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Mary G
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Posted: Aug 11 2008 at 6:13pm \| IP Logged

Now here's a thought: using Thomas Woods' The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History for high school work.

This book was mentioned by Macbeth in a recent blog post that she would use for her own high schoolers, but I just finished reading this book as a supplement for teaching my littles AmHist this year and as I was reading I was thinking ...

hmmm....you could assign a chapter at a time and have the high schooler refute or verify the facts as presented by Woods. This would be a great way to get the high schooler engaged in what REALLY happened, in looking at both sides and then deciding for themselves who was right, wrong or misquoted.

OK, you can now check off American History for your high schooler!

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guitarnan
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Posted: Aug 11 2008 at 6:31pm \| IP Logged

We really enjoyed Freedom Just Around the Corner (the Civil War era companion volume just came out this spring. The author maintains that Americans are "hustlers" - from the beginning - and I think I'd translate that as "ambitious people" instead. It's a great read. I'm ordering the companion volume as we speak, er, type.

Great idea, Mary...I might borrow your idea for debate, if I end up teaching it at our co-op.

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Posted: Aug 12 2008 at 7:29am \| IP Logged

Okey doke Mary, I just reserved it at the library. Can't wait to check it out!!

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TracyQ
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Posted: Aug 12 2008 at 1:09pm \| IP Logged

I've bought a few books from this series. I don't remember whether I bought the American History one or not, but if not, I'm there!

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