Consider The American Promise chapters 9, 10, and 11.
We are going to use some creative insight with our History.
Remember to use our systems of form, style, and citation even while writing freely!
Use your own name and imagine life back then!
Choose two prompts
1. You are a Native American man or womansent to represent your histories to the 21st century. Individual experiences are not what we are looking instead write freely on the following
Account for and summarize the decades covered in the assigned chapters.
Include specific military, tribal and cultural changes over time while highlighting specific persons, places, and transformative events over time.
Adaptation, change, surrender, accommodation, rebellion, extinctionall of these things should be touched upon.
Finally, what becomes of Native America by the end of these Chapters and how do we survive to this day
2. Account for and elaborate upon the world of Women
From all races and classes involved in these decades of American history. Challenges, defeats, contributions and individual achievements should be included.
Examine cultural shifts, which at one point make women the pioneers and warriors of their time and place, but then also restrict them to the parlor or servitude in another time and place.
THEN Choose some of these women’s realities within these chapters that catch your imagination and write freely.
3. Hamilton, Jefferson, Jackson These three, very different men stand as icons of different aspects of American identity and culture. Often contradictory but always present these three currents remain strong in us (US) today. Discuss these three men:
Their time and place and consequences on our history.
Then describe the larger picture when we say ‘Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian’ to describe certain eras and cornerstones of our government and culture. Which are you most drawn to and why? Which are you most repelled by and why?
If you could be part of any of these men’s lives and eras which would it be? Who would you be? Yes Sam Houston is taken. Write freely.