History 2610.004

American History to 1877

Fall 2013 MWF 11:00-11:50 a.m.

CURY 203

Instructor: Dr. Courtney Welch Email:

Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Office Location: Wooten 256

Phone: 940-565-3393

Course Description:

This course seeks to familiarize students with major topics in American history from its discovery through Reconstruction and will focus on diverse subjects including politics, race, gender, economics, and cultures, all the while attempting to understand how these historical events affected the lives of everyday citizens. Through this study an additional result will be that the students will begin to think of history as not solely an impressive recitation of names and dates, but rather a long interwoven tale of complex social, cultural, and political forces.

Textbooks:

There is NOT a required textbook for this course. Everything that you need is available in the course materials and in linkable documents, web pages, and linkable library pages.

If you feel more comfortable having a textbook, I recommend the following text:

Text: Goldfield & Abbott. The American Journey, vol. I. New Jersey, Pearson

Education, Inc., 2008.

Attendance:

This is a blended course, which means that we will work part online and part face to face. You MUST be active in the course to receive its maximum benefit. My expectation is that you log in and work in the online portion of the course on at least three separate occasions every week. Additionally, all face to face meetings are mandatory and attendance will be taken.

Disability Statement:

The University of North Texas makes reasonable academic accommodation for students with disabilities. Students seeking accommodation must first register with the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA) to verify their eligibility. If a disability is verified, the ODA will provide you with an accommodation letter to be delivered to faculty to begin a private discussion regarding your specific needs in a course. You may request accommodations at any time, however, ODA notices of accommodation should be provided as early as possible in the semester to avoid any delay in implementation. Note that students must obtain a new letter of accommodation for every semester and must meet with each faculty member prior to implementation in each class. For additional information see the Office of Disability Accommodation website at http://www.unt.edu/oda. You may also contact them by phone at 940.565.4323.

Course Format:

There are two components to this course: an online component and a face to face component.

Online Component:

This course is divided into four units that will cover the content material chronologically. Below is the detailed daily class schedule. You will work in each unit for approximately four weeks and then move on to the next unit. Each week will consist of a lecture, small group activity, and online assignments. You MUST complete each part of the unit by the end of the unit period and prior to the opening of the next unit.

Course Content Material:

You will attend a lecture every Monday and in addition read course content online that corresponds with each week’s subject matter. In the weekly online content you will find interactive material, flash games, movie clips to view, and websites to visit. At the end of each week you will take a 10 question mastery learning quiz about that week’s material. You CANNOT move to the next week’s content until you have made at least a 70% (7 out of 10 questions correct) on the quiz. You CAN take the quiz repeatedly until you score a 100 %. The quizzes will remain open to access until Friday, December 6, 2013. Quizzes will NOT be reopened after this date.

In addition, on most Wednesdays the class will be working in small groups on various activities that will require students to analyze primary documents, writing assignments, brainstorming alternative solutions, and role-playing activities. Before the small group activities students should become familiar with the online content for the week so that it will provide a frame of reference for the small group activities.

On Friday, the students will work on the online assignments, readings, required quizzes; and will not meet in class.

Grading Policy:

Your grade will be determined from the following assignments:

1. Course Content – from which your weekly mastery quizzes will be selected - you MUST score at least a 70%. You will also have an online Midterm and Final Exam. The dates for these exams are listed in the schedule below. If you miss the Midterm, you MUST contact the professor to arrange a make-up exam.

2. Small Group Exercises – you will have weekly activities with your small groups that will require your participation that will be evaluated and included with your comprehension grade.

Quizzes 14 Total 140 points

Midterm Exam 1 Total 100 points

Final Exam 1 Total 100 points

Small Group Activities 12 Total 120 points

Total Possible Points – 460 points

90 % - 414 points

80 % - 368 points

70 % - 322 points

60 % - 276 points

59 % - 271.4 points

Course Schedule:

August 28, 2013– Introduction and Syllabus

Unit One / Assignments/Activities
Learning Module 1 and 2 : Pre-Columbian America
August 30, 2013 / Lecture – God, Glory, and Gold
September 2, 2013 / LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
September 4, 2013 / Lecture – Early Colonization Efforts
September 6, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Learning Module 1:
Bioexchange Map
Comparing Cultures
Exploration and Discovery Eduzine readings pags5-29
Online Quiz 1
Learning Module 2:
Exploration and Discovery Eduzine readings pgs 30-42
Interactives:
Columbus Voyage
CSI Roanoke
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 2
Learning Module 3: The New World and the Old
September 9, 2013 / Lecture – Massachusetts Bay Experience
September 11, 2013 / Small Group Activity 1 – Salem Witch Trials : Understanding the Hysteria
September 13, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Salvation Interactive
Historical Mythbusters: Thanksgiving
Watch Clip – Massacre at Mystic
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 3
Learning Module 4: The Colonial Experiment
September 16, 2013 / Lecture – Restoration Colonies
September 18, 2013 / Small Group Activity 2: William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom
September 20, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Slave Trade Database
Franklin Papers/Letters
Colonies Map Drag Exercise
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 4
Unit Two / Assignments / Activities
Learning Module Five: The English Empire
September 23, 2013 / Lecture – French and Indian War
September 25, 2013 / Small Group Activity 3: The First Great Awakening
September 27, 2013 / Online Quiz 5 /Online Content
Learning Module Six: The Revolution
September 30, 2013 / Lecture – Conflict and Revolution
October 2, 2013 / Small Group Activity 4: Midnight Rides – Not just Paul Revere
October 4, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Boston Tea Party
Articles of Confederation
Watch Clip – England Last Chance
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 6
Learning Module Seven: Creating the United States
October 7, 2013 / Lecture – Confederation and Constitution
October 9, 2013 / Small Group Activity 5: The First American Party System: Federalist and Democratic-Republicans: The Platforms They Never Had
October 11, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Whiskey Rebellion Game
Constitution Eduzine readings pgs 6-21
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 7
Learning Module Eight: Change of Power
October 14, 2013 / Lecture – Jeffersonian Vision
October 16, 2013 / Small Group Activity 6: President Madison’s 1812 War Message: Answers Lead to More Questions
October 18, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactive:
Lewis and Clark
Jefferson Party Platform
Supreme Court Matching Game
American and Britain Impressment
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 8
Midterm Online October 17-18, 2013 / Covering Learning Modules 1-8
Unit Three / Assignments/ Activities
Learning Module Nine: The Growing Nation
October 21, 2013 / Lecture – Market Revolution
October 23, 2013 / Small Group Activity 7: Factory vs. Plantation in the North and the South
October 25, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactive:
Match Inventors to Inventions
Land Laws
American System Matching
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 9
Learning Module Ten: Rise in Democracy
October 28, 2013 / Lecture – Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
October 30, 2013 / Small Group Activity 8: Andrew Jackson, The Indian Removal Policy, and the Reaction
November 1, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Voting Rights Matching
Jacksonian Democracy Cartoon
Choose the Correct Party
Trail of Tears
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 10
Learning Module Eleven: American Society and Culture
November 4, 2013 / Lecture – American Renaissance
November 6, 2013 / Small Group Activity 9: The Influence of Transcendentalism on American Reform Movements
November 8, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Whose Rights Game
American Romanticism Game Transcendentalist Writers
Ask Mrs. Beeton
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Online Quiz 11
Learning Module Twelve: Manifest Destiny
November 11, 2013 / Lecture – The Texas Revolution and Mexican War
November 13, 2013 / Small Group Activity 10: Manifest Destiny: Go West Young Man!
November 15, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Wagon Weight Game
Historical Myth Busters
Trails of the West
Manifest Destiny Matching
Westward Trails
Watch Clip – Gold Rush – Lawless Quality
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Manifest Destiny Eduzine readings pgs 8-25
Online Quiz 12
Unit Four / Assignments/ Activities
Learning Module Thirteen: A House Dividing
November 18, 2013 / Lecture – Compromise and Breakdown
November 20, 2013 / Small Group Activity 11: Slavery’s Defenders and Opponents
November 22, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Road to the Civil War
King Cotton
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Progress of Secession
Slave Rebellion
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Civil War Eduzine readings pgs 4-13
Online Quiz 13
Learning Module Fourteen: The Civil War
November 25, 2013 / Lecture - Union vs. Confederacy – Victory, Defeat, and Assassination
November 27, 2013 / Small Group Activity 12: The Gettysburg Address (1863) – Defining the American Union
Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Confederate refugees,
Northern vs. Southern War Strategies
Soldier: Getting Ready for Battle
Regional Strength
Watch Clip – Preserving the Union
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
Civil War Eduzine readings pgs 14-28
Online Quiz 14
Learning Module Fifteen: Reconstruction
December 2, 2013 / Lecture – Reconstruction
December 4, 2013 / Specific Online Material
Interactives:
Amendments
Black Codes
Reconstruction Plans Matching Game
Who wants to be a Historian Game
All Web Field Trips and Did You Know Sections
December 6, 2013 / No Class – Reading Day
Final Exam Online – December 9-13. 2013 / Covering Learning Modules 9-15