Class Schedule

 

Class: History 17A: Early US History

Instructor: Dave Bush

Semester: Spring 2008

College: College of the Siskiyous

Online: ETUDES-NG

 

 

Listed below are the due dates for all class work and other important dates.  You will be able to access each module's web page approximately two weeks before the due date.

 

Objective quizzes are open for two days, from 12:01am on the first day to 11:59pm on the second day.  Written assignments are open throughout the week and must be submitted before 11:45pm on the last day of discussion.  Tests are open for only one day!  You must take each of the two tests on its due date between 12:01am and 11:59pm.  Regarding the discussions, you need to make your posts for each week during the appropriate dates listed below.  See the Syllabus for more information on the quizzes, written assignments, tests, and other assignments.

 

Please keep an eye on the due dates!  This is very important.  Because you know all the due dates far in advance and because you may take the quizzes, written assignments, and tests any time during the approximately twenty-four to one week period they are available, late work is not accepted.  (I have also listed the drop dates on this schedule.  Confirm these drop dates with the Admissions and Records Office.)

 

Also, remember that you need to make a minimum of three posts on the Discussion Board each week.  (Since this is a summer class, there will be only six Unit Discussion Boards.)  These posts must be made during the discussion dates listed below to count towards your grade.  Your posts can include responding to my posts, posting your own question, and or responding to another student.

 

First Day of Class: January 15, 2008

 

Intro Quiz:

Take the Intro Quiz before accessing the rest of the class.  The Intro quiz is based on information in the Important Class Information module.  You can take the Intro Quiz as many times as needed to earn a 100% score.

 

Module 01:  Historiography

            Discussion: January 15 - 22 (You may submit the written assignment anytime during these dates.)

            Quiz Due: No objective quiz for this module

 

Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr., January 21

Module 02:  America Before Columbus

            Nation of Nations: Prologue

            The Way We Lived: "Algonquians and Iroquoians: Farmers of the Woodlands"

            Discussion: January 22 - 28  (You may submit the written assignment anytime during these dates.)

            Objective Quiz Due: January 27 - 28

 

Module 03:  European Exploration

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 1

            Discussion: January 28 - February 4

            Objective Quiz Due: February 3 - 4

 

Module 04:  Colonial Settlements

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 2 and 3

            Discussion: February 4 - 11

            Objective Quiz Due: February 10 - 11

 

The last day to drop the class without record is February 11.

 

Holiday: George Washington, February 18

 

Module 05:  Eighteen-Century American Culture

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 4

            The Way We Lived: "Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth - Century Virginia"

            Discussion: February 11 - 19

            Objective Quiz Due: February 17 - 19

 

Module 06:  The War for Independence and the American Revolution

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 5 and 6

  The Way We Lived: "George Robert Twelves Hewes, A Patriot Shoemaker of Boston"

            Discussion: February 19 - 25

            Objective Quiz Due: February 24 - 25

 

Module 07:  A New Nation

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 7 and 8

            Discussion: February 25 - March 3

            Objective Quiz Due: March 2 - 3

 

First Half Discussion Assessment: Modules 1 - 7

            Due: March 6 (I will post more details on this on March 4.  This is not a quiz.)

 

First Test: March 10

 

Holiday: Spring Break, March 17 - 21

 

Module 08:  The Age of Jefferson

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 9

            Discussion: March 10 - 24

            Objective Quiz Due: March 23 - 24

 

Module 09:  The New Economy

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 10 and 11

            The Way We Lived: "Women, Work and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills"

            Discussion: March 24 - 31

            Objective Quiz Due: March 30 - 31

 

Module 10:  The Age of Reform and the Antebellum South

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 12 and 13

            Discussion: March 31 - April 7

            Objective Quiz Due: April 6 - 7

 

Module 11:  Manifest Destiny

            Nation of Nations: Chapters 14

            The Way We Lived: "To California by Sea and by Land"

       Discussion: April 7 - 14

            Objective Quiz Due: April 13 - 14

 

Module 12:  Road to Civil War

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 15

            The Way We Lived: "From Famine to Five Points"

            Discussion: April 14 - 21

            Objective Quiz Due: April 20 - 21

 

The last day to drop the class with a “W” is April 25.

 

Module 13:  Civil War

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 16

            Discussion: April 21 - 28

            Objective Quiz Due: April 27 - 28

 

Module 14:  Reconstruction

            Nation of Nations: Chapter 17

            Discussion: April 28 - May 5

            Objective Quiz Due: May 4 - 5

 

Module 15:  In the News

            Discussion: May 5 - 12

            Objective Quiz Due: May 11 - 12

 

Second Half Discussion Assessment: Modules 8 - 15

            Due: May 15 (I will post more details on this on may 13.  This is not a quiz.)

 

Anonymous Class Evaluation: May 15 - 16

 

Second Test: May 19

 

The last day of the semester is May 22, 2008.

 

Although it is extremely unlikely, this schedule is subject to change.