The Story of Ourselves: Teaching History Through Children's Literature
The Story of Ourselves, focuses on the need for a stimulating history curriculum with the application of children's trade book literature as an indispensable ingredient for such a curriculum.
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Students across the country have tagged history as their number one most-disliked subject in school. In The Story of Ourselves, the contributors focus on the need for a stimulating history curriculum with the application of children's trade book literature as an indispensable ingredient for such a curriculum. The book is a collection of writings by trade book authors and public school and college-level educators, designed to offer support and instruction for teachers who decide to use children's literature in their history/social studies programs. Included here are such well-known authors as Russell Freedman, Pam Conrad, Milton Meltzer, Joan Blos, and Leonard Everett Fisher.
Introduction1Why Teach History to the Young?1Pt. IThe Creative Process92Perspectives on Historical Fiction113Historical Nonfiction for Young Readers: An Artist's Perspective194Voices from the Past275Finding Ourselves in History336Bring 'Em Back Alive41Pt. IIResearch and Other Considerations497The Content and Writing of History in Textbooks and Trade Books518"I Wanted to Be There": The Impact of Narrative on Children's Historical Thinking659Unmasking the Fiction of History: Children's Historical Literature Begins to Come of Age79Pt. IIIPractical Applications9110A Look at Other Trade Book Topics and Genres9311Approaches for Using Children's Literature to Teach Social Studies10512Teaching the Holocaust Through Trade Books11513Breathing Life into the Past: The Creation of History Units Using Trade Books13714American Historical Literature for Young Readers: An Annotated Bibliography147
