This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with a more
thoughtful and compelling approach to teaching history, one that
develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to
students' lives today, and meets social studies 3C standards and most
state standards (grades 6-12). The author provides over 90 primary
sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an
essential question from world history. As students analyze carefully
excerpted documents--including speeches by queens and rebels, ancient
artifacts, and social media posts--they build an understanding of how
diverse historical figures have approached key issues. At the same time,
students learn to participate in civic debates and develop their own
views on what it means to be a 21st-century citizen of the world. Each
unit connects to current events with dynamic classroom activities that
make history come alive. In addition to the documents themselves, this
teaching manual provides strategies to assess student learning;
mini-lectures designed to introduce documents; activities and
reproducibles to help students process, display, and integrate their
learning; guidance to help teachers create their own units; guidelines
for respectful student debate and discussion; and more.
Book Features:
- A timely aid for secondary school teachers tasked with meeting
standards and other state-level quality requirements.
- An approach that promotes student engagement and critical thinking to
replace or augment a traditional textbook.
- Challenges to the "master narrative" of world history from figures
like Queen Nzinga and Huda Sha'arawi, as well as traditionally
recognized historical figures such as Pericles and Napoleon.
- Essential questions to help students explore seven of the most
important recurring themes in world history.
- Role-plays and debates to promote interaction among students.
- Printable copies of the documents included in the book can be
downloaded at tcpress.com.
