave much thought to pre WTM boards. As a text, I find it to be okay. It's solid and visually appealing. I can't really get too excited about it. I kind of glaze over. But, dd loves it. She retains quite a bit of information from it. I think textbooks are sort of a novel experience for her, so she gravitates towards those. I think her opinion matters more than mine in this particular instance. :001_smile:Yesterday, instead of putting my book clutter away like I was supposed to, I spent about 1/2 hour reading it. LOL. As I read, I made comparisons between the World History text and STOW and it was pretty spot on. I also played with the book's internet components (graphic organizers, chapter quizzes, videos, interactive maps, and more) and they offered yet another dimension to the text that I thought quite engaging. PS. I'm not yet sure how to do multiple quotes with the user names in them. If someone could tell me how, I'd really appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 We own the modern world history version of the Spielvogel text. I can't stand it. It is basically the same as his Human Odyssey book (which I think is an incoherent mess) with the added insult that it is also a TV textbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine State Sue Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 PS. I'm not yet sure how to do multiple quotes with the user names in them. If someone could tell me how, I'd really appreciate it. Next to the Quote button, is the Multi-Quote button. You click on that for every post you want to quote, then hit the Quote button once and all the quotes will be in your editor. If I want to take 1 person's long quote and quote parts of it separately, I hit the quote button, then copy and paste it multiple times, cutting out the parts I don't want in each quote. Don't know if that's very clear, but you can play around with it on the 'How to and Test Posting' board. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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