I don't know if you have paid attention to the comic book popular science in recent years? The new comic book is combined with the story meme mode, and one book is produced. Among them, the first-ever work is Chen Lei's "Half-Hour Comics" series. A number of e-commerce platforms have been sold out for several hours, occupying the top spot of similar best-sellers for a long time, being rated as one of the most popular popular science books for primary and secondary school students, and frantically brushing the screen in the circle of parents' circle of friends, which fully illustrates the value and weight of the book.
First, let's understand, what is "storytelling teaching"?
The richness and thickness of history are based on countless historical stories and plots. "Storytelling teaching" is to present historical events in the form of stories, and if the history class is interspersed with relevant historical stories while teaching content, it is like "cooking" a history class into a recipe with "color, aroma and taste". A good history teacher is always able to take the historical story and details as the starting point to bring students into the world of history in the form of storytelling.
Foreign scholar Vigrgil Mores Hillyer pointed out in his book "World History of American Students" that only by incorporating isolated stories into the general outline of historical development will history not be separated from time and space. There are also studies in China that historical stories contain stories, mysteries, and changes, which make people curious and arouse interest and thinking, which are mainly determined by the characteristics of history and the physical and mental characteristics of middle school students. The nature of the discipline of "historical fun" determines that the teaching of history in secondary schools cannot be separated from its storytelling method.
Second, the necessity of "storytelling teaching"
Students are filled with a pure curiosity about the wonderful biographies and stories recorded in the history books, rather than the history books themselves. In traditional history textbooks, it is only a summary and outline of history, if there is no vivid character portrayal and detailed depiction, history will become boring and tedious, not only for primary and secondary school students, but also for parents, it is also uninteresting, and "story teaching is to solve this pain point."
Story-based teaching "is relatively easy to achieve in the junior high school history classroom stage, but it is relatively difficult to achieve in the cumbersome high school history classroom." This is because in high school teaching, in order to adapt to many factors such as class schedules, exams, school management systems, etc., most teachers are using methods such as memory concepts, analysis principles and summary conclusions to teach, and to a certain extent, they are indifferent to the story and details of history. Of course, there are still many front-line teachers who have discovered the advantages of storytelling and have the courage to try.
The "Half-Hour Comics" series is a book that shows historical stories in the form of comics combined with text fields, the overall atmosphere is relaxed and funny, but it still vividly restores important historical events, historical clues and historical figures in front of the reader, reflecting the perfect integration of storytelling and historical knowledge.
Third, the superiority of storytelling teaching
In the classroom, the traditional history teacher's interpretation of "a hundred schools of thought" is as follows: "Refers to some scholars and schools of thought formed in society with the purpose of disseminating culture and developing scholarship." Such a statement is very abstract, and I believe that many junior high school students will be difficult to understand.
In the "Half-Hour Comic", the author Chen Lei described it like this: "In that era, there were many countries in the Central Plains, and the streets were full of big guys, and the ideas and tastes of each big guy were different, so everyone racked their brains, studied various theories, had nothing to brag about on the street, and didn't know which big guy was favored one day." Thus, there was a hundred schools of thought. ”
It is not difficult to see that the explanation of the two is more understandable and understandable, because Chen Lei uses a large number of colloquial words such as "big guy" and "bragging" and network vocabulary. So the question is whether these colloquial words can be used in a middle school history classroom? Personally, I feel that there is no out-of-the-ordinary statement that helps students learn history courses in a way that can be affirmed.
In his book, Chen Lei commented on "a hundred schools of thought": "So this is a 'dream or have to have, in case you encounter a bad look!" In the golden age of the first great opening of thought in Chinese history, it is a bit interesting that you may be able to meet such a big coffee as Confucius laozi as soon as you go out. ”
When the original serious, dull classroom seeped into the "dreams or have, in case you encounter a bad eye" these network words and popular passages, the whole classroom atmosphere becomes relaxed and active, I believe that even the students who usually doze off in class will wake up immediately! Therefore, changing a way of expression may have unexpected effects.
Fourth, the characteristics of "Half-Hour Comic"
01, life stem:
In addition to colloquialism and online vocabulary, in the "Half Hour Comic", you will see many "life and learning memes" among modern people. For example, the Eastern Zhou states are compared to a class, the Eastern Zhou is compared to the class teacher "Teacher Zhou", and the various princely states are compared to a large number of naughty bear children in the class, and the struggle for hegemony between them is compared to a fight between bear children.
02. Visualization
In the form of a manga, the characters are visualized concretely. You will find that Duke Huan of Qi became a rich and handsome "Xiao Qi"; Duke Wen of Jin became an old Jin; King Zhuang of Chu was originally a transfer student Achu; and Great Qin was a young man struggling in the west. A series of historical figures vividly and vividly jumped on the paper.
In addition, the author rejects the flat and direct narrative of the story, starting from the nature of the war, and appropriately divides the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States into two semesters, pointing out that the difference between the two semesters lies in the nature, which rises directly from the battle of honor to the battle of survival.
In short, "Half-Hour Comics" can always start from the historical events to the essential characteristics of the events, and then quickly find similar examples in life, use the image of life to understand the abstraction of history, so that readers are refreshed at the same time, greatly improving children's reading interest and learning effect.
03. Knowledge
"Half Hour Comic" is funny and humorous while maintaining rigorous knowledge, and every character and story in the book is strictly based on historical facts, and the source can be found. The whole article is a concise and concise historical knowledge point, including characters and events, the 5,000 years of history of China are strung together into a complete "story book", funny and humorous words, passages make the characters more three-dimensional, make the story more vivid and concrete, so that children can understand it at a glance, and remember it after reading one. While laughing from time to time in a relaxed reading atmosphere, I unconsciously remembered all the historical knowledge points.
Fifth, "story teaching" significantly improves memory
Comic stories have an innate appeal to children, and the story-based content is more memorable for students. Therefore, compared with traditional learning methods, "storytelling teaching" has significant advantages in memory. However, after reading a story, what remains in the brain may only be isolated story fragments, and if it is not consolidated in time, students will not be able to correspond the story to time or space.
Therefore, the author Chen Lei's "Half-Hour Comic" will sort out historical figures and major events at the end of each chapter, with the purpose of rearranging each isolated story fragment into the general outline, so that students can consolidate their memories and re-establish the framework of historical knowledge.
epilogue:
Chen Lei's "Half-Hour Comics" series fully demonstrates the innovation and feasibility of "storytelling teaching". For example, most students have a hard time remembering the order of the fall of the Six Kingdoms by rote memorization, and it is easy to forget, but if you use the harmonic and catchy slip of the tongue: "Shout Zhao W to play Qi Qin", the effect is very good, after all, "Zhao W" and "Qi Qin" are familiar actors, naturally remembered.
It can be said that the story is the soul of history, and integrating the story into history, making the boring historical knowledge easy to understand without losing the rigor of history, which is the success of the "Half Hour Comics" series.
It turns out that learning history can be so easy and simple. With the reform of the national college entrance examination, history has become a compulsory subject to choose one of the two, and it has become more and more important. If parents and friends hope to give their children history education as soon as possible, and are afraid that their children will not be interested; if they are suffering from their children's history learning achievements, then this set of Chen Lei's "Half Hour Comics" series of popular science books is a very good choice.
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