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Choose a weekly study guide Week 0 (Foundations) — Race and identity Week 1 (Foundations) — Course ideas and learning methods Week 2 (Foundations) — Writing a strong paragraph Week 3 (Foundations) — Myths, narratives, and identity Week 4 (Ch2) — Ireland as a blueprint for colonization Week 5 (Ch2) — From civilizing missions to extermination Week 6 (Ch2) — Caliban, Prospero, and colonialism Week 7 · Four Question narrative · OPT Chapter 2 Week 8 · Four Question narrative · OPT Chapter 2 Week 9 (Ch3) — Indentured servitude and slavery Week 10 (Ch3) — Self-interest and alliances in Bacon’s Rebellion Week 11 (Ch3) — Causes and consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion Week 12 (Ch4) — Economics and ideology in American Progress Week 13 (Ch4) — Jackson and Indian removal Week 14 (Documents A) — Geography and American history, 1607–1836 Week 15 (Documents A) — Who invented race and what did it buy them? Week 16 (Review) — Semester 1 synthesis and final exams Week 17 (Ch5) — Slavery, the economy, and its beneficiaries Week 18 (Ch5) — The ideological enforcement of slavery Week 19 (Ch6) — Irish identity, economics, and racial hierarchy Week 20 (Ch7) — War with Mexico, dispossession, and resistance Week 21 (Ch7) — Continue land, labor, and resistance Week 22 (Ch8) — Chinese labor and legal exclusion Week 23 (Documents B) — Compare Irish, Mexican, and Chinese migration Week 24 (Ch9) — Native dispossession, ideology, and policy Week 25 (Ch9) — Continue the two-week dispossession aim Week 26 (Ch10) — Japanese American collective organizing Week 27 (Ch11) — Russian Jewish organizing and comparison Week 28 (Ch12) — Demanding labor while rejecting people Week 29 (Review) — ACT reading practice Week 30 (Review / Ch13) — ACT practice and the Great Migration opening Week 31 (Ch13) — Compare Great Migration push and pull factors Week 32 (Ch13) — Housing, hiring, and racial hierarchy in Chicago Week 33 (Ch14) — Japanese American incarceration during WWII Week 34 (Ch14) — Wartime economic opportunity and its limits Week 35 (Ch15) — World War II and the Civil Rights Movement Week 36 (Ch15) — Racial injustice and economic injustice Week 37 (Documents C) — How excluded people compelled change Week 38 (Review) — Semester 2 final exams and course close Go
Week 3 · Your next steps Read the assigned material, explain the connection in your notebook, and use the checklist to revise your response.
Study words: -ize · etymology · myth · narrative · symbolize · visualize
Open this week’s words · Use writing feedback
Use your current packet or Classroom post for dates, reading boundaries, and the required quotation edition.
Recall before opening a gist.Try an organizer before its model.Revise one part after checking.
Start with 1, or choose the part you need.
Check Yourself · summary, quiz & sequencing ↓
Use your class myth work. Chapter 1 provides a connection between stories, identity, and the Master Narrative.
Use your notes and the three Key Ideas to explain why the evidence matters.
03 / WRITE
Write Leave with: Plan a claim, choose evidence, explain it, and connect a Key Idea.
In your notebook A story shapes who looks American The Master Narrative
The Master Narrative presents Americans as white and European.
YPT 6 ↓ shapes expectations
The taxi driver assumes Takaki’s appearance makes him foreign.
YPT 5–6 ↓ produces a mistaken judgment
He questions the belonging of a man born in the United States.
YPT 5 A different mirror
Harriet Jacobs records what she experienced and suffered under slavery.
YPT 19 ↓ preserves an excluded voice
Her account puts lived suffering into the historical record.
YPT 19 ↓ changes what the story includes
A fuller history recognizes people whom the Master Narrative leaves invisible.
YPT 19 The national example shows what stories do; your personal myth must connect your own story to a concrete choice.
EVIDENCE & WRITING SUPPORT
How do myths work and what is mine? Evidence, facts & appositives + Chapter 1 offers a case for examining national myths. It does not identify your personal myth; that part requires your own reflection, supported by a concrete example.
One possible quote
The Master Narrative is a powerful story, and a popular one.
What it can show Use the Master Narrative as one example of a widely repeated story shaping identity; choose your own example and examine what it includes or omits.
Facts & context Takaki describes the Master Narrative as embedded in scholarship, culture, and the ways people teach and discuss American history.
YPT 7 ↗ The taxi driver’s assumption illustrates how a national story can affect whether a US-born person is recognized as American.
YPT 5–6 ↗ Personal accounts can preserve suffering, family memory, and claims to humanity that are absent from an incomplete national history.
YPT 19 ↗ Sample appositives The bold phrase renames the noun. Continue with your own main clause.
the Master Narrative , a widely taught story narrowing the meaning of American identity, …
YPT 6–7 ↗ Harriet Jacobs , a formerly enslaved writer recounting what she had experienced, …
YPT 19 ↗ the different mirror , Takaki’s image of a history reflecting previously excluded people, …
YPT 19 ↗ Check your response Find your answer to the aim, the evidence behind it, and the explanation of what that evidence shows.
Use the 10-point rubric ↗
This check uses Chapter 1’s national-story question and its YPT connections; bring your personal myth work from class.
01 · Summary cloze 02 · 10 questions 03 · Put it in order Complete the explanation. A national story can include some experiences and Summary blank 1 Choose… belonging evidence Master Narrative exclude power Summary blank 2 Choose… belonging evidence Master Narrative exclude power Summary blank 3 Choose… belonging evidence Master Narrative exclude power Summary blank 4 Choose… belonging evidence Master Narrative exclude power Summary blank 5 Choose… belonging evidence Master Narrative exclude power
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Return to the reading YPT 6–7 YPT 27–28 Question 1 of 10 2 of 10 3 of 10 4 of 10 5 of 10 6 of 10 7 of 10 8 of 10 9 of 10 10 of 10 0 of 10 checked
Order a method for examining a national story. Drag the blocks, use the arrows, or focus a block and press Alt + ↑ / ↓.
⠿ Identify whose experience the story presents as typical. ↑ ↓
⠿ Compare the claim with the additional evidence. ↑ ↓
⠿ Revise the account to explain what the fuller evidence shows. ↑ ↓
⠿ Look for experiences the story leaves out. ↑ ↓
⠿ Identify the story’s central claim. ↑ ↓
Check order Shuffle again Show correct order
● Correct ● Close ● Needs reordering
Return to the reading YPT 6–7 YPT 27–28 Enable JavaScript to check answers and reorder events.
Roger Shimomura, Shimomura Crossing the Delaware 