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Originally Posted by Darqref
My suggestion would be to start from a reference librarian at the SF public library. You really do want to concentrate on non-fiction, since filling in the fiction areas will be so much easier. I'd start by looking for older history (or maybe "historical") books that might be old enough to evade copyright restrictions, or might just be old enough to collect interest in a digital edition.
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I'll need a list of good public domain works; I can digitize them myself if necessary. (I have some of my own that aren't in Gutenberg, but somehow, I can't see that a high school library really
needs a 7-volume History of Freemasonry.)
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An example of the type of book I'm thinking of would be "Land of Giants" by David Lavender. This is a history of the Northwest fur trade and thus early exploration and settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
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It'd be very appropriate, and local enough to be relevant. Unfortunately, it's copyrighted, and the author & publisher show no signs of having an interest in CC or other free licenses; books of that type go on a list for "maybe contact to seek permission if I've got time."
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Get your reference librarian's hints, and use the library catalog to search for appropriate content. Might try looking at the bibliography from the print editions of local textbooks. Might try looking up Wikipedia articles just to find references to appropriate works.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
Some good links, especially non-fiction, here. She is a homeschooler who seems to use free internet content almost exclusively. Also, try my blog posts on the freebies from the books 1001 Kids Books to Read Before you Grow Up and 1001 Books You Must Read Before you Die. |
The oldfashionededucation and its inspiration,
Ambleside Online, both look like good resources, but will need to be carefully vetted; they're firmly designed around "Christian values." (Which, one, public schools can't do and two, I'm not going to put my own kids through.)
I'll check out the 1001 Books lists; those also look like good starting points.