My final project and letter to my students is linked below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oQpvvTLOQvyW8WhowH2uQAYykYkku6Zy0drC7f6XlD4/edit?usp=sharing
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Hello all, My name is Rose Pompey and I have been teaching three and a half years. I attended the University of Northern Colorado, where I m...
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Hello all, My name is Rose Pompey and I am a middle school teacher in Arvada Colorado. I have been teaching four and a half years, sin... -
My final project and letter to my students is linked below https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oQpvvTLOQvyW8WhowH2uQAYykYkku6Zy0drC7f6XlD4...
Hi Rose,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your work on this project and throughout this course!
I think your final project is a neat one--embedded as it is within a US history course! There is a great book on this very topic by Thomas Bender, entitled "A Nation Among Nations." If you haven't read that one before, it's a bit like Zinn--a revisionist survey of the entirety of US history, in this case looking at how the global and the national interact to produce US history. It will have some good ideas that you might use to supplement and further shape your list.
As you note in the letter, events in the US were shaped by other nations and in turn shaped those nations. In some ways, I think the project might stress that very point. Not just our impact on the world, but the world's impact on us. That reciprocity and mutuality is key to global citizenship and global education. We are all interconnected, including our histories!
The C3 Framework really pushes action as the last stage of any inquiry. While that might not be possible here, it might be interesting to think about the continuing legacy of some of the interactions you will ask students to examine. How do Mexicans remember the Mexican-American War? How do the English remember the Revolutionary War? (There would be better examples from the second part of the US history sequence, but these are good too.) This question of memory takes you up to the present and gives students an insight into how and why the US is viewed as it is by other countries.
It was wonderful working with you again. I wish you the best of luck in the future. I hope you will be in touch if I can ever be of any assistance to you.
Kyle