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Suggestions Needed for Jr. High Social Studies Textbooks

Posted on 01/16/2016 5:52:44 AM PST by jp3

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Your suggestions will be much appreciated!
1 posted on 01/16/2016 5:52:44 AM PST by jp3
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Mein Komf


2 posted on 01/16/2016 5:59:14 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Michigan state senator Pat Colbeck may be able to help you. He’s working on fixing education with a particular focus on “social studies”.

http://www.senatorpatrickcolbeck.com/proposed-social-studies-standards/

If you’re on twitter

https://twitter.com/pjcolbeck


3 posted on 01/16/2016 5:59:54 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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My best guess is you would have to go back 50 years or maybe check home schooling resources, of course none of those would be allowed in the public school system, you might get away with using them as a supplement if you do so quietly you know this would be a case of asking forgiveness is easier than asking permission, if that still works in a zero tolerance government education world.


4 posted on 01/16/2016 6:03:55 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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Paul Johnson A History of the American People
5 posted on 01/16/2016 6:10:14 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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The first thing that I would do is ditch the Socialist term “Social Studies.” US History deserves a class of its’ own.


6 posted on 01/16/2016 6:11:44 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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I second that nomination.

It’s a great book.


7 posted on 01/16/2016 6:13:09 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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“Atlas Shrugged”
(only half joking)


8 posted on 01/16/2016 6:16:04 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Columbuss/dp/1595230327


9 posted on 01/16/2016 6:16:37 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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Rush’s history books for kids.


10 posted on 01/16/2016 6:18:29 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“Great Books of the Western World”.


11 posted on 01/16/2016 6:23:22 AM PST by gdzla
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To: jp3; LS

Pinging LS, because he knows American History :)


12 posted on 01/16/2016 6:26:17 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Rush Limbaugh’s books on American history. I forget exactly what the titles are.


13 posted on 01/16/2016 6:29:26 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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I’m almost thinking that there isnt anything made post-1988 that is useful.


14 posted on 01/16/2016 6:35:24 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Go to older books. In all subjects, there are real good choices from before the push to testing and standards imposed from above destroyed education.

FWIW, when I was still doing my adventures in Urban Substituting, ALL of the good teachers had bookshelves with the best older texts. I don't know if you're allowed to do it anymore, but you might be able to find some old sets in the public school's storage room or getting to old book sellers through Amazon.

The other good source is publishers that cater to the home school market. A lot of what home schoolers purchase is good, basic, true material. Another nice thing to have....get a set or two of somewhat obsolete encyclopedias. Your students might enjoy information printed before politically correct garbage took over, and it's a good way to teach them to use a variety of sources to research a topic.

I learned this from a teacher not older, but wiser, than myself. She had a full wall of old sources, and the students LOVED exploring them to learn something different from what the computer screen told them!

15 posted on 01/16/2016 6:35:58 AM PST by grania
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Look on the Core Knowledge website. They have teacher to teacher resources. As a home school mom, I used their sequence, and a website called Original Sources. It used to be free, but now it’s subscription.


16 posted on 01/16/2016 6:37:37 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Nothing from Pearson! I teach SS and literature in Steubenville, OH. It’s difficult to find a text that aligns perfectly with Ohio’s model SS curriculum. Holt has a good, not great, text. Don’t fall for their online text and student access! It sounds too good to be true because it is! Where the text fails you can sub in material that you find yourself. The Internet is your best friend here, lol!


17 posted on 01/16/2016 6:38:14 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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While not a textbook, I would recommend considering a supplement:

http://www.amazon.com/Eyewitness-America-American-History-Happen/dp/067976724X

Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of American History in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen Paperback July 28, 1998
by David Colbert (Editor)

Letters and diary entries written by de Las Casas, Columbus, Cartier, John Smith, William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Adams, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones (a lot of fun for kids to read!), Madison, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, John Wesley Powell, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and many others.

There is no shaping of the message, since this is American history as seen by the people who lived through it. There is no selection at all for politics and very little selection even for “diversity”. The minority and female entries are for the most part fully justified by the event described and not just tossed in to meet an implied quota.

“Why did that green goose Anderson go into Fort Sumter? Then everything began to go wrong. Now they have intercepted a letter from him . . .”

“He demanded what time I left Boston. I told him, and added that their troops had catched aground in passing the river, and that there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the country all the way up.”

“General Grant began the conversation by saying, ‘I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico.’”

“The Admiral sailed west-southwest, at the rate of ten miles an hour and occasionally twelve . . . He added that it was useless to murmur because he had come in search of the Indies, and was going to continue until he found them with God’s help.”


18 posted on 01/16/2016 6:40:45 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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This is worth checking out because it WILL NOT BE BORING: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/history-geography/literature-approach-modern-american-and-world-history.htm

Scroll down to the 8th Grade version of this work: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/history-geography/seton-american-history.htm It’s Catholic too!

A classic: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/history-geography/christ-americas.htm

Maybe: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/history-geography/focus-on-us-history.htm

You might want to go through this list: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/history-geography/history-geography-index.htm


19 posted on 01/16/2016 6:49:35 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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Thanks to all, I appreciate your suggestions.


20 posted on 01/16/2016 6:49:57 AM PST by jp3 (BABIES, GUNS & JESUS...HOT DAMN!!)
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