{"id":195,"date":"2011-11-26T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:40:14","slug":"unit-5-america-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2011\/11\/unit-5-america-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 5: America Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last unit of the course, we will jump to the post-Cold War era (approx since 1989). There will be an online quiz opening on Tuesday, November 29th until Sunday, December 4th (on Chapter 30 and 31). Our in-class work will deal mainly with material in Chapter 32. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 11\/28<\/strong>: After the Cold War &#8211; read EH 32: 887-899. <strong>Handout:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Handout.ForeignPolicySince1980s.pdf\">Foreign Policy, 1980s-1990s<\/a> (a companion chart for your reading of Chapters 31 and 32). In-class viewing: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/snsdDb7KDkg\">ABC News, November 10, 1989<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 11\/30<\/strong>: Globalization and the United States &#8211; read EH 32:900-917<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 12\/2<\/strong>: All about 9\/11\/2001 &#8211; read EH 32:917-923. Skill Builder #6, the last one, is due in class<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 12\/5<\/strong>: A workshop day, focusing on the &#8220;History Now&#8221; project. No assigned reading. If you revised your Primary Source paper, the revision is due in class (no electronic submissions).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 12\/7<\/strong>: Your FAQs Answered. Reading: 9\/11 materials of your choice, see the list in the entry for Friday 12\/2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 12\/9<\/strong>: History Today and Tomorrow. Reading: EH 32:923-929 and one additional short reading, TBA. Your &#8220;History Now&#8221; project is due in or before class. No electronic submissions, it must be turned in as a paper packet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Exam<\/strong>: The 5th exam will be Wednesday 12\/14 at 12:30 pm in our classroom. It is the regular exam for Unit 5, not a comprehensive final.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last unit of the course, we will jump to the post-Cold War era (approx since 1989). There will be an online quiz opening on Tuesday, November 29th until Sunday, December 4th (on Chapter 30 and 31). Our in-class work will deal mainly with material in Chapter 32. Mon 11\/28: After the Cold War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-fall11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}