Week of February 5

Monday 2/6
  • Read: Strayer 548-554
  • Lecture: Industrialization in Latin America
  • Homework: add Latin America section to comparative chart
Wednesday 2/8
  • Read: Strayer 559-564
  • Lecture: Industrialization and Imperialism
  • Due: Comparative Essay
Friday 2/10
  • Read: none
  • Lecture: odds & ends
  • Homework: bring mostly-completed review sheet to class
  • Workshop: review session
    • Exam 5 - Tuesday, Feb. 14

Week of January 29

Tuesday
  • Read: Strayer 541-548
  • Lecture: Industrialization in US
  • Due: comparative chart
    • compare the processes of industrialization in Britain, the US and Russia
Thursday
  • Read: (monday's assignment optional)
  • Lecture: Industrialization in Russia
  • Workshop: comp essay workshop
  • Homework: score sample comparative essay

**Comparative Essay - due next Wednesday**

Analyze similarities and differences between the processes of industrialization in Britain and 2 of the following 3 contexts:
  • United States
  • Russia
  • Latin America

Week of January 22

Monday
  • Read: Strayer 527-533
  • Lecture: Intro to Industrial Revolution
  • Workshop: Textile Industry film
Wednesday
  • Read: Strayer 534-541
  • Lecture: Industrialization & Social Change
  • Workshop: field trip to Mrs. Salter's room
  • Due: 1-2 paragraph reading response
    • Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Europe? Why did it happen in Britain?
Friday
  • Read: Reilly 783-789
  • Lecture: Marx's theory of historical change
  • Workshop: discuss Reilly reading
  • Assign: first quarterly essay

Week of January 15

Tuesday
  • Read: Strayer 513-516; 520-523
  • Lecture: 19th c. Social Movements
  • Workshop: exam review
    • please bring completed review sheet to class
Thursday
  • Exam 4

Week of January 8

Tuesday
  • Read: Strayer 507-513
  • Lecture: Haitian Revolution
  • Workshop: DBQ
  • Homework: components of DBQ
    • identify groups
    • write 3 PoV analyses
    • suggest additional document
Thursday
  • Read: Strayer 516-520
  • Lecture: Spanish American Independence
  • Due: DBQ

Week of January 1

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a relaxing break. For the next three weeks we will be working pretty hard to complete a unit on the Atlantic Revolutions. Remember that the second quarter ends January 20th - so we will have a DBQ essay due next week and an exam the week after. Welcome back...

Wednesday
  • Read: none
  • Lecture: American Independence
    • revolution, independence, or civil war?
  • Workshop: PoV analysis
Friday
  • Read: Strayer 499-507
  • Lecture: French Revolution
  • Due: term ids
    • John Locke
    • popular sovereignty
    • social contract
    • Third Estate
    • Maximilien Robespierre

Week of December 11th

Tuesday, Dec. 13
  • Read: Strayer 477-482
  • Lecture: Scientific Revolution
  • Due: 2 scientist biographical sketches
Thursday, Dec. 15
  • Read: Strayer 482-487
  • Lecture: Enlightenment
  • Due: 2 enlightenment thinker bio sketches