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Post by alittlebirdie on Sept 2, 2017 17:03:19 GMT
For me it was all about Canadian history I get it, we should know our history, but what about other countries, and not to mention an unbiased approach? There's a lot of history we can't be proud of as Canadians such as what we did to the indigenous population. Maybe that's too much for little kids, but by high school all the facts should come out.
What was your history class like in elementary and high school?
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Post by hi224 on Sept 2, 2017 18:10:02 GMT
Boring i knew everything already.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 2, 2017 18:13:38 GMT
...depends, when I attended High School, we had US history and world history. I took both courses and the emphasis (at that time) was on historical dates. A very interesting read is "The History of the World" by Rene Sedillot in 240 pages...starting in prehistory and going to the post war era...this book was not part of the curriculum but I searched it out because of my interest in history and its conciseness was refreshing.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 2, 2017 18:34:20 GMT
...depends, when I attended High School, we had US history and world history. I took both courses and the emphasis (at that time) was on historical dates. A very interesting read is "The History of the World" by Rene Sedillot in 240 pages...starting in prehistory and going to the post war era...this book was not part of the curriculum but I searched it out because of my interest in history and its conciseness was refreshing. Ill give it a look.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Sept 2, 2017 21:09:50 GMT
...depends, when I attended High School, we had US history and world history. I took both courses and the emphasis (at that time) was on historical dates. A very interesting read is "The History of the World" by Rene Sedillot in 240 pages...starting in prehistory and going to the post war era...this book was not part of the curriculum but I searched it out because of my interest in history and its conciseness was refreshing. Hi koskiewicz
At least you received some world history in school. Are you going to use your love for history as a vocation?
Thanks
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 11:06:52 GMT
Mostly Norwegian history.
Some European\World history but mostly just the European theater of World War II. Very little about the world out side of Europe and almost nothing on other events than world war 2.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 3, 2017 11:10:09 GMT
Hard to believe that world history wouldn't still be a required course.
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 4, 2017 1:41:27 GMT
I don't remember very much world history at all. Elementary history lessons consisted largely of the American Revolution (it was the Bicentennial era) and learning about explorer after explorer. Middle school involved American history up until Pearl Harbor--our textbooks didn't go further than that. The Vietnam War had ended a few years before, and the school texts weren't yet ready to place it in any historical context. If it hadn't been for the then-current TV series MASH, we would never had heard of the Korean War. We learned more about the Holocaust through our English Lit classes, from reading The Diary of Anne Frank and related texts, than from History class--again, the TV mini-series Holocaust was very educational (the non-cable networks were less trashy back then and sometimes featured quality shows).
In high school, the one bit of World War II history was a showing of a documentary featuring footage of the aftermath of Hiroshima (very disturbing). One American History teacher was informed that he had to teach us about the history of slavery and the civil rights movement, and he was very unhappy about it--he mentioned more than once that "they" were making him teach this. I have a vivid memory of him telling the story of a slave who was whipped to death for some sort of infraction. I remember that, in the telling, he seemed to become a bit excited about relating the details, lingering over them almost lovingly as he began sweating and panting as he spoke. Weird.
The most valuable History class was the teacher who showed us how to analyze the news media according to the viewpoints of the publications/outlets, and to try to identify slanted views, propaganda, etc.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 4, 2017 5:42:04 GMT
It seems history began with Ned Kelly and ended with WW1.
I did not attend high school (learning disability, damn it) so I have no idea what they taught there.
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Post by bess1971s on Sept 5, 2017 17:03:46 GMT
Our classes were called Social Studies and they were dry as dust. All I can remember was the Industrial Revolution. I didn't have real history classes until high school which weren't much better. History didn't become alive for me until I started reading up on it on my own.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 6, 2017 2:20:29 GMT
For me it was all about Canadian history I get it, we should know our history, but what about other countries, and not to mention an unbiased approach? There's a lot of history we can't be proud of as Canadians such as what we did to the indigenous population. Maybe that's too much for little kids, but by high school all the facts should come out.
What was your history class like in elementary and high school? Yep, lots of Jacques Cartier & Champlain. My first high school history class was in 93 when the Liberals rolled the PCs back to the stone age, while the 2 separatist parties Bloc & Reform got going. Needless to say it was an interesting year with most everything current events. Elementary we touched on medieval times & such. I remember because grade 4 we were put in groups to build lego castles.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 20, 2017 1:55:43 GMT
It was social studies or government and/or civics up until high school. They kind of blended it together in middle school which made it weird. Got far more interesting in high school, especially when I had current events as an elective.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 22, 2017 17:01:50 GMT
In addition to the many books I've read about world history, I also have an appreciation for books like The New Penguin ATLAS of Ancient History which provides maps of those groups and countries that existed in pre-history...my copy was written and published by Colin McEvedy.
Another good one is "Reading the Past" - ancient writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet...
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Post by hi224 on Sept 22, 2017 17:52:07 GMT
It seems history began with Ned Kelly and ended with WW1. I did not attend high school (learning disability, damn it) so I have no idea what they taught there. Aww man i wanna learn about Ned Kelly.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 22, 2017 18:19:21 GMT
To be honest, television taught me more than school....I loved watching documentaries even as a young kid, and after watching a documentary on a topic I would seek out books for more information on it.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 22, 2017 20:15:25 GMT
To be honest, television taught me more than school....I loved watching documentaries even as a young kid, and after watching a documentary on a topic I would seek out books for more information on it. You and me in a similiar ship.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Sept 24, 2017 14:44:11 GMT
For me it was all about Canadian history I get it, we should know our history, but what about other countries, and not to mention an unbiased approach? There's a lot of history we can't be proud of as Canadians such as what we did to the indigenous population. Maybe that's too much for little kids, but by high school all the facts should come out.
What was your history class like in elementary and high school? Yep, lots of Jacques Cartier & Champlain. My first high school history class was in 93 when the Liberals rolled the PCs back to the stone age, while the 2 separatist parties Bloc & Reform got going. Needless to say it was an interesting year with most everything current events. Elementary we touched on medieval times & such. I remember because grade 4 we were put in groups to build lego castles. Oh no, Cartier and Champlain,,,, bad memories! Not to mention Marco Polo. gah! Although I don't think Marco Polo ever went to Canada, so I'm not sure why I have bad memories, maybe a past life.
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Post by Lucy on Sept 30, 2017 0:27:19 GMT
In elementary school, I knew it more as "Social Studies".
In high school, I took World History, American History, and Gov/Evon. All fairly easy honors classes.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Sept 30, 2017 21:20:08 GMT
World History ---> European History (middle ages up through the 19th century) --> US History --> 20th Century History.
In college I took some specific history classes about Latin America, but that's the extent of my history courses.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 1, 2017 0:42:10 GMT
Canadian history is so boring. It was just a fur and logging outpost for 400 years.
I had to do a study of Canadian literature and wow does Canadian literature suck. Someone told me that the literature of Paraguay is more lively and they are probably right. Practically nothing out of Canada until the 1950s and it was all boring shit.
The British and US students are lucky they never had to suffer through a Canadian lit class, having to read the Stone Angel or the Diviners. Canada went full commie in the 70s so their motto was read anything that wasn't written by a white male.
Reading about alcoholic Inuit women needing abortions just does not speak to me personally.
I am curious to know how commie it has become since then. I suspect Canadian lit now consists of works by authors with the last name of Khan, Sandeep, Steinberg, and Chan.
Most of the good books I read were outside of school. The only class I liked was English Literature 12 since we had access to pre-20th century writers (not from Canada obviously).
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