TY History American History Module

Dickie10

Hi all,

Im doing an American history module with TY students, ust looking for ideas on what options to use to teach the students without going too much lecture/ teacher talk, i have a research style worksheets for different weeks, basically areas they fill in through their own research, like Slavery topic has things like the satets it was mostly in, crops they farmed through slavery, one or two key fgures they found out about and slavery in popular culture such as movies and music. just would love a history teachers input, they are reasonably good academically and well behaved on the whole , as in easy enough to coax along.

Dickie10

basiacally doing chronologically from 1850-1990

Kalimah

A potted history of the civil war would be good. If you want video resources Ken Burns Civil War is riveting. Glory with Matthew Broderick might appeal too- takes in the input of black soldiers as combatants.

Dickie10

thank you very much for your reply, I am really just lightly focusing on different events, as it will help them to get some contect on American history in LC. at the end of the course i will be showing them Forrest Gump and running a competition to see how many historical events they picked out. they write it down when it happens in their copy, over 3 classes we watch the movie and last class we go through who has the most references, they get a prize like voucher for lunch or something!

Dickie10

my biggest obstacle is how i get over not lecturing too much, do i let them off with the sheet first to fill in or let them fill it from the notes?