Modesto Junior College
HISTORY 101 – United States History Prior To 1877
Sections 4008 & 6082
Professor Al Smith – office hours: MTWTH 11:00 – 12:30 FH120E
Syllabus / Schedule - Spring 2019
THIS SEMESTER’S THEME:
HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE: This means that in all of the readings and discussions, we will be concerned with the concept of Human Rights, Civil Rights and Social Justice as motivators for historical change.
TEXTS: The Twentieth Century, A People's History, by Howard Zinn (Instructor provided)
& American Cultures, by Al Smith
SEMESTER WORKLOAD - A SNAPSHOT: HISTORY STUDENT PORTFOLIO
For the fifteen-week (15) semester – there are ten (10) graded areas / assignments. These will be assessed in a student portfolio. You are responsible for completing your student portfolio. You are responsible for making sure your professor (me) has your completed student portfolio – in hard copy – at the end of the semester.
REQUIRED MATERIALS: Texts; Manila folder; Computer / printer access; thumb drive
HISTORY STUDENT PORTFOLIO TABLE OF CONTENTS:
#1 – Weekly Questions (DUE Weekly)
#2 – Parallel Lives Biography: Doing History (DUE Week #2 - 1/21)
#3 – Student Success (DUE Week #4 - 2/4)
#4 – Professor’s Choice Essay (DUE Week #6 - 2/18)
#5 – Student Choice Essay, Videography or Museum Project (DUE Week #8 - 3/4)
#6 – Professional Presentation / Career Applications: Individual, Group or Video (DUE Week #10 - 3/18)
#7 – Course Learning Objective Number One
#8 - Course Learning Objective Number Two
#9 - Course Learning Objective Number Three
#10 – Community Service: Your part in history (all 7 thru 10 DUE by Week 15 - 4/22)
Each of the ten (10) graded areas / assignments above is worth 100 points. This is worth 1000 points
LINK TO ALL PORTFOLIO INSTRUCTIONS
History 101 Course Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to demonstrate factual knowledge of key political, economic, social and cultural events and issues in Early United States History prior to 1877.
- Students will be able to apply critical thinking (including causal analysis and skeptical inquiry) to historical concepts and developments in Early United States History prior to 1877.
- Students will be able to evaluate, analyze and interpret primary and secondary historical sources and make historical arguments based on these sources about Early United States History prior to 1877.
A NOTE ON READING: Your performance relating to weekly reading is directly linked to your success with course assignments. If you do not read the course material you will not succeed on the writing, testing, or discussion/participation levels.
Remember: you also have access to many Student Success Support Services, such as the Tutorial Center. The Library & Learning Center has resources that can make or break an assignment. The Writing Center is open, as is the Office Administration Center -- all of these counts towards helping with your success. ONLY YOU can access them!
There is homework due weekly so familiarize yourself with the format
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OTHER STUDENT RESOURCES:
LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS<CLICK>
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
TIMEMAPS - Interactive World Maps
WORLD INTERACTIVE MAPS
BIG HISTORY
READING SCHEDULE History 101
Week #1 – Beginning Monday, 1/14/2019
GENERAL NOTES
Read: Chapter 1 in Zinn & 42-49 in Smith *(thru "Native Rights" & "Slaves") (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and Then click-on and read the embedded articles below:
Video or article: History - Interpretation and Causation
"Human Rights, The Next Step." The condition of the modern World, and the challenge of the future.
Early Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itCWu-m-23E
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #2 – Beginning Monday, 1/21/19
Chapter 2 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html) & add pages 253-256 in Smith.
Aztlan - Engineering Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyB47qGXoI
Columbian Exchange – Crash Course (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4)
Slavery – (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY) & Middle Passage (from the movie Amistad)
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #3 – Beginning Monday, 1/28/19
GENERAL NOTES
READ: Chapter 3 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and pages 115, *("Thanksgiving") in Smith.
Africans in the Americas (you can follow the rest of the series on youtube)
Bacon's Rebellion
French & Indian War
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #4 – Beginning Monday, 2/4/19
GENERAL NOTES
Read: Chapter 4 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and 49-56*("The Declaration of Independence, The Preamble to the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights") in Smith.
Video or article: Crash Course, The American Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiSymRrKI4
- HAITI
Crash Course: Constitution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8
Teaching Exercise: The U.S. Constitution
Professor's Choice Essay Topic:
Compare the social institutions of the colonial Spanish and the colonial English. Using the text and lecture, analyze the evolution of race consciousness, gender imbalance and class divisions in early American history. Do not omit the inpact on First Nations peoples.
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #5 – Beginning Monday, 2/11/19
READ: Chapter 5 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html).
A Midwife's Tale - Martha Ballard & Laural Thatcher Ulrich
Jefferson's Blood - Sally Hemmings
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #6 – Beginning Monday, 2/18/19
GENERAL NOTES
Read: Chapter 6 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html) and pages 256-260*( "...Life of a Slave Girl," 372-374 "Women's Rights" and 415-418 "When a Woman Says No."), in Smith.
Video or article: Wikipedia on Women in America - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_the_United_States
& Sally Hemmings (professional video) and Sally Hemmings (a student video)
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #7 – Beginning Monday, 2/25/19
READ: Chapter 7 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and 198-210 *("Indigenous Americans"), 57-60 *("Manifest Destiny & A Proclamation Against...") in Smith.
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #8 – Beginning Monday, 3/4/19
READ: Chapter 8 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and review Smith.
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #9 – Beginning Monday, 3/11/19
READ: Chapter 9 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and "...Walkers Appeal..."
Video or article: “RECONSTRUCTION” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
FOOD DAY!!!
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #10 – Beginning Monday, 3/18/19
READ: Chapter 10 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html).
GENERAL NOTES
Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson - Epic Rap Battle
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #11 – Beginning Monday, 3/25/19
READ: Chapter 11 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), Then read pages 223-246 (Ghettos & Plunkitt) in Smith.
Film Series - TBA - Videography
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #12 – Beginning Monday, 4/1/19
READ: Chapter 12 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html), and pages 63-72 *("Roosevelt" & "Hoar"), and ("Immigration") and 131-134 ("Gates" & "Colossus") in Smith.
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #13 – Beginning Monday, 4/8/19
READ: Chapters 13 and 14 in Zinn - Discussion Commentaries
Video or article: History in film: POPULAR HISTORY versus DOCUMENTARY- see one of these films for comparison to history and to the film RED CRY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfvAqCHpXgA
Trailer: Dances With Wolves
Last Of The Mohicans
Do a VIDEOGRAPHY
How does history in film compare with reality?
Community Service Project (Reminder!)
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #14 – Beginning Monday, 4/15/19
READ: COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES (CLOs) instructions, and chapter12 in Zinn (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html).
History 101 Course Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to demonstrate factual knowledge of key political, economic, social and cultural events and issues in Early United States History prior to 1877.
- Students will be able to apply critical thinking (including causal analysis and skeptical inquiry) to historical concepts and developments in Early United States History prior to 1877.
- Students will be able to evaluate, analyze and interpret primary and secondary historical sources and make historical arguments based on these sources about Early United States History prior to 1877.
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
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Week #15 – Beginning Monday, 4/22/19
READ: Smith & FINAL DISCUSSION INSTRUCTIONS
Film Series – TBA - Gilded Age - Robber Barons or - Captains of Industry?
Community Service Project
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES (CLOs) Due in class the last day of the week’s instruction.
NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
PORTFOLIO HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on the first day of the week’s instruction - AND- LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
(if needed).
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Week #16 – Finals – Beginning Monday, 4/29/19
FINAL SCHEDULE (Finals are held on different days than regular classes!)
FINAL TOPICAL DISCUSSION:
Westward Expansion & Urban Industrialization
Federal Spending Priorities since 1981 AND Your Tax Dollars at Work!
COST OF WAR COUNTER
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