Textbook

There are parts of our textbook that I like and dislike.  First of all, I like how the textbook organizes the pre-war activity by nation.  I also like how they show each countries "path to war."  The textbook struggles in that it doesn't devote enough energy to the holocaust, as only 1 or 2 pages in focused on this travesty.  If i could change the textbook, i would make it so there are 4 chapters; Pre-war (similar to the type in our current book), Wartime (with many primary and secondary sources), Holocaust (its affect on the war, the world, and the jewish people), and Post War(the affect this war had, how it revolutionized society).  It also might be interesting if we read a second textbook from a different perspective on the war, because the US and other countries obviously see the war as much different things.  I don't believe a textbook has to be in chronological order, except for the Wartime section.  We can learn in many different ways, and the learning could possibly be more effective if we focused on a particular theme or motive, rather than dates and names