Comments on: Words to warm a writer’s heart

By: Colleen in NS

Colleen in NS — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:23:26 +0000

Wow, you go girl!!

By: Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:35:38 +0000

I saw your book in World Magazine and immediately ordered it for my son and I to work through this year. He was excited that we were chucking his boring History textbook.

My kids have been listening to the Story of the World (first two) on cd since we purchased them at a homeschool conference last year.

I love the way you write. It is interesting and funny!

By: Sharon E.

Sharon E. — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:21:04 +0000

I’m sure you know this, but World Magazine had a nice review of your book a couple of weeks ago – cover date April 25. They particularly liked the leadership sketches, and used the adjective “readable”, which doesn’t usually apply to the average history book!

By: P.

P. — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:55:29 +0000

To clear some things up, yes we are a private school. We use the books in our class just like a text book. We are each given a copy of the book and are ours to keep for forever. We mark up the books and annotate them to death. We are given homework to read in a certain chapter in Bauer and then do an assigned worksheet which has questions on the reading. Then we discuss the reading in class the next day. the Bauer book is so much better than an actual text book. Thanks again for coming into our class Susan.

By: A Circle of Quiet

A Circle of Quiet — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:04:28 +0000

What a great opportunity, Susan! I am really curious about how they use your book…any chance these interested and interesting young people can chime in and let us know?

Happy travels.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:19:20 +0000

Curious if this a private or public school? Seems like a public school would not have this much flexibility in curriculum choices, but I could be wrong.

I thought this was very cool. I am trying really hard to turn my brother, a.k.a. assistant superintendent of curriculum, onto author created texts. Perhaps at some point your books will have an impact on the greater Cincinnati public schools.

Don’t even get me started on the heated conversations between said brother and myself the homeschool mom.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:53:15 +0000

Thank you so much for visiting our class yesterday! It was great to finally meet the author of our history book! For over half of the year our homework has been ‘Bauer book’ this and ‘Bauer book’ that and “What did we read in the ‘Bauer book’ last night?”. It was really interesting and exciting to finally meet the ‘Bauer’ that was (and is still) such an important part of our history class and our ninth grade education. Thanks again!

By: Paisley

Paisley — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:49:20 +0000

Thank you so much for coming yesterday. It was so cool to have you in our class. You should have seen our teacher on Friday jumping up and down in his classroom singing “Susan Wise Bauer is coming on Monday!” In other words, he was very excited to meet you, as was I. As i told my friends that you were coming, they too were bouncing up and down in their excitement. All of the students have said that they would much rather read your book than an boring old textbook. Your book has brought so many interesting conversation starteres. Thank you for coming to our class and let us finally meet “Bauer”. Thank you for giving us some of your visiting time with your family to come and talk to us about this ongoing project of yours. We are forver grateful. Thank you.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:31:34 +0000

Did you get any information about how the teacher used the book? Was the class like a seminar, reading and discussion based, or did they do other activities/projects tied into the book?

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:17:36 +0000

That’s so wonderful! You are such a fantastic writer…not many people CAN write about people like Meskiaggasher and Adjib and Yi in a way that grown-ups or kids ENJOY! You have such a gift. How fun that you were able to share it from this different perspective (i.e. talking about writing history…).

By: J.

J. — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:46:16 +0000

Thank you very much for speaking today! We (it seems fair enough to speak in the plural on behalf of the class) enjoyed it greatly!

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:06:47 +0000

How VERY cool!

By: moshome7

moshome7 — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:46:22 +0000

This warmed my heart on so many different levels. Thanks.

By: Sebastian (a lady)

Sebastian (a lady) — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:44:59 +0000

I find it amazingly cool that they are using your adult text in their class. Most textbooks for this age are so watered down, with more pictures and graphs than text itself.