ERIC Number: EJ1249671
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Publication Date: 2020-Mar
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What's in a Narrative? Unpicking Year 9 Narratives of Change in Stalin's Russia
Ellis, James
Teaching History, n178 p32-41 Mar 2020
Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of Orlando Figes, he put together a scheme of work interweaving a macro-narrative with micro-narratives of individuals in Stalin's Russia, and using Figes's own text as a model of narrative writing. Ellis unpicks here the outcomes his pupils produced, and what their responses reveal about the challenges of structure, selection and argument inherent in constructing a coherent historical narrative.
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, History, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Connected Discourse, Course Content, Lesson Plans, Social Change, Social Systems
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Russia
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