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Lesson 1 (from Author's Note - Monticello Plantation)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to examine how history is influenced by nostalgia and memory, and why the presentation of the history of Jefferson's life changed at Monticello. A tour guide at Monticello commented that "history is the story of the past using all the available facts." He also believed "that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory" (41).
Lesson
Class Discussion: What difference did tour guide David Thorson come to see between history and nostalgia? How did he see history as a story of the past? How did those stories of the past depend on available facts? How did nostalgia take a fairy tale look at the past and disregard the facts? How was nostalgia what people wanted to hear rather than what was true? How did he believe that memory was a blend of history...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3(e), 9-10.7, 11-12.3(e), 11-12.7
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