1. Welcome to De Anza!

2. Agenda Colonialism Reading Journal 3 Prep for next week Homework

3. Colonialism What is colonialism? Atlas of Colonialism French Indochina A quick exercise: Within your group, come up with ways to discuss the topic of colonialism. –Religion –Manifest Destiny; the right to take over; colonizers feeling superior to spread their ideas –Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony –Architecture, language, daily lifestyles –Profit and exploitation; European colonizers profiting, colonized peoples exploited; mixture of ethnicities

4. Colonialism What is colonialism? –Colonialism created very unequal social relationships. –Colonialism limited possibilities for peoples who were colonized. Colonies were established by colonizers to create places that would serve the interests of colonizers, not the colonized peoples. According to colonial ideologies, how should natives treat colonizers? According to colonial ideologies, how should colonizers treat natives?

5. Reading Journal 3 Let’s discuss how a colonial situation affects social relationships. Let’s do a quick exercise. I will create a table listing place of origin, social class, and social relationships to other characters for each character. Let’s try to figure out how the colonial situation affects relationships between some of the characters.

6. Homework Do Reading Journal 3 if you have not yet done it. Continue reading The Book of Salt. You should finish reading the book before next Tuesday.