Class Schedule
 
Class: History 17B: Modern US History From 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
The first day of the semester is the first day of class.
 
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: Reconstruction, Gilded Age Politics, and The West
Chapters: 25, 26, 31, and 32
 February 9
  Last day to drop class without a grade.   February 13
February 9
Module 03: Rise of Big Business
Chapters: 27, 28, 29, and 30
 February 23
February 24
First Half Discussion Assessment
This assessment covers modules one through three.  You will need to cut and paste some of your posts for this assessment.  See the Modules page for instructions.
 February 25
February 23
Module 04: The American Century Begins
Chapters: 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38
 March 9
March 9
Module 05: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?
Chapters: 39, 40, 41, and 42
 March 30
March 30
Module Book Analysis: Warriors Don't Cry
 Read: Chapters ?? through ?? (I suggest you begin reading well before March 13.) (Exact chapters will be posted later.) April 6
April 6
Module Book Analysis: Warriors Don't Cry
 Read: Chapters ?? through ??  (Exact chapters will be posted later.) April 13
  Last day to drop with a "W."   April 13
April 13
Module 06: The Early Cold War Years
Chapters: 43, 44, 45, 46, and 47
 April 27
April 27
Module 07: Anno David
Chapters: 48, 49, 50, and 51
 May 11
May 12
Second Half Discussion Assessment
This assessment covers modules four through seven and the Book Analysis.  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.