Becoming a historianWhen becoming a Historian you will be working on the many skills to learn and incorporate into how you learn. These skills are listening, questioning, close reading, note taking, annotating, assimilation of meaning, contextualize, corroboration, collaboration, evaluating sources, critical thinking, writing, extrapolating, exploring complexity, on-line reasoning, conveying and ultimately Historical thinking. It sounds much more complicated but you will be able to do this. You have already started this "Strands" work since Kindergarten and will continue in to your adult life.
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Eyewitness to The past strategies/Examples
The book we are using is for these cool ideas is the Eyewitness to the Past by Joan Brodsky Schur.
She has said in her book:
“The Role of Primary Source Documents Reading primary sources exposes students to the multiple voices and viewpoints we want them to use to make the past come alive.”
“Historiography: I encourage my students to scrutinize their textbooks as historiography, not just history.”
“What If? Another means of getting students to use the text while enabling them to think outside the box is to make use of the
'What If?' approach to history. When we look back on a sequence of historical events, they seem to have unfolded inevitably. But they need not have happened that way. To be engaged in those events imaginatively from an eyewitness perspective, students must feel they could have made”
So in our class we will spend quite a bit of time in class each day going over these ideas and strategies. We hope we can make the creation of these documents fun and creative even on-line. I have added some screen shots of the book for more clarifications.
8th grade examples
• Personal diaries during events leading to the Revolution
• Election debate of 1800: Adams versus Jefferson
• Travelogue describing life in America in the early 1830s
• Letter exchange set in the 1850s with a focus on events leading to the Civil War
• Conflicting news accounts of a Civil War battle
• Scrapbook of life during Reconstruction
Second examples-w/high school content here
• Scrapbooks of immigrants arriving during the Great Migration of 1880 to 1925
• Travelogues of Americans during the Great Depression
• Letter exchanges between individuals on the battlefront and home front during World War II
• Diaries during the Cold War era
• Conflicting news accounts of the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive
• Election debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980
Schur, Joan Brodsky. Eyewitness to the Past . Stenhouse Publishers - A. Kindle Edition.
She has said in her book:
“The Role of Primary Source Documents Reading primary sources exposes students to the multiple voices and viewpoints we want them to use to make the past come alive.”
“Historiography: I encourage my students to scrutinize their textbooks as historiography, not just history.”
“What If? Another means of getting students to use the text while enabling them to think outside the box is to make use of the
'What If?' approach to history. When we look back on a sequence of historical events, they seem to have unfolded inevitably. But they need not have happened that way. To be engaged in those events imaginatively from an eyewitness perspective, students must feel they could have made”
So in our class we will spend quite a bit of time in class each day going over these ideas and strategies. We hope we can make the creation of these documents fun and creative even on-line. I have added some screen shots of the book for more clarifications.
8th grade examples
• Personal diaries during events leading to the Revolution
• Election debate of 1800: Adams versus Jefferson
• Travelogue describing life in America in the early 1830s
• Letter exchange set in the 1850s with a focus on events leading to the Civil War
• Conflicting news accounts of a Civil War battle
• Scrapbook of life during Reconstruction
Second examples-w/high school content here
• Scrapbooks of immigrants arriving during the Great Migration of 1880 to 1925
• Travelogues of Americans during the Great Depression
• Letter exchanges between individuals on the battlefront and home front during World War II
• Diaries during the Cold War era
• Conflicting news accounts of the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive
• Election debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980
Schur, Joan Brodsky. Eyewitness to the Past . Stenhouse Publishers - A. Kindle Edition.