here i am, too lazy for globetrotter updates but presenting you
🍫 a vintage schoolbooks cc set 🍫
now your kid and teen sims can study from multiple books on different subjects! 5 vintage turkish style schoolbooks in total, covers and insides are all hand painted / designed by me.*
all functional
all base game compatible
2 grade school books (1 default override, 1 optional extra book to learn how to read and right)
3 highschool books (1 default override, 2 optional extras for geography and math)
covers and insides all newly designed
you can buy them by clicking on a bookcase in game and filtering by "homework books", or on debug catalogue searching for "homework".
📔 download links:
grade school default book override
grade school companion to learn reading and writing
highschool default book override (for SAT prep T_T)
highschool sophomore geography
highschool junior math
here are all the books and their insides, grade school first:
in a damning indictment of turkish educational system, the university entrance exams preparation book is the default highschool book for everyone, whereas government issued subject books on geography and math are treated as optional!
*fiş dosyası front cover utilizes an actual photo of someone else's childhood schoolbook, i found the photo on a random google search and was too charmed by it to resist. the high school geography book has photos that i took in game.
for more details on the books' vintage turkish context,
subjects for grade school:
hayat bilgisi: the default override --hayat bilgisi means "knowledge of life", it's a very generic elementary school subject in turkey-- the description for my version goes: "Teaches cursive writing, the importance of a healthy diet, and treating our elders with respect and our youngers with love."
fiş dosyası: i don't know if children still do this at school but in my childhood this was the most basic way to help kids learn to read and write. you buy it as an empty folder with rows of slots on each page, and fill the rows with cut out paper syllables (sold separately) to form simple sentences: "Oya, run to the school / Ali, catch the ball". this worked because our spelling system is very different from that of english.
subjects for highschool:
soru bankası: the default override --literally "question bank"--prepares for the turkish equivalent of SAT exams in the US. includes tons and tons of example questions and some subject explanations. the lives of many a youth has been grinded on these dreary books. these are published by private companies that people believe will prepare them better for successful placement in university exams than the government issued school books would.
geography: in the game this is just an extra option if you want variety in your curriculum! published by the ministry of national education.
math: adds even more in-game variety and presumably prepares you for a future at foxbury! also published by the ministry of national education.