History Lessons
Stokes County teacher Eric Marshall takes his fifth graders into battle and proves that history doesn’t have to be dull.
(By Laurie Weaver, Our State Magazine) - “Attention, company! Shoulder arms! Right face!” Eric Marshall calls out over the rat-tat-tat of a snare drum.
Standing head and shoulders above the 11-year-olds around him, Marshall looks left and right, taking a quick inspection of the troops. Wearing a Confederate soldier’s sack coat and a kepi that tilts slightly over his right eye, he looks very much the part of the lieutenant he’s portraying.
It’s the second day of Camp London. He is in character and so is every single fifth grader at London Elementary School in Walnut Cove — all of them transformed into members of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, ready to march into battle at Gettysburg.
Camp London is Eric Marshall’s response to every kid who ever complained that history is boring. “It just riles me up to hear that,” he says. “I hate to hear it because I know it doesn’t have to be true.”
(By Laurie Weaver, Our State Magazine) - “Attention, company! Shoulder arms! Right face!” Eric Marshall calls out over the rat-tat-tat of a snare drum.
Standing head and shoulders above the 11-year-olds around him, Marshall looks left and right, taking a quick inspection of the troops. Wearing a Confederate soldier’s sack coat and a kepi that tilts slightly over his right eye, he looks very much the part of the lieutenant he’s portraying.
It’s the second day of Camp London. He is in character and so is every single fifth grader at London Elementary School in Walnut Cove — all of them transformed into members of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, ready to march into battle at Gettysburg.
Camp London is Eric Marshall’s response to every kid who ever complained that history is boring. “It just riles me up to hear that,” he says. “I hate to hear it because I know it doesn’t have to be true.”
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