Study List for Test #1 September 25, 2009
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Here is the collected list of terms from the chapters to be covered by Test #1. As I said previously, I will give you a few terms from each chapter and you will answer twelve, including at least one from each chapter.
| Chapter 15 Altepetl Chapter 16 Catholic Reformation Chapter 17 Abbas I |
Chapter 18 Carolina Chapter 19 Abolitionist Chapter 20 Aurangzeb |
Extra Credit Opportunity: SEK Symphony Benefit September 23, 2009
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The Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present its first concert of the 2009-2010 concert season. ‘Symphony at Sunset’ is an outdoor benefit celebration for the orchestra will be held Sunday, September 27 at 6:00 p.m. at the West 20th St. Mined Land Wildlife Area (the old ‘Quail Farm’ on the way to the Humane Society).Tickets for this benefit concert are $25.00 enjoy music, poetry and nature while supporting the SEK Symphony! Bring a folding/outdoor chair and wear comfortable shoes. A beverage will be provided with your ticket purchase.
In case of rain, the concert will be moved to Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium. Contact Stella Hastings at 235-4469 for questions.
Specific information regarding the concert can be found at www.seksymphony.org.
They’ve got a Dvorak concert scheduled for November, as well, and that one is free to PSU students with ID.
Extra Credit Opportunity: Hispanic Heritage Month Movie Week September 23, 2009
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You only need to attend one to get extra credit, but you are welcome to attend more. All movies are in the Student Center; screenings begin at 7pm.
- Monday, September 28 – El Norte: After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north through Mexico to the United States to start a new life.
- Tuesday, September 29 – Piñero: Tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero.
- Wednesday, September 30 – Mambo Kings: In the early 1950s, two Cuban brothers must flee Havana after getting into a violent dispute with the mobster owners of a club where they performed. Eventually ending up in New York, they work at menial jobs while attempting to revive their musical careers.
- Thursday, October 1 – Mi Familia: Traces over three generations an immigrant family’s trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs.
Miscellaneous announcements: Guest Lectures, Test, Fun September 22, 2009
Posted by jdresner in Napoleon, Schedule Change, administrative, extra credit (F09), grading, hist 102 (Spring 2009), homework, military, not homework, resources.1 comment so far
We’ll have two guest lectures from PSU Grad student, military historian and WWII reenactor Dustin Strong: “Napoleon and his Wars” on October 9 and “WWII” on November 16. Mr. Strong’s lectures, like my own, are required, and I will expect to see his presentation reflected in your test answers and essays where appropriate. Mr. Strong has also announced two WWII reenactments open to the public as extra credit opportunities: Sept. 26-27 at Bristow Jones Memorial Airport (Bristow, OK) and Nov. 7 at Forest Park (Ottawa, KS). For the extra credit, include in your summary/reaction paper a description of the battle, and those of you doing WWII topics for your book review are strongly encouraged to talk to members of one of the units, as they are usually very well-informed on the equipment and history of the units they portray.
My apologies to the 2pm section for missing Monday: I have put the lecture outline online, so that anyone who missed class due to the weather or illness can review it. Those of you were there for the 11am class are welcome to look at it as well, obviously.
Regarding the Test on Monday, covering chapters 15 through 20, inclusive, and the lectures, the format will be very much like the pop quizzes: I will choose four or five (or six) terms from each chapter — the terms in the “Key Terms” lists, of course — to put on the test. From those, you will pick twelve (12) to answer: at least one from each of the six chapters, and the rest from any of the remaining terms. I will supply the test and paper; you bring something to write with and everything you can remember about the last month’s readings and lectures.
Finally, for fun, here’s pre-Revolutionary satires on French aristocratic hairstyles, including a recreation of the Battle of Bunker Hill [mildly adult content]. The one that made me laugh was the one with the hairdresser using a nautical navigational tool — the sextant — to arrange the hairstyle.
A rough calculation of African Slave Trade September 18, 2009
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| Atlantic trade volume | Middle Passage mortality rate | Islamic Trade | |
| 15c-16c | ~2k/yr | ~50% | ~10k/yr |
| 17c | rising to 20k/yr | ~10k/yr | |
| 18c | 55k/yr | ~10k/yr | |
| 19c | 33k/yr (peaking early) | ~5% | ~10k/yr |
| total | 14M | ~25% | ~5M |
Sources include Bentley&Ziegler, Traditions and Transformations, McKay, et. al, and others
Extra Credit Opportunity: Meeting David Wilson September 15, 2009
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Don’t miss Meeting David Wilson on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Crimson & Gold Ballroom, Overman Student Center. This presentation is FREE, and no ticket will be required.
David A. Wilson, as a 28 year-old African-American journalist, traveled deep into his family’s past to find the answers to America’s racial divide. His journey resulted in the feature length documentary “Meeting David Wilson”, which he wrote and co-directed. In researching his family’s ancestry, David learned of a plantation in North Carolina where his family was once enslaved, and subsequently discovered that the plantation is owned today by a 62-year-old white man—also named David Wilson—who is a direct descendant of his family’s slave Master. This discovery leads to a momentous encounter between these two men who share the same name, but whose ancestors were on the opposite sides of freedom. Later, through DNA testing, David is able to trace his African roots back to Ghana, West Africa, where he travels to visit the place where it all began.
On April 11, 2008, MSNBC premiered the documentary “Meeting David Wilson” which was hosted by Tiki Barber. The film aired nationally as part of a groundbreaking television event, which also included a live town-hall conversation on race moderated by Brian Williams of NBC’s Nightly News from the campus of Howard University.
In his interactive, multimedia lecture, David shows pivotal moments from the film, including his conversations with the white David Wilson, and initiates a discussion with audiences about the state of race relations today, how we got here— both literally and figuratively—and where we’re headed. While much of his presentation focuses on the racial dilemmas of today, David shows how the country’s history played a role in creating the problem, and more importantly, how it is in the interest of America’s future that we all play a part in the solution.
For more information, contact the Campus Activities Center at 4795 or visit David’s site at http://www.meetingdavidwilson.com/
Meeting David Wilson is being presented by the Performing Arts & Lecture Series (PALS) and the PSU Leadership Institute.
Food History September 12, 2009
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From China Beat comes word of a neat series at Yale Global Online
A series of pieces on the global history of trade goods like chilis, tea, tomatoes, coffee, potatoes, and tobacco
Oops…. September 11, 2009
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Looking at the schedule, it turns out that I’ve made an error which means that we’re technically a day behind where we should be. I think I have a solution, but I need time to work it out. Meanwhile, stick with the schedule as we’ve been doing it: read Chapter 18 for Monday.
Non Sequitur: The World’s Oldest Person has died, at age 115. There are a few people left in the world who were born in the 19th century!
Pop Quiz Grading September 11, 2009
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As I said previously, I grade ID questions on the familiar 4-point scale, with half-points. I give some credit for incorrect identifications — when you identify the wrong thing — if you actually identify that thing reasonably well. Your pop quiz grades for the semester will be handled much like the tests: I total up everyone’s scores and take the highest as 100%.
Also, I hand back pop quizzes when I have them graded — and I’ll try my best to make sure that’s the next class — but if you’re not there when I hand them back, I’ll just hold onto them until next time I have something to hand back. If you missed my handing them out, feel free to ask me for them before or after class.
Extra Credit Opportunity: Romanticism Lecture September 10, 2009
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On Thursday, October 8, at 8:00 p.m., in the Balkans Room of the Overman Student Center, Michael Martin, Lecturer in English and Co-Director of the Nancy Geshke Writing Center at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michican, will deliver the Victor J. Emmett, Jr., Memorial Lecture.
Mr. Martin’s lecture topic will be “The Mystical Body of Romanticism.” The lecture is free and open to the public. A brief award ceremony and reception in the Heritage Room will follow the lecture.
Mr. Martin is the winner of the Sixteenth Annual Emmett Award for the best article on a literary topic published in The Midwest Quarterly in 2009.
The Emmett Memorial Award and Lecture are sponsored by the Emmett family, The Midwest Quarterly, and the English Department of Pittsburg State. The award is given in memory of the late Dr. Victor J. Emmett, Jr., who, before his death in 1990, was for twenty-three years a Professor of English at Pittsburg State, where he served at various times as Chairperson of the English Department, Acting Dean of Graduate Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of The Midwest Quarterly.
