What determines a person or events historical significance?

Week One Analysis and Reflection
Criteria:
Complete all of the reading and previous material from this module. This analysis is a culminating event.
Show Depth of Thought, Critical Analysis, and Learning in your Writing.
Use your own words. Properly cite if you use other people’s words or ideas.
Write 500-750 MEANINGFUL words that show that you are learning (2-3 typed pages).
12 pt. font, double spaced, regular margins, no fillers or nonsense.
Using complete sentences and with thought and consideration, answer the following questions:
1. What makes a good story?
2. What determines a person or events historical significance?
2a. Who gets to decide?
2b. Why should this matter to us?
3. What is a Master Narrative?
3a. What is one story from the U.S. master narrative?
4. What is a Counter Narrative?
4a. What is one counter narrative story in the United States?
5. What are three long-term ramifications of the U.S. master narrative being what it is?
6. Discuss three main points of “All the Real Indians Died Off”.
6a. How is this reading counter-narrative? (Be specific.)
7. Discuss three new facts that you learned from A People’s History and why you found them noteworthy.
7a. How is Howard Zinn’s writing counter narrative? (Be specific.)
8. Why is Reconstruction a story that deserves to be told and how can it serve to help the U.S. now?
9. How is immigration remembered, romanticized, and demonized in the U.S. master narrative? Who benefits and who suffers as a result and how? (Be specific.)

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