No Class – Snow Day, Wed 1/17
by Dr. H - January 17th, 2018
We all love a good snow day! But a snow day on the first day of class is a little disappointing since we won’t meet together in person until Friday 1/19 and I don’t want us to get too far behind. So, please – today, take care of these tasks:
1) Read the Syllabus closely.
2) Check out the Blackboard shell and its resources. I use the course website as the MAIN information channel for class, but Blackboard has the enrichment and Constitution modules, discussion boards, gradebook, and other good stuff.
3) Introduce yourself on the “Day 1 Introductions” discussion board thread on Blackboard by 6 pm tonight Wed 1/17.
4) For Friday, read the “Emancipations” portion of Chapter 14 in your textbook, Hewitt & Lawson, Exploring American Histories, Vol 2. If you don’t have the textbook yet, I’ve posted the reading on Blackboard under “Course Resources.”
5) To class, BRING a PRINTED 2-page paper analyzing a document about Emancipation. This will be an ungraded “Pre-SkillBuilder” (see the syllabus for details on the SkillBuilder assignments). If you have the textbook, choose any document from 14.1 – 14.4. If you do not have the textbook, use one from this list: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/.
6) If you have questions in the meantime, please email me, or drop by my office on Thursday or Friday before our class.
Thanks, enjoy the snow and I’ll see you soon! ~ Dr. Hangen
