Zinn Reading - Discussion Questions - Block 3 by Scott Bayer https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi Post your best 3 discussion-worthy questions to this padlet. en-us 2018-09-05 20:18:47 UTC 2023-05-26 01:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png Mr. Bayer's Qs https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278238680 1. Reread paragraphs 42-45. What is Zinn's argument about an historian''s ability to be objective?  What do you expect from your history teachers? 
2. After reading paragraphs 82-84, to what extent should we accept "casualties of progress"?
3. After reading paragraphs 97-100, contrast the Iroquois society with what you know about early modern European societies.  Also, what aspects of Iroquois society may have been particularly troubling to Europeans? Why? 
]]> 2018-09-06 00:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278238680 Megan M, Rodrigo M, Olivia L, Molly K https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551473 1.) Given the way that the Spaniards treated the Natives, do you think that they thought of them as people? (Paragraph 35) Lesnik
2.) What point of view should we really be hearing from in history?  (Paragraph 47) Kouzes
3.) If the bias' from history were removed how would our opinions about history change? (Paragraph 43) Maldonado]]> 2018-09-06 17:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551473 Dylan R, Spencer S, Jeremy, and Tom P's Questions https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551538 "The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interests (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex"  (Zinn Reading, #48) 

1) Why does the author of this article use juxtaposition to emphasize his meaning of the quote in perspective with the article as a whole? (Dylan R)

2) Why did the author include Las Casas's perspective into the article? How does it contribute to the article? (Spencer S) 

3) Imagine how history would have been different if at all whether the Natives responded more violently to the Europeans and/or "America" had not been discovered? (Dylan R) ]]> 2018-09-06 17:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551538 Rachel, Johnathan, Kyla, and Emily https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551573 After reading paragraph 17-20 should Columbus day be renamed? Why or why not- ward 

In paragraph 46 what justifies the connection Zinn makes between Columbus and the influential people mentioned (founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln Etc)  - Thompson 

Based on the proposal the author makes in paragraph 49 consider the ways that history could be different if we learned it from that perspective. - Kibler 



]]> 2018-09-06 17:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551573 Vivien C, Jackson A, Ben B, Nick A https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551933 1.  Based on paragraph 16, how does Spain's religious climate contribute to the use of colonialism in the Americas? - Vivien C 
2. After reading paragraph 46, How would the 'story' of history be affected if it was told from a different perspective? -Nick A
3. In paragraph 18 Columbus exclaims that he takes the slaves in the name of the holy trinity, So does his horrendous actions become excused for them being under the named of god? - Ben B]]> 2018-09-06 17:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551933 Matt Ellward, Lily Damico, Maia Collingbourne. https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551978 Paragraphs 10, 14 - why is Zinn so passionate about showing Columbus' true colors - Damico

Paragraphs 1, 2, 40 - Is it possible to lie about monumental things in history - Collingbourne

Paragraph 35 - Would you have killed your child before they could come to the inevitable death they were facing? - Ellward

Paragraph 46 - Do you think Columbus could be called a hero? - Collingbourne]]> 2018-09-06 17:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278551978 Leah, Ian, Elinor, Alex https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278552180 1. What alternate outcome would have occurred, if Columbus hadn't discovered the New World first? (Leah) (paragraph 4)
2. Knowing Europeans abused the Indian's generosity, had they survived, would this have changed their ideology? (Ian) (Paragraph 26)
3. Why do Americans want to believe that Columbus is a hero? (Elinor) (Paragraph 45)

]]> 2018-09-06 17:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278552180 Nathen,Payton, Meredith, Kyle https://padlet.com/scott_bayer/206lmrzmp6fi/wish/278552316 Why did Colombus have to be unethical towards the natives? -Payton par 17
Why was Columbus more praised than he should have been- Meredith par 46

What do you think the differences were between the natives and the spaniards lives?- Meredith page


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