Lesson 1.1
In Bob Bain's example, students investigated why people moved into and out of which city?
Detroit
Which fourteenth-century pandemic became especially useful to study when COVID-19 spread in 2020?
The Black Death
The lesson compares historical frames to what everyday tool used to find your way?
Maps
What is the process of sharing and building on knowledge across generations called?
Collective learning
What vocabulary term means an account or story about events?
Narrative
According to Adichie, what is the main problem with stereotypes, even when they contain some truth?
They are incomplete: they make one story seem like the only story.
What two types of numerical data did Bennett use to test Kim's and Colby's explanations for the canceled trip?
Airfare prices and average temperatures in Sydney and Chicago.
What are the three historical frames used in this course?
Communities; networks; production and distribution
Bob Bain uses sign language in the video. What does this demonstrate about symbolic language?
It does not have to be spoken: meaningful gestures and signs can communicate ideas.
In a comic, what are the spaces between panels called?
Gutters
Why did the basket made by Fide's brother surprise Adichie, and what did it reveal about her view of his family?
She had seen them only as poor. The basket revealed skill and creativity that her single story had hidden.
One student accepts a claim because a trusted historian says it; another checks verified records. Which claim tester is each using?
The first uses authority; the second uses evidence.
During the Industrial Revolution, how did the main places of work and sources of power change? Name both shifts.
Work shifted from rural farms toward urban factories, and production increasingly used machines powered by fossil fuels instead of direct human or animal labor.
What personal belief or relationship helps explain Wayne's version of Zalman's story? What helps explain Daisy's version?
Wayne was a pacifist who opposed war. Daisy was a feminist who admired her father, Zalman.
Making shoes is one process; supplying them to shops is another. What vocabulary term describes each process?
Production means making the shoes; distribution means supplying them to shops.
Why can starting a story with Native American attacks, while leaving out the earlier arrival of the British, mislead readers?
It removes earlier context and makes Native Americans appear to have started the conflict, changing how readers assign responsibility.
How did switching from a personal scale to a global scale change the explanation for Colby's canceled trip?
It revealed the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, explaining why he could not travel to Australia.
Why should historians use more than one frame to study the same event? Include a limitation of any single frame.
Different frames reveal different aspects of an event. Any single frame selects some details and leaves others out.
The video compares harmful ideas in collective learning to a computer virus. How does racism illustrate this comparison?
False or harmful racial beliefs can spread and pass between generations, producing real discrimination, inequality, or violence.
A historian moves from one merchant's journey to centuries of worldwide trade. What term describes this shift in time and space?
Scale switching
A student says, "One factually accurate story is enough to understand a city." Give one objection from Adichie and one from Bain.
Adichie: a true story can still leave out other people's experiences. Bain: comparing evidence-based narratives across people, places, and time gives a fuller understanding of a city's history.
Two social-media accounts blame different people for the same fight. Name two checks before choosing an account: one about the authors and one about the evidence.
Examine the authors' motives or intended audiences; seek additional evidence, such as accounts from other witnesses.
A historian claims that growing trade networks always bring progress and keep expanding. How does the Mongol trade example challenge both parts of that claim?
Trade networks helped spread bubonic plague, causing serious harm; the resulting deaths also temporarily disrupted and shrank Afro-Eurasian networks.
A family story says Zalman's mother brought him food at an army camp. What does this suggest, and what does it NOT prove?
It suggests that Zalman probably served in the army. It does not prove how he lost his finger or establish either family version as certain.
One student rejects a claim because it "feels wrong." Another rejects it because its conclusion contradicts its own facts. Name each claim tester and explain the difference.
Intuition uses a gut feeling; logic uses reasoning to judge whether a claim makes sense.