Ok my lovely tokrophers, I have returned after a bit of a long absence to the blogosphere. We have wrapped up the natural sciences (for now) and are off in the opposite direction (or are we?) to look at History.
Your task for this week is to:
1) Find an account of any significant event in a history textbook. Look at:
o The language that is used
o What information has been included or omitted
o What details are stressed
o What analytic concepts have been used
o The extent to which selection, interpretation and packaging have been used to create historical “truth”
2) Find another history text which gives an account of the same event. Compare and contrast the two and determine which is more accurate. On what basis do you make your decision?
3) What will our own age be called far in the future? The Age of Democracy? The Age of Hypocrisy? The Age of Disaster? Or another alternative? Why? How do you sum up an age in one phrase?
4) For what reasons might future historians have a name for our age which we are totally unable to predict?
5) Identify an historic event which you believe has a single cause. What was the cause of that cause? Trace the sequence back as far as you feel is meaningful, and explain your choice of where to stop.
6) Do you think that all events have causes which are identifiable by historians?
7) It has been said that the historian is like a painter rather than a photographer. By examining the nature of painting and photography, explain to what extent you agree with this analogy.
Happy blogging!
Mrs. Mitchell
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