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The Death of History is Bunk
By: Patrick Watson
1.
a) Vacuous : useless or pointless
b) Veracity : truth or validity
c) Radically : thoroughly or completely
d) Nuremberg : a location in Europe
e) Heritage : what is inherited from the past
2.
Patrick Watson’s thesis is that, “the exploration of history is a rewarding activity only if it
produces meaning out of the chaos of experience.” I believe that is the thesis of the essay but it is
exactly what the author is trying to argue.
Throughout the essay, Watson is trying to persuade the
reader to believe that history is pointless unless its taught in a manner in which the students can
become engaged and truly connect with it.
3.
a) Sentence Fragments: “Millions of kids are playing historical computer games.”
i.
The use of a sentence fragment makes the reader question what the author has been
attempting to argue since they want to fill in the rest of the idea that the fragment is
missing causing them to process why the use of historical computer games has become
more common.
b) Anecdote: “In a small city in the B.C.
interior I met a 12-year-old-girl who, curious about
her French surname, tracked it back through the generations.
She found not only a lot of ancient
photographs and clippings....”
i .
The use of this anecdote helps reinforce the thesis because it gives the readers a
realistic experience where they can see how the engagement that the child experienced
with history at this moment by doing this research on her own made it much more
meaningful than if it was just information she had to memorize for school.
c) Reference to Authority: “These people remake our nation not by redefining Canada, but
by tinkering with it.
That’s what writer Evan Solomon says makes us what we are: our
tinkering.”
i.
By referencing the authority, the author helps defend the fact that another author
agrees with his point of view resulting in his own opinion becoming more credible.
Evan
Solomon labels Canada as constantly evolving by mentioning the tinkering so the author
can use that to show how we need to evolve our methods of learning to go with it.
d) Statistic: “History Television here in Canada has had a steady growth in viewership in its
four years of life, 64 per cent last year alone.
Those heritage fairs, which began in Winnipeg
eight years ago with a few hundred kids, last year found more than 100,000 young Canadians
doing research projects and writing playlets and producing historical videos.”.
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