This is your friendly, neighborhood Historical Literacy here. I'd like to welcome you to Think Spot. This blog will be our weekly stop for THINK BACKS on learning, news and updates, directions and instructions, as well as serving other academic purposes throughout the year. I like to post videos, texts, and NUGGETS here from time to time as weekly reviews of what's going on in the class. Think Spot is also a great place to post comments to me and/or start discussions with others.
That said, please take some time to click on the links below in an effort to jog your memory from last week. A lot of dust can settle over a weekend so shake out those cobwebs.
Revisit the French & Indian War with Tim and Moby...
Get another look at TECUMSEH the Shawnee Chief
Do you remember the Trail of Tears? (Indian Removal:1830's)
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890...
In closing, I leave you with this quote from a historian by the name of Howard Zinn. This quote comes from his book A People's History of the United States.
If women, of all the subordinate groups in a
society dominated by rich white males, were closest to home (indeed, in the home), the most
interior, then the Indians were the most foreign, the most exterior. Women,
because they were so near and so needed, were dealt with more by patronization
than by force. The Indian, not needed-indeed, an obstacle-could be dealt with by
sheer force, except that sometimes the language of paternalism preceded the
burning of villages.What do you think Howard Zinn is trying to get at with this paragraph?
What meaning can you construct from this short excerpt?
Signing off,
C
From the cluttered minds of C & Dubbs, Teachers
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy
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