{"id":332,"date":"2012-11-14T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-12-26T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:53:54","slug":"revised-unit-4-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2012\/11\/revised-unit-4-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised Unit 4 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the water main break has made a really long weekend &#8211; no class today, Wed 11\/14.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how we will revise the schedule and grading for Unit 4:<\/p>\n<p>1. I am cancelling the in-class exam on Monday 11\/19. That day will be a regular class, on popular culture during the Vietnam War. Here&#8217;s one minute from 10 years of network news coverage of the war, with CBS&#8217;s Walter Cronkite:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nn4w-ud-TyE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. In place of that exam, I am making a longer online (i.e. open-book) multiple-choice test. It will be 30 questions long, each worth 2 points, for a total of 60 points replacing the 57 points of the online + written portions. The online test will open on Friday, November 16th after class and remain open until just before midnight, Wednesday the 21st. You can take it up to 3 times.<\/p>\n<p>3. Please read chapters 10.3 (&#8220;America and the World During the Kennedy Years&#8221;), and all of 11 and 12. The test will cover the following concepts and terms from those chapters:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cuban Missile Crisis<br \/>\nCivil Rights Act of 1964<br \/>\nVoting Rights Act of 1965<br \/>\nGreat Society (including Medicare, Medicaid)<br \/>\nSecond-wave feminism including NOW, Ms, ERA, and Title IX<br \/>\nVietnam War terms: Gulf of Tonkin, Rolling Thunder, Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, War Powers Act<br \/>\nElection of 1968<br \/>\nNew Left<br \/>\nKent State shooting<br \/>\nPentagon Papers<br \/>\nWatergate<br \/>\ndetente<br \/>\nthe 1970s &#8220;crisis of confidence&#8221;<br \/>\nIranian revolution and hostage crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the water main break has made a really long weekend &#8211; no class today, Wed 11\/14. Here is how we will revise the schedule and grading for Unit 4: 1. I am cancelling the in-class exam on Monday 11\/19. That day will be a regular class, on popular culture during the Vietnam War. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","category-news","tag-fall12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}