Week 8 Agenda: Finding a Unit 2 Topic
For Monday, 10/17 (asynchronous, work due on our class site by 11:59 pm)
- Read The Declaration of Independence Annotated by Randy Barnett
- Read “38” by Layli Long Soldier
- Choose one of the facts included in the Long Soldier’s poem and do some research on it. Choose one authoritative source to help you better understand the fact.
- Then annotate the following google document of Layli Long Soldier’s poem by adding a comment to the fact you chose. If someone else has already chosen that fact, reply to the comment the person has already added and add your answer there. In your comment (or reply), do the following:
- Write a short response giving your source and telling the class what you learned. Then explain what your research helped you better understand about Long Soldier’s poem.
- Respond to the following Discussion Question to continue brainstorming and developing ideas for the Unit 2 assignment. Spend 5 minutes
- Think about the history that Layli Long Soldier covers in her poem “38.” Are there any incidents or chapters in US history that you think are not as visible as they should be, and that you think are important for people to learn about? Are there contemporary incidents that you think should be included in historical accounts of our era so people in the future can learn from them?
For Wednesday, 10/19 (in-person session at City Tech)
- Print/Download and bring to class Declaration of Independence. We will read and work with the Declaration together in class
When I found out a lot of information online about these things they where very interesting and things I felt like I should research and learn about. The first people to live in what we now call Iowa may have arrived some 8,000-10,000 years ago. They lived along the edges of the receding glaciers and hunted large game animals. Gradually, groups began to plant and harvest gardens of corn, beans, pumpkins and squash and gather nuts, berries and fruits to supplement their meat supply. (paragraph 1 is where I found that information) The earliest French and English these tribes encountered were not settlers competing for lands fur trappers and traders. (paragraph 2 line 3) In 1832, when the U.S. government tried to enforce the terms of a treaty that demanded removal of the Sac from their major village Saukenuk on the Illinois side of the river. Chief Black Hawk resisted and returned in the spring with a portion of the tribe in defiance of the government order. (paragraph 5 lines 3-6) I feel like I learn a lot of important things that I wanted to learn about and I am glad I did this research online.
https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/westward-expansion-and-native-americans
Elizabeth, What is this in response to? Is this for the discussion question? If so, then next time, you would click on “Discussion Question” which is a hyperlink and put the comment there. Also note, that this agenda has more than one assignment so that to get full credit, you also needed to do the work in the google doc.