Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, 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 instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with human issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is that it incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a vibrant classroom. Volume I covers prehistory to the Renaissance and volume II covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Both books are appropriate for all grade levels.
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Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy text, this book instead focuses on innovative classroom activities designed to stimulate students in discussion of human issues and to show students the relevance of the past. Activities include brief writing assignments to be done in class and shared with the group, map assignments, pair and group discussion, skits, and research activities using library and the Internet. Appendices offer notes on map resources, a list of recommended music by time period, and a description of useful CD-ROMs and Web sites. Pahl is professor and coordinator of the social sciences program at California State University-Fullerton. (Reference and Research Book News )
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Ron H. Pahl is professor and coordinator of the social sciences program at California State University Fullerton.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Breaking Away from the Textbook Vol. II,
By Erin M. Hall (Canton, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
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.
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Filled with ideas for the college classroom,
This review is from: Breaking Away from the Textbook: Creative Ways to Teach World History, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
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.
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