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Using Fiction in Values Education |
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Children don’t learn values in the same way they learn arithmetic or spelling. Nor can we paste, graft, or implant our own values into their lives. Values that becomes a real part of a child’s life are those they have “grown” themselves from life experience.
Children learn values from their role models -- people they admire and want to be like. They learn values at home and at school when they make choices and experience the results. They learn values when they observe “cause and effect” in other people’s lives. |
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Using Fiction in Social Studies |
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From Pre-K through Grade 6, students learn about the people in their world, first themselves within their families, their neighborhoods, and then their communities. Gradually their circles widen to explore how they and their communities interact as part of a state, a nation, and a world. Throughout, they see how people live and work together amid change, diversity, and their environmental circumstances. |
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Teaching with Fiction 
The Choosing Tree is set in the late nineteenth century in a strange community of people called Shakers. Though Daniel’s story takes readers out of their familiar world, the challenge he faces is one they, too, face in some way, and at some time, in their own lives.