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8 - 9

The History of the USA 2019

Forssaklackskolan, Borlänge · Senast uppdaterad: 24 november 2019

This fall we will continue to work with the US. You will learn a bit more about the history of the USA, for example about Native Americans, colonization, immigration, slavery, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.

What will you do?

* You will watch films on www.studi.se and do the quizzes, for example about Christopher Columbus, slavery and the American revolution

* You will read texts from different sites on the Internet, for example, The National Geographic Magazine, about Christopher Columbus, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Slavery and Harriet Tubman, the Civil Rights Movement and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. 

* You will speak and discuss the different topics. 

* You will retell what you have heard or read and you will also write summaries and reflections.

* You will write texts.

* You will read and interpret Martin Luther King Jr's speech - "I have a dream ..."

* You will also write a speech - "I have a dream ..." 

* You will also learn more about something that you find interesting and you will present it in writing, speaking or for example, by doing a Power Point presentation. 

 

 

Homework:

You will read a well-known novel called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie at home.

You will read or listen to three chapters every week. There are 30 chapters in the book.

You will find the whole novel here:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

 

Films about Native Americans:

"Hidden America: Children of the Plains" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJapHc7B8Xs

"History Channel Documentary about Columbus Part 1" (13.23 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBJHg_DzFM

"Christopher Columbus: What Really Happened" (5.38 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_unlvjccA

"Native Americans History and Culture" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8DEjd2QBg

 THE NATIVE AMERICANS---Testimonials Of The Forefathers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLt2H7YgvM8

 Native America before European Colonization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FItlStGMY4

 500 Nations - The story of native Americans - part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6K4ar1nm5A

Into the West-Carlisle Indian School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRHqWCz3Zw

 

"The 'Indian Problem'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-BOZgWZPE&t=454s

 

Filmer från sli.se

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"De amerikanska indianernas liv" - (på svenska) http://sli.se/apps/sli/prodinfo.php?db=26&article=X%202943

"Rasismens historia - Är indianer människor? - (på svenska) http://sli.se/apps/sli/prodinfo.php?db=26&article=U101228-01

 

http://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/terra-nullius-obebott-land

 

Films about the colonisation of the USA

"European Colonization of the United States" (4.02 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mu47IfTXg

 

Films about slavery in the US and people fighting against it on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman - Mini Bio (7.28 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsNGrkbHm4

 

Rasismens historia: Vad kostar ett människoliv? (15.26 min) http://sli.se/apps/sli/prodinfo.php?db=26&article=U101228-02

(You can watch "The History of Racism: How much is a human being? with English subtitles)

 

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard (5.38) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

 

 The Civil Rights Movement

The Story of Rosa Parks (13.11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1fGdGjitNY

Martin Luther King Jr  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ank52Zi_S0   

 

Here is a Wikipedia summary of the history of the United States in simple English:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States

 


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Uppgifter
Read the first three chapters of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Read chapter 4-6 in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Read chapter 7-9 in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Read chapter 10-12 in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Read chapters 13-15 in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Read chapters 16-18 in "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Read chapters 19-21 in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Read chapters 22-24 in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Read chapters 25-30 in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Diary
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