Hunter Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Carson-Dellosa has a new series for the 7 continents. The regular e-books are $9.99 and available at their site and at Currclick. They have published remedial level reading pages for the workbooks which they are providing for free at the website. If you click on each individual title, and then the tab that says "sample", you will see the free ebook. The free ebooks look like they can be used as stand alone spines, independent of the workbooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 There are also free ebooks for Egypt, Greek/Roman, and Mayan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 I'm doing the happy dance here!:party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama2Many4 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Wow! Thanks Hunter! What an awesome find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKidAcademy Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Thank you, thank you, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Thanks for the link, Hunter. Nice find!:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsavoie11 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 That's great! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) I don't see the free books on there. Did they remove them? Never mind just saw that you have to click on sample. Whoops. Edited June 5, 2012 by dottieanna29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Turkey Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Perfect timing for the curriculum we are putting together for next year! Thanks a million! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 The one for Australia doesn't work -it takes you to a sample for Europe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Did I miss something? The book said it is 48 pages, but the sample is only 15. Was there something else I was supposed to click on?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Jen Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 The one for Australia doesn't work -it takes you to a sample for Europe I know :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlorih Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 If you zoom in on the cover of the Egypt one, it says go to C-D.com for lowered level versions of all reading passages. So not the full book with activity pages. Bummer about Australia! Maybe they will fix it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 It's a typo in the book number. Australia is at http://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Images/Samples/CD-404173ReluctantReaderText.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 It's a typo in the book number. Australia is athttp://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Images/Samples/CD-404173ReluctantReaderText.pdf Stripe to the rescue! Thanks! Medieval Times, Renaissance, and World Civilizations are also free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Did I miss something? The book said it is 48 pages, but the sample is only 15. Was there something else I was supposed to click on?? These free pages are only meant to be supplements to the main books. The main books contain a more advanced reading, and worksheets. These free pages are aimed at "reluctant readers", that are not able to handle the more advanced reading in the regular lessons. Some of us don't use worksheets though and only need the main content. The reading level is perfect for my tutoring students. I hope they make more of these "reluctant reader" supplements! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 It's a typo in the book number. Australia is athttp://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Images/Samples/CD-404173ReluctantReaderText.pdf Thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besroma Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks, hunter and stripe! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrindam Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Can you print them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom24cuties Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 This is great!!!! I will be using this for some of our studies this comming year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef03 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomelay Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I'm not familiar with the publisher. what's the general worldview? I know these are for reluctant readers, but the middle east sample I read is.... interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iucounu Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) Hunter, once more you show what a treasure you are to this site and its users. Thank you. I'm not familiar with the publisher. what's the general worldview? I know these are for reluctant readers, but the middle east sample I read is.... interesting. ETA: I see what you mean. After some web searching it became apparent that Carson-Dellosa is a Christian publishing company. After looking over some of the ebooks, I don't think that they are that religiously pushy, although I'd agree that there are some less than stellar parts, including right from the beginning talking about B.C. and A.D. as tied to the birth of Jesus, without any mention of the better labels "B.C.E." and "C.E." to refer to the "Common Era". There are definitely religious overtones in the body of the books too, though they are certainly not as terribly overt as others I've seen. Edited June 6, 2012 by Iucounu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks Hunter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Can you print them? Yes, they are meant to be substituted for the more advanced reading pages in the main book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEGway Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawndrese Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 These are great! Thank you! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) My assumption is--I don't know how accurate it is--that CD started out as a Christian publisher that expanded into the secular market. The only problem I have with BCE and CE is that it is just renaming a religious method. I have no problem using either a secular or a religious method of measuring time. I just think it's...inaccurate--for lack of a better word--to just rename a religious method. As for the inclusion of The Exodus in the Middle East text, while I was surprised, I don't think that is incompatible with the inclusion of all sorts of "facts" we are used to seeing that are based on texts, equal or less reliable than the Bible, to secular scholars. We don't know nearly as much as we pretend to, about the past. I am content to teach whatever is culturally in vogue and/or makes a nice neat chart. I don't have the time or the energy to try and do it "right", as I don't even believe in a "right". I tend to use the ultraconservative Christian timelines, because they make such a nice neat timeline :-) I love artificially simplified science lists too :-) Life is too short for details that don't have anything to do with MY life or the lives of my students. I purposely teach things that are "wrong" all the time, and declare my right to do so :-) I purposely broke my timeline at a corner, right about Noah's Ark, and tell my students that there is huge controversy, before the corner. I want to find a dinosaur or fossil chart to hang right above the Adam and Eve's creation at 4000 BC. But the timelines we USE (I have 2, one right under the other, that use the same scale) start at 4000 BC and are entirely based on Biblical genealogies. I looked at secular timelines, but they all contradicted each other, never mind my Bible as literature curricula. I'm too OCD to wrestle with that, because at this tired point in my life, I just do NOT care. I really don't. But you younger ladies with more energy, I understand where you all are coming from, on both sides :-) My mom was ultraconservative, but her mom was a witch, and my dad and husband were both raised Catholic but were non practicing if not complete nonbelievers. And in the course of my recovery, I'm not even going to say what I've dabbled in :-) I can say BTDT to almost everything from Pentecostal to Mennonite to Witchcraft to Chakras to shamanism. All I know is that humans crave spirituality and suffer more mental illness without it. Because of this deep craving, abusers have figured out that they can use religion to gain power. And that is where all the "fun" starts :-( In ALL religions :-( Edited June 6, 2012 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1dawn Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks! I also searched under science, and the first result that came up was "Medieval Times." Science?! Anyway, it has a younger sample to download as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 My assumption is--I don't know how accurate it is--that CD started out as a Christian publisher that expanded into the secular market. I didn't realize this. It took me so long to download them that I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. However, I was under the impression that it's secular, but I agree, it's rare to find any sort of "neutrality" on certain topics, especially those in the Middle East book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) I didn't realize this. It took me so long to download them that I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. However, I was under the impression that it's secular, but I agree, it's rare to find any sort of "neutrality" on certain topics, especially those in the Middle East book. Exactly. These are meant to be secular, and I consider them secular, but I can see how some people need an almost anti-Christain stance, to labels something as secular. But if we are being technical, any anti-religious stance is no longer secular, because it "pertains to religion". Secular just means "don't go there". And we have used all sorts of religious, but not usually Judeo-Christian texts, to form our current secular views of history. It's not appropriate to exclude every word of an ancient text that gives the only clues as to how a certain people group came to be, automatically thinking everything in it is a lie. Because we haven't done that to other people groups. That would be unbalanced. And a large part of the unrest in the middle east is based on the beliefs of the people in that area, which teach this Abrahamic history. It's just hard. This is why I teach geography more than history! There isn't enough that is "real" in history, for me to grasp. It's all he said, she said to me, with agendas other than full disclosure. Edited June 6, 2012 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Hunter, once more you show what a treasure you are to this site and its users. Thank you. :blushing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thanks! I also searched under science, and the first result that came up was "Medieval Times." Science?! Anyway, it has a younger sample to download as well! "reluctant reader" brings up all the titles that I know of. 7 Geography and 6 History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antsam Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 "reluctant reader" brings up all the titles that I know of. 7 Geography and 6 History. Thanks for sharing the awesome resource! We will definitely be incorporating some of these over the next few years! Jodie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 The information in the geography pages is the closest I have seen yet to the vintage geography textbooks from the late 19th century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garddwr Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 When I try to download the Australia book I get Europe instead. Is this happening for everyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmp3400 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 When I try to download the Australia book I get Europe instead. Is this happening for everyone? It's a typo in the book number. Australia is athttp://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Images/Samples/CD-404173ReluctantReaderText.pdf Stripe The Great came to our rescue and figured out where it is. I looked for a superhero smilie, but there isn't one here, so I'll post this pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edeemarie Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thank you so much for this! We are doing MFW ECC next year and this will tie in perfectly:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverFamily Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thank you for sharing this great resource! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MacFamily5 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thank you for sharing this resource!!:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Love it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrself Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think all the pages are in these samples. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 (edited) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think all the pages are in these samples. :( The worksheets are in the main curriculum, but the reading portions are complete. If you are using outlining, narrations or notebooking you don't need worksheets. Also some people are just using them as a spine. Ignore the page numbers on the reading pages. It's all there. I personally have no need of the worksheets as we will be doing Draw Write Now and quasi-Waldorf style notebooking, like this. Edited June 7, 2012 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I personally have no need of the worksheets as we will be doing Draw Write Now and quasi-Waldorf style notebooking, like this. (fainting) I should say you DON'T need any boring old worksheets. That's lovely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 (fainting) I should say you DON'T need any boring old worksheets. That's lovely! I adore Draw Write Now. The backgrounds are lovely. We often don't use the main feature and just use the backgrounds. I laugh when people ask me if Draw Write Now is too young for my adult LD students. Nope, *I* don't think so at least :-0 Check out this Waldorf video on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlorih Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 It's a typo in the book number. Australia is athttp://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Images/Samples/CD-404173ReluctantReaderText.pdf :party:Happy Dance! Thank you Stripe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 I printed out all the geography pages and brass fastened them together into a book. It seems SOOOOO thick knowing that each and every paragraph is worth memorizing, copying and drawing. I so do NOT need worksheets :-) I don't get the paragraph on African societies. It says there are 6 societies based on the work of members, but then only lists 5 types of work. Is mixed the 6th occupation? Sometimes simplified just makes it harder I think :-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 :party:Happy Dance! Thank you Stripe! Yes, the series would not have been useful to me if not complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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