This document provides instructions to listen to a podcast called "Trail of Tears" from This American Life and then answer two questions about it. The questions ask what part of the story struck the reader the most and why, and why the human aspect of the Trail of Tears is often ignored in favor of just presenting the facts.

1. Step 1: Listen to the podcast. Trail of Tears
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/107/trail-of-tears-1998
Step 1: Listen to the podcast. Trail of Tearshttps://www.thisamericanlife.org/107/trail-of-
tears-1998Step 2: Answer the following questions:What part of the story struck you the
most? Why?Why do you think we ignore the human aspect of the Trail of Tears? Why do we
focus only on the facts?