Ethnic Studies Question.

Using the following links for readings:

1. It’s Non-Negotiable. We Have to Teach Social Justice in Our Schools. (Short Read) (Links to an external site.)
2. Why Ethnic Studies is Good For All Americans (Short Read)

Address the following question using ONLY the course content you have engaged in. Just work with what you have read. In other words, just use the sources you have already read. It’s OK if you’re not done. Just work with what you know.

Question: According to the unit, why is it valuable to all Americans to understand the complexity of the American identity?

Directions:

1. Restate the question into a statement. Yup. that easy. This becomes your topic sentence – Your argument. It’s that easy. Don’t over think it. Just keep the topic sentence simple.
2. Now, using the inspiration from the course content, explain the answer. Do not use specificities examples yet. Just explain yourself using the course content to inspire your writing.
3. Use the unit language. BOLD your applied unit language.
4. Be cohesive.
5. Do not use specific evidence. (I know that sounds weird but my feedback will help you with your unit assessment explained in week two)

Example:

Although this is NOT from our class, notice the level of focus and development that is required:

According to the unit, what role does a balanced, comparable history play in promoting social justice?

A balanced, comparable history plays a role in promoting social justice. As presented in the unit, social justice is the equal distribution of justice, respect and opportunity resulting in fair treatment for all. This concept avoids creating oppressed and marginalized groups. In order to reach a higher level of societal justice, the unit argues that America must have a comparable history. A comparable history is one that gains insight from diverse groups creating a bigger picture with more than one viewpoint. As all these viewpoints are given, the stories presented in the unit create a steady blanket of history which can be supported by one another. Without such, a master narrative is born that contains an incomplete story pushed by those with the power to write history as they please. These single stories pushed by the elite further creates a biased that works to exclude marginalized groups and their stories which are then misrepresented overall. The unit concluded that a single story is known to be incomplete, and to pinpoint a group of people as one thing and nothing else. Therefore, without a balanced comparable history, people gain a myopic, or narrow and ignorant view of history reestablishing the master narrative even more.

Aspire Toward Greatness

• Use a minimum of 4-6 sentences.
• Avoid I, me, our, you, my, we & and unreferenced pronounce.
• Present you are from another planet and all you have is the unit content. Just focus on the content to inspire your logic
• Keep reading the example above. Notice how the writer is intentional with their words. They are making sure all of the logic is inspired by the unit. There is NO personal reflection on their own opinions or experiences.
• Read the rubric below