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As middle level learners are primed to develop their cognitive abilities and to view people and events from the past from multiple perspectives, it is imperative that teachers go beyond the traditional methods of teaching history and assist students to personalize the impersonal. This article presents a model that incorporates the National Core Arts Standards to the teaching of history through the use of sculpture created by a child survivor of the Holocaust. The integration of the visual arts and history presents an opportunity for the middle level learner to examine the lives of their counterparts from past eras, as they begin to build their own relationship with the historicalpast.  \nToday’s middle school students are growing up in a world of tremendous uncertainty--politically, socially, economically and environmentally. They are also experiencing their own personal uncertainties as they struggle with the daily changes that adolescence brings. Making the subject of history relevant to students who are so fully immersed in the present is one of the many challenges middle level teachers encounter.  \nAlthough middle level students may be caught up in their immediate world, they possess both the cognitive abilities and the desire to expand their horizons. They are ready to contemplate the ways in which they think and process information, and they are primed to learn to view people and events from multiple perspectives. Traditional methods of teaching history, which are teacher-and textbook-centered, rarely provide the kind of classroom experience students need to find their own personal avenues of learning. Drawing from The 16 Characteristics of Successful Schools, the student-centered activities I offer in this article exemplify the nature of active and purposeful learning, coupled with a curriculum that is “challenging, exploratory, integrative, and relevant” (Association for Middle Level Education [AMLE], 2010a, para. 8). Thus, it is imperative that middle level teacher candidates develop and enhance those skills necessary to present learning activities that are not only developmentally appropriate but that integrate a variety of subject matter (AMLE, 2012) .  \nOne way to go beyond the traditional teaching of historical facts, to personalize the impersonal, and to help students connect their own lives with the lives of those who came before, is through the shared experience of memory. As Holocaust survivor, author, and scholar Wiesel wrote,“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”(Wiesel, 2008, para. 7). By examining the lives  \nof their counterparts from different eras, young adolescents can understand memory as a guidepost by which people navigated through their own uncertain times.  \nThe history learning activities offered in this article focus on the story of Agnes Majtinszky Pal, a child survivor who later in life shared her memories through her sculpture. Through the stories of people like Agnes, middle level students can begin to build a relationship with the historical past; in doing so, they can learn to take more control over their own learning. When given opportunities to make their own personal connections to the past, these students can also begin to understand the relevance of historical events in our present world. In the long term, my hope is that they will also come to recognize themselves as players rather than observers in the making of history.  \nAs a former middle level social studies teacher and current professor of middle level education, I believe it is essential to create and deliver pe","cbCaif8rm18lze8j","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif8rm18lze8j","pdf",956815,"English","# The Relevance Challenge in Middle Level Social Studies\n## Personalizing the Impersonal Through Memory\n## The Model: Sculpture and Holocaust Survivor Narratives\n# The Argument for Arts Integration","[{\"question\":\"What challenge does the article identify for middle level social studies teachers?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights the difficulty of helping young adolescents see the relevance of the past to the present and move beyond teacher- and textbook-centered history instruction.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the model integrate art standards into history teaching?\",\"answer\":\"It uses sculpture created by a child survivor of the Holocaust and frames the teaching through the National Core Arts Standards to connect visual arts with historical understanding.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is memory central to the classroom activities described?\",\"answer\":\"The article emphasizes memory as a guidepost for understanding uncertain times, and it uses survivors’ stories to help students build relationships with the historical past and make personal connections.\"}]","Integrating Art and History: A Model for the Middle School Classroom | PDF",1792089530,31]