Eyewitness To The Past Strategies For Teaching American History In Grades 512 Joan Brodsky Schur by Joan Brodsky Schur, James A. Percoco 9781032681115, 103268111X instant download after payment.

Throughout history, people have often expressed controversial and conflicting interpretations of current events. In this unique resource, Joan Brodsky Schur reveals how compelling and engaging the study of history becomes when students use primary documents to imagine living through events in American history.
Eyewitness to the Past examines six types of primary sources: diaries, travelogues, letters, news articles, election speeches, and scrapbooks. Teachers will find interactive strategies to help students analyze the unique properties of each and then create their own written work and oral arguments. Students will learn to express opposing viewpoints in writing, through classroom interactions, and through simulations such as staging congressional hearings, elections, or a press awards ceremony. They will build crucial analytical thinking and presentation skills. Used together, the six strategies off er a varied and cohesive structure for studying the American past that reinforces material in the textbook, encourages creativity, activates diff erent learning styles, and strengthens cognitive skills.
Each chapter provides detailed instructions for implementing an eyewitness strategy set in a specific era of American history and includes ideas for adapting the strategy to other time periods. In addition to the primary sources included in the book, examples of student work are presented throughout to aid teachers in evaluating the work of their own students. Rubrics and a list of resources are off ered for each eyewitness strategy.