Syllabus: Grades and Schedule – 1133 – Fall 2023

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Grades – See the bottom of this page for an explanation of grades.

  • Appetizer and Dessert Assignments due Tuesday at 10 p.m.
  • 1st Plate Assignments are due Thursday at 10 p.m.
  • Unless otherwise notes in the schedule.

Week 1: August 21

Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history
Sources

Check Please! is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.

Assignments

Check Please! is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.

Week 2: August 28

Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history

Sources

Return to Enter is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.

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Week 3: Sept 4

What is Professional History and Why is History.com not it?

Sources

Assignments

  • Appetizer- Note: You do NOT need to post this Appetizer assignment in a D2L discussion board. We will start that practices with the GIS Appetizer next week.
  • 1st Plate-

Week 4: September 11

Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources

Sanders, Thomas. "Jeffers Petroglyphs." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/place/jeffers-petroglyphs (accessed September 5, 2023).

Teresa Peterson and Walter LaBatte Jr.. "The Land, Water, and Language of the Dakota, Minnesota’s First People." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/land-water-and-language-dakota-minnesota-s-first-people (accessed September 5, 2023).

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Week 5: September 18

Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources

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Week 7: October 2

Historical Thinking Skill: Object Analysis
Sources

Assignments

Week 8: October 9

Historical Thinking Skill: Metadata.
Sources

Timeline: Immigration into the US. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/global-timeline/

Ratsabout, Saengmany. "Immigrants and Refugees in Minnesota: Connecting Past and Present ." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/immigrants-and-refugees-minnesota-connecting-past-and-present (accessed October 4, 2023).

Chose one group and read about them: Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History – Each group has multiple pages.

Assignments

Please fill out this mid-term survey

Week 9: October 16 (note abbreviated week)

Historical Thinking Skill: Metadata
Sources

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Week 10: October 23

Historical Thinking Skill: Words and Computers

Sources

Assignments

Week 11: October 30

Historical Thinking Skill: Words and Computers
Sources

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Week 12: November 6

Historical Thinking Skill: Podcasting
Sources
MNHS Video Series on the Civil War: Watch videos 2-13 and take notes for activity in class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR-VTrPcMDg&list=PLRrmlN6cO7LumBMjTrjdWc5swr4IRK7KM

Assignments

  • Dessert: NOTE- New format and questions.

Week 13: November 13

Historical Thinking Skill: Podcasting
Sources
Listen to the following newscasts about turn-of-the-19th century Minnesota.

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Week 14: November 20 (note alternate turn in)

Historical Thinking Skill: Numerical Literacy
Sources

Assignments

  • Dessert-– Note new format that requires answering questions.

Week 15: November 27

Historical Thinking Skill: Numerical Literacy
Sources
Cold War Minnesota
Unwed Mothers at Booth Memorial Hospital, 1961–63

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Sources

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Finals Week: No class meeting

  • [Final Dessert]()

    Assignments and Grades

Assignment Descriptions

Every two weeks you’ll do four assignments for each learning module:

  • Appetizer: Engage your historical sources for the week by explaining how one source relates to one item in the news. 25% of module grade.

  • 1st Plate: The major history project you’ll complete for the week using historical sources and digital tools. 50% of module grade.

  • Dessert: A paragraph of writing reflecting on what you learned from the week’s assignment and from your fellow classmates. 25% of module grade.

Overall Grades Weights

The first three weeks and last two weeks have 20% and 10% total weight of your grade. All the other modules (two weeks of assignments) are worth 10% of your total grade.

Assignment Module Grade Value Weeks
Leveling Up 20% 1-3
GIS 10% 4-5
Art Analysis 10% 6-7
Metadata 10% 8-9
Podcasting 10% 10-11
Computers and Words 10% 12-13
Numerical Literacy 10% 14-15
Portfolio 15% 15-Final
Citizenship 5% 16

Late assignments and grade drops.

Late work is not accepted nor are extensions offered except in the case of hospitalization or deployment.

Instead, two weeks of assignments are automatically dropped, much like jobs offer paid time off. I drop assignments by curving the class 12%. The final grades look like this:

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