Welcome: Immediate reactions about our text?
- How did you feel while you were reading? In one word!
Warm-up: "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it" - James Baldwin
1) Caputo says in his preface, to A Rumor of War "This book does not pretend to be history..."
Would Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told Me) agree with Caputo's statement?
That is, would Loewen consider "A Rumor of War" to be history?
2) Discussion of A Rumor of War using student questions
3) Themes in APUSH and A Rumor of War
- Themes, Historical Thinking Skills, and the AP Exam
Intro to Europeans in the New World
- Review HW:
What is the BIG take-away from the 9 pages you read for today?
Engraving, 1598 Theodore de Bry
Homework: Finish Ch. 1 (pg. 10-13 and complete notes)
Do Multiple Choice questions at the end of the chapter