Bringing History To Life Book

List of Tables v

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 Introduction to First-person Presentation 1

2 Second Grade Presidents' Day 15

3 Third Grade at Simmons School 25

4 Fourth Grade Civil War 37

5 How First-person Historical Narrative is Conducted by Fourth and Fifth Grade Teachers 53

6 Sixth Grade at Hope, Indiana, Cemetery 73

7 Third and Seventh Grade Texas History Walk 93

8 First-person in an Eighth-Grade Unites States History Classroom 105

9 Conclusions 131

Appendix I Historical Clothing 139

Appendix II National Council for the Social Studies Standards 143

Index 145

About the Author 157