Focus of the discussion in your small groups will be centered on identifying key events, people, places, etc. that fit within the key concepts in history.
Your group will be responsible for identifying 2-3 ideas that fit within each concept based upon your HOTA course, AP World, or other interests you have in history.
For example: Perspectives IB students should be aware of how history is sometimes used or abused to retell and promote a grand narrative of history, a narrowly focused national mythology that ignores other perspectives, or to elevate a single perspective to a position of predominance. Students are encouraged to challenge and critique multiple perspectives of the past, and to compare them and corroborate them with historical evidence. Students should recognize that for every event recorded in the past, there may be multiple contrasting or differing perspectives. Using primary-source accounts and historians' interpretations, students may also investigate and compare how people, including specific groups such as minorities and women, may have experienced events differently in the past. In this way there are particularly strong links between exploring multiple perspectives and the development of international-mindedness.
Examples that fit within this category are orthodox stances on the Soviet Union within Western European and American schools, the 1619 Project, the 1776 Project, among a plethora of others.
When you have completed your list of ideas post them to a Padlet or other type of platform. Be prepared to share with the class and to discuss them, providing justification, additional examples/explanation, etc.
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