Title: Lies My Teacher Told Me Pdf Young Readers
Author: James W. Loewen
Published Date: 2019
Page: 256
Gr 7 Up-The original 1995 edition of Lies My Teacher Told Me shocked many readers with its blunt analysis of 12 high school history textbooks. This young reader's edition continues along the same lines, pointing out the fallacies involved when telling adolescents an idealized, incomplete version of U.S. history. Loewen focuses on the following themes: heroification (telling only the positive, exemplary parts about significant figures in American history), the realities of both the Columbus and First Thanksgiving stories, Native/First Nations experiences being ignored or told only from a European perspective, racism, idealism, classism, government ‘perfection,' and the dangers of teaching history without considering its impact on the future. The book covers much of the same material as in the previous editions except with shortened, simpler text. Relevant facts and figures have been updated, as well as references to the current president and administration. VERDICT An important and necessary purchase for all secondary schools who want students to develop a love and appreciation for U.S. history while seeing it with clearer eyes.-Heidi Grange, Summit Elementary School, Smithfield, UTĪ±(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition:“[The book] not only imparts vital history left out of textbooks, it also prepares the next generation to be critical readers of the media."—Rethinking Schools “Evocative and thought-provoking, this is what history should be."—Booklist“Accessible, eye-opening. . . . A cogent argument for studying historical nuances. [Loewen] argues that young people should not be deprived of hearing the incredible truth of American history in service to avoidance of controversy or blinkered, parochial nationalism.”—Kirkus Reviews“Powerful . . . it serves as a crucial counter-textbook to provide a more realistic and critical narrative about the American past.”—Truthdig “Here is a call to action that will have students furiously turning the pages and inspire them to question everything. Young people: Read this book, and then talk back to your history teacher!”—Jesse Hagopian, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives and high school history teacher “Lies My Teacher Told Me was a big inspiration to me as a young writer, and I’m excited to see this new young readers’ edition. Loewen’s fascinating book is full of little-known stories, debunked myths, provocative ideas—and, best of all, it challenges readers to think for themselves!”—Steve Sheinkin, author of Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War “The young readers’ edition of James Loewen’s classic text Lies My Teacher Told Me imparts vital history in a thoroughly engaging way. Countless teachers have tossed their textbooks aside after reading Lies My Teacher Told Me and now younger readers will be able to learn the truth about history, including race, land, the climate, foreign policy, political leadership and much, much more.”—Deborah Menkart, executive director, Teaching for Change, and co-director, Zinn Education Project “True stories—otherwise known as history—need to be told transparently, in all their messy, marvelous, multi-faceted glory. Loewen’s Lies tells the truth to young readers, creating a new crop of critical thinkers and active citizens.”—Tanya Lee Stone, NAACP Image Award winner and Sibert medalist “James Loewen’s book is a lively and trustworthy guide to what’s wrong with the way we teach history, starting with the textbooks we ask our students to read in school. That students find him irresistible is not hard to explain. Loewen himself is forever young at heart: energetic, curious, skeptical, irreverent, and yet deeply idealistic. Artfully adapted for young readers by Rebecca Stefoff, the text has not been dumbed down one bit.”—James Goodman, professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark, and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children’s writer who adapted Howard Zinn’s bestseller A People’s History of the United States for young readers, makes Loewen’s beloved work available to younger students.
Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their “authors.” Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen’s lively, provocative telling of American history is a “counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past” (The Nation).
This streamlined young readers’ edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.
Great book, eye-opening, everyone should read! I really enjoyed this book. I had always wanted to read the original but it always seemed too daunting a task, considering my lifelong dislike of history.To be fair, I realized through this book that I retained more of the US history I learned in public school than I would have thought. Unfortunately, this book taught me that most of what I had retained was wrong, or at least majorly lacking in context.I'm not sure how I would have felt about this book though if I were still a teenager. It's a little dry but it's better than textbooks that reinforce rote memorization of what will be on the test. This book taught me that many high schoolers felt this way about studying history, and offers some suggestions to combat that disinterest in the classroom.That's why I'd love to see an actual textbook written this way - created as a side-by-side comparison book (left side original textbook, right side questioning/correcting/adding context).I think the younger generations are getting better at questioning things so the rewriting of this book has come at an appropriate time. Everyone really should read it. Young and old, I hope everyone does.Part of James W. Loewen's campaign to correct mistakes that have been taught in schools for years. I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.Everyone has most likely heard the quote, "History is written by the victors." Although the quote is often attributed to Winston Churchill, it is not known who originally said it. However, the author does not matter, only the truth of the quote.Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by James W. Loewen is part of his campaign to correct mistakes that have been taught in schools for years. His most famous work, Lies My Teacher Told Me, was originally published in 1995.This history book is geared toward "young readers". I, as an adult, found the information interesting and some was outright surprising to me. However, I think young readers would find it wordy. This was not a book to sit and read cover to cover. I needed time to reflect, discuss, and to research sections for more information.Adding it to an advanced or higher level history course to complement a traditional history textbook would be an asset to the student's education. Allowing both books to be read at the same time would probably help encourage the reader's curiosity to not just accept what the textbooks offer as history as fact.This review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 5/23/19.Truth of my ancestors history and lies of the invaders if native american lands for one thing. I haven't read this book yet but want my Grandchildren to read it for correct knowledge of history.
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