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OBJECTIVE
You will learn how to construct and develop your history
journal.
DISCUSSION
Writing down your ideas about
history will help you to remember important events and it will
help you to personalize history (the more you can imagine
yourself in an historical event, the better you will remember
it). So, as part of the online course, you will be completing
two quick writes each week as part of this course. (If you
already started this in the first semester, then you?ll just
continue the journal). The quick write questions in this lesson
are different than they were in the first semester. You may
know something about the questions or you may not. The
important part is to write as much as you do know or think
you know. This will help in learning about what you are
studying!
Some famous people have commented
on the importance of writing about history:
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If we could
read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll
give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no
goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney |
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We learn from
history that we learn nothing from history.
- George Bernard Shaw |
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Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain
Most writers regard truth as their most
valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in
its use.
--Mark Twain |
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History is a
guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we
are and why we are the way we are.
- David C. McCullough |
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In a few hundred years, when the history of
our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is
likely that the most important event historians will see is
not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an
unprecedented change in the human condition.
- Peter F. Drucker |
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History is the
record of an encounter between character and circumstance
- Donald Creighton, Canadian historian (1902-1979).
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To start your History Journal download the document attached
below. Save it to your desktop so you will remember where it
is. There will be at least one History Journal entry for each
Module so you will be going back and updating this document as
you start a new Module.
“History Journal Template”) |
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Now that you have your HISTORY JOURNAL set,
here is what to write for your first journal entry.
Label the first entry HJ6.1 – World War II. Be
sure to include these questions into your History Journal and then
write your responses – no more than two sentences per response.
- How did Hollywood and the media influence
the public during World War II?
- What factors, in addition to prejudice, led
to the internment of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942 during
World War II?
- It is said that America was actually
fighting a “three front war” during WW II. The 3rd
front was racial discrimination in America. Describe the
discrimination on the home front experienced by African-Americans,
Mexican-Americans, and Japanese-Americans during WWII.
- Save your History Journal to your desktop so
you can go back and add to it as needed.
- This will be turned in at the end of the
semester.
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