A single story

1. Now What??  As an educator, reflect on how Adichie's TED Talk might help our community, our school, and your classroom.

This was a powerful Talk about her authentic story and how a single story has robbed many communities from displaying the array of experiences and variety that are truly experienced there. I appreciate her sharing the insights on the TED stage, and was convicted of a few single stories that came to mind. I appreciate that she also connected this to stereotypes and how stereotypes may have an element of truth but are very incomplete. That incompleteness is what should draw us to ask questions and to hear multiple perspectives in order to try to understand more fully. Questioning and hearing perspectives that are different than the one we are accustomed to hearing is essential for us to break the path of the single story. This "balance of stories" 

1. Why do you suppose the video from Part 1 "What Makes History Useable," paired with the TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story?"

The importance of adding narratives to history courses is what helps break this single story concept. In the first video they discuss how "narratives makes history more useful and usable". The second video points out the fact that multiple narratives are what truly make the story more complete and authentic. This takes the power away from facts and into "a balance of stories". Stories can empower and humanize the facts that can be shared in a content class. This connection between the two videos displays how classes such as history should use multiple layers of stories in order to have a more complete picture of history.