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Multiple Perspectives Chapter 5

Multiple Perspectives Chapter 5. How Can I Help Students Understand That People in the Past Did Not All See Things the Same Way?. Historical Thinking History Is COMPLEX. No SINGLE voice explains what happened in the past. multiple voices multiple perspectives

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Multiple Perspectives Chapter 5

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  1. Multiple Perspectives Chapter 5 How Can I Help Students Understand That People in the Past Did Not All See Things the Same Way?

  2. Historical ThinkingHistory Is COMPLEX • No SINGLE voice explains what happened in the past. • multiple voices • multiple perspectives History is not a narrative told from a single point of view!

  3. Teach students to: • Think imaginatively • wonder about reasonable and possible meanings • Think analytically • think about particular people, events, and situations in their CONTEXT (without stepping in their shoes,getting behind the eyeballs of, or identifying with them) • understand a historical character’s frame of reference (without the need to identify with his or her feelings)

  4. TEACHERS CAN: • Study the past with their students from multiple perspectives • Encourage their students to use imaginative thinking to see the world as others did • Emphasize the need to support this imaginative thinking with EVIDENCE Zarnowski - pg.106

  5. HOW? Use Factual Information to Create Imagined Voices from a time period or event by having students write: • free-verse poems • stories • journal entries • letters • class books • interviews or newscasts • readers’ theatre scripts

  6. WRITE from what PERSPECTIVES? • EXAMPLE UNIT: CIVIL WAR • Students can write in these voices: • a Confederate soldier • a Union soldier • a Northern boy or girl • a Souther boy or firl • a woman whose husband or son is fighting • a free African American person • an enslaved African American person • a newspaper reporter

  7. Historical Literature • Example: “America’s Champion Swimmer - Gertrude Ederle” by David A. Adler • Using this biography book, Maeghan, a fourth grader, researched, planned, and wrote a book about Gertrude Ederle - the first woman to swim the English Channel, from the perspective of nine people (cont.)...

  8. Maeghan’s book told Ederle’s story from nine perspectives: • Ederle’s mother • Ederle’s father • Ederle’s sister • Ederle’s first trainer • Ederle’s second trainer • a newspaper editorial writer • New York City Major Jimmy Walker • President Calvin Coolidge • Gertrude Ederle herself

  9. Steps Maeghan and her teacher took: • To investigate multiple perspectives on Gertrude Ederle, these 5 steps were taken: • reading, researching, and talking • using literature as a model for writing • using a “frame” to prepare an introduction • using a planning sheet to focus on multiple perspectives • preparing a biography from multiple perspectives

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