Date 1st Quarter 2012
American Studies Assignments and Due Dates
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7/23
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8/1
Welcome to American Studies!
 What is American Studies?
 The Class Website—you’ll know it well
 Name cards
 Syllabus and Ethics Review (signatures are due Thursday)
 The ups and downs of technology
 Briefing: The D.C. Inaugural Trip & scholarship opportunity
Reminder: Bring your IDs tomorrow!
Opportunity: volunteering at a food kitchen: Paz de Cristo
Opportunity: dual-credit at CGCC
Welcome to American Studies: Own Your Learning
 Preliminary Summer Reading discussion (the due dates)
 Check out books: The Language of Composition, American Pageant,
Document Book, and AMSCO
 Questions about the website or syllabus?
 Turnitin.com registration discussion (info on class website)
What is History? Allegory of Alligator River
 What we expect from “taking notes”
Assign Notes: Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the “Available
Means”, due 8/1
 Please bring your book, The Language of Composition to class
Due: tii registration
Due: signature sheet for syllabus/ethics
Approaching Writing/diagnostic essay: abstract to concrete
 Reading: Barbara Asher’s “Box Man”
 Assign: Ethics Essay (300 word maximum—tii upload required), due 8/3
Due: David Kennedy’s American Pageant, Chapter 1, New World Beginnings
AP History pre-assessment (in class) to see sample questions
Handling grammar and vocabulary—independent learning activities
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 1 Guiding Questions (tii)
Doc. 1-1 Population Charts and Doc. 1-4 Charlevoix’s account (in class)- Review
models for document reading: APPARTS.
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 2, The Planting of English America (pages 3036) Review PERSIA in class
Due: Chapter 1 notes, The Language of Composition (bring book to class)
Assign: Chapter 2 notes, The Language of Composition: “Close Reading: The Art
and Craft of Analysis”—what is “rhetorical purpose? Notes due 8/8
 Review Chapter 1 Notes
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8/6
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8/13
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 2 (pages 36-45b)
 Chapter 2 Guiding Questions due tii
 Review History Free Response Essay Assignment in class
 Review Free Response History Rubric
Due: Ethics Essay draft—brief workshop—revision due 8/13—tii upload required
Due: Dual Credit registration (turn in to C-220)
Due: Summer Reading for 5% x/c; tii upload required.
What, exactly, is “good writing”?
 Reading: Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”, pg. 529
Introduction: The Research Project: Argumentative Term Paper
 Using OWL—the research website for this class
 Choosing a topic—then an “issue” (topic/issue is due 8/17)
 Preliminary research—moving from evidence to thesis
 What constitutes good research?
 Evaluating Websites
 Secondary and Primary sources
 Visual Rhetoric
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies (pages 46-56)
Doc. 2-6 The Examination of Anne Hutchinson - submit a summary to tii
(significance will be done in class)
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 3 (pages 56-65) Assign history essay topic, tii
due 8/9-10.
Review Handout: Puritanism
Due: Chapter 2 notes, The Language of Composition: “Close Reading: The Art and
Craft of Analysis”—what is “rhetorical purpose? (bring your book to class)
 Review Notes
Assign: Chapter 3 notes, The Language of Composition: “Synthesizing Sources:
Entering the Conversation” due 8/14
OPEN HOUSE NIGHT - 6:30 pm
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 3 (pages 65-67b) tii
In class discussion of historiography and Varying Viewpoints
Assign: MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, pgs. 260-265
Due: Summer Reading due; tii upload required.
Due: Guiding Questions on Chapter 3 due – tii upload required
Due: Reading MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, pgs. 260-265
 Group Work/Discussion
 Assign: Dialectical Journal and Graphic Organizer, pgs. 260-274. due 8/21
tii upload required.
Vocab Log check—you should have at least ten words logs
Due: Ethics essay revision—tii upload required
Portfolio Exchanges (beginning of Period 4)
History focus Multiple Choice Test 1-3 in class History essay due - tii
Assign: Class roles on Constitutional Conventional Simulation
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8/20
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8/27
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9/3
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Due: Chapter 3 notes, The Language of Composition: “Synthesizing Sources:
Entering the Conversation” (bring your book to class)
American Pageant, Chapter 4, American Life in the Seventeenth Century (pages
68-87b) Guiding Questions due tii
Reading: “The Middle Passage” by Olaudah Equiano
Viewing: from Amistad—what was it like to travel the Middle Passage?
The Document Based Question (DBQ)
Sample DBQ – New England and Chesapeake
Due: Summer Reading due (late penalty 25%); tii upload required.
Due: preliminary topic/position for research project (revisions are due 8/24)
 Critique and Revision: Be prepared to share these with the entire class
Due: Grammar Monday: Lesson #1 is due: Appositives
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
(pages 88-108b) Guiding Questions due tii upload
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 6, The Duel for North America (pages 109-119)
Due: dialectical journal and graphic organizer for MLK’s “Letter from
Birmingham Jail”
 Review in class
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 6 (pages 119-125b) Guiding Questions due tii
Due: Literary Presentation #1: Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
History focus test – 1-6 MC and free response
Due: revised topic/position for research project
 Critique and Revision: Be prepared to share these with the entire class
Review/Instruction: The Aristotelian Argument
Instruction/Assign: annotated bibliographies
 2 bibliographies (confirmations) due 9/7
Due: Vocabulary Monday: Lesson #1 is due—sentences must be uploaded to tii for
credit
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution pages 126-139
Self-evaluation assigned on Free Response. Due on 8/30
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution pages 139-145b
Guiding Questions due tii
Continue Discussion on self-evaluation on FRQ
Close Reading Practice—annotations Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”
Due: Chapter 8, America Secedes from the Empire pages 146-162
Close Reading Practice—annotations Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 8, (pages 162-171b Guiding Questions tii
Due: Self-evaluation on Free Response due.
Close Reading Practice—annotations Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”
Timed Writing Practice: Argument/Paine
No School: Labor Day Holiday
In class reading and “mini-debate” Was the American Revolution…
History MC test Chapters 1-8
Close Reading Practice
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9/17
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9/24
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution (pages
172-186)
Close Reading Practice
Due: 2 annotated bibliographies (background/narration)— tii upload required; next
research is due 9/14
Vocab Log check—you should have at least ten words logs
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 9 (pages 186-198)
Due: Constitutional Convention Simulation
Due: Constitutional Convention Simulation continues
American Pageant, Chapter 9 Guiding Questions—tii
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 10, Launching The Ship of State (pages 199-213)
Due: Guiding Questions, Chapter 10 tii
American Pageant, Chapter 10 (pages 199-223b) - Give John Adams a grade class
writing activity (notes okay to use on this)
Close Reading Practice: AP Language M/C practice
Due: 2 annotated bibliographies (background/narration)— tii upload required; next
research is due 9/28
 Review and critique research
Close Reading: Is America “Exceptional”? What is American Exceptionalism?
Assign two essays: Michael Lind’s “The Case Against ‘American
Exceptionalism’” and James Wilson’s “American Exceptionalism”.
Due: Grammar Monday: Lesson #2 is due: Short Simple Sentences and Fragment
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 11, The Triumphs and Travails of the
Jeffersonian Republic (pages 224-238) Assign Jackson DBQ (will be due 9/27 in
person and tii)
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 11, (pages 238-247b) Guiding Questions due tii
upload
Journals due: Michael Lind’s “The Case Against ‘American
Exceptionalism’”/Discussion of graphic organizers and rhetorical strategies only;
retain dialectical journals for Socratic Discussion on Friday
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 12,The Second War for Independence, (pages
248-256)
Journals due: James Wilson’s “American Exceptionalism” /Discussion of graphic
organizers and rhetorical strategies only; retain dialectical journals for Socratic
Discussion on Friday
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 12, (pages 256-271b)
 Guiding Questions due, Chapter 12 tii
 Focus: The Marshall Court
Socratic Discussion: Topic: American Exceptionalism; Guiding Question: Is
American Exceptionalism a good or bad concept? Please base the discussion on
ideas from the assigned essays.
Assign: The Personal Essay: “This I Believe”, drafts due 9/25
Due: Vocabulary Monday: Lesson #2 is due—sentences must be uploaded to tii for
credit
History Focus MC Test 1-12
9/25
9/26
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9/28
Due: American Pageant, Chapter 13, The Rise of a Mass Democracy (pages 272286)
Due: American Pageant, (pages 286-304b) Guiding Questions due tii
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Assign: Brook Farm Socratic Discussion focus roles
Due: Jackson DBQ due – tii – 50% penalty if not in by this date.
 Peer overview evaluation of Jackson DBQ in class
Due: 3 annotated bibliographies (confirmation)—tii upload required; next research
is due 10/26
Due/Sharing:“The I Believe”
Fall Intercession: 9/29-10/16