On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:10:02 -0400, you wrote:
>I’m curious to know how other librarians promote historical fiction. I’ve
>purchased a number of good historical fiction titles for my collection, but
>the teachers in the Social Studies department aren’t interested in giving
>reading assignments since they are very focused on teaching to the
>prescribed standards they have to meet. I will have a chance this year to
>bring at least the 9th graders and possibly others to the library once each
>six-weeks to check out a book, but don’t know how to promote historical
>fiction so that they will want to read it. Any suggestions?
>
In the past, I had a world history teacher who, with my input,
assigned each student to read a hist fic novel taking place outside of
the US. I compiled lists and did displays and book talks. They
wrote a three page report on the book, outlining the plot and
characters. Then she read the reports and highlighted three
researchable items--people, places, events, items, etc. Then the
students chose one of those 3 and had to write another paper about the
highlighted item. I worked very closely with her and it was a great
lesson about research and history and how they relate.
My current social studies teachers have the exact same mind set as
yours. It is truly difficult for them to cover everything in the
state standards which are a mile wide and inch deep. But the
standards also contain a strand about research!! They are choosing to
ignore those and concentrate on the content matter. I even spoke to
the principal and our district-level social studies consultant who
almost didn't believe me--now she does.
Lee D. Gordon
Librarian
Sierra Vista High School
8100 W. Robindale Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89113
(702) 799-6820 X 4026
FAX (702) 799-6847
OR Lee_Gordon@interact.ccsd.net
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