Schedule, Readings, and Assignments = US1 (Fall 2017)
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Group Presentation (Doc-Dis. Lead) |
Readings |
Week 1 = Aug.
21 & 23 Intro, Geography, & Migration Theories By end of first week: -----Complete Introduction post (Required before submitting any graded assignments.) |
By Wednesday of the first
week: READ: -Columbus's Description of the Discovery of America (1492) -Las Casas's Description of the Spanish Conquest of Cuba |
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Week
2 = Aug. 28 & 30 -Complete Discussion post
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Read T: Ch. 1 all -Online Primary Documents Jacques Cartier’s Second Voyage to
the St. Lawrence River |
Week
3= Sep. 6 (No Class
Monday) The Settlement of North America -Complete Discussion post |
READ: -T= Ch. 2 Book = Devastation of the Indies, Las Casas (in its entirely) |
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Week 4 =
Sep. 11 & 13 Chesapeake and the Low Country -Complete Discussion post (Sept. 11) Complete and submit to BB=Paper 1 |
Group 1 – Doc Group 5 - Vid |
READ: -Online
Primary Documents = http://www.johnsmith400.org/journalfirstvoyage.htm -A letter by John Rolfe on marrying Pocahontas. http://www.smithsoniansource.org/PrimarySourceId=1171 -Declaration made by Nathaniel Bacon. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800 -Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion 19 May 1676 http://governor-william-berkely-on-bacons-rebellion-19-may-1676.php |
Week 5 = Sep. 18 &
20 New England and Mid-Atlantic -Complete Discussion post |
Group 2 – Doc Group 6 - Vid |
READ: -Online
Primary Documents : http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/charter-of-massachusetts-bay-1629.php -The Journal of John Winthrop (Excerpts) http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/winthrop.html -Jonathan Edwards: On the Great Awakening: http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/awaken.htm |
Week 6 = Sep.
25 & 27 Rising tensions and the motivation of Revolt -Complete Discussion post |
Group 3 – Doc Group 7 - Vid |
READ: -Online Primary Documents
= --Declaration of independence |
Week 7 = Oct. 2 & 4 A War of Revolution??? -Complete Discussion post |
Group 4 – Doc Group 8 - Vid |
READ: -Online Primary Documents --English
Bill of rights |
Week 8 = Oct. 11 (No Class
Monday) |
Mid-Term Exam | |
Week 9 = Oct. 16 & 18 A Floundering Experiment and the Constitution -Complete Discussion post |
Group 5 – Doc Group 9 - Vid |
READ: -Online Primary Documents -Constitution = |
Week 10 = Oct. 23 & 25 The Politics of Stability -Complete Discussion post |
Group 6 – Doc Group 1 - Vid |
READ: -T Ch. 8 ------------------------Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents_gw/farewell/transcript.html |
Week 11 = Oct. 30 & Nov. 1 An Expanding Nation -Complete Discussion post
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Group 7 – Doc Group 2 - Vid |
READ: -Online Primary
Documents: -Louisiana
Purchase Treaty; April 30, 1803-- |
Week 12 = Nov. 6 & 9 Northern Industry and Reform -Complete Discussion post |
Group 8 – Doc Group 3 - Vid |
READ: ---------------------Walden Thoreau
(Read in its entirety)-Online Primary
Documents: -Republican
Motherhood 1815) |
Week
13 = Nov. 13 & 15 Southern Agriculture -Complete Discussion post (Nov. 13) -Complete and submit Paper 2 |
READ: |
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Thanksgiving =
Nov. 20 (No Class Wed.) -Complete Discussion post |
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Week 14 = Nov. 27 & 29 Regional Tensions Build -Complete Discussion post |
Group 9 – Doc Group 4 - Vid |
READ: |
Week 15 = Dec. 4 & 6 A Nation Torn Apart -Complete Discussion post (Dec. 6) -Complete and submit Cumulative Paper |
READ: -Online Primary
Documents: |
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Final
Exam -Wed. Dec. 13, 10am |