1.“We cannot take students on a field trip into the past, but we can recreate a sense of history so powerful that students enter natively into the past and explore the “conflicts, suffering, joys and despair of those who lived before us.” (Page 329-330)
At first it was hard for me to be able to see historical fiction playing an important role within the classroom. It was difficult because my experience with social studies in elementary involved a textbook, a workbook and a Times magazine. However, when I read these few lines I was left wondering why my education couldn’t have been like this. I thought of the many times I would have to read about an important person in history or about an important event from a non-fiction text. It was hard …show more content…
I agree with this idea that historical novels are much livelier than regular historical texts. An interesting way that historical fiction differs from other texts is that historical fiction among other things focuses on the consequences of human actions. Not only were these statements further supported with the title of books about slavery, but I was also able to make a connection with Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony. In Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony, I noticed the way the author captured the audience’s imagination by providing vast amount of background information, detailing each character and his/her situation while making the reader want to predict what comes …show more content…
The benefits of using historical fiction is the classroom are clear and to not make use of it we would be depriving students of a wonderful educational experience. One limitation mentioned in the article that agree with is that students is that some of the historical events are not true, the characters did not really exist, and that reality might be distorted. But this is when teachers have the chance to teach children the difference between fact and fiction. Historical fiction is not simply assigning students to read a story for homework or classwork. The historical fiction chosen by the teacher has to be carefully thought out with a clear purpose in
At first it was hard for me to be able to see historical fiction playing an important role within the classroom. It was difficult because my experience with social studies in elementary involved a textbook, a workbook and a Times magazine. However, when I read these few lines I was left wondering why my education couldn’t have been like this. I thought of the many times I would have to read about an important person in history or about an important event from a non-fiction text. It was hard …show more content…
I agree with this idea that historical novels are much livelier than regular historical texts. An interesting way that historical fiction differs from other texts is that historical fiction among other things focuses on the consequences of human actions. Not only were these statements further supported with the title of books about slavery, but I was also able to make a connection with Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony. In Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony, I noticed the way the author captured the audience’s imagination by providing vast amount of background information, detailing each character and his/her situation while making the reader want to predict what comes …show more content…
The benefits of using historical fiction is the classroom are clear and to not make use of it we would be depriving students of a wonderful educational experience. One limitation mentioned in the article that agree with is that students is that some of the historical events are not true, the characters did not really exist, and that reality might be distorted. But this is when teachers have the chance to teach children the difference between fact and fiction. Historical fiction is not simply assigning students to read a story for homework or classwork. The historical fiction chosen by the teacher has to be carefully thought out with a clear purpose in