THIS IS A LOW-STAKES WRITING ASSIGNMENT designed to provide you with writing practice and guide you in crafting your SAC Centennial History Project assignments. You will need to engage with the following content before submitting this Writing Workshop. Read the instructions below very carefully and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

FOR THIS WRITING WORKSHOP, you will need to engage with the different items in the course content below, which includes:

• TEXTBOOKGive Me Liberty! Ch.28 "A Divided Nation" (53 pgs)
• VIDEO "9/11: The FDNY" by 60 Minutes (40 min)
• VIDEO "Hurricane Katrina" by Crash Course Black American History (15 min)
• VIDEO "How Objective is Your History Textbook?" by Jihyeon Kim on TedX Youth (10 min)

THEN THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT the following guiding questions:

• What were some of the immediate impacts of the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11?
• How did Hurricane Katrina highlight the persistence of systemic racism in the U.S.?
• Why is history important?

THEN DRAFT A TYPED RESPONSE to the following questions in no more than one hundred and fithy words:

What has been your FAVORITE section in this course (i.e. BLACK UNITY or WORLD WAR I or THE 1920S AND THE EARLY SEXUAL REVOLUTION, etc.) and why? What has been your LEAST favorite section in this course (i.e. BLACK UNITY or WORLD WAR I or THE 1920S AND THE EARLY SEXUAL REVOLUTION, etc.) and why?

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THE VIDEOS BELOW RAISE SEVERAL QUESTIONS about modern perceptions of the U.S., from how we define a hero to how we define racism or to how we define propaganda. Perhaps the bigger questions is, how do we define history?

https://youtu.be/bj6s4WULw64

"A Divided Nation" from theGive Me Liberty! Illumine Ebook, you should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What were the economic practices that contributed to the crisis of 2008?
2. What kinds of change did voters hope for when they elected Barack Obama?
3. What were the major challenges of Obama's first term?
4. What was divisive about Donald Trump's campaign and early presidency?
5. Why did 2020 prove to be one of the most tumultuous years in the nation's history?