- There are several overall themes discussed between these Social Studies and ELA teacher that they found throughout their studies. This includes habits of the mind around teaching historical fiction. These habits all were generally about building historical background and knowledge, nurturing historical empathy, and pairing both non-fiction and fiction sources. All of these components promote historical understanding in both ELA and Social Studies classrooms.
Connections:
- When they discuss 9th Grade Literature and Social Studies and "the Book Thief", I can vividly remember studying for the test and studying quotes from the novel.
- Specifically, I can remember reviewing World War II and Nazi Germany prior to reading it.
- The importance of context is a general idea that has been given by all my teacher no matter the subject area and it overall leads to success of students.
- I can remember reviewing the American Revolution in the 4th grade and acting out the Boston Tea Party to be able to relate more to the people of the time it occurred and this was exactly what I thought when I thought of historical empathy.
- I can also remember reading about time periods in Lit class in high school prior to starting a unit to know what was going in that time period and why authors would be writing how they wrote or what they wrote.
Critique:
- The 3 habits around teaching historical fiction make sense because it all helps the student be more successful with the text all of these is because contextualization, historical empathy and fiction v. non-fiction.
- It was helpful to see that Social Studies teachers understand the importance of their job to better ELA and see that ELA teachers respect the importance history/social studies onto ELA. I think it showed how no content area is independent, but rather they al connect and in the end better each other.
- I am wondering why contextualization and historical empathy are not combined because you can't have one without the other because empathy depends on having context.
- I think it would make more sense had they laid out where contextualization was an umbrella and historical empathy and non-fiction/fiction sources fall under it.
- Historical empathy seems to benefit ELA more than Social Studies classes at times.
Explain Importance:
- Students will be able to succeed more in not only one content area if they are able to understand historical context, so they are then able to make sense of the past in the texts in their literature classes.
- Historical empathy not only brings history to life, but brings literature to life allowing students to appreciate both more.
- Empathy and non-fiction/fiction sources are related because without non-fiction, then students wouldn't be able to empathize and overall they both are because we have context to the history.
- Collaboration of the two subjects needs to be happening in schools despite the challenges than can arise.
- Teachers need to know that ELA does not have to remain in only ELA classes as goes the same for any content area.
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