Weekly Syllabus

Week of Monday, November 30 through Friday, December 4

Welcome back! Congratulations on your successes in the Fall Trimester. This Trimester is an odd one, as we have 15 days of class before you go away for 16 days of vacation. We will spend the time leading up to the vacation on the events leading up to and surrounding the Civil War, which occurred in the United States from 1861-1865.

Now that the beginning part of the year is done, I will be challenging you more with the reading, writing and research assignments. Please feel free to conference with me whenever you feel the need. I suggest that those of you who earned Fall grades of C or below make an appointment with me this week. If you scored a D or an F on the Fall term exam, you are required to see me this week.

I will try to give you ample time to read the material, but you should expect more homework from me in the Winter. We will also have two big papers this term, so be prepared to write!

Monday, November 30, 2009 (40 minutes)

Topic: Recap of what we've learned so far. Review of the Fall Exam. Introduction to the plan for the Winter Term.

Homework: Read AP & AN pp. 319 (Abolitionism)-325 (Jacksonianism). Make sure that you have purchased your copy of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

 

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 (50 minutes)

Quiz: On the reading.

Topic: Review of the reading.

Homework: Read AP&AN, pp.369 (The War With Mexico)-372

 

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 (45 minutes)

Topic: Review of the reading.

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 373 (Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo)-379 (Slavery Expansion).

 

Thursday, December 3, 2009 (45 minutes)

Quiz: On Manifest Destiny.

Topic: Review of the reading. Introduction to the genre of slave narrative

Homework: Read An Introduction to the Slave Narrative by William Andrews. Also, please write a response to the essay question on the Ning about Manifest Destiny and slavery expansion.

 

Friday, December 4, 2009 (40 minutes)

Topic: Review of the reading. Introduction to Frederick Douglass.

Homework: Read and take careful notes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Chapter I-Chapter V.