Fall 2009 Eight-Week Linked Calendar of

CRN 16688

8/24/09 to 10/16/09 MWF 11:30 am-01:20 pm in Hudspeth 313

English section meets in a 2 hour format. Section is in a learning community and must be taken concurrently with HIST 1302 CRN 14451 LECT MWF 1030-1120 am UGLC 346 Edstrom

 

This is an accelerated course!  You should expect to spend TWELVE HOURS every week outside of the classroom working on this class (online, researching, discussing, writing, and most of all, reading).   If you are not willing to devote this amount of time on the course, you cannot expect to do well

 

Instructor reserves the right to modify calendar to meet the needs of the class or learning community. 

 

The total reading load for History 1302 is almost 800 pages.  Are you ready?  "This is college. It's supposed to be hard."  Prof. Aaron Edstrom

  

 

Week

 Linked Class

Reading Across the Disciplines

[Chapters 24 & 25 will be assigned as needed throughout the semester]

 Books for linked class

1. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917, by David W. Southern, Harlan Davidson, 2005

2. Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present, by Carl Abbott, Harlan Davidson, 2007

 

Assignments

 

 1

Aug 24-28

M 8/24

Course Introduction

W 8/26

Reconstruction

·        Davidson, Ch. 17

·        Southern, pp. 1-5

F 8/28

The New West

·         Davidson, Ch. 18

·         Southern, pp. 6-20
 

 

Chapter 1: Active reading and thinking strategies:

 

 

Chapter 2: Vocabulary-building.

 

Begin reading The Progressive Era.

Reading Journal

 

Reflective Journal.

 

Selection 1b: To be announced.

 

In class assignments: Discuss "wu wei" (non-effort) in relation to reading.

 

Syllabus Quiz.

 

Respond to "I Hate Reading"

 

Selection 2b: Respond to article to be announced.

 

In-class assignment: Write your own "Dozen Ways to Improve Your Own Reading Without Really Trying."

 

In class assignment: Write your own "reading autobiography."

 

2

Aug 31- Sept 4

M 8/31

The New West (cont’d)

·         Davidson, Ch. 18

·         Southern, pp. 21-32

W 9/2

Film: One Sky Above Us

·         Southern, pp. 33-42

F 9/4

BOOK DISCUSSION:  Southern, pp. 1-42

 

 

Chapter 3: Thesis, Main Ideas, etc.

 

Chapter 4:Organizational Patterns

 

Chapter 24: Reading Psychology

Selection: from Beginning to Heal, by Bass and Davis  [distributed in class.]

 

 

Read up to page 60 of The Progressive Era.

Reading Journal

 

Reflective Journal.

 

In: class: Summary practice 

Selection 3b:  "Anger Has Its Place," by Bob Herbert.

In-class assignment: Summary practice on "Why Men Cheat" by Constance Holden.

 

Summary Paragraph due Sept. 4.

 

In-class assignment: Your Personal Reading Map.

 

In class: Difficult summaries.

 

In class (lab) assignment: Writing as a teacher, respond to "I Hate Reading."

 

3

Sept 7-11

[No class Sept 7--Labor Day]

M 9/7

LABOR DAY – NO CLASS

·         Southern, pp. 43-66

W 9/9

The Gilded Age

·         Davidson Ch. 19

·         Southern, pp. 67-87

F 9/11

The New South

·         Southern, pp. 88-110
 

 

Chapter 5: Making Inferences

Selection: Why Read?

 

Chapter 25: Reading Biology

Selection: from Science Magazine: "Caudate over Heels in Love"

 

Chapter 6: Critical Reading

You should be half done with  The Progressive Era (page 120)

 

Reading Journal

 

Reflective Journal.

 

Selection 5b: Respond to selection (your choice).

 

In-class: Summary practice

 

Selection 6b: More about Alcoholism.

 

In-class Analysis practice:

Selection: "In Search of Dignity."

 


 

 4

Sept 14-18

M 9/14

BOOK DISCUSSION:  Southern, pp. 43-110

W 9/16

Rise of the City

·         Davidson Ch. 20

·         Southern, pp. 111-121

F 9/18

Immigration & Labor

·         Southern, pp. 122-132
 

 

Chapter 7: Organizing Ideas

  • Annotating: good and bad examples

  • Paraphrasing

  • Outlining

  • Mapping

  • Summarizing

Selection: "Rabid Dogs"

 

Chapter  9: Digital sources

Selection: Facebook: the CIA Conspiracy

 

 

Read up to page 180 of The Progressive Era.

Reading Journal

 

Reflective Journal.

 

In-class analysis practice:

Selection 8b: Facebook: The CIA Conspiracy

 

In-class: Analysis practice Reverse outline of book.

 

In class: Analysis Practice:  "How to Think, Say or Do Precisely the Worst thing for Any Occasion."  

 

Analysis Paragraph due Sept. 18. 

 

Selection 7b: Selection: "Rabid Dogs. "

 

In class: Use selection for:.

  • Annotating practice

  • Paraphrasing practice

  • Reverse outline exercise.

 

5

Sept 21-25

 

 

M 9/21

Populism & Protest

·         Davidson Ch. 21, pp. 422-435

·         Southern, pp. 133-145

W 9/23

The American Empire

·         Davidson Ch. 21, pp. 435-445, also pp. 469-473

·         Southern, pp. 146-157

F 9/25

BOOK DISCUSSION:  Southern, pp. 111-157
 

 

Chapter 10: Reading across the Disciplines

How to Write a Reader Response--The Basics

Selection: To be announced..

 

 

Chapter 11: Reading Social Sciences

 Finish up The Progressive Era. Annotate.

Reading Journal

Davidson, Chapter 2l..

 

Reflective Journal.

 

 

In class: Reader response practice.

 

 

 

In class: Reader response practice: Respond to selection.

6

Sept. 28-

Oct 2

M 9/28

Film: Hawaii’s Last Queen

·         Southern, pp. 158-181

W 9/30

The Progressive Era

·         Davidson Ch. 22

·         Southern, pp. 182-193

F 10/2

 

BOOK DISCUSSION:  Southern, pp. 158-193

 

 

Chapter 17: Reading Poli. Sci / Gov't / History

Selections: From New York Times

 

Chapter 18: Business/Advertising/Econ.

Read selection 24 in textbook.

 

 Test on The Progressive Era

Reading Journal

on Davidson, Chapter 22.

 

Reflective Journal.

 

Test on The Progressive Era Sept 30.

 

Reader Response assigned Sept. 30

 

In-class: Reader response practice

 

Selection 11b: Selection from New York Times.

 

Reader Response

Essay First Draft due Oct. 2 for peer review.

 

 Begin Urban America. Read 60 pages a week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

Oct 5-9

 

M 10/5

Book Quiz #1: Southern, Progressive Era and Race

W 10/7

World War I

·         Davidson Ch. 23, pp. 474-489

F 10/9

World War I (cont’d)
 

 

Chapter 19: Tech and Computers

 

Chapter 20: Health-related.

 

Davidson Ch. 23 

Reading Journal

Urban America, up to page 60.

 

Reflective Journal.

 

Selection 13a: Davidson Ch. 23

 

In-class:  Response to article TBA.

Summary refresher.

 

Selection 14b: Selection to be announced.

 

I

8

Oct 12-16

M 10/12

Midterm Exam, Ch. 17-23 + lectures / films

W 10/14

The 1920s

·         Davidson Ch. 23

·         Abbott, pp. 1-9

F 10/16

The Great Depression & New Deal

·         Davidson Ch. 25

·         Abbott, pp. 10-21
 

 

Chapter 22: Phys. Sci / Math

Davidson Ch. 23

Reading Journal

Urban America, up to page 120.

 

Reflective Journal.

 

Davidson Ch. 23

 

Reader Response Essay Final Draft due Oct. 14.

 

Selection 15b: Selection to be announced.

 

All reading journals due by Oct. 14 at beginning of class!

 

For 11:30 am eight-week course: Friday, October 16, 2009 at usual time, in usual classroom.

 

 

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