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- Volume 24
- Issue 1
- Publication Date: Winter 2001
Using First-Person Presentation to Encourage Student Interest in Social History
Ronald V. Morris
The soldiers in the Civil War fought for the liberation of a group of people whom they did not know well—they fought a war for justice. After the Emancipation Proclamation the common people, these same soldiers who had fought in the Civil War, held uncommon ideals for the purpose of the war. The lives of most students are pretty common; they can connect, however, with a group of people, many of who were their age and held high ideals. Gifted students think about their future and the world where they live (Tallent-Runnels & Yarbrough, 1992). Unfortunately, George and Scheft (1998) found that gifted students were negative toward the future and their pessimism has increased over the past 20 years. At a time when gifted youth see their world through a pessimistic lens, it is important for them to realize that others who shared common lives or common situations have risen to do uncommon deeds and share uncommon ideals. The imperiled nation survived because of a commitment to great ideals such as democratic processes and the abilities of people to see self interest in community action as the common good. In this article, students examine a group of common people, a social history, to find what made them uncommon. Moreover, gifted and talented students realize that big ideas often intertwine with the thoughts and actions of a generation.
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