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One aspect I worry about when early Empire is taught is the ease with which it fits a causation EQ. I myself have done this in the past with a neat narrative of wealth/trade, politics and religion/ideas of culture and civility...1/8 #empire #migration
I’ve decided in a less hectic year I will change this. I sign-post through my EQ the ways in which nascent ideas of Englishness & attitudes towards Indigenous peoples developed using Charters (which are used to evidence trade/wealth) and items such as the Mass Bay Co. seal. 2/8
However I worry that getting students to write a simple essay on how trade/politics/ideas of culture and ‘civility’ simplify early Empire. More importantly I worry that whilst students might hone in on trade and argue that as predominant cause they miss the SIGNIFICANCE of... 3/8
How ideas of culture and civility played out in the Americas (& Ireland). Land being stolen due to failure to understand Indigenous land usage, massacre such as the killing of Paspahegh men, women and children in the early years of Jamestown & Puritan led Mystic massacre...4/8
So that even when the English ‘succeeded’ in their mission to ‘civilise’ Indigenous people’s who took on the Bible & became known as ‘Praying Indians’ were still luminal figures. This is before we even get to the development of racially based societies too! 5/8
In looking at causation I also retain a ‘British’/‘English’ lens on the Americas. Indigenous peoples are acted on or reacted too at the moment. I’ve been in the process of redeveloping this for a while shifting the focus to look at Wampanoag and Powhatan peoples. How they... 6/8
...lived & still do! How they navigated and opposed colonisation and introducing a longer story looking at survival to this day. I’m straight avoiding Pocahontas and will start with a short intro to early Empire. Another set of lessons will look at origins of Enslavement...7/8
Before we move onto looking at the Trade through the lens of how it was resisted. A lot of this is one guy feeling but two reaction to teaching Civil Rights at A Level. Anyway! Buzzy curriculum thoughts on a Saturday morning 
chill out Kell my dad would say .
chill out Kell my dad would say .
Also feck! iPhone and me typing. *Liminal figures like James Printer and GUT not guy feeling.
Ref to Civil Rights because every couple of years I meet a student who just does not understand why Native American peoples would still wish to seek self-determination.
Ref to Civil Rights because every couple of years I meet a student who just does not understand why Native American peoples would still wish to seek self-determination.
