Roxy Roller Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Any users/thoughts? I have looked at the samples on the website, and I am wondering how these would compare to SOTW 3/4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeannpal Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Did you check out the sample? I really want to use this for American history next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiztrezzLyn Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 They looked interesting for sure. I read a bit of the sample from the Stories of the Nations book and liked what I read of it. I moved on to the Stories of America and didn't go past the first chapter. I read the chapter on Christopher Columbus and it describes how the "simple natives" bowed down to them because the natives thought they were gods. I didn't read past that but I'd be wary of how they refer to natives as things develop further. I could be "overly sensitive" seeing as how my husband is Native American and so are my children but that alone would put me off this book and the others. *Edited to add: I would expect to see this in much older histories (and wouldn't use those either) but this was JUST written, correct? With more to be released soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeannpal Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 (edited) I plan on using several resources for American history to get various points of view. My daughter knows that we have Cherokee and Algonquin ancestors. I really like the poetry in this book., but if it has a definite providential/European slant., I won't use it. It is a fact that some tribal leaders did mistake European explorers as gods when they first came in contact. Edited April 8, 2012 by leeannpal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Jo Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Aren't they based partly on Charles Morris's stories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyagain Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Aren't they based partly on Charles Morris's stories? Yes, it is Charles Morris's book republished by SCM with a few additional chapters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom&nana Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Well I haven't read SOTW 3 or 4, but we read both SCM's Stories of the Nations and Stories of America at the beginning of this year. I read a chapter a day out loud to my 7th grader and then we did some discussion or I had her do a narration. We both enjoyed it. I plan on getting the next volumes when they are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Roller Posted April 9, 2012 Author Share Posted April 9, 2012 Thank you for your responses. I have printed off the samples and I will have to do some careful reading before I make a decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 How (or how much) did SCM adapt these? I always find something slightly annoying about the tone of books like these, I must confess, but I got an email about them recently and looked at a sample online before realizing (when I got to the end) that it was a rewrite of an old book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Austen Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Tha second volume of Story of the Nations, which just came out this week, is entirely new, with the exception of a few early chapters taken from the 1901 book by Charles Morris, although those chapters were also edited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandty Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I have bought all of this books to use as supplements to our American History study for next school year. I bought the Nations ones too for future use. I haven't read any of the stories yet, but I'm usually happy with SCM, so I didn't preview it much before buying them. I thought they would be nice to have on hand for extra reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjgrubbs Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I'd love to hear more about these, too. I was thinking of reading them with my rising 1st and 4th graders. Wondering if this would be a more focused American History than what SOTW provides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Yes, it is Charles Morris's book republished by SCM with a few additional chapters. Is this the same Charles Morris that wrote The Aryan Race? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Is this the same Charles Morris that wrote The Aryan Race? It looked that way when I looked at the old books a few months ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Morris_(American_writer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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