Calendar
August 2017
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Group Seating / Group Interview / Syllabus / Three Questions
29
Purchase book and begin reading the Introduction and Chapter 1
30
Introduction-Your map of Latin America
Reading Specialists
31
Finish reading the Introduction and Chapter 1 through Societies and Civilizations (5-9)
1
Reading Specialists
Discussion: What is Culture(s)? / What is Civilization? / Civilization /cultural inheritance and survival / assimilation, acculturation, enculturation / subcultures and dominant or mainstream culture/ cultural knowledge / cultural diffusion and globalization
2
Finish reading Chapter 1.
Last Day to Drop (Sept. 3rd)
Calendar
September 2017
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
4
Labor Day Holiday
Labor Day
5
6
Class pics / D2L
HisStory / History repeating itself/ Cultural history/ Now
Research Themes/ Expert readers
Discuss Introduction: / Promise & Paradox / Autocratic to democratic / Vast reserves of natural resource (1,2) / Widespread poverty / Political Corruption / Racism (1) / 3 Centuries of Colonial Rule / Common teleology (Hudson School, Cosmic Race 1,2 )
7
Re-read and check notes for Chapter 1
8
Continue our last discussion (Political Corruption / Racism (1) / 3 Centuries of Colonial Rule / Common teleology (Hudson School, Cosmic Race 1,2 )
Discuss: Chapter 1: When Worlds Collide
9
Start reading Chapter 2
11
Have you done D2L?
Finish Discussing: Chapter 1: When Worlds Collide / Geography and types of civilizations  / Write and share summary paragraph
Gaze /the other/ example: huaca
12
Finish reading Chapter 2
13
Thesis for Research Paper? / Discussion Boards?
Geography video / Mountains / Ripples of influence and contact/ Pre-Columbian Civilizations / History of Religion
Tenochtitlán (1,2,3,4,5,6, 7)/ Cuzco (1,2,3) / Buried cities (1,2,3)
14
Start  reading Chapter 3
15
Journal 1
(Chapters 1 & 2)
Begin Discussing Chapter 2: An Emerging Atlantic World / Expert readers
Humanity of the times Discussion (1,2,3,4,5,6) /  Balboa and Leoncico (1,2,3,4)
16
Finish  reading Chapter 3
Establish a topic for the Research Paper.  Write down a working thesis.  Start to generate the Preliminary Bibliography.
18
Feedback: Nature of Colonial Diseases
Finish Discussing Chapter 2: An Emerging Atlantic World / Expert readers
Feudalism to nationalism / Balboa /Inquisition

16
Start  reading Chapter 4
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography.
20
Admin: Sat. Job Op. / Thesis Sentence / New Terremoto in Xochimilco (1)
Finish Discussing Chapter 2: An Emerging Atlantic World / We had discussed, Muslim trade and control of Africa, Old World diseases, Sunjata of Mali (Muslims), genies, and the plow. Need to discuss Portugal, Great Voyages, Spanish Nationalism and Conquest
21
Finish  reading Chapter 4
22
Spanish Nationalism and Conquest.
Discuss Chapter 3: Riddle of the Conquest / Expert readers/ Guns, germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond (1) / Cabeza de Vaca (1,2,3)
Prelim. Bib.
Last Day to Submit Incomplete Grade Changes.
23
Start  reading Chapter 5
25
Discuss Chapter 3: Riddle of the Conquest / Expert readers/ La noche triste / La malinche and Gerónio de Aguilar /
26
Finish  reading Chapter 5
27
Discuss Chapter 3: Riddle of the Conquest / Expert readers/ Felipillo/ Generations to conquer / Reality vs. Spanish Chronicles-History / Pizarro’s Scribe / Great Incan Rebellion
Guns, germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond (1) / Cabeza de Vaca (1,2,3)
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Start  reading and requesting sources by  interlibrary loan.
Watch Great Incan Rebellion
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Discuss: Great Incan Rebellion
Discuss Chapter 4 / Slaves - Keen (1,2) / Feudalism and mercantilism / New Laws and King’s  Consolidation of Power / Repartamiento and Mita/
Cabeza de Vaca (1,2,3)

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Work on Annotated Bibliography.
Watch Guns, germs, and Steel -Jared Diamond (1), (2), and (3)
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