Historical Thinking for Secondary Students

Critical Thinking and Higher Test Scores in History and English

With Take a Stand! curriculum your students learn:

*Cricital Thinking Skills

*Independent Analysis

*Debate

*Analytical Reading and Writing

*HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN

Take a Stand! teaches historical thinking to students ages 11-18.  Instead of memorizing facts or engaging in busy tasks, students learn how to be historians. Provided the tools of the historian and challenged with open-ended questions, young scholars are fully engaged in deciding the meaning of history and become aware of various perspectives and cultures.  Inspired and challenged to take a stand, beginning historians become patient listeners and courageously assert their analysis of the past in speech and writing.

To purchase books, go to the Purchase link. For institutional purchases, contact us at 714-623-6104. All purchases are 100% satisfaction guaranteed. If you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your entire purchase.

Take a Stand! and its author have earned state-wide and federal acclaim. TAS follows national and state standards. It has passed California Department of Education Legal and Social Compliance Review.  It is state certified for English Learners and for English Language Arts Standards.  GATE funds may be used to purchase Take a Stand!, as it provides for differentiated learning, challenges students to think critically, ethically, and originally, and develops respect and patience for opposing ideas. The author is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher, an honor given to the top 1% of America's teachers.

Dr. Robert Johnson, Ph.D. in History

"You do a wonderful job of breaking down analytical thinking and critical writing into manageable and systematic teaching units. This is a great model for teaching content-based literacy. Your method for taking students through the various stages of writing (pre-writing, paragraph practice, document analysis, outlining, and assessment) goes a long way towards moving students to the type of critical literacy that is not only rewarded at the university-level but needed if we are to build an informed and engaged citizenry."