Summer Reading Questions-Tosh Text

How is everyone? Fine here. Although this week I had the bad luck of getting the flu. As you all know-not fun. Other than that, staying busy with my kids and one of these evenings we are going to head up to Knoebels. That's an amusement park that truly is a relic from the past.

In regards to AP Euro; I have been been busy (re-reading) the Tosh text and taking a class at Penn State. I hope by now you all received your copy. Similar to my 20th Century blog, for now I am not going to ask you to post responses. This link rather will publish the essential questions I would like you answer as you progress through the text. Please record your answers in a traditional notebook, legal pad, or however you keep your notes. But please have a record of your work. You do not have have to send me your answers but have these completed by next Thursday. We will rather have an open notes assessment on the text within the first full week of school.
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Tosh Text- Chapter 1 questions and key terms you should be familiar with:

Terms:
1. historical awareness
2. Social or Collective Memory
3. Historicism
4. Antiquarianism
5. Anachronism
6. Essentialism
7. Metahistory

EQ's

1. Tosh begins his text with a treatment on historical awareness. What is historical awareness? How is this different from social or collective memory?


2. Explain why 19th Century "historicism" was such a breakthrough in the way historians understood the profession?



3. Why do historicists take issue with historians that pay respect for (1) tradition, (2) nostalgia , and (3) belief in progress . Use examples to support your answer.