Transcript Perspectives

What did you do this weekend?
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Write down all of the things you did this weekend.
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Put an asterisk beside each item that you can prove
happened.
- There is video or audio evidence
- Someone else observed them happening
* Just because you tweeted it or posted it on
Facebook does not mean it happened.
• Which of your activities were most likely to leave
evidence behind?
• What, if any of that evidence might be preserved
for the future? Why?
• What might be left out of a historical record of
your activities? Why?
• What would a future historian be able to tell about
your life and your society based on evidence of
your daily activities that might be preserved for
the future?
The Past
All actions and thoughts by all
individuals in all times and
places
Events observed by
someone
Events observed,
remembered and recorded.
(Unrecorded actions and
Events observed an
remembered (Event
thoughts have been lost to
history.)
but not remembered h
lost to history.)
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Events for which we
have surviving records.
(This is the raw material of
history!)
“THE ACCOUNT”:
Question #1:
What is history exactly?
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The Past: All actions and thoughts by all
individuals in all times and places.
So we know about all of these actions and
thoughts from the beginning of time?
So how do we know what we know about the
past?
For example:
 A comet flew through the night.
 An apple fell from a tree.
 You made a sandwich last night.
Question #2:
How do we study history
(historiography)? What do
historians do?
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Historiography--study of how history has been
written.
Think about how much history there is!
“History is the act of selecting, analyzing and
writing about the past.”
-Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris,
The Methods and Skills of History
Perspectives
Historical Event: “The Accident”
What did you see when the LTD
bus and sports car collided?
Task: Get into 6 groups
Scene of the crime…
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You are about to witness an accident.
You are standing on one of the corners of this scene.
An LTD bus is entering the intersection.
A red Mustang convertible is entering the intersection.
The LTD bus and the Mustang collide into each other.
You see this collision. You hear afterwards that a
teenager was driving the convertible.
The police will be along shortly to take your eye witness
statement about the accident.
Your group must come up with an account of what
happened and elect a spokesperson to explain the event
to the police.
View of the accidentSports Car Route Bus Route
Bus
Route
Sports Car Route
View of the
accident
U of O student waiting for your friend
on the bus, does not have health care.
Sports car driver,
has excellent car
insurance
An elderly couple who’s fence
keeps getting tagged.
View of the
Accident
A person with a recent
“close call”
with an LTD bus
Insurance
Agent of driver
Off duty LTD employee
What filters someone's interpretation or perception of an event Event
What filters
someone’s
interpretation
of perception
of an event?
Event
What filters someone's interpretation or perception of an event Past experi
Relationships
and alliances
Past
experiences
What filters
someone’s
interpretation
of perception
of an event?
Economic
interests
Power and
control
oppurtunities
Event
History is quitesimply events retold by someone...An Asian American An Arab American An African American A L
A MultiEthnic
American
An Arab
American
A Latino
American
History is quite
simply events retold
by someone…
An African
American
An Asian
American
European Americans
“Right - True - Real”
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Looking to know what really happened?
You’ll need a lot of eyes to get the full picture.
Want to understand someone’s point of view?
Even your own?
You’ll need to know what alliances and materials
they have at stake.
Historians choose the history they want to tell
based on their own biases, agendas, and filters.
Basic Historiography
•Example: A person living at the time of Obama’s health care
speech to the nation witnesses events. She writes about it. This
document is a __________________.
•Later a historian uses the source in another text. This document is
called a _______________________.
•When another historian argues that the secondary source misuses
or correctly uses the primary source, this is historiography.
•What are some basic questions we can ask when
looking back at how history was written?
OPVL Handout
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Tonight--read this like
a love letter.
Mark it up / take
notes.
Be ready to be
quizzed over its
contents.
Contact to Conquest
Day 2: Global Context and World Views
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Please have your HW
out to be stamped as
finished and on time.
Write down your HW:
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Chapter 1 Reading and
Questions, Assignment
#2 pp. 20-26 (Green)
Be ready to move into
groups.
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
-an anthropological study by Horace Miner (1956)
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Read the text together, aloud.
Note differences you see between the
Nacirema culture and ours (find 3-5).
Draw one picture of a Nacirema ritual as
you listen.
Be ready to share with the class.
The Nacirema and “The Other”
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Nacirema is American spelled backwards.
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How do we describe/view other cultures?
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Be aware of the “I’m from a more civilized
culture mentality”.
How does this connect with your HW for class
today?
Task: Read an excerpt from Columbus’s
journal and answer the following questions
with your group.
1. What attitudes does Columbus have about
the people he encounters? Give 3
quotes from his journal as evidence.
2. Based on what you read in the journal,
what does it appear Columbus cares
about, what does he want? Give several
quotes as evidence.
3. Based on Columbus’s observations, what if
anything can you tell about the kind of
people the “Indians” are--what they
value, etc.? If you don’t think you can
tell anything about the Indians from his
journal, give your reasons for why not.
The Journal of C. Columbus
“One old man got into the boat, and all the rest,
men and women, cried in loud voices: ‘Come
and see the men who have come from heaven;
bring them food and drink.”
- Sunday, October 14th, 1492 (Day 3)
Q. What could be a limitation of this as a
historical source?
FRIDAY, September 17th
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Have your homework packet out on your
table to be stamped, please.
• Look over your Reading Assignment 1
materials and be ready for a quiz!
• NO HOMEWORK!
Quiz: Get out a piece of paper and title it Reading Quiz 9/15.
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What two parts of OPVL have to do with the originator of the source?
What two parts have to do with the historian and how they use the source?
What kind of source is more reliable than the other--a primary or secondary
source?
What is a question you could be asking yourself with analyzing the purpose of a
source?
What is one common response by students when answering the limitation portion
of an OPVL that is obvious and therefore shouldn’t be mentioned in a limitation
analysis.
Prior to the year 1500, in which region (Europe, Africa, Americas or all) would one
have found societies with large cities, advanced systems of agriculture, and welldeveloped economic and political structures?
A main difference between most Native Americans and most Europeans in regard
to how they viewed the land was that most Europeans believed in _______
ownership of the land while most Native Americans believed in _______
ownership of the land.
In contrast to the European family structure, the family structure in many Native
American and African societies was matrilineal. Explain what that means.
What is one event Opechancanough (opening story) witnesses during his lifetime?
Where were the Incas located? A) Mexico B) North America C) South America
Task: In groups, discuss and
answer questions #1-5 on the
second page of the primary
sources assigned as homework
due today.
The Columbian Exchange
Day 3
September 20-21
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New HW: Zinn / Loewen Readings and Questions
Homework:
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Group
Group
Group
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Group
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Pages
Pages
Pages
Pages
Pages
37-44;
45-52;
53-59;
60-68;
68-73;
Feel free to read them all!!!
Questions 2 and 3
Questions 4 and 5
Question 6
Questions 8,9,10
Questions 11 and 12
Homework Questions:
4. How many U.S. place names can
you think of that are in Spanish?
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San Francisco, Las
Vegas, El Paso,
Sacramento,
Colorado, Nevada, the
Sierras, Santa Fe,
etc…
Pre-1848 a vast part
of the current US was
Mexico.
Primary Sources / OPVL Practice
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Task: In groups, discuss and answer
questions #1-5 on the second page of the
primary sources assigned as homework
due in the last class.
FILM:Columbus and the Age of
Discovery: Columbian Exchange
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Examining the impact of Columbus’s voyages.
Globalization: an ongoing process in which regional
economies, societies, and cultures have become
integrated through a globe-spanning network of
exchange.
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Globalization 1.0: (1492-1800) when the world shrank from
a size large to medium.
Globalization 2.0: (1800 - 2000) multinational corporations
shrank the world to a size small.
Globalization 3.0: (2000 - current) size tiny.
--Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat
Day 4: The Price of Contact
9/22 & 9/23
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HW due: Do not turn
into the basket, will be
stamped shortly.
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“Lies My Teacher Told
Me”, Reading &
Questions
New HW: Read Zinn
article and finish
textbook comparison for
Friday
Quiz: Write your name, class,
date, title of assignment.
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Write down 5 things you learned about
Columbus, the voyages, context surrounding
the voyages, etc., that you didn’t know before.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas and why is
he important to history?
What are the names of the native peoples of
Hispanola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic)?
There are two acceptable answers.
“Columbus Landing in the Bahamas,” John
Vanderlyn, 1847
Who’s perspective is represented here? What message is the artist conveying
about Columbus? Use explicit examples from the image to support your views.
Who’s who?
Task: #1
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Get together with those who shared your
reading (1’s with 1’s, 2’s with 2’s, etc..)
As a group, take 5 minutes to discuss the
answers you came up with for your questions.
Work out any confusion amongst yourselves
first, then you can ask me. Use all of this time!!
Get together in larger groups, with members of
each group represented. Teach each other!
Answer questions 1-12. (20-25 minutes)
Task #2: Analyzing Textbooks
How does the text…
Source:
Depict C’s
character,
backgroun
d,
motivations
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Describe
the
impact
of
previous
explorati
on?
Depict C’s
relationship
s with the
Native
peoples?
Depict
Native
American
response
?
Use
primary
sources in
their
narrative?
Describe
C’s role
in the
slave
trade?
Inform us of
the global
context for
exploration at
this time?
Lowen
Zinn
Your
Textbook
Readings
I gave
you
Other questions for discussion: Are there any contradictory statements or
descriptions? Are there details missing? Questions that remain? Are the details
“selective”?
Task #3:Primary Sources /
OPVL Practice
Friday, September 24
-Have your textbook comparison out on your
desk to be stamped
-Write down your homework for Monday or Tuesday:
Read “African Americans Mourn the
Quincentenary
and Celebrate Resistance”
-Answer the questions in your packet in
preparation for a graded discussion on
Monday or Tuesday.
Primary Source/ OPVL Practice
Task: In groups, discuss and
answer questions#1-5 on the
second page of the primary sources
assigned as homework due in the last
week.
Next Week’s Graded Discussion
-Prepare by completing the questions
in your packet.
- You may have notecards with you
- Structure will most likely be that of
a socratic circle