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Summary for Lesson 1
In today’s class we began with our introduction to the history course, thinking about how to approach history in a way that acknowledges bias, thinks carefully about the purpose of historical study and grapples with the nature of historical truth. We began with some blind source analysis, before digging into the history of colonisation of the US and speaking about the role of the historian in society. The class thought about the concept of the balance of evidence and how to think of sources like evidence in a court case. You all really impressed me today with the depth and intricacy of your ideas and how tuned in you were to big academic concepts- really brilliant work today everyone, I look forward to working together this summer! See you next week 🙂
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Hi Beth, Sorry for this delayed homework. I just came back from school trip on Thursday, so missed all the lessons in this week.
please see my homework attached.
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Summary for Lesson 2
In today’s class we continued our work on the history of the USA, learning today about the early days in the colonisation of America. We began with the class sharing their research, before watching a video talking about the founding of the first colonies. We discussed the example of Roanoak and what this tells us about the experience of colonisers and thought about the impact and role of religion in light of this. We analysed a source from a children’s textbook in 1688 and finally talked through a step-by-step source analysis worksheet and an essay structure example. Fantastic work today class, well done for your enthusiastic ideas and attention to detail throughout. It was wonderful to hear all your analysis, particularly when looking at the source. See you next week 🙂
John Green video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69TvQqyGdg
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the flippandestidious lesson! 🙂 I have uploaded my homework.
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Just to cool down this week’s sometimes hotly debated colonial ideas…
A frog said to a lamp-post that it looked stumpy.
What did the lamp-post say to the frog?
cr-oak!
*terrible, I know, but still 😉
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Summary for Lesson 3
In today’s class we zoomed in on the central historical event of the course: the Salem witch trials. We began today by thinking about what we think of when we think of witchcraft, and what factors in society appear to lead to these beliefs. We then learned about the history of 17th-century Salem, discussing what happened in the witch trials and how the events unfolded. We spoke about what kind of threat witchcraft represented to people at this time, learned from a courtroom source of the supposed symptoms and discussed what this tells us about gender, class and religion at the time. Wonderful and passionate work today everyone- your knowledge and inference skills were super impressive and it was great to hear all your arguments about the ways in which witchcraft reveals facts about historical understandings of the world. See you next week 🙂
Salem trials video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM&themeRefresh=1
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Dear Beth,
Thanks for the glimmerastic lesson🤩🤩🤩!
I have uploaded my homework.
Morose fact: 2 dogs were hung at Salem. How sad.
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Dear Beth
Please see the homework attached below.
Thank you for the great lesson and have a nice week! 🙂
Kind regards,
Brian Liu
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Summary for Lesson 4
In today’s class we worked on source analysis, building off the foundations we built last week when thinking about the Salem witch trials. We began with a discussion of what challenges Salem presents to the historian and what skills we need to analyse this period in history. We then thought about The Crucible, and what it can teach us about Salem when we read against the grain. The class then completed some excellent source analysis on two primary sources, thinking about purpose, author, content, tone, before we had some final discussions on types of sources that are helpful to the historian. Well done today everyone- you all shared some fantastic ideas that were really impressively detailed and well thought-out. Keep up the amazing work, good luck revising for your mini mock next week and remember the extension is optional, I want you to focus mainly on revision and then you can do some source analysis if you would like as an extension. See you then 🙂
Links for sources:
•https://lisahistory.net/pages/LUps.htm
•https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/generic.html
•https://www.danverslibrary.org/archive/annenberg-grant-report/Homework
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Hello!
I’ve finally caught up, here’s the homework for the remaining lessons I’ve missed.
Many thanks,
Pierce
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Dear Beth,
I have uploaded the homework. Thank you for the specaliendriousicious lesson!😎😎
Above: Sarah Good, victim of the Salem trials
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the great course!
My mock document is attached below,
Have a great week!
Brian
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Summary for Lesson 5
In today’s class we completed our mock exam, bringing together all the skills and historical knowledge the class has amassed over the summer course and putting it into practice. The class chose between writing an essay or a source analysis and completed this with fantastic focus and determination. Really excellent work over this course everyone- it’s been a joy to hear all your fascinating ideas and thoughts about the way we think about history. I will get your mocks marked over this week so remember to check back here for feedback and I will hopefully see you all in the next course. Amazing work everyone- well done 🙂
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Hi Beth!
Thank you for the amazing lesson!
Please find attached a late attempt at the mini mock. The second to last paragraph is definitely a bit rushed, because I was running out of time at that point, but I did write the conclusion before finishing the content so the essay is complete.
Thanks again!
-Eva
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Hello!
I decided to have a bit of fun and wrote an extra section after time was up, it’s labelled within the subtitle of that section.
Have a great summer,
Pierce
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Oh, sorry about the bother but I don’t think you may have missed marking my lesson 4 homework. I uploaded it with the lesson 3 homework because I was slightly behind on the lessons. I had uploaded it as an image so maybe that’s why it was missed.
Sorry about the inconvenience,
Pierce
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