Weekend Homework

1. Send me links to your blogs.

2. Read Chapter 1 of your text.

3. Answer two questions from "Your Region in History," and question number 2 from "Taking a Critical Look," on page 25.

4. Have some fun.

Quiz and Keynotes

Riley and Craig completed their "1491" Excerpt Quiz. Leta was out sick.

For tomorrow Craig will bring in a total of eight facts and eight images about the Waldeesmuller Map of the World; Riley will bring in eight facts and eight images about the Magna Carta.

Leta, should she check the blog, wants to come in prepared for the quiz and with eight images and eight facts about the English puritans and the discomfort they felt that would eventually lead them to found colonies in Holland and the New World.

I'll give a quick sketch of Elizabethan England if you need reminding.

Age of Enlightenment as a logical result of Copernicus' removal of earth as center of the universe, and some textbook work is on the horizon, as well as a composition comparing the text's version of the America's pre-1492 with Charles Mann's research.

Quick update: 1522 Wednesday, given the role of disease in the Europeans dominance of the Americas, here's a graphic of new and current vaccines.

First Full Day...

American Values revisited:

Abundant Money
Democracy
Laws
Opportunity
Christian Religion
Work Ethic
Family
Education
Equality

Edit: 6.Oct.11 to include Exceptionality, America as the exception. City on a Hill


Expect a quick quiz over the "1491" excerpt, Wednesday.  Part of it will include "scaffolding" questions that you create--similar to the "Maldive Shark" scaffolding we did in English.

Be ready to talk about the Age of Enlightment and Magna Carta.

Expedition Readings

Click here to link to the Fall Expedition readings.

1491 Excerpt

Click here. Read the first half by Monday.

Update, Wednesday 14.Sept.11: On second thought, let's finish it this weekend find at least two sections you think speak to our fall expedition rationale. I'll bring a copy along on the trip.

Leave comments here about the sections you chose and the reasons you want the whole group to hear them. Take the opportunity to practice using the Blogger tools and hotlink to any other readings you would like us all to think about and respond to in our journals.

Brainstorm of American Ideals

Leta

Success

Money + +

Power

Family

Hope

Determination

Education

Knowledge

Religion +

Work ethic

New ideas

Tradition

Equality + +

Independence

Innovation

Craig

Freedom +
Liberty
Justice
Rights
Citizenship
Media +
Laws +
Pride
Democracy +

Finance

Flag

Sustainability

Voting

Riley

Consumerism (Big Car Notion)

Patriotic

Free Speech

Unrestricted Travel

Pop Culture

Information Access

Sports (competition)

Home Ownership