BLOG 7

BLOG 7

Describe the features, functions, and student activity of a textbook for a single field, such as American History. Write a paper analyzing the genre.

History was one of my favorite subjects in high school. I think that a big thing for me was using the chapters to go through history as if it were on a timeline. If you’re studying American History, start the book right before the revolutionary war and go through time in a chronological order using each chapter as a period of time. That way if you know what happened before something and what happened after, it’s easier to remember the whole thing as a story.

I found that when books tend to jump around from one period in history to the next they become a little bit more difficult for me to follow. Activities and essay questions that make people think are usually helpful in describing and comprehending some of the events in history. Like those projects they would make you do where you would write a letter as a patriot to the British government and you would have to dip it in tea and burn the edges to make it look authentic.

I think that history is a very interesting subject, it is different than any other subject, it is a complete reflection of the human experience, we learn from it, and hopefully do it better the next time around. Yea it is a bunch of facts and names and places, but everything that happened made today what it is.