History 346  The Gilded Age
Roger Williams University
CAS 228
MWF 10:00 - 10:50
Spring Semester, 2014
Michael R. H. Swanson, Ph. D.
Office:  GHH 215
Hours:  M, W, F,  11:00 - 1:00
Phone:  254-3230
E-mail:  mswanson@rwu.edu
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Quoting my own e-mail to you all on Monday the 5th:

 

"We missed the equivalent of more than a week of school, thanks to President's Day, snow days, and the Friday day off in April.  Consequently I have decided to modify these  requirements, according to the following formula:

1.The Semester Journal will remain the principal grading instrument for the course, and will count as it counted before:  50% of the grade for the course.
2.The paper on The Gilded Age will take the place of the Mid-term examination.
3.I am going to evaluate the research component as part of my evaluation of the semester journal.
4.In Lieu of the Research Assignment as given.  I'm going to ask you to write a reflection on Jacob Riss' book, How the Other Half Lives, using some of the insights you formed from the class discussion and from the two two ideas which formed our approach those two days--What you learned (emotionally and intellectually) from the book, and different ways the "upper half" might have reacted to the book.  This will be submitted by Bridges.
5.The novel assignment remains as given.  HOWEVER if you wish to include it in your journal and report on it from the perspective of your alter ego, that will be just fine.  You can use any of the books,  of fiction, including the children's.  If you do this as part of the journal, you  might talk about the book with a friend or relative, or you might read it to a child (as appropriate).
6.The optional final remains as described.    I'll post it on the website by Wednesday, along with these changes of noted here.

Sorry about the lateness of this decision.  If you have questions, e-mail me or drop by the office for a chat.
Everything will be due the last day of final exams.  I'm planning on being here every day through then for discussion or whatever."

Of course then there was a total equipment failure (not the kind Janet Jackson had at the super bowl a few years ago) on Monday.  I'm going to show as much of the video 1900 as I can tomorrow during class, and I'm afraid that is it.
Date Due:  Wednesday, May 14 by Midnight

Submit by Bridges
Length:  c. 5 pp. should do it.  I'll read whatever you submit.
Instructions:
I'd like to have you do two things in this paper

Feel free to use illustrations from Riss' book as examples to explain your thoughts if you wish.