History assignments are the biggest perpetrators of drilling and copying rather than learning. In his book‚ Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong‚ James
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Lies My Teacher Told Me Effect on Me There is a common expression that a lot of us have heard at least one time “don’t believe everything you read”‚ just because a book is written and published does not mean is always accurate. True historical facts can easily be transformed by adding or taking away details in order to see it only from a certain perspective. The textbooks in history classrooms represent many different groups from the perspective of one group‚ usually European. Loewen explores the
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Kerryn-Danyea Freeman AP World History Book: Lies my teacher told me‚ everything your American history textbook got wrong Author: James W. Loewen During my period of time that I had to read this very persuasive book into believing that you’re casual every day period of History class is basically nothing but a waste of time if not taught in the correct context. Which would include the good‚ the bad‚ and the all in between of the subject of that person
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Marshall Pickel American history is taught in high schools all over the country. It is held as a core curriculum for every American student because of the importance found in teaching our youth of our “perfect nation” and our “perfect past”. However‚ contrary to popular belief‚ James W. Loewen‚ author of Lies My Teacher Told Me‚ has found American history to be taught with a completely nationalistic approach. Not only is the history of our country taught with a horribly strong patriotic sentiment
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James W. Loewen wrote the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" to help students understand the past of the United States‚ and how it is effecting the present. "Lies My Teacher Told Me" examines 12 various American history text books‚ and points out the various lies‚ flaws‚ and sugar coated stories the text books present. Loewen explains how textbooks practice heroification‚ and how race and race relations are a major issue when it comes to American history. Among these topics‚ Loewen also sheds light on
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in American History Textbooks “More Americans have learned the story of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind than from all of the learned volumes on this period” -Warren Beck and Myles Clowers The book Lies My Teacher Told Me was written by James Loewen. I choose to read Chapter 5: “Gone with the Wind”: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks. The chapters that I read discussed how in many of the American History Textbooks
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to James W. Loewen in Lies My Teacher Told Me‚ American students enter college less knowledgeable about their own history than any other subject. American history is the least liked and worst remembered subject in American curricular. Loewen argues that history is the only subject one has to unlearn in college because high school presents inaccurate information to students. Who is to blame? Despite the indicting title‚ James Loewen does not appear to be blaming only teachers for student ignorance
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of many origins from many different people over time. Today‚ however‚ most Americans don’t know the whole truth about their country’s history because they are taught an extremely revised version of their past. It is important for all U.S. citizens to understand how our country came to be so that we can all share pride for where we’ve come from and what we’ll become. Loewen spends a chapter discussing the truth and lies surrounding Christopher Columbus and other early explorers and conquerors of
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September 2011 A False History James Loewen uses his piece Lies my Teacher Told Me to reveal the flaws in America’s mainstream textbooks. Loewen points out the fact that textbooks try to “indoctrinate blind patriotism” (Loewen 6) and “keep students in the dark about the nature of history” (Loewen 8). Almost every American textbook sells history using the “soft seduction” approach‚ as explained in Robert Greene’s book‚ The Art of Seduction. Textbooks try to seduce Americans into being proud of their
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The book Lies My Teacher Told Me‚ by James W. Loewen‚ was written with the intention of informing anybody that has ever learned about United States history using a textbook published in the United States has‚ most likely‚ not received the complete history of events. The textbooks and information found in classes of all educational levels‚are often skewed by patriotism. Loewen wrote the book to fill in many gaps in the education of our nation’s history which makes Lies My Teacher Told Me an enriching
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