Does Our History Make Us Who Were Are? 

Premise: A good strategy to develop critical thinking is to reflect on your thinking about a topic or issue and explore how and why your thinking has changed. This is useful for you to consolidate new learning and identify any new beliefs, understanding, and opinions. In this way, your thinking becomes visible to you. Also, you are engaging in knowledge construction by extending or building on your previous understanding or background knowledge. 
“I used to think…” 
Record your initial thoughts on does our history make us who we are in the space below. Start your sentence with “I used think…”	

	
“I now think…” 
Have your thoughts changed as a result of what you have read and practiced in the first part of this course? In just a few detailed sentences, now record what you think about history. Start your sentence with “But now I think…” 	

	

Did you know? 
By examining and re-explaining how and why your thinking has changed, you are developing your reasoning abilities and recognizing cause and effect relationships. 
Let us look back at this question one more time.  Does our history make us who we are? This time, at the end of our current learning on the topic of Canadian History, you should be able to draw upon many different examples of our ‘shared’ history.  How has Canada’s history shaped the Canada we live in today?
At the end of this course you will be writing a formal essay answering the above question.  
You will have a thesis, with 3 supporting arguments, and intro and conclusion.  

Use the space below to jot down ideas throughout the course to help you remember your thinking.