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Agenda September 9

Agenda September 9. Reading Quiz Reading Discussion Education in Society Discussion. Reading Quiz. How many nations are part of the Iroquois Confederacy? What is Wampum? Who wrote “The General History of Virginia”? What does Smith call the Indians?

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Agenda September 9

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  1. Agenda September 9 • Reading Quiz • Reading Discussion • Education in Society Discussion

  2. Reading Quiz • How many nations are part of the Iroquois Confederacy? • What is Wampum? • Who wrote “The General History of Virginia”? • What does Smith call the Indians? • After meeting Smith what ritual did Powhatan put him through?

  3. Iroquois Constitution • Early in the passage there is a great deal of repetition and description around trees and roots: What purpose does this serve? • What values seem most important to the Iroquois Society? • In the final speech to the “confederate lord”, what characters/attributes seem vital to an Iroquois Leader? • How is this different from what you know of the U.S. Constitution? Why do these differences exist?

  4. History of Virginia • What values seem important to early Virginian society? • What impression does Smith give of the natives: is this an admiring account or a dismissive one? • How much do we trust the narrator (Smith)? Are there portions of this account you suspect are embellished or exaggerated? • Can we trust the speaker in the native account any more than we trust Smith?

  5. Thinking Time! • Based on today's readings, the ship's lists from yesterday, my background lecture, and the reading you have thus far done in the textbook, let's offer some preliminary observations: • What do we know about European attitudes and perspectives as they crossed the Atlantic to colonize the New World? • What do we know about native attitudes and perspectives as they encountered these Europeans? • Speculate: Could this cultural encounter have gone differently? What if, for example, Native Americans had discovered Europe? Play with ideas.

  6. Education in Society Discussion • After reading the News Articles, LWSD Response and the Transcript of Obama’s Speech answer the following questions: • What does it mean to bring politics into the school? Which elements in his speech are political? Which are not? • We have a history of parents being able to opt their students out of activities (sex ed) but there are other things that students are absolutely not allowed to opt out of (math) • So when do parents get to opt out of things and does it matter why they are choosing to have their student opt out? • Why did President Obama want to give this address? What do you believe he hoped would come out of this speech? • How do we learn, as a society, to listen to each other? What keeps us from listening to each other? How do we communicate to each other that we are listening? • What can we do to promote open minded dialogue in this class?

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