Weekly Syllabus

Week of Monday, April 26 through Friday, April 30

This week we will jump into our study of America during the Second World War and the postwar period. Your outlines are due Monday, and I'll give them back on Wednesday at the latest. Your first draft is due a week from Wednesday. If you haven't conferenced yet, now would be a good time!

Please keep up with the reading. If you do so you will be prepared for class and you will also have several days before the paper is due with no reading assignments.

Monday, April 26, 2010 (40 minutes)-NO CLASS TODAY

Due: Your outline, typed and handed to me at the start of class.

Topic:

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 779 (Limits)-785 (Winning the War )--skip p. 780.

 

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 (50 minutes)

Topic: Discussion of the reading.

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 785 (Winning)-793.

 

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 (40 minutes)

Topic: Discussion of the reading.

Homework:Read AP&AN pp. 798-802 (Containment in Action).

 

Thursday, April 29, 2010 (45 minutes)

Topic: Hiroshima, the Bomb, and the end of the war.

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 808 (The Korean War)-815 (The Struggle for the Thirld World). Read AP&AN pp. 834 (Cold War Fears and Anticommunism )-845 (Men,Women and Youth at Midcentury). Have this assignment read for WEDNESDAY, May 5th. Work on your first draft.

 

Friday, April 30, 2010 (40 minutes)

Topic: Discussion of the reading.

Homework: Work on your paper.