Teachers
Teaching Responsible Citizenship and Social Skills
In addition to teaching history to satisfy the demands of the curriculum, our books center on showing children how to become responsible adults, who take their citizenship seriously and who know how to be assertive, yet unselfish and caring. These kinds of lessons can only be taught efficiently through fiction, by showing young adults successfully using certain modes of behavior to attain their goals, while learning from their mistakes.
Cherishing our American Heritage and Understanding the Mistakes of our European Forefathers.
In the beginning, when the author was asked to write American Historical Fiction, she automatically included the stories of Native Americans in books because it seemed impossible to talk about America at all without mentioning the enormous contributions of the Indians. We owe everything from our favorite sports to our precious Constitution to the Native American lifestyle that we so blithely dismiss. Later, when she began to research various tribes, she found that Native Americans were so fed up with white people “knowing” everything about them, but getting it all wrong, that they just wanted to be left alone. At length she came to the conclusion that, while Indians have had well over 10,000 years of bliss, existing on American soil, white people weren’t likely to enjoy more than 500 years, if that, on this continent, unless they began to pay attention to their “forefathers,” meaning the Indians. White people need to learn some of the basic values that made Indian civilization endure where others failed, such as conservation and sharing. More importantly, our planet has reached a point now where it becomes imperative that white people learn to cooperate with Indian people to preserve it. This is the most important lesson the author can think of to pass on to future generations, if they are to survive. This, after all, is the real lesson our history has to teach us, if we are willing to listen.
Books by Paint Creek Press
Jody's Michigan Adventures
Jody's Michigan Adventures are stand-alone stories that can be used at your discretion. Obviously they can also be used as an all-encompassing series. You can use the collection in its entirety, or you could concentrate on separate books. You can ask your students to report to each other about each book, or you can make a class activity out of each story.
Complete Set of Seven, w/slipcase $48.65
Jody's Michigan Adventure Workbook
*Workbooks are only available with book orders.
Jody's Michigan Adventures Workbook - Retail Price $15.00
Magical Adventures in Michigan
Reading Age and Suggested Uses
Magical Adventures in Michigan is written for ages 10 on up, or for advanced younger readers. Although it targets the 4th-grade social studies curriculum in Michigan, the stories are so universal that the book would make an excellent text for any 5th or 6th-grade reading arts program.
Retail Price $29.95
*Workbooks are only available with book orders.
Magical Adventures in Michigan Workbook - Retail Price $15.00
Reading Age and Suggested Uses
Summer
of the Bear
targets the 8th –grade social studies curriculum, but is appropriate
for ages 12 on up for either social studies or reading arts. Teachers will find
that it makes the history come alive for their students because it is a story
about modern teenagers and the choices they face, while retracing the steps of
their Euro-American and Native American forefathers. The book makes an excellent
read-aloud for sixth graders, and an exciting read for teens who love adventure
and mystery...(more)
Retail Price $17.95
*Workbooks are only available with book orders.
Summer of the Bear Workbook - Retail Price $15.00
Reading Age and Suggested Uses
Eagle from the Dawn targets the 8th –grade social studies curriculum, but is appropriate for ages 12 on up for either social studies or reading arts. Teachers will find that it makes the history come alive for their students because it is a story about modern teenagers and the choices they face, while retracing the steps of their Euro-American and Native American forefathers. The book makes an excellent read-aloud for sixth graders, and an exciting read for teens who love spectacular adventure and animals...(more)
Retail Price $18.95
*Workbooks are only available with book orders.
Eagle from the Dawn Workbook - Retail Price $15.00