This week, I introduced 3rd-grade students to historical viewpoints by reaching historical figures. We researched a multitude of influential historical figures. Students were introduced to figures such as Bessie Coleman, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Henry "Box" Brown, Louie Armstrong, and many, many more. They then had to write about 1 event in the person's life that influenced them to become an influential person, and they had to write about it from a first-person perspective. Talk about difficulty! For third graders to write about an event, they first had to choose one impactful event. Then, they had to take the perspective of that person. According to The Historical Thinking Project (n.d.), taking a historical perspective means understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped people's lives and actions in the past. Historical perspective-taking is a difficult concept for adults to master, and we were asking third grade...