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Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity’s issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world h… More >>
Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Vol. 2
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#1 by Daniel Christensen on February 3, 2010 - 2:42 pm
Vol. 2 of Pahl’s series covers 1600 to the present. See Vol. 1 for his earlier treatment. This book suggests activities, written assignments, and group activities for world history courses. As such it does a very good job. It takes the same dozen or so activities (quick write, pair share, poster power, talk show hosts, etc.) and applies to the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Bolivar and Latin America, and many other topics. The professor can easily find something that appeals to him or her, and try it out.
The book also tries to give a very short history of some of the major events, but this can be found in many other books, as well, and it is understandably sketchy and sadly eurocentric.
Here is one interesting suggestion of the author: Protest Song – create a protest song “focused on the working and living conditions of the poor workers during the industrial revolution” (p. 79).
Recommended.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Erin M. Hall on February 3, 2010 - 2:50 pm
This is a decent book for world history teachers. It is a bit small for the price and several of the activities are repeated over and over again. I will be able to use it with my classes, but not as much as I had hoped to.
Rating: 3 / 5