9/6

Prior to reading chapter 1, I have learned from AP World History that Native Americans initially arrived in the Americas by crossing the Berring Straight. The first people to cross the Berring Straight were known as the Clovis people. What I learned in chapter 1 was pretty much the details of Indian society. In addition to learning about the Native Americans, I also learned that the Europeans were sent into the Renaissance period due to the rediscovery of certain knowledges and trade. What was the most interesting to me was learning about Africa and its empires. I wasn’t really able to grasp the African knowledge last year. I guess it’s because the book dumbed it down to a page. Todays fishbowl was pretty intense in my group. Nathan, Alyssa, and I were tackling the questions intensely. We were disproving each others arguments and at times bolstering them. I really love fishbowl. In todays fishbowl, I was able to realize there was more to the answers for the questions than I had on paper, such as question 4 of chapter 1, Nathan gave the point that the Americas and Africa had a naturistic type of religion. Durring the fishbowl i was able to pull from my Ap World History knowledge to hold up my arguments. I guess I like fishbowl personally because in a sense it was like the revitalization of the passionate feelings towards a subject I had in debate class. Not to condescend on anyone, but the other fishbowl group did not tackle their topic as well as my group, if I could say so myself. I just felt that Abi was doing most of the work which was really good because he still introduced points that I did not realize when reading the book. Overall I think I’m starting to really like APUSH. Chapter 1 was a really good introduction and it showed me how all continents are responsible for actions involving the New World in one way or another.