Thursday, February 1, 2018

1940s Textbook Collection: English and Social Studies


There were way too many books to show off in one post, so it's been split up over several.  This time, the english and social studies books.  The ones we have are slightly smaller than the textbook from Molly's collection, and from the the same series.


There are workbooks that come with the actual textbooks, but the human decided not to make any.  These are definitely different from modern textbooks, as there are sections on 'how to correctly pronounce words'.


On to social studies:  these were fun because these are actually the 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade textbooks, because the 5th grade textbook was all about American history...and the site with the textbook scans was Canadian.


The human actually enjoyed reading the snippets on different cultures in these books.  It's a nice little window on how Americans viewed other cultures (or were taught how to view other cultures) half a century ago.

Coming up next post:  the math, science, and health books.

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