Please form study / discussion groups of 3 or 4 students each. During our normal class time, or at another time between September 12 and September 14 if you prefer, meet with the group for one hour to share your thoughts and insights about the reading we have completed so far. This would be a good opportunity, for example, to elaborate on a blog post you made, to delve deeper into a subject area which you find interesting, or to bring up some aspect of the readings which we did not touch on in class.
There will be no regular class meeting on Friday, but you are welcome to use the classroom for your group to meet during that time.
Be sure to designate at least one person from your group to take notes on your discussion. Include the names of all members of your group in those notes, along with a line or two about where and when you met. I will collect your notes on Monday.
PA
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Schedule, Weeks 3-8
September 8
The bonds of empire; Enlightenment ideals
DUE: EV Chapter 4
September 10
Toward revolution
DUE: EV Chapter 5
September 12
Study / Discussion group meeting.
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September 15
Primary sources from the American Enlightenment
DUE: Quotes by Thomas Payne, Common Sense
and Book II. Of Laws
Directly Derived from the Nature of Government, from Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws
September 17
A new nation is formed.
DUE: EV Chapter 6
September 19
US Founding documents
DUE: Declaration of Independence (in EV Appendix),
and the US Constitution
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September 22
First decades; sections assigned for Wednesday
DUE: EV Chapter 7
September 24
Student-led discussions
DUE: EV Chapter 8
(choose, read & present one of the 4 sections)
September 26
Expansion and change
DUE: EV Chapter 9
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September 29
Democratic politics, religious revival and reform
DUE: EV Chapter 10 (Monday Group only)
October 1
Technology, culture and everyday life
DUE: EV Chapter 11 (Wednesday Group only)
October 3
The Old South and slavery
DUE: EV Chapter 12 (Friday Group only)
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October 6
Workshop for analytical paper
DUE: Federalist
Papers #10, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp
October 8
Immigration
DUE: EV Chapter 13
October 10
Review session for Midterm Exam
DUE: Analytical paper
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October 13
Midterm Exam – written portion
October 15
Midterm Exam – non-written portion
October 17 – Midterm Break
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