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(More customer reviews)This is a short, 8.5x11" workbook of basic black-and-white instruction sheets and 'activities' of the sort hungover teachers really like to assign on rainy days. It's soup to nuts, starting with geography and moving smoothly through exploration, family life, clothes, food, religion, and other topics. The things herein are extremely well-suited to photocopying as well; I thought more than once that if the left binding were just lopped off the perfect-bound book, it'd fit perfectly into a copier's feed tray. There's nothing shocking or controversial here; the author writes with a gee-whiz tone that doesn't sound too bad for a kid's point of view. The exercises are exactly what one might expect of a modern educational endeavor, with a lot of "write a letter to the editor" and "make a cereal-box report" and "how do you FEEL about (insert concept here)" stuff and little about the actual display of learning. But what I did like was how it frequently linked Renaissance concepts to the modern day, as it did when it asked young readers to fill in a Venn diagram relating wedding-day customs then and now. The book aims to teach children about the general way people lived in the Renaissance era, and in that it doesn't do too bad a job. Just don't expect it to be a treatise.
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