Presentation Discussions: Discussion is one of the most important components of this class. In this assignment students will introduce the class discussion by opening with no less than a fifteen-minute presentation. Please submit your discussion presentations here. Make sure your discussion introduction presentation includes the following two parts.
PART 1Theme + Pivot Point + Provocation: For each assigned chaptersIn your own words,
THEME: What are some of the central themes in the chapter. Do not summarize the readingselect specific major themes.
Argument: What arguments (claims/premises or in short claim, evidence and conclusion) are being made around these themes?
PIVOT POINT: Identify one of the pivot points concerning History in the chapterwhat is a point at which a major issue (problem or question under consideration) turns? Note the page number and explain the issue briefly (2-3 sentences).
PROVOCATION: Note a statement(s) in the text with a page number that was thought provoking for you as a student of History. Explain why this statement(s) was thought provoking as a student of History.
PART 2Discussion Questions: Based on the whole reading selection (no matter how many chapters), prepare three implication/application questions for use in class. At least two questions should be from the reading, not about the reading. Frame the questions in an If
, then
? format OR other format that helps open us to specific So what? ways of thinking (e.g., What are some ways we can make sense of
?).
Chapter 4-5 of the book Only Tired from Pure Fire.
