w. 36

Tuesday, 6 September

ENGLISH

Many nouns are made from verbs, but when this happens, the words are pronounced differently. For the verbs where the stress was on the second syllable, such as suspect (as in I susPECT that the murderer was Colonel Mustard), the stress moves to the first syllable when it is a noun. So we say The main SUSpects are Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.

This different stressing of words also helps us hear the different between accepted nouns such as whiteboard (which we call a WHITEboard) and something completely different but which uses the same words – say, a white BOARD (a piece of wood that’s white).

As you pay attention to this, you’ll hear how these rules are used in everyday English.

CE: Philippines and Obama’s visit.

SOURCE PROJECT

Look at how the history of this group has been presented in different contexts.

-       What narrative is presented in a particular source?

-       What different narratives are there?

-       What is responsible/behind the different narratives?

o   different facts (or omissions of facts)

o   different interpretations of facts/material

o   different motives

o   different theories being applied to the material

Your sources:

-       You are encouraged to bring in different sorts of sources, because this can allow for analyses where you can demonstrate different skills, different lines of thinking.

-       You are encouraged to use archives and primary sources (letters, newspaper articles, government documents . . .). In particular, it can be valuable to use primary sources in comparison with other documents.

-       Each person should aim to analyze two or three sources.

-       Think about that for any additional researching you do on your topic in general, you need to consider what sources you are using there.  For example, if you’re trying to understand how and why Vikings went to Ireland, or if you’re looking for information regarding why there were Americans/Europeans in the middle of North America in the mid-19^th century as some background information for yourself, you need to keep track of those sources and you need to be using source criticism in the selection of those sources. When I say source criticism, I’m referring back to the skills we worked on last year regarding authorship, publisher, transparency of information.

-       There are other source evaluation criteria we can bring to the few sources that will be the heart of your work here. But we can discuss that later.

Presentation of work:

I said that we will talk w. 37 regarding how and when to present your work.


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Joakim shared a YouTube video that summarizes many of the ideas presented by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was the basis of much of what I was presenting regarding the question: Why did Europeans conquer the Americas and not the other way around.