Duplass Topic 11: Unit 3

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Duplass Topic 11 Unit 3

• History Goals
• And
• Constructs
• EDEL 4109 Humanities Methods
• Dr. Nganga

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History is the Greek word for inquiry.

• Herodotus is considered to be the father of
  written history.
• History can never be totally objective.
• Healthy Skepticism is the ability to
  differentiate between the authors opinions and
  the evidence.

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Standards for Historical Thinking

• National Center for History www.sscnet.ucla.edu/n
  chs/standards/thinkingk-4.html
• Standards are
• Chronological Thinking
• Historical Comprehension
• Historical Analysis Interpretation
• Historical Research Capabilities
• Historical Issues- Analysis Decision Making

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Chronological Thinking

• Distinguish between past and present.
• Identify the temporal structure of a historical
  narrative or story.
• Establish temporal order in constructing
  students own historical narratives.
• Measure calculate calendar time
• Interpret data presented in timelines
• Create timelines
• Explain change continuity over time

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Historical Comprehension

• Identify the author source of the historical
  document or narrative
• Reconstruct the literal meaning of a historical
  passage
• Read historical narrative imaginatively
• Appreciate historical perspectives
• Draw upon data in historical maps
• Draw upon visual mathematical data presented in
  graphs
• Draw upon the visual data presented in
  photographs, paintings, cartoons, and
  architectural drawings

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Historical Analysis Interpretations

• Formulate questions to focus their inquiry or
  analysis
• Compare contrast differing sets of ideas,
  values, personalities, behaviors, and
  institutions
• Analyze historical fiction
• Distinguish between fact and fiction
• Compare different stories about a historical
  figure, era, or event
• Analyze illustrations in historical stories
• Consider multiple perspectives
• Explain cause in analyzing historical actions
• Challenge arguments of historic inevitability
• Hypothesize influences of the past

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Historical Research Capabilities

• Formulate historical questions
• Obtain historical data
• Interrogate historical data
• Marshal needed knowledge of the time and place,
  construct a story, explanations, or historical
  narrative

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Historical Issues- Analysis decision Making

• Identify problems dilemmas in the past
• Analyze the interests values of the various
  people involved
• Identify causes of the problem of dilemma
• Propose alternative choices for addressing the
  problem
• Formulate a position or course of action on an
  issue
• Identify the solution chosen
• Evaluate the consequences of a decision

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What should Elementary Students know about
learning History?
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Organizing Themes for History

• Themes transportation, growth of democracy,
  scientific advancements
• Periods American Revolution, Greek civilization,
  the 1960s
• Places local history, Lexington Concord,
  cities, countries, regions
• Movements woman suffrage, civil rights,
  revolutions
• Notable figures George Washington, Cleopatra,
  Caesar, Alexander the Great
• Events Gettysburg Address, bombing of Pearl
  Harbor
• Technological advancements wheel, movable type,
  combustion engine, computer
• Topics history of baseball, the Navy, sailing
  ships, immigration, Native American history,
  slavery

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Major Interpretations of History

• Great figures emphasize the impact of individuals
  on history
• The Romans
• Great challenges focuses on the rise and fall of
  great civilizations based on their responses to
  new technology.
• Western Roman civilization
• Irresistible forces proposes that ideas can
  become movements that eventually overcome
  prevailing institutions.
• The civil rights movement
• Dialectical determinism proposes that old idea
  will be countered by new ideas, and that out of
  conflict will come new ideas that are a
  synthesis.
• History is a primary struggle between economic
  classes
• Geographical determinism emphasizes the role of
  geography in history.
• Americas western movement

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Historys Hazards

• Inference bias determination is the ability to
  read critically with skepticism.
• Multiple versions of the same event should be
  presented
• Multiple valid interpretations require us to
  accept opinions as legitimate perspectives even
  though we may disagree and prefer our own or
  another perspective.
• Present-mindedness is the inability to put
  information in perspective.
• Ranking events predict what future events might
  be important
• Historical projection is the shortcoming of
  judging historical events by todays standards.
• Applying ones own values, norms, and standards.
• Multiple causation is the principle that there is
  almost never a single cause of an event.
• The identification of multiple causes of an event

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History Lesson Plans Concepts
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Calendar Chronology

• Knowledge calendar time including days, weeks,
  months, seasons, years, religious and secular
  holidays, periods in history, and chronologies,
  both historically and comparatively (to other
  cultures) and personally (family history).
• Lesson plan ideas History of the calendar
  seasons relationships to holidays chronology of
  periods in world history also in American
  History customs of different cultures.

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U.S. History

• Knowledge Topics that can be explored include
  significant lives and contributions of American
  figures, time periods, events conflicts and
  documents.
• Lesson plan ideas Reading a biography
  role-playing characters creating a timeline
  reading fictional accounts taking virtual tours
  of historical sites and direct teaching about
  notable figures, events, and contributions with
  images, realia, and primary documents.

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World Events

• Knowledge Significant lives and contributions of
  world figures, time periods, events, places, and
  documents.
• Lesson plan ideas Reading a biography
  role-playing characters creating a timeline
  reading fictional accounts taking a virtual tour
  of historical sites direct teaching about
  notable figures, events, places, and
  contributions with images, realia, and primary
  documents and comparing historical maps.

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History of Ideas Technology

• Knowledge Origin of ideas, scientific
  advancements, and technology advancements by
  notable individuals.
• Lesson plan ideas Reading a biography
  role-playing characters creating a timeline
  reading fictional accounts taking a virtual tour
  of historical sites direct teaching about
  notable individuals, events, and contributions
  with images, realia, and primary documents and
  direct teaching or student-based learning of a
  theme like changes in communication and
  transportation.

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History of Art Literature

• Knowledge The significant art forms, the lives
  and contributions to the arts of notable
  individuals, and historically important
  literature.
• Lesson plan ideas Reading a biography taking
  virtual tours of historic sites reading
  Internet-based literature for children reading
  big books and doing dramatic readings using
  literature in values lessons role-playing and
  direct teaching about notable individuals, time
  periods, and contributions with images, music
  realia, and primary documents.