History is Nehemiah’s favorite subject he reported to us last week, but whether he likes it or not, it’s an important subject to teach.  As the saying goes, “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.  But how do you teach about things that are so distant and foreign to one’s own experience?  Laura Berquist writes in an introduction for a book Nehemiah is reading right now:

The key to making history memorable and exciting to young people is to make it real for them.  Bringing the historical period and its significant people and events to life, turns what would otherwise be a dull rote lesson into living information about real people and happenings which everyone loves.  Those who truly enjoy history talk about it as if the events they were discussing were happening now, as though the important people involved in history were their neighbors.

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The actual life of Aristodemus and many of the key events in this story are preserved for us by the Greek historian Herodotus.  Snedeker’s research and attention to historical and cultural details really make this book a boon for studying Ancient Greece, along with being an intriguing story in itself. purchase Prozac

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