Modern World History

So often in a history class are we asked to provide answers, like a game of trivial pursuit. But I am reminded of this quote by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner from Teaching as a Subversive Activity:

Once you have learned how to ask questions —- relevant and appropriate and substantial questions —- you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Consider all we have encountered in this unit on Industrialization, including the following:

• Romanticism
• Development of the factory system
• Effects of industrialization (including Modern Times)
• Responses to industrialization (including Marx)
• Contemporary labor practices (Apple and Foxconn)

Could you compose an essay prompt (argumentative) that would encompass all or part of the above content, allowing the writer to incorporate a variety of primary and secondary sources?

Make your submission HERE. Due Friday.