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Whose stories haven’t been heard in US History?
How can WE hear the stories that haven’t been told?
 
BROWN SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL: Social Studies 2A

 

Your teaching team:      Darnell Fine

                                   Morgan Penn

                                   Ben Weber

                                   (Ed Abbott, mentor).

 

Class time:                    8:00am – 9:50am (Monday through Friday).

 

Room:                          165 (Week one 7/2-7/6); 163 (Monday 7/9); 166 (Tuesday 7/10);

                                    Smith-B 107 (Wednesday 7/11-Thursday 7/12); 163 (Friday                                              7/13); 141 (Weeks three and four 7/16-7/27).

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

  1. To question and analyze history to critically think (past)
  2. To compare and contrast past with present (present)
  3. To use knowledge in your lives (future)

 

CONTENT

            The sub-questions we will be focusing on are: Whose stories have been told and why?  What difference does this make? How can this change? What will you do? You will learn how slavery and the slave trade have been (mis)represented in the history of RI, New England and the North.  In addition, you will question the practice of history and historical evidence through focusing on locality.  You will also identify how race, class and gender factor into the shaping of history.  Furthermore, you will make “then & now” connections.  And lastly, you will explore the economic and social legacies of slavery.


FINAL ASSESSMENT PROJECT:

        You will synthesize the concepts and objectives you have learned through;

        1) Team Projects/Presentations (using a variety of forms or modes of expression—at least two) and,

        2) Individual Portfolios (collection of work, class notes, introduction, summary, self-reflections throughout portfolios, notes on team projects/presentations)


 

WEEK ONE:

            What does it mean to be American?

            Who’s perspectives have been silenced and/or marginalized?

            How does the telling of history influence certain myths about our national past?                 How does this affect identity?

                       

MONDAY 7/2:                                       Class expectations.

                                                            Introductions/ice breakers/bio poems.

                                                            Prior Knowledge.

 

                        TUESDAY 7/3:              Explore some reasons behind “historical                                                                         amnesia.”

                                                            Examine historical myths.

                                                            The 4th of July as collective celebration?

                                                            Idea of identity and different perspectives.

                                                            Fredrick Douglas on the 4th of July.

 

                        WEDNESDAY 7/4:        Off.

                                               

                        THURSDAY 7/5:            Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Report.

                                                            Slave trade, triangular trade, and provisioning                                                                     trade                                                           

                                                            Perspectives and what evidence remains                                                                        /is consulted by historians.

 

                        FRIDAY 7/6:                  Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Report.

 

WEEK TWO:

            How have forms of representation evolved since slavery?

            What are the consequences of “dehumanization?”

            What factors contribute to a given personal or social perspective?

            What can we discover about the process of identity formation?

 

                        MONDAY 7/9:               Representations during slavery: the dynamics of

                                                            dehumanization.

                        TUESDAY 7/10:            Representation, mediation, and identity.

                                                            Slavery and abolition.

 

                        WEDNESDAY 7/11:      Representation continued.

                                                            Jim Crow.

 

                        THURSDAY 7/12:          Representation continued.

                                                            Contemporary examples and historical roots.

 

                        FRIDAY 7/13:                Contemporary issues in representation.

                                                            Then and now connections.

 

WEEK THREE

            What are the economic legacies of slavery?

            What are the social legacies of slavery?

            How is past injustice imbedded and perpetuated in institutions?

            How have education and the school system evolved over time?

           

                        MONDAY 7/16:             Economics of slavery.

 

                        TUESDAY 7/17:            The relationship between capitalism and                                                                         antislavery

                                                            Industrialization in the North and the                                                                              maintenance of the plantation economy.

 

                        WEDNESDAY 7/18:      Post-emancipation. Reconstruction. Jim Crow.

 

                        THURSDAY 7/19:          Contemporary issues. Social reform.

                                                            The American educational system.

           

                        FRIDAY 7/20:                Then and now connections.

 

WEEK FOUR

            How can you use your knowledge of slavery and its legacies in the present?

            How can you demonstrate a critical approach to history and historical evidence                     through your projects and presentations?

            What can we synthesize about what we learned in this course? 

            What will you do?

 

                        MONDAY 7/23:             Work on team projects in class.

 

                        TUESDAY 7/24:            Work on team projects in class.

                                                            Individual portfolios due in class.

 

                        WEDNESDAY 7/25:      Team presentations.

 

                        THURSDAY 7/26:          Team presentations.

 

                        FRIDAY 7/27:                Shabooya. Surprise!

 

           

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