Friday, August 31

Dear students: I appreciate you so much for working diligently and being kind and awesome to Maxim. Today you will read another story about the birth of our nation,  TAKE IT IN as intellectuals and human beings.  You should also finish all other assignments, including being entirely caught up on your digital comp book entries.

Starter 8.31: How is the study of history an ideological act?  How does ideology impact the telling of history?

TO-DO
1. Finish Journal 8.30 from yesterday ("Re-examining the Revolution."  See yesterday's post for the questions.)
2. See the Digital Comp Book Table of Contents.  Are you caught up?  If not, please go back and finish any missing entries.
3. Please read Chapter One of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown and answer the questions in your Digital Comp Books.

JOURNAL 8.31: Bury My Heart Chapter 1 Questions
Annotate the chapter and answer the following questions in your digital comp books:

1. How does this version of American history differ from how you have traditionally learned it? 

2. Where do you see evidence of the ideological lens (or worldview) in the way this history is being told? 

3. Why is it important to look at this version of history?