Integrating Creative, Critical, and Historical Thinking through Close Reading, Document- Based Writing, and Original Political Cartooning

Authors

John H. Bickford III, Eastern Illinois University

Document Type

Article

Abstract

State and national education initiatives prescribe diverse thinking through age-appropriate content area literacy tasks at all grade levels. History education researchers encourage teachers to intentionally integrate content, methods, and assessment in discipline-specific ways. This paper—targeting middle level and secondary students—proposes a fusion between scrutiny of juxtaposed texts, evidentiary writing, and creative expression of newly generated understandings. This model elicits students’ content area literacy through close reading and text-based writing; it evokes students’ criticality through historical thinking and creation. Interested teachers are offered a representative sample of student work.

Recommended Citation

Bickford, John H. III (2016) "Integrating Creative, Critical, and Historical Thinking through Close Reading, Document- Based Writing, and Original Political Cartooning," The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies: Vol. 77: No. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol77/iss1/1