The use of history and adolescents'

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The use of history and adolescents.

• Betty Marcoux
• LIS 566
• Fall Quarter 2004
• October 29, 2004

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History Information

• Learn to distinguish between fact and fiction
  when it comes to history
• Learn how to surmise quality of historical
  resources, especially fiction for teens
• Watch for revisionist history in various
  resources you review and come in contact with,
  especially as it relates to issues teens will
  want to know more about

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History and adolescents

• Prescriptive in nature
• Not always thought provoking but can be
• Lesson not always about the event
• Different meanings to different YAs
• Points of view discussions
• Winners in history versus historical accuracy
• Risk involved but with substantial reward

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Uses of history to work with adolescents that are
in the here and now approaches to their lives

• Multiple perspectives
• Interplay of differences
• Plurality in life, uniformity in death
• Richness variety, differences
• Oral history
• Often told by another rather than protagonist,
  but represents experience
• Can be memoirs, interviews
• Perspective bound but offers different lens
  approach
• Story as history
• Organized account of selected incidents/events
  that convey meaning
• Help to establish importance of incident through
  character development within setting
• Way to introduce history via personal story
• Can help focus on specific events rather than
  person/persons
• Valid mode of communication and dialogue
• Other
• Textbook dangers resource options
• Consumption of information via history for
  children/teens
• Ways of developing thoughts from history are not
  necessarily linear if meaning only in a line
  can be unilinear or multilinear in development
  issue of how the pieces of a puzzle are put
  together and how inquiry may happen.

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History Trade Materials

• Comfortable myths vs factual history
• Historical fiction vs fictionalized history
• What is known vs what is believed
• Political correctness

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Evaluating Historical Fiction

• Setting integral
• Setting authentic
• History authentic and integrative
• Characters believable
• Uniform emotions/concerns
• Correct historical framework
• Reader can get into story

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Sense of story in history

• Connection to students life
• Relationship with emotional concerns
• Story drama translates to ordinary, everyday life
  issues
• YA can garnish meaning from story
• Personal experiences relate

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Types of historical subject matters often found
in YA materials

• Biography
• Autobiography
• War
• Travels/adventures
• Historical crimes
• Personal experiences

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Format of historical info in YA materials today

• Text
• Digital
• Graphic
• Poetic
• Symbolic
• Others?

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Approaches to history with YAs

• Lessons learned/examined
• Connections to their lives
• Analysis of then versus now
• Story-telling
• Mapping showing cyclical nature of history
• Other?

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Genre and history

• Almost any genre can be used within context of
  history
• Literary connections to every aspect of history
• Mechanism to examine issues of controversy in
  time and currently
• Cognitive relationship to YA maturing and
  historical analysis abilities

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