Week 8 — Midterm Review & Exam
Why this matters
A nursing student taking a health history and a future teacher hearing a family's story both decide how far a spoken account can be trusted.
In plain language
This chapter helps you review the first seven weeks before the midterm. Instead of rereading everything, you ask each topic for the one distinction it asks you to keep (a line between two ideas that are easy to mix up). You rerun each distinction on an example you have already worked, so nothing here is a new number. Then you meet one new idea: how to read an oral history (a recorded, first-person account gathered by interview) as evidence beside the written record. You finish by reading the archive's seven excerpts once as sources.
- Already covered: Weeks 1 to 7, from the field's origins to de facto segregation.
- This week: one distinction per topic, oral history as evidence, and the midterm.
- How they connect: every example is one you have already worked.
- Where we're going next: Week 9 opens a new unit on Chicana/o and Latina/o experiences.
Focus
What one distinction does each topic ask you to keep, and how is a community's own account read as evidence?
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
- [ ] state and apply the key distinction from each of Weeks 1 to 7
- [ ] tell a primary source from an oral history
- [ ] check an excerpt's dates against the dated record
- [ ] explain testimonio as a witness for a community
To-do
Plan your week
- Read Chapter 8 (about 35–45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
- Try the practice set (15–25 minutes) and do the discussion (about 45 minutes).
- Use the study guide and practice exam, then take the midterm on your own.
This week's checkpoint: name one thing E4 can prove and one thing it cannot.
You've got this
You have done this work already. Take it in order, and ask your instructor early if a step snags.
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