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Brown, Mary – Teaching History, 2013
Mary Brown recognised that her A-level students were finding extended writing difficult, particularly in terms of guiding the reader through the argument with appropriate "signposting". To help her students manage this, Brown devised a metaphor to represent the construction of a piece of argumentative writing which she deployed over a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Figurative Language, Writing Difficulties, Writing Improvement
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Gray, Peter – Teaching History, 2011
Peter Gray explains how his Year 12 students came to research and write a resource on the history of Zambia, for history teachers "in" Zambia. The construction of the resource stretched the Year 12 students in new ways: the Internet was useless and there were no easy digests in A-Level textbooks to get them started. They would have to…
Descriptors: Textbooks, African Culture, Foreign Countries, History Instruction