Agenda 9/8

1. Quiz (you may use any notes from last class on the quiz)

• 1. What is the difference between a growth and fixed mindset? Why is a growth mindset essential to success in this class?

• 2. In the past have you been more of a growth or fixed mindset type of person?

• 3. What is 9 + 7 + 9(cubed)?

• 4. How do the authors of "The Strange Death of Silas Deane" define history? (you may use your HW to answer this question)

2. Review Themes and Share Collages

3. Historical Thinking Skills Posters: Defining and Illustrating the Historical Thinking Skills

• Students will work in groups to create posters with student-friendly definitions for and illustrations of the AP Historical Thinking Skills.

 4. Crash Course US History Episode 1 - The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

• Crash Course note-sheet 

 HW

• 1. Read "Ch. 1 - Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress" from "A People's History of the United States," and answer the following questions (in brief note form):

1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of
    the United States?
2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11?
3. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books?
4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: "History is the memory
    of  states?"
5. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison’s book,
    Christopher Columbus, Mariner?
6. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish
    expeditions in the Caribbean?
7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to
    oppress indigenous peoples.
8. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?
9. What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl?
10. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by
    Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro.
11.What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English
    settlers?
12. Discuss the significance of Powhatan’s statement, "Why will you take by force
    what you may have quietly by love?"
13. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing
    Indian land.
14. Explain the main tactic of warfare used by the English against the Indians.
15. According to Roger Williams, how did the English usually justify their attacks
    on the Indians?
16. What ultimately happened to the estimated 10 million Indians living in North
    America at the time of Columbus’ arrival?