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Sarah Cooper
Year: 2009
Media: 216 pp/paper ISBN: 978-157110-765-7 Grade Range: K-9
Item No.: WMW-0765
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Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures. In Making History Mine, Sarah Cooper shows teachers how to use thematic instruction to link skills to content knowledge. By combining thought-provoking activities and rich assessments, Sarah encourages teachers to challenge students to make history personal and relevant to their lives. Built around eight themes — examining the role of the individual, understanding point of view, assessing the impact of rhetoric, finding patterns in the past, writing analytically, connecting current events to historical precedents, igniting passion through research, and exploring ethics and morals — Making History Mine offers young adolescents a window to the wider world. This comprehensive volume gives teachers and students a solid framework for exploring and understanding history, including how to analyze primary source documents, extrapolate themes, and detect bias in a historian's argument. A one-page description at the beginning of each chapter explains the embedded skills and shows how the lessons correlate to state and national history standards. Making History Mine includes dozens of short activities, in-depth projects, guiding questions, and effective strategies to help teachers bring history to life in the classroom. Students will learn how to imagine themselves in the past, making decisions that changed the world. Through role playing, debates, and service learning they will gain the skills to make their own histories count.
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(You will need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player to preview this book.) Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Role of the Individual: Assessing Who Makes History Chapter 2: How Opinions Become History: Analyzing Point of View Chapter 3: Fighting Words: Examining Rhetoric, Reasoning, and the Role of Language in History Chapter 4: A Broader View: Finding Patterns in the Past Chapter 5: How Historians Think: Writing as a Way of Understanding Chapter 6: Current Events: Connecting Past to Present Chapter 7: The Power of Information: Igniting Passion Through Research Chapter 8: Global Citizenship: Learning to Evaluate Ethics and Solve Problems Epilogue Appendixes Resources |
About the Author(s)
Sarah is currently teaching eighth- grade English and ninth-grade world history at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California > More
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Teaching Current Events Join Kelly Gallagher and Sarah Cooper in a conversation about why they think it's crucial to teach current events in the classroom and how they make sure their students are in tune with the world Teaching current events Kelly Gallagher and Sarah Cooper share their strategies for teaching current events in their classrooms in this audio conversation Now Online: Making History Mine Discover a wealth of new strategies for teaching middle school history in Sarah Cooper's new book
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