Sunday, August 29, 2010

WEBSITE & SUBMITTING WORK VIA EMAIL

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CLASS WEBSITE
The class website can be found at http://ushistorywithmrnovick.blogspot.com. This entire syllabus and all class assignments—including the reading assignments, questions for our take-home tests, and details for our quarter essays or projects—are posted on this site.

You will also find links to a number of history sites that can help you in your research for essays and take-home quizzes. Also, students wishing to send assignments (including their quarterly essays and take-home tests) to me via e-mail (jnovick@roycemoreschool.org) can do so. If you elect to send your work electronically, you must send the assignment by 10:00 PM THE NIGHT BEFORE IT IS DUE, WITH NO EXCEPTIONS. Also, while many people who use e-mail to communicate with family and friends type their messages without an attempt to use proper punctuation, spelling, and grammar--as well as correct sentence and paragraph structure--all assignments sent in via e-mail for this class MUST reflect your attempt to use the same good grammar, spelling and punctuation that you would use if turning in a handwritten or typed essay.
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CURRENT ASSIGNMENT

Civil War Take-Home Essay Examination due 2/28/12:
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WELCOME TO UNITED STATES HISTORY!

WELCOME TO UNITED STATES HISTORY!
This 1851 painting of Washington crossing the frozen Delaware River in December of 1776 is beautiful and famous, but German-American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze painted a false image of this historic event--to make a larger point. Can you guess what Leutze got wrong? And why?
History is like a road map. We can’t find our way somewhere new unless we know where we are now. History tells us where we are, how we got there, and with any luck, how to get where we want to go. It's everything that's ever happened to anybody--and it's the story of how people not unlike us said and did things that changed the world.

This class--called a survey class because we will survey some of the most influential people and events over the course of more than 500 years, all in just one nine-month school year--will focus, specifically, on the history the United States of America. It's been a wild ride these last 500 years, and learning the stories and trying to sort out what it all means for us today is so much more than names, dates, places--and tests. This is going to get interesting.

Questions? Email Mr. Novick at jnovick@roycemoreschool.org

The lovely Catskill Mountains (New York) in autumn. After the Revolution ended in 1783, locals began to move into these beautiful hills. The theme of westward expansion runs throughout American history.