COURSE READINGS
The
assignment books for the course are an electronic, CD text: Jerry
Baydo, A TOPICAL HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICA, second
edition, published by National Social Science Press and electronic, CD
reader Jerry Baydo, editor, EARLY
AMERICA EXAMINED: A READER. The electronic text includes audio
power point presentations for each topic along with a text section for
each topic and a readings section with internet links for each topic.
It is important that each student register the CD by using the serial
number inside the cover of the CD at http://www.nsspress.com,
which is the NSS Press web site. Once you have received your registration
material, you will enter the web site where you will find the text
material, all updated links for the readings, along with power point
presentations and the Oregon Trail
webquest needed for the group project.
The
reading in this book will be supplemented by material in the Course
Documents area. The Course Documents area will include objectives for
each weekly topic along with an overview of reading along with
suggested thought questions known as Reading
and Discussion Questions. In this area there will also be a lecture for
each topic. There will also be in the Course Documents Reading and
Links that take you to additional sites on the internet that are not
included on the CD and at the NSS Press website. Sometimes these links
involve your uploading of Real Player and Quick Time Video on your
computer.
All
students are expected to do the following readings for each discussion
topic in the class. First you begin with the audio power point
overview, then you
read the lecture in the Course Document section. You continue your
topic reading by going through the CD text and going through many of
the internet links in the readings area. You finish the reading by going through the power point
presentation on that topic.
Specific reading for assignments will be found in the assignment
area for that assignment.
The reader CD with essays will be used
throughout the class and will be the main source for the take home
midterm and take home final assignments. These are original essays that
cover certain aspects of early American history.
