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Creating a Middle School American History Program

Creating a Middle School American History Program Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:558–563 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09934-2 NATIONALISM Creating a Middle School American History Program Wight Martindale Jr. Accepted: 22 July 2020 / Published online: 13 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 Sounds easy? It’snot. th A few months ago I undertook the project of designing an 8 grade American History curriculum for a small, four-year-old private school—the Main Line Classical Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Its motto: “Because children are never too young to learn great things.” It is blatantly traditional. When you walk in the lobby what you first see is a huge wall map of ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea. It is not a school for gifted children, but you have to take this kind of study seriously. Perhaps half of the faculty speak Russian, th Hebrew, or French at home. At the moment its highest class is in the 6 grade, so I have a bit over a year to complete the project. The problem is complicated. Why? There is no reliable middle school textbook, and textbooks usually set the agenda for the course. American history has been the key subject for the progressive political movement for the last sixty years, but this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Questions Springer Journals

Creating a Middle School American History Program

Martindale, Wight
Academic Questions , Volume 33 (4) – Oct 13, 2020
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Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:558–563 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09934-2 NATIONALISM Creating a Middle School American History Program Wight Martindale Jr. Accepted: 22 July 2020 / Published online: 13 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 Sounds easy? It’snot. th A few months ago I undertook the project of designing an 8 grade American History curriculum for a small, four-year-old private school—the Main Line Classical Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Its motto: “Because children are never too young to learn great things.” It is blatantly traditional. When you walk in the lobby what you first see is a huge wall map of ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea. It is not a school for gifted children, but you have to take this kind of study seriously. Perhaps half of the faculty speak Russian, th Hebrew, or French at home. At the moment its highest class is in the 6 grade, so I have a bit over a year to complete the project. The problem is complicated. Why? There is no reliable middle school textbook, and textbooks usually set the agenda for the course. American history has been the key subject for the progressive political movement for the last sixty years, but this

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