Monday, May 28, 2007
Awesome Primary Source Material
For my Textbook evaluation I checked out a book on the Civil War. The book was compiled using almost all primary sources. It does a great job of showing the difference between a primary source and a secondary source. At the end of the book are a bunch of worksheets to test the students knowledge of the Civil War through primary sources. There are letters from soldiers on each side describing the Battle of Antietam. This is excellent because it will show the younger student biases in evidence, which is very important in the field of History. I would absolutely recommend this book to any teacher who will be teaching at the tenth grade level or higher. The book is called "The Civil War: A Survey". It features original documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. It is a great source to teach with primary sources. I absolutely loved this book!!! The book was developed by Cobblestone Publishing in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration. There are typed documents describing the battle of Antietam from both the Union side and the Confederate side. These documents are straight out of the National Archives and are original. All the documents in this book are stellar and will make teaching primary sources very easy. I suggest this book to anybody who will teach History at a 9 grade level or higher!!!
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This sounds like an excellent book on the civil war. It is great that it is made up of primary sources it certainly helps especially when it is a history book. The worksheets at the end would be very helpful to the teacher. That would also be great to let the students read those letters from the soldiers. They are probably very interesting. I agree that in history it is very import to let your students know about biases. I will be looking forward to the update!
Really it does sound like a great textbook. You don't find many textbooks that you can really attach yourself to like this. When you are able to however, you should get as much use out of it as possible! I to will be looking forward to the update.
This sounds like an indispensible tool for history teachers. I am curious to learn more about this as I am a huge civil war buff. Primary source material was not touched on much in my high school as my eleventh teacher was more into using the class as his personal political forum. I am definintly interested!
This book sounds great. I am enrolled in a civil war class next semester and i will be sure to check out this book. Becuase i am sure we will have to write some sort of final paper.
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