RSJ+Journal+Entries

(most recent at top) Updated 10/7/14)
 * RSJ Journal Entries**


 * Journal #10:** What are two statistics (from the Civil War Intro video clip) that show the enormity of the American Civil War? (10/6/14)
 * Journal #9**: Should U.S. government make meaningful restitution to Mexicans, Native Americans and Black Americans? If so, what could they do?
 * Journal #****8**: Point of Clip - "Competition on the Plains (9/22)
 * Journal #7**: What were the positives and negatives of American Expansionism to the West (for all people living in the United States)? (9/22)
 * Journal #6**: Has the United States honored the words of the Gettysburg address with respect to the victims and aftermath of 9/11? (9/11 and 9/12)
 * Journal #5**: Choose two white, and two non-white people from the film clip "From Community To Classroom" and place them on the racial identity scale. Explain why you placed them where you did. (Journal assigned 9/4, finished 9/5)
 * Journal #4:** After completing the readings, “The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity” (handout), and “How Race Was Used to Justify Slavery in the American Colonies” (pg. 6 in the RSJ Reader) would you change your definition of race? (given on 9/3 as homework)
 * Journal #3**: Where did you plot yourself on the Racial Identity Scale? Why? (9/3)
 * Journal #2**:What is Race? (given as homework on 9/2/14). HW: After completing the readings, “The Difference Between Race and Ethnicity” (handout), and “How Race Was Used to Justify Slavery in the American Colonies” (pg. 6 in the RSJ Reader) would you change your definition of race? (given on 9/2 as homework)
 * Journal #1**: Using Table 1.2 (from Presence of the Past in RSJ Reader), what difference is there between white and Native American regarding which sources are most trustworthy? Why do you think there is a difference? Using Table 1.3, when are African Americans most connected to the past? Why (in your opinion)