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  • Bryson Middle School
  • Simpsonville, SC
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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Finding ways to make social studies, particularly modern history, engaging for the students is often more difficult than it needs to be. My students are eager to learn and grow, but generic ways and basic information is often boring to them. With the Wicked History series from scholastic, I have found a way to make the class more engaged by focusing on specific leaders in history. "Can you believe that Stalin was able to starve an entire region of his country," a student of mine exclaimed when reading about the famine caused by Stalin's collectivization of farms. That type of discovery from the text is what stays with these students. It drives their learning and engages their sense of inquiry for the information. It is when the students are driven and inquiring that we can truly make a lasting impact in these students lives. Providing these additional reading sources in my classroom will help to engage the students through the breath of the time that we are covering for the year. Students will be able to practice and use social studies disciplinary literacy skill when reading these books by building arguments, corroborating information, and justifying positions about two leaders that have had lasting impacts on the world.

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Finding ways to make social studies, particularly modern history, engaging for the students is often more difficult than it needs to be. My students are eager to learn and grow, but generic ways and basic information is often boring to them. With the Wicked History series from scholastic, I have found a way to make the class more engaged by focusing on specific leaders in history. "Can you believe that Stalin was able to starve an entire region of his country," a student of mine exclaimed when reading about the famine caused by Stalin's collectivization of farms. That type of discovery from the text is what stays with these students. It drives their learning and engages their sense of inquiry for the information. It is when the students are driven and inquiring that we can truly make a lasting impact in these students lives. Providing these additional reading sources in my classroom will help to engage the students through the breath of the time that we are covering for the year. Students will be able to practice and use social studies disciplinary literacy skill when reading these books by building arguments, corroborating information, and justifying positions about two leaders that have had lasting impacts on the world.

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