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 * COLONIAL ERA**

Here is the schedule for the remainder of the semester:

Let's remember to use the following:

http://www.sweetsearch.com/#
 * 1. Sweet Search**

APU Library>>Go to All Databases>>W>>WorldCat http://www.apu.edu/library/
 * 2. WorldCat**

APU Library>>Go to All Databases>>J>>JSTOR http://www.apu.edu/library/
 * 3. JSTOR**

I worked my way through all the JSTOR screens and want to go over them with you:

a. Start with the JSTOR Home screen http://www.jstor.org/

Content and Collections http://about.jstor.org/content-collections APU Library>>All databases>>J>>JSTOR

b. How to search JSTOR Let's watch together this excellent video http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/how-search-jstor

c. JSTOR Advanced Search http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/advanced-search-form

Advanced Search form http://www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch

Advanced Search video (same as the How to search JSTOR video)

d. Citation Locator http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/citation-locator

e. Finding Related Items (right side of screen) http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/finding-related-items

f. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/


 * JSTOR Browse**

By Discipline This can give you the major journals in your area of interest http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals

By Title You can just use the APU PERIODICAL FINDER

By Publisher I am not sure you will ever need to browse this way

Can any of us get an account?
 * MyJSTOR**

Why do it? Register for a MyJSTOR account in order to:

Save citations Email and export saved citations Save and run searches Receive email alerts for saved searches, tracked journals (eToc), and tracked citations

Manage account and Profile (both on same screen) http://www.jstor.org/action/myJstorSettings


 * WEEK #10**


 * 8 November Tuesday**

A. JSTOR [nothing to prepare: we will go over in class]

B. Project MUSE [nothing to prepare: we will go over in class] http://muse.jhu.edu/

Equiano Mittelberger Pastorius Beverley

From our National Humanities Center toolbox Becoming American, 1690-1763 Growth New Settlers (4) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/text4read.htm


 * Limit your reading just to the following:**
 * French in Virginia**
 * http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf**

PDF of my book: The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia


 * 10 November Thursday**


 * Topic for today: Benjamin Franklin**


 * Rather than using our normal material from the National Humanities Center toolbox, please work with the following websites:**

http://www.benfranklin300.org/exhibition/_html/0_0/index.htm
 * I. Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Online exhibition**

Chapter One: Character Matters (1706-1723) a. A Voracious Reader b. Silence Dogood

Chapter Two: B. Franklin, Printer (1723-1748) a. Way to Wealth b. At Home in Philadelphia

Chapter Three: Civic Visions (1731-1751) a. Improving the Self and Community "As a lifelong learner, Franklin taught himself to read French, German, Italian, and Spanish, on top of the Latin he learned as a child." b. Protecting the Citizens

Chapter Four: Useful Knowledge (1747-1785) a. A Society of "Ingenious Men" b. Shipboard Amusements [see "Swimming by Kite"] c. Electrical Fire

Chapter Five: World Stage (1744-1787) a. Forging Unification [Albany Congress!!] [Glass Armonica] b. Declaring Independence c. Forming Alliances d. Mastering Diplomacy e. Creating a Constitution

Chapter Six: Seeing Franklin (1787-Today) His unfinished Autobiography

http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
 * II. Benjamin Franklin PBS**

Check out these specific screens:

Ben A to Z http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/az.html

Health http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_inquiring_medical.html

Inventions http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_inquiring_little.html

Glass Armonica http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_inquiring_glass.html

Post Office http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_world_letters.html

France http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_world_france.html


 * WEEK #11**


 * 15 November Tuesday**

Becoming American, 1690-1763 Peoples http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/peoples.htm

Women (5) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text5/text5read.htm

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text5/marycooper.pdf
 * Mary Cooper** records five years as a Long Island farmwife, 1768-1773


 * Eliza Pinckney**

Eliza Lucas Pinckney, her management of South Carolina plantations, 1749-1762 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text5/elizapinckney.pdf

Check out these biographical sketches of her:

National Museum of Women's History http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/eliza-lucas-pinckney/

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Lucas

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6511/
 * Elizabeth Ashbridge** recounts her path to becoming a Quaker, 1730s


 * 17 November Thursday**

Becoming American, 1690-1763 Peoples Diversity (6) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text6/text6read.htm

"Mingled like fish at sea": colonies' religious and ethnic diversity, 1698-1769 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text6/diversity.pdf


 * WEEK #12**


 * 22 November Tuesday**


 * Virtual Class**


 * Read carefully each of the following 8 short articles.**
 * Pick at least one point from each article (and write about it) that you want to implement in the future into your own writing process.**

"The Ultimate 15 point Checklist to Make Your Writing Come Alive" http://writetodone.com/2011/10/01/the-ultimate-15-point-checklist-to-make-your-writing-come-alive/

"How to Slash Your Writing Time in Half" http://writetodone.com/2010/11/16/how-to-slash-your-writing-time-in-half/

"5 Quick-Start Tips to Help Improve Your Writing" http://writetodone.com/2010/09/03/5-quick-start-tips-to-help-improve-your-writing/

"7 steps to creativity – how to have ideas" http://writetodone.com/2010/05/05/7-steps-to-creativity-how-to-have-ideas/

"10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work" http://writetodone.com/2010/12/04/get-your-eagle-eye-on-10-tips-for-proofreading-your-own-work/

"7 Quick-Start Techniques for Fighting the Fear to Write" http://www.copyblogger.com/beat-writing-fear/

"The Foolproof Cure for Weak Content: 4 Ways to Get Some Perspective" http://www.copyblogger.com/writing-perspective/

"7 Tips for an Authentic and Productive Writing Process" http://www.copyblogger.com/authentic-writer/


 * 24 November Thursday**
 * Thanksgiving: NO CLASS**


 * WEEK #13**


 * 29 November Tuesday**

Becoming American, 1690-1763 Economies http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/economies.htm

Planters (5) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text5/text5read.htm

Diary of **William Byrd II** of Virginia, selections, 1709-1712 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text5/williambyrddiary.pdf

Check out these biographical sketches of him:

Encyclopedia of Virginia History http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Byrd_William_1674-1744

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd_II

Diary of **Landon Carter** of Virginia, selections, 1758 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text5/landoncarterdiary.pdf

Check out these biographical sketches of him:

Encyclopedia of Virginia History http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Carter_Landon_1710-1778

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_Carter


 * 1 December Thursday**


 * [For context, work first through this wonderful Library of Congress webpage about the First Great Awakening:**
 * http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html]**

Becoming American, 1690-1763 Ideas http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/ideas.htm

Religion II: The Great Awakening (2) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text2/text2read.htm

Whitefield revivals described by Benjamin Franklin, 1739 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text2/franklinwhitefield.pdf

Whitefield revivals described by Nathan Cole, 1740 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5711

Clergymen debate revivalism, 1742-1743 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text2/clergymendebate.pdf

Supplemental sites: Christine Heyrman The First Great Awakening http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/grawaken.htm


 * WEEK #14**


 * 6 December Tuesday**

Here is the only assigned reading for today: Mark S. Weiner, "This Miserable African: Race, Crime, and Disease in Colonial Boston." http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-03/weiner/


 * One--on--One Assessment Huddles**

a. Try not to feel too stressed about our huddles.

b. Scriptures that guide my approach:

Micah 6:8 (NIV) And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Psalm 145:8 (NIV) The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

c. Yet we still must talk grades.

I have built on the assessment from last time.

d. To remind yourself how I assess your semester's work, please reread the GRADING page of our Learning Professor wiki: http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Grading

Your semester grade will be what YOU have earned. You essentially measure yourself.

Your grade is based on your own effort and consistency day after day over the course of the entire semester.


 * Your reactions should have been posted (on your wiki page) on time to count for anything near full credit.**


 * Excess absences (more than 2) may push your grade lower.**


 * 8 December Thursday**

Work (on your own) completely through this "Blog" module. We will expand on it during our final class session today. http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Integrating+Technology