Novel Approach to History
by David Thomas and Mark McAndrew
A Novel Approach to History presents a way of examining historical events by actively engaging with historical fiction.
It consists of eleven photocopiable units of work each of which involves skills development in:
§ Comprehension
§ Historical recreation
§ Empathy
§ Research
§ Placing events in context
§ Process of historical enquiry
The works included cover and range of time periods and places, but with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This is a flexible resource: teachers can
§ work through a complete unit
§ adapt units to fit their own needs
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Novel Approach to History Contents
INTRODUCTION
A TALE OF TWO CITIES - Charles Dickens
The French Revolution
HIROSHIMA - John Hersey
The dropping of the atomic bomb
A FORTUNATE LIFE - A.B. Facey
Australia in the twentieth century
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - E.M. Remarque
World War I
BILLY BUDD - Herman Melville
The British Navy in the eighteenth century and the Revolutionary War
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut
The fire-bombing of Dresden, World War II
THE POSSESSED - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russia in the nineteenth century
THE JUNGLE - Upton Sinclair
America in the 1890s
A HERO OF OUR TIME - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Russia in the nineteenth century
THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald
America in the 1920s
A DRY WHITE SEASON - Andre Brink
South Africa and apartheid