Imagination and Learning: Students Living "Real" Lives during the Civil War

Autor/in	Kloehn, Lori W.
Titel	Imagination and Learning: Students Living "Real" Lives during the Civil War
Quelle	In: English Journal, 99 (2009) 2, S.37-41 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Imagination; War; Interdisciplinary Approach; United States History; Units of Study; Grade 8; English Instruction; Lesson Plans; Letters (Correspondence); Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krieg; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Lerneinheit; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Brief; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses how she developed an innovative, interdisciplinary unit in eighth-grade English that links with the history teacher's Civil War studies. When constructing lesson plans, the author needed to rely on her sympathetic connection with students. To determine the best way to help students learn, the author had to ask herself, "How do I learn?" The answer is that she learns when she is active, when she applies her imagination to a real task that matters to her. The author describes how students are immersed in Civil War history as they compose and exchange personal letters as 19th-century characters in this innovative, interdisciplinary unit. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10