SHP History Year 7 Pupil's Book (Schools History Project History)

At some point in the 1970s or 80s (or was it the 90s?) a small group of history teachers got together and attempted to improve the delivery of history in English (and maybe also Welsh) secondary schools by setting up the School History Project. They reasoned that historical content (i.e. key dates, events, names etc.) is not the 'be all and end all' of history. To study history properly you also need to analyse and evaluate: these are vital life skills for a young person. In the process of tackling a knotty old historical bone, a young person can be taught a systematic way to break down the question into bite sized chunks. The beauty of history is that the answers to such questions as 'Who started World War One?' often changes over time: there is rarely a simple answer to any historical question. History is an art not a science. In later life, such key facts as the date of the Great Fire of London are of little practical use to a student trying to make their way at a time of austerity. However, the skills needed to interpret the historical evidence from past times are transferrable life skills that can help an adult to inform their world picture at home and at work. The School History Project (SHP) focus upon teaching these essential life skills, bless them. And if you doubt what I write here, then Google 'celebrities with history degrees'. People with history qualifications are highly prized by employers because they tend to have cute minds. Studying history properly gives them that.If I have a criticism of this SHP series of books, it is that the vocabulary is too tough for many Year 7, 8 and 9s that I teach. I really do have to break down the sources for about half the class because many of the kids find the material too hard to access. I wish the SHP would sort that out. I also feel that the pages are too 'busy'. Some of my students find the crammed pages are too daunting and they are put off. Having said that, I think these are the best school history text books currently made. If you know of something better, then I would seriously love to see it.

The book covers in good detail areas that my daughter will be covering in our home educating curriculum for September..she is eagerly anticipating looking through and learning from them...(as do I). My eldest daughter used the other books in this series and was very pleased and got a very respectable GCSE in history as a result.

It surely is one of the worst book of History I have ever seen: I am not a Gove fan, I actually hate him, but when He says that we must change the level of the National Cv I fully understand him. Seriously: buy this book (possibly second hand, in this way you won't have to waste your money) and have a good laugh. It is so simple, poor of notions and so focused on anecdotes that it is a pain to imagine this bunch of crXp as a history book. I do not entirely blame the writer, of course: this is the product of years and years of destruction of the National Curricula. Our kids will know that King John had a terrible diet but they will ignore every single battle and event of his reign (except few obvious things like Magna Carta and similar - all generalized in a terrible way, without even an inkling of historical analysis-).Simply embarassing...I really do not see the point of teaching the life in the middle age if you then ignore what happened to the English, Spanish, French crowns and you are not able to relate all this elements in a general picture of Europe. This is not history: IT IS THE SUN of the middle age.GROTESQUE!

An excellent book. The students love it and teaching is fun with such a good resource. I appreciate the hard work that went into developing this book.

excellent book

good for child to learn

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I bought this for my daughters to help them study for history tests and to enrich their learning. I like this book a lot. It teaches what historical sources are, how historians interpret them and in which ways historians are challenged in their interpretations of events - so the fundamentals of studying history. That is something I never taught during my school years. I think this is an excellent approach, since it encourages critical thinking and a deeper understanding of what the study of history is and what the limitations are.The book tries to give children a vivid idea on how people lived during the Middle Ages. It encourages them to draw their own conclusions from sources and to argue their points. There is a good variety of material: eye witness texts, biased sources, image comparisons, stories etc. When I went through the chapters with my daughter, I could easily see which skills she struggled with. I found this book very engaging and helpful.

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