The first video essay is due Thursday, September 24. It is “Nightmare in Jamestown” on Youtube. Make sure you are choosing the right video as many videos have similar names. This one is about an hour long.
I’ve attached the video below, the paper has to be no more than 600 words. You have to talk about the video and of course give your personal opinion about it.
https://youtu.be/huQwYUEZ9Lc
In the reading reflection, please reflect on the reading and answer one of the four questions. Please include personal experience and include some of the info from the powerpoint.
Seek to understand concepts by examining openly your own experiences. Demonstrate an open, non-defensive ability to self-appraise. Be in-depth synthesis of thoughtfully selected aspects of experiences related to the topic. be In-depth synthesis of topics from reading as they relate to class discussion/readings No spelling, grammar, or formatting (e.g., margins, spacing, length) errors.
Two short essays, each of 750 to 1000 words. Grades will be based on the strength of the argument and the amount of effective textual evidence in the form of direct quotations and specific examples from course readings that are presented in support of the argument. No outside sources are permitted. Essays should include a Works Cited page and parenthetical citations following each quote, including the authors last name and the page number, i.e. (Mench, 126).
Write two short essays. Students should answer both questions, each in its own separate essay of 750-1000 words. Therefore, the total word count should be a minimum of 1500 words (excluding the essay questions and your headings).
1. Discuss the role of economic transformations, such as the development of capitalist economic structures, transnational trade networks, and socioeconomic class divisions, on the societies of the Americas from the colonial period through the 20th century.
You must include quotations from at least 3 READINGS (1. Latin America by Jonathan Brown, Ramon Gutirrez and Toms Almaguer, 2. The New Latino Studies Reader: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective, 3. Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution by Gil Joseph and Jrgen Buchenau), and cover material in at least TWO different centuries!!
Consider a range of regions, issues, and time periods, such as the impact of racial capitalism, the history of extractive enterprises like cash crops and mining, land conflicts/structures/policies, the impact of economic issues on the mobilization of political resistance and revolutions, and foreign investment in the economies of Latin America.
2. How does Rigoberta Mench envision her role in her society, as she describes it in I Rigoberta: An Indian Woman in Guatemala? Consider the ways that she describes her society in different stages and settings of her life, from childhood, in different work settings, as an organizer, in response to persecution, as well as her overall worldview.
Mench only from chapters 1-2, 4, 6-7, 14-17, 19-21, 25, 27, 33-34.
Use Powerpoint attached titled AMST 135 lecture Week 5 Guatemala.pptx and AMST 135 Genocide in Guatemala Week 6.pptx for guidance in answering this question.
P.S.
I have attached all the readings pdf needed. EXCEPT for I Rigoberta: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Mench. I have also attached powerpoint slides hopefully that will help in writing the essays.
Latin America 1 and 2.pdf and j.ctv1xxz2h.11.pdf would be useful to cover the themes: Legacies for empire, Conquest, Racialized Labor and Colonial Systems of Extraction, and Racial Capitalism
Latin America 3.pdf would be useful for the theme: 19th-Century Independence and Nationalism
Chapter 2 Mexico and Chapter 8 Mexico.pdf would be for: 20th Century Revolutions in Latin America
j.ctv1xxz2h.16.pdf would be for: Racial Regimes and Colorism
Each of these themes, I have also attached powerpoint slides if you need more information or guidance!
I HAVE ATTACHED TWO SOURCES THAT YOU WILL USE TO RESPOND TO “What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them?”
1) is a chapter which I will attach
2) is a podcast which will be located on this link below:
https://ethicalschools.org/?s=richard+miller
Task: Answer the Unit 1 essential question (EQ): What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them? Given the specific focus of our course, you may choose to revise this question and answer, What is world history/social studies, and why and how should we teach it?
Specific Requirements: Your paper should be in a standard academic form (intro + thesis, body, conclusion; citationssee below*). It should make an argument by taking a stand on the question posed above; in other words, you should not merely provide a summary of other peoples answers to this question, nor simply write a narrative of how your own thinking has changed over time. Take a position and defend it, then draw out the implications for your own teaching practice.
You are expected to draw upon at least three of the Unit 1 required materials (e.g. readings, podcast, etc.). You are also welcome and encouraged to draw upon our in-class discussions, online dialogues, and any other course-related resources. You are *NOT* expected to do outside research for this paper. However, if you would like to reference a resource from outside of our class, you may. Such sources do not count for the three required readings.
As a demonstration of your experiential understanding and ability to integrate research knowledge and practice in a reflective manner, you are expected to include concrete implications for how your answer to “What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them?” will shape your approach to the unit plan you will be designing for this course.
These concrete implications should be quite specific and will likely include some combination of: 1-3 essential and/or topical questions or throughlines that you develop and/or will incorporate for your unit plan assignment; a set of 3-6 overall learning goals you will set for students; descriptions of formative assessments you might incorporate; and/or other specific integrations of theory and practice. Make sure not only to include these (or similar) examples, but also to explain clearly how they demonstrate the effective implementation of the principles you note regarding why teach world history/social studies.
*A note about citations: As you are only required to draw on course texts, you do not need to prepare a bibliography for this assignment. You may simply cite materials in the text using this structure for direct quotes: (AUTHOR LAST NAME, Page#). If you use materials not discussed in class, please include a bibliography.
Assignment checklist:
– Answers the Unit 1 EQ: What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them?
– Includes and EXPLAINS the connections of concrete implications for how your answer to
the Unit 1 : What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them? will shape your approach to the unit plan you will be designing for this
course (e.g. includes 1-3 essential questions you develop and/or will incorporate for
your unit plan assignment or a set of 3-6 overall learning goals you will set for students
AND EXPLAINS connections to the Unit 1 EQ)
– References three required course materials (see note about citations above)
I HAVE ATTACHED TWO SOURCES THAT YOU WILL USE TO RESPOND TO “What are history and social studies, and why and how should we teach them?”
1) is a chapter read.
2) is a podcast which will be located on this link below:
https://ethicalschools.org/?s=richard+miller
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