Calendar
January 2018
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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MLK Day
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Syllabus / Modified Cornell Note / D2L /
Introduction-Your map of Latin America
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Purchase book and read the Introduction and Chapter 1 through “Societies and Civilizations” (5-9)
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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
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Finish reading Chapter 1.
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Photo / Finish Discussion from Friday
HisStory / History repeating itself/ Cultural history/ Now

Last Day to Add/Drop
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Friday Chp 1: Additional Reading (1,2)
Start reading Chapter 2.
Discussion Board on D2L
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Narrow Choice of Friday Reading
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 )
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Finish Chp 1: Additional Reading (1,2)
Application for Graduation
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Discuss the Additional Reading (1,2) in Spanish.  Spanish culture as “pulling back the layers of an onion”.  
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Finish reading Chapter 2.
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Review Friday: onion metaphor
Discuss: Chapter 1: When Worlds Collide / Quetzacoátl and Wiracocha
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Finish reading Chapter 2. Finish the Additional Reading.
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Discuss: Chapter 1:  When Worlds Collide / Geography and types of civilizations / Gaze /the other/ example: huaca
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)
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Finish Chp 2: Additional Reading (1,2)
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Thesis for Preliminary Bibliography/Zotero
Discuss the Additional Reading (1,2) in Spanish. Precolumbian America
Journal 1
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Start reading Chapter 3.
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography.
Start reading the Additional Reading 2 (Chp3)
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