Frye Articles for 2-10 Class
Often social studies text are difficult for students to read because of the way they are written. Most of the time these text are written fact after fact and not necessarily with rhyme or reason. However, there is a way to help students fight the complexity of social studies basil books. The use of historical fiction in relation with the social studies text can help students draw more out of the lesson because the historical fiction is written in a storyline format which students are more comfortable with.
The main challenge with historical fiction is to weed out books that may have content that is contradictory to what the real content maybe. Historical fiction should be viewed much like using a film in class, in that the content needs to be a true representation of historical content. For example, a novel about the Holocaust may use a fictional character but the content and what the character goes through must be real.
Another challenge is finding books, there are many books that can be used, and funds for History books do not need to be used to buy new textbooks, how much does the text book change over 3 years?
