Class Schedule
 
Class: History 17A: Early US History to 1877
Instructor: Dave Bush
Semester: Spring 2009
College: College of the Siskiyous
Online Course Management System: Etudes
 
 
Listed below are the due dates for all class work and other important dates.  Module web pages will open and close on the dates listed below.  The "Start Date" is the day web pages open, and you may begin submitting work on these days.  The "End Date" is the due  date, and this is the last day you can submit work.  The work must be submitted before 11:45pm on the due date.
 
Quizzes and written assignments are open from 12:15am on the day the module opens to 11:45pm on the day the module closes.   The test is open for only one day!  You must take the test on its due date between 12:15am and 11:45pm.  Regarding the discussions, you must make a minimum of three posts each week and each of these posts must be made on a different day (of course you may make more than three posts a week and more than one post each day).  See the Syllabus and other Important Class Information Module pages for additional information on the discussions, quizzes, written assignments, test, and discussion assessments.
 
Please keep an eye on the dates!  This is very important.  Because you know all the dates far in advance and because you may submit the quizzes, written assignments, and test any time during the extended 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.)

The first day of the semester is the first day of class.

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The American Past READINGS
 
(In addition, each module has web readings.  Links to web readings are found on each module's web page.)
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January 12 First Day of Class Etudes Website Opens at 8:00am  
January 12 Getting Started and Completing the Intro Quiz Read the Syllabus and study and view the information in the Important Class Information Module, and then take the Intro Quiz.  After that, introduce yourself in the Class Introduction discussion forum before moving onto Module 01. January 20
January 19 Module 01: Historiography Web readings only.  You can complete this module even if you do not have your text book. January 26
January 26 Module 02: Contact and Colonization Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 February 9
  Last day to drop class without a grade.   February 9
February 9 Module Book Analysis: Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem Read: Introduction and Chapters 1 through 4 (I suggest you begin reading well before February 9.) February 23
February 23 Module Book Analysis: Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem Read: Chapters 5 through 8 and the Epilogue March 2
March 2 Module 03: War for Independence, Revolution, and Constitution Chapters: 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 March 23
March 24 First Half Discussion Assessment This assessment covers modules one through three and the Book Analysis.  You will need to cut and paste some of your posts for this assessment.  See the Modules page for instructions. March 25
March 23 Module 04: New Republic, New Commerce, and Democratic Change Chapters: 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 April 6
April 6 Module 05: Society and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century Chapters: 17, 18, and 19 April 20
  Last day to drop with a "W."   April 24
April 20 Module 06: Manifest Destiny and A Nation Dividing Chapters: 20, 21, and 22 May 4
May 4 Module 07: Civil War and Reconstruction Chapters: 23, 24, and 25 May 11
May 12 Second Half Discussion Assessment This assessment covers modules four through seven.  You will need to cut and paste some of your posts for this assessment.  See the Modules page for instructions. May 13
May 14 Anonymous Class Evaluation See the Modules page for instructions. May 15
May 14 Life Happens Points Take this one true/false "extra-credit" question quiz to earn your LHP. May 17
May 18 Test  (The test is open one day only!) See the Modules page for instructions. May 18
  I will send course grades to the Admissions Office at 11:00am.  At this point, grades are set in stone.   May 20
  Last Day of Class   May 21
 
Although it is extremely unlikely, this schedule is subject to change.