History was my worst subject, yet I’m able to remember way more details than needed about lore-rich fictional universes. I think it’s because fictional stories tend to have “good guy” protagonists that the historical narrative can follow, but real world history definitely should not be taught that way.
I had a history teacher break our class up into groups each doing a project on a separate faction of World War 1.
We each had to argue why our group did NOT cause the war, and as a class try and determine who we thought caused it.
It was such a clever way of presenting such a critical and complex period of time to a bunch of otherwise disengaged public school kids. The teacher essentially made it a seminar, which was pretty big gamble because, well, teenagers. The lack of dictated narrative was influential as all hell.
History was my worst subject, yet I’m able to remember way more details than needed about lore-rich fictional universes. I think it’s because fictional stories tend to have “good guy” protagonists that the historical narrative can follow, but real world history definitely should not be taught that way.
I had a history teacher break our class up into groups each doing a project on a separate faction of World War 1.
We each had to argue why our group did NOT cause the war, and as a class try and determine who we thought caused it.
It was such a clever way of presenting such a critical and complex period of time to a bunch of otherwise disengaged public school kids. The teacher essentially made it a seminar, which was pretty big gamble because, well, teenagers. The lack of dictated narrative was influential as all hell.
I pick the side of the deli sandwich