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It's difficult enough when students are proficient in English.One of the most important aspects of teaching any historical period/event/character is helping students understand the difference between fact and opinion. It can be challenging for students attempting to do so with limited English language skills.
For sure. It can also be challenging to find an instructor who doesn't have some sort of axe to grind, historically speaking.One of the most important aspects of teaching any historical period/event/character is helping students understand the difference between fact and opinion. It can be challenging for students attempting to do so with limited English language skills.
Most instructors have no axe to grind.For sure. It can also be challenging to find an instructor who doesn't have some sort of axe to grind, historically speaking.
Especially tough, in that all the boring parts are the dry dates and figures--and all the exciting stuff is indeed, trying to piece together motives and trends...which almost demand that one take a stand...and form an opinion.
Despite hundreds of years of attempting to reduce history to a science, it remains an art...IMO.
Oh, I dunno...take 10 4th grade teachers and have them explain the The Pilgrims.Most instructors have no axe to grind.
Oh, I dunno...take 10 4th grade teachers and have them explain the The Pilgrims.
Immediately you will have two groups...the Pilgrim group and the Puritan group.
The one will espouse the classic tale of seeking religious freedom, fleeing persecution and being saved by Squanto. Thanksgiving and pass the turkey.
The other? A groups of intolerant bigots who were left-over from the English Civil War. Puritans, Calvinists with attitude. Came to the New World to establish their 'Golden City on the Hill'--an intolerant theocracy that ruled Mass. colony for 80 years.
Are both of these true? Can both of these be true?
Is there value in the false myth? History...or what?
LOL!The Pilgrims and the Puritans are distinctly different groups. The rest is just some nutty culture war shit you seem to have made up.
Never gonna happen. Waves were coming. Migration within and around Great Britain was already a big things. Economics drove the migrations. I've read Bernard Bailyn on this.LOL!
Fair enough..the Pilgrims were the first, followed by the Puritans. Same folks over-all though. They established a theocracy, I refer you to Increase and Cotton Mather.
Imagine history..if the natives had wiped them out from the start?
That's a fact, in my humble opinion!One of the most important aspects of teaching any historical period/event/character is helping students understand the difference between fact and opinion. It can be challenging for students attempting to do so with limited English language skills.
For sure. It can also be challenging to find an instructor who doesn't have some sort of axe to grind, historically speaking.
Especially tough, in that all the boring parts are the dry dates and figures--and all the exciting stuff is indeed, trying to piece together motives and trends...which almost demand that one take a stand...and form an opinion.
Despite hundreds of years of attempting to reduce history to a science, it remains an art...IMO.
I doubt you teach facts. You likely teach whatever the establishment tells you to teach, which is most common in the US education system.One of the most important aspects of teaching any historical period/event/character is helping students understand the difference between fact and opinion. It can be challenging for students attempting to do so with limited English language skills.
You teach History? With your bias and misinformation that would lead to some major problems.Then you get to be wrong AGAIN.
Most instructors have no axe to grind.
