The purpose of this assignment is to
- Give students feedback on past assignments and proactive hints for future assignments.
- Give students an opportunity to communicate with the professor about useful information that helps them succeed.
- Allow students to ask questions about the class.
- Allow students to express concerns about the class.
To achieve the objective(s),
- Read the
- Respond to the announcement in this assignment
See the directions for more details
Week 4 Recap: No Recap this week.
- Go to announcements and read the , which will be available by 6:00 am on Wednesdays, or possibly earlier.
- Click the blue “Start Assignment” button to the upper right.
- In the textbox, answer one of the following questions:
- What was the most helpful piece of information in this announcement? You can simply copy and paste that info from the announcement into the textbox. You don’t have to write an explanation of why it is useful.
OR
- What is your question or concern about something in this announcement or in this class?
- Click the blue “Submit Assignment” button below the textbox to turn in the assignment by 11:59 pm on Friday, 5/8.
Guidelines
- You have to be patient with this assignment and wait for me to post the announcement before you can access and complete the assignment. I wait until I’ve finished grading the previous week’s assignment so I can give you feedback and hints based on what I just finished grading. I aim to post the announcement by Monday evenings, but if I have many eight-week classes, it might take me until Tuesday evening.
- These R/P Assignments are always due on Friday nights, which is different from most other assignments in this class, which are due on Sunday evenings. It’s best to start working on the week’s material early in the week, but I know some students have different schedules and have to wait until the weekend. I have this due on Friday because it’s an easy way to ease into the assignments. I still think it is best to start early in the week if you can, because you never know what may trip you up.
- I have noticed that some students will just copy and paste the first line of the announcement. If it seems you are not reading the entire announcement or just copying the first line, or if you do the same thing every week, I may give you a zero and ask you to explain why this was the most useful piece of information. If you answer that question, then I will change your grade.
- Please do not summarize the announcement. Copy and paste the most useful information in the announcement, or share a question or concern with me.
Grading & Feedback
- I will check these a few times daily to quickly answer any questions or concerns in your responses. I usually grade it the day you submit it unless you turn it in on Friday night. If you turn it in on Friday night, I will grade it on Saturday or Sunday.
- My feedback is geared toward clarifying assignments, answering questions or concerns, and encouraging more communication if necessary.
Week 5 Preview:
- Woo hooo! Week #5 means we are halfway finished with this class. This week, we are tackling the large subjects of Women in the Enlightened and Industrial Revolutions.
- I assigned five PSDs for this week. For Mary Wollstonecraft, how did she use the ideas of the Enlightenment in her writing? How did she want to reshape gender roles in Europe? What were the arguments that challenged men like Jean-Jacques Rousseau? What did Abigail Adams ask for? How did her husband respond? What does that suggest about the limits of the American Revolution? In both government reports, why did the women confront government officials? What is the biggest difference between the two reports? What explains that difference? How did the Napoleonic code erase the gains women had made during the Liberal stage of the French Revolution? What did the Sadler Commission reveal about British Industrialization? Why did the British public react so angrily about the treatment of young girls?
- Your first Themes Assignment is this week in Unit 5. The goal of the Themes Assignment is to have you develop and prove a thesis on one of our class themes in Units 1-5, roughly 1492-1848. It is not an essay, but it makes you do the same kind of thinking and organization you would have to do for an essay. I’ve set it up as a quiz, and the questions ask for your theme, your thesis, your evidence from the IQT pages, historical facts from class materials, and historical context. For historical context, I suggest looking at the lecture outlines to see what events in the outline are tied to your item. For instance, if your item is Olympia de Gouges, you would add some historical context on events leading up to the French Revolution. Remember, the historical context and historical facts have to come from the lecture videos or the secondary source readings linked in the Discussion Board assignments, and you must cite those class materials at the end of each answer according to the format in the introduction to the Citations Quiz in Unit 0. If you use a PSD quote as an item, you must add a second citation to that of the PSD. See the introduction to the Citations Quiz in Unit 0.
- I have assigned two Themes Assignments this semester. This is one of the assignments that you will not be allowed to drop at the end of the semester. In my experience, many students do not read the directions or watch the video instructions to this assignment and end up with a zero. I do not have time to grade revisions. So please, please, please read the instructions and get it right the first time. I will be home on my computer all week to respond to any questions you have.
- One of the frequent mistakes students make on this first Themes Assignment has to do with their interpretations of the Themes. I made a video on how I want you to interpret the class themes to help you with the Significance and Themes Assignments. It is very important that you watch that video at 0.5 in Unit 0 to do well on this assignment. It will be hard for you to do well if you skip the video.
- I put requirements for each question in the Themes Assignments in the directions and in the prompt for every question. Use the bullet-pointed requirements in the prompts as a checklist to make sure you include them all in your answers.
- Many of the requirements in the Themes Assignment entail specific historical facts. You have to do more than name-drop a term, an event, or a person for the specific historical facts. Define the terms, explain the events, and describe the background of the person or their connection to your item. The lecture outlines in each unit are a good place to look for specific historical facts and context for these assignments. Then you can find the details in the lecture videos.
- You can send me a rough draft of the Themes Assignments this week. But you do have to send it by 6:00 p.m. on Sunday night. I am very busy on Sundays, so I may not be able to read and respond if you send it after Saturday night.
- Your Discussion Board this week is on Germaine de Stael. She was from the upper class and raised in the Enlightenment. As you read the excerpt about her, think about which set of values in French society she embraced or rejected.
- Here’s your chance to earn two extra credit points. Please do not refer to the extra credit question or answer in your answer to the regular prompt for the R/P assignment. Write your answers to the extra credit below your answer to the regular prompt. Based only on the information in this announcement, why should you read and watch the instructions to the Themes Assignment?
- I am available to help with the Themes Assignment during Thursday office hours if you would like to talk about it, or anything else in the class.
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