Unit 4 Overview
by admin - April 12th, 2014
As the course winds down you will be working on two parallel tracks – understanding how historians have written about our own time, and enacting your own legislation in our Congress.
Mon 4/14 Foreign Policy in the 1980s. Reading: MO 15
Link: Miller Center / Reagan Foreign Policy, including “Evil Empire” speech March 8, 1983
Photos from our whiteboard – click each to enlarge to full size
Wed 4/16 Social Tensions and Culture Wars. Reading: MO 16
See also: NYT Immigration Explorer Maps and US Census Foreign-Born Infographics. Also: we used Google N-Gram
Fri 4/18 Congress Day #8. On this day – finalize your committee pages, and debate your bill drafts in committee session.
Mon 4/21 No Class – Patriot’s Day
Wed 4/23 Bill Workshop Day – Congress Bill is due. We will work as a Congress to finalize the bills and organize them into a queue for debate on the floor. Submit your bill by email in its final form by midnight
Fri 4/25 Congress Day #9 – first day of debate and full legislative session on your bills. Update – the bills are all posted on the Congress Wiki; familiarize yourself with them before coming to class, and bring laptops.
Mon 4/28 Post-Cold War America and the World. Reading: MO 17 + HOT 9 (Bring the HOT book to class)
Wed 4/30 America and Americans in the New Millenium. Reading: MO 18 + HOT 10 (Bring the HOT book to class)
Fri 5/2 Congress Day #10 – second day of debate and full legislative session on your bills
Mon 5/5 Epilogue: History in Our Time. Reading: MO 19. We will be making a time capsule of primary sources; bring either a document or an object to put in that you think represents life in America in 2014, and be prepared to defend your choice.
Exam 4 will take place on May 14 at 8:30 am in our regular classroom, covering MO 15-19 and HOT 9-10. Your Congress Reflection Paper is due – either bring it to the exam, or, if you are not taking the exam please email it to me before or during the exam slot. The 4th exam will be the equivalent of the other three exams. It is not designed to fill the full three hours, but you should expect it to take longer to complete than our other exams. As before, you may bring the HOT book and a 3×5 notecard.
