Wednesday/Thursday Activities

Part 1: Small group discussion

1. Get together with the small group you discussed with on the first day.

2. Go around your group and compare the notes that each team member took on the reading. Discuss the following: What were more effective and less effective note taking strategies? How could you take better notes next time? Are there strategies you have been taught in previous classes that would be useful to use in this class?

Part 2: Reading and Discussion Form

1. You will receive a Discussion Form for the reading assignment, “Mythistory”. There is a prereading question. Answer this BEFORE you read the article. While reading the article, practice some of the note taking strategies you discussed with your team, including marking up the text (annotating). You will be basing your discussion tomorrow on this reading, so it is important that you read it closely and carefully. What you do not finish in class is your homework for Friday.

Part 3: Textbooks

You will be going to get the textbook for this class. For now you should take it home and leave it there until told otherwise.

Access

Please review this Slide Deck on technology. By the end of Access on Thursday you should be able to log in to Schoology and should familiarize yourself with it.

Trouble with Wifi? Check out this DOC

Tuesday Activities

1. On a piece of paper or a Doc, please take 5 minutes to respond to the following prompt. Please use complete sentences, and remember that a good, analytical, precise sentence is better than a mediocre, rambling, imprecise paragraph.

Prompt: "The study of history is largely irrelevant to the problems currently facing humanity."

2. Once both you and your partner (the person sitting in the row next to you, or a triplet if necessary) have both completed writing, turn and talk. First, introduce yourselves (names, pronouns, Instagram handle, blood type, etc.) and share why you chose to take this class. Second, have the partner with the birthday closest to today start by reading, word for word, their response to the prompt. While they are reading, the other partner should jot down the most important ideas and examples given (on their paper or Doc). Then switch and have the other read and take notes. Once both partners have read their response, discuss what you wrote and write a note on what is the most important similarity and most important difference in your responses.

3. Turn to the closest other pair and introduce yourselves, and share your agreement and disagreements with each other, making sure to take notes on what was discussed.

Homework for next class

You are going to be reading the article “The Marshall Plan Myth” for the next class. If there is time left in the period, you may begin it now. Take notes on the reading based on the assumption that you will be responsible for discussing it intelligently in class.