Diving Deeper Into the 1890s Through Self-Guided Research
My students need 7 books including The Washing Of The Spears, The History of Resistance in Namibia, and The Boxer Rebellion to aid their research into the world before The Great War.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Stuart's classroom raised $161
This project is fully funded
My Students
World history is too often seen as "one darn thing after another" from a stale old textbook. Yet lovers of history know that this is the furthest thing from the truth. I want to help my freshmen students see the beautiful mosaic of stories that comprise world history.
My kids are awesome and I love them.
We live in a small town, and yet my students are future world-shapers. I believe they can be the kinds of teens who grow up into parents, spouses, thinkers, and creators who impacted others. Yet, for many of them, this small town is all they've ever known -- and there's both a beauty to that reality, and a limitation to it.
My Project
When we complete our study of the 1800s, I will divide the class into small groups and give each group one of the books in this project. Groups will make connections between the topic of each book to our unit, and explain how this book might aid them in better understanding the world just before World War I. After this, students will engage in a self-directed mini-research project toward a question they have about this time period, and they'll be able to access the books in this project to conduct the project.
With this project, you're providing a chance to dig deeper into history; a chance to do what few history students get to do in this country: explore deeply and richly the many stories that the textbooks cannot contain.
If you've fallen in love with history, help my students do the same. Thank you so much!
Half of students from low‑income households
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