History: Comments, Controversy, Letters and Lessons

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Introductory Student Led Lessons For High School or College US History Survey

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Introductory Student Led Lessons For High School or College US History Survey

Jeff Schneider
Sep 1, 2022
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ÌHere are the links to my first lessons:

The First Day of My Class

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History: Comments, Controversy, Letters and Lessons
The First Day in my American History Class by Jeff Schneider
The First Day in my American History Class by Jeff Schneider This is the first in a series of essays illustrating how I taught key lessons in my American History classes. I will post these regularly along with occasional longer articles on current or historical controversies, letters on specific topics and comments, some of which have appeared in listser…
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The Second Day of My Class

History: Comments, Controversy, Letters and Lessons
The Second Day of My Class
Second Introductory Lesson: Social History, American Culture, Historiography and the Map by Jeff Schneider This is the second class I taught for American history. It looks very long because I included background for teachers and my thoughts that they could use some of, but certainly not all. It is important that teachers feel comfortable with the content o…
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2 years ago · 2 likes · Jeff Schneider

The Tarzan Theory of Reading

History: Comments, Controversy, Letters and Lessons
The Tarzan Theory of Reading
Teaching a Long Document without a Set of Reading Questions: A Student Led Lesson By Jeff Schneider Common Sense, Federalist 10, Frederick Douglass's 4th of July Oration, the Webster - Hayne Debate, the Cooper Union Speech and the First Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, and the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848. Teaching with documents was a literal descriptio…
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a year ago · 1 like · Jeff Schneider

Teaching “African Slavery in America”

History: Comments, Controversy, Letters and Lessons
Teaching "African Slavery in America"
“African Slavery in America” A Student-Led Lesson on an 18th-Century Anti-Slavery Article by Jeff Schneider Now we turn to the content for which the students will be directly responsible. The first two classes of the semester were confidence-builders now we enter heart of my method of teaching with an article that is both inspiring and chock-full of emotion…
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2 years ago · 1 like · Jeff Schneider

These lessons are self-explanatory. They are not lectures. Instead they show how to teach without drills. They treat the students like budding intellectuals.

Try them. Your students will learn to think in history.

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