Here we are again guys and gals! Your time here in Jonas's class will flow in 3 phases. The phases are below and we will be referring back to this blog post frequently throughout the class.
PHASE 1: DEFINE...
What is an American? What does that mean?
That said, collaboratively define the American Dream.
PHASE 2: INTERACT WITH TEXT and MEDIA
Two excerpts from Howard Zinn...
PowerPoint Slides...
"In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the blacks would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of North and South would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in human history. They would do it with the aid of, and at the expense of, black labor, white labor, Chinese labor, European immigrant labor, female labor, rewarding them differently by race, sex, national origin, and social class, in such a way as to create separate levels of oppression-a skillful terracing to stabilize the pyramid of wealth."
"Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck."
-Howard Zinn from his book, A People's History of the United States
How does this fit into our definition of an American and/or our definition of the American Dream?
How do these things relate?
PHASE 3: QUESTIONING Documentation Application... textual overlay Over the past few weeks as I sat down to think about The American Dream and what it has looked like for Americans over the course of history, I have asked some of these questions. Perhaps while you engage your partner in thinking and academic conversations these questions may help you generate some questions of your own.
1.Which aspects of the human experience were constant from 1801-1930?
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| Mr. C's CRAZY THINKING!! |
2. Based on what we are reading, watching, and interacting with which parts of the past are comparable?
Follow-up: From this, what parallels or similarities can you find?
3. How do you think the past is similar to the present?
4. How do you think the past is different from the future?
5.Where can we see "deprivation" influencing the American Dream? (MLK Jr.)
6. How has "inequality" influenced the American Dream?
7. What do you think influences The American Dream?
8. By looking through history, the past, what can we see influencing the American Dream?
Generate 5-10 questions pertaining to the American Dream as it applies to the Great Depression and/or the text so far.
We want you to collaborate on a document.
Fold this into textual evidence.
Have fun and enjoy! Phase 4 is a doozy!!
Yours Truly,
C
From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy
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