Bill Schechter

Bringing History Home

A Classroom Teacher's Quest to Make the Past Matter

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781475846645
• ISBN-10: 1475846649
• Artikelnr.: 53692095

Autorenporträt

Bill Schechter

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue / It was only the first day of school
Chapter 1: Beginnings / What helps make a history class compelling?
Chapter 2: Let There Be Music / Singing our way through trials and
tribulations
Chapter 3: Theater in the Square / The power of make-believe in the
classroom
Chapter 4: Field Trips on My Mind / Taking it on the road
Chapter 5: History Begins at Home / Is it knocking on your door?
Interlude / A Morning Request
Chapter 6: Taking History into the Hallways / Seed-time of an epiphany
Chapter 7: Joining Hands to Minds / Building a cabin for a courtyard
Chapter 8: Awakening the Muse / "Here once the embattled farmers stood.'
Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Attic Trunk / - A few other odds & ends
Chapter 10: Getting Caught in History's Web / Students, your family's saga
is before you
Chapter 11: History in the Headlines / Why newspapers are a teacher's best
friend
Chapter 12: Welcome to the Classroom World / Please take a seat
Chapter 13: Bias Buzzing Around My Head/ The 'no-see-ums' of the history
class
Chapter 14: Charting A Course/ One way to develop history units
Chapter 15: Not Just Civics Class, But A Civic Life/ Democracy makes its
demands
Epilogue/ Actually, there is no ending
Coda/ To Be A Teacher
About the Author