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Title | Fiction Across the Disciplines |
Content | Johnathan History- The study of past events, particularly human affairs. Fiction- Prose literature, esp. short stories and novels, about imaginary events and people. -What can be known as fact, and what do historians infer or embellish about historical events? -The study of historiography goes in depth of what is really true. -Interviewing a former teacher of mine he told me about a historiography class he once taught which showed the American viewpoint on the American Revolution and the British viewpoint. -The American viewpoint was that we were being taxed had no representation or rights. -The British viewpoint was that Americans wanted to send troops but no one wanted to pay taxes. -Mr. Kelly told me he uses fiction to make his classes more interesting. -Ex. He likes to play games such as "What If?" "What if Adolf Hitler's teacher told him he was one of the best artist shes ever seen, maybe he would of gone into art instead of politics." - Using fiction Mr. Kelly said "it allows you to look at history in a different light and allows to kids to explore and change things around." - Prof. Lavender teaches a course on historiography and uses philosophy to question and debate what is real or not. - Teacher Tarry Lindquist uses fiction in her classroom to make the class more interested and make historical facts up for debate. - Nothing in history can be for certain based on documents, they could be forged or tampered with. - Using fiction in history you must not compromise information but you can give a story more life and it allows you to give characters life and more personality. - British historical fiction writer Jill Paton, has to keep historical information correct while giving it more life using fiction, being able to expand on characters, plot, or setting while still keeping historical facts true. -"In certain interpretations every fact is fiction because it is a representation of something that happened" - Prof. Rodgers - Through this project I've learned fiction is an important part of history, It helps teaching it and find what is real or not.Stephen Carina Christina Teaching Children About Fiction & How Children View Fiction
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