So very true about what kids will hear and how they will interpret your words within their experience.
On my tests, I learned what they remembered from lectures, and it was always the little stories I'd make up to illustrate an event, a feeling at a time, what it was like to be there or live out an event, etc. Always. Dates? Forget it. Carefully worded messages and interpretations of events? I may as well have spoken Urdu, and the text we so diligently went through line by line could have been written in Old Klingon. It was always the little stories. So I ended up having to fictionalize history if I wanted them to remember it. (This was fifth and sixth grade history.)
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On my tests, I learned what they remembered from lectures, and it was always the little stories I'd make up to illustrate an event, a feeling at a time, what it was like to be there or live out an event, etc. Always. Dates? Forget it. Carefully worded messages and interpretations of events? I may as well have spoken Urdu, and the text we so diligently went through line by line could have been written in Old Klingon. It was always the little stories. So I ended up having to fictionalize history if I wanted them to remember it. (This was fifth and sixth grade history.)