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Grades – See the bottom of this page for an explanation of grades.
- All assignments are due Wednesday at 10 pm, unless specified as in-class assignments.
Week 1: January 10
Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history
Sources
Check Please! is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.
Assignments
- Appetizer- Due Sunday January 14th.
- 1st Plate-Check Please: An introduction to the SIFT process for evaluating information credibility
Check Please! is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.
Week 2: January 17
Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history
Sources
Return to Enter is both your Source and your Assignment for this week.
Assignments
Week 3: January 24
What is Professional History and Why is History.com not it?
Sources
- How Historians Work – Please read "Evidence of the Past," " The Changing Past," and " The Contested Past."
- [Historical Thinking Chart]https://jacknorton.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Historical-Thinking-Chart.pdf
- [Video: What is the difference between history and memory?]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-6E8zw1mA Christy Clark-Pujara, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Video: Primary vs Secondary Source
- "Spiritual Power to Industrial Might: 12,000 Years at St. Anthony Falls," John O Anfinson, https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/58/v58i05-06p252-269.pdf .
Minnesota History, Spring Summer 2003 .
Assignments
Week 4: January 31
Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources
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A Short Introduction to GIS Click on link to Download pdf.
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"Analyzing Maps". Read the Essay and Primary 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).
Assignments
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Map Links
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Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online
–Digitized plat maps and atlases -
A guide to accessing maps and other geospatial resources at MNHS.
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Minnesota GIS Data and Maps
Minnesota Natural Resource Atlas
Week 5: February 7
Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources
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“Jeffers Petroglyphs | MNopedia.” Accessed September 13, 2023. https://www.mnopedia.org/place/jeffers-petroglyphs.
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Video: "Pipestone: An Unbroken Legacy" 22 Minutes. https://www.nps.gov/pipe/learn/photosmultimedia/pipestone-an-unbroken-legacy.htm
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Map: Il Paese de’ Selvaggi Outagamiani, Mascoutensi, Illinesi e Parte delle VI. Nazioni. Fogl. IV
Assignments
- – Dessert 4 points in class activity, 6 points Assignment paragraph.
Week 6 February 14
Historical Thinking Skill: Object Analysis
Sources
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The Ojibwe: Our Historical Role in Influencing Contemporary Minnesota
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Peck, Jane. "Dakota, Ho-Chunk, and French Indigenous Communities Between St. Paul and Prairie du Chien, ca. 1300–1865." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/group/dakota-ho-chunk-and-french-indigenous-communities-between-st-paul-and-prairie-du-chien-ca-1300 (accessed September 19, 2023).
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How to Read and Object Chart – Look up the words "observe," "deduce," and "infer" in a dictionary.
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How to read an object video– 3 minutes.
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Miniature makak with maple sugar
Assignments
Week 7: February 21
Historical Thinking Skill: Object Analysis
Sources
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Perspectives on “Father Hennepin Discovering the Falls of St. Anthony”
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Who was Hennepin and why did Minnesota name so many things after him?
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A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America
- Read background, view the reference map.
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Primary Source: Louis Hennepin Page 294 and note at the bottom.
Assignments
Week 8: February 28
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
SPRING BREAK
Week 9: March 13
Historical Thinking Skill: Metadata
Sources
"How Minnesota Became the 32nd State", accessed 2024-03-13.
In class.
Assignments
Please fill out this mid-term survey
- Dessert: In class assignment.
Week 10: March 20
Historical Thinking Skill: Words and Computers
Sources
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"Introduction: Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism"
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Citations for Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
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Generative AI and historical authority, published 19 October 2023.
Assignments
- Appetizer-
- [1st Plate-]
Week 11: March 27
Historical Thinking Skill: Words and Computers
Sources
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Burnside, Tina. "African Americans in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/african-americans-minnesota (accessed August 20, 2018).
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Atkins, Annette. "Dred and Harriet Scott in Minnesota." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/event/dred-and-harriet-scott-minnesota (accessed August 21, 2018).
Assignments
Scott Decision- https://www.owleyes.org/text/dred-scott-v-sandford/read/opinion-of-the-court#root-314
Mill Disaster- https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/p17208coll13/id/3618/rec/61
Civil War Source- http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/lb00051/lb00051-000001.pdf
35W Report- https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAR0803.pdf
Slides that include search limiters.
- [Dessert-]
Week 12: April 3
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
- [Appetizer-In class]
- 1st Plate- [Due Thursday night at 10 pm. -Jack]
Week 13: April 10
Historical Thinking Skill: Podcasting
Sources
Listen to the following newscasts about turn-of-the-19th century Minnesota.
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A mile marker for the African American cycling community, Rupa Shenoy, St. Paul, Minn., July 18, 2010 2:37 PM
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Planned wild rice harvest to test 1855 treaty rights
Tim Nelson, August 25, 2015 8:19 AM -
Minnesota history: Women photographers in the 19th century
Cathy Wurzer, St. Paul, Minn., March 28, 2011 3:00 AM -
Minnesotans survived major winter storms in the 19th Century
Cathy Wurzer- February 29, 2012 11:22 AM -
Museum portrays the dangerous history of mill work
Cathy Wurzer – October 22, 2010 5:00 AM
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Week 14: April 17
Historical Thinking Skill: Numerical Literacy
Sources
Assignments
- Appetizer-In class write.
- 1st Plate-
Week 15: April 24
Historical Thinking Skill: Numerical Literacy
Sources
Cold War Minnesota
Unwed Mothers at Booth Memorial Hospital, 1961–63
Assignments
- Dessert– updated 2024-04-24, 10:49
Week 16: May 1
Historical Thinking Skill: Final Project
Sources
Assignments
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Appetizer: In class
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- Final Dessert: Note alternate questions.
Finals Week: No class meeting
- [Final Dessert]()
Assignments and Grades
Assignment Descriptions
Every two weeks you’ll do four assignments for each learning module:
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Appetizer: Engage your historical sources for the week by explaining how one source relates to one item in the news. 25% of module grade.
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1st Plate: The major history project you’ll complete for the week using historical sources and digital tools. 50% of module grade.
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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 |
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| 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:
