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Wed., Sept. 4 - What is History? In the computer lab, you will learn how to use Black-Board. You will post your comments on the following to BlackBoard's discussion forum.
First assignment on the Blackboard Discussion Forum - Take five minutes to introduce yourself on the discussion forum.

Second assignment - What do you associate with the word "history"? How do you see history -- positive, negative, interesting, boring, relevant, beside-the-point, accurate, biased? Free-write for five minutes.

Some Websites of interest 

Sipapu-Cheto Ketl Great Kiva Model | 1492: An Ongoing Voyage | Columbus and the Age of Discovery | Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas | Jamestown Rediscovery | A Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation

 Wed., Sept. 11 -  Check out the You be the Historian site at the Smithsonian.  Click on Let's go.  Explore each of the clues.  Next, click on Conclude Your Investigation.   Examine the conclusions about the Springer family reached by historians.  
   Next, on blackboard go to discussion forum titled "household Evidence."  Read the instructions and complete the assignment.

Some Websites of Interest

 
Africans in America (PBS) | Freedmen and Southern Society | American Slave Narratives:  An Online Anthology | Excerpts from Slave Narratives

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17

In the text, Who Built America, read chapter three, " Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640-1760"

There will be quiz on this material in class on Monday, September 17
    

Wed., Sept. 18 - Go to and then read the two following documents on the web:
--Gottlieb Mittelberger on the Misfortune of Indentured Servants, 1754
--Alexander Falconbridge "The Men Negroes Are Fastened Together By Handcuffs"

Working with your assigned group, compile a list of similarities and differences based on these two documents in the voyages of indentured servants and slaves.   Then, individually, post on the blackboard what you consider the most important similarity and the most important difference.  Quote from the documents to explain your answer

Some Websites of Interest 

Avalon Project: Pre-18th Century Documents (Yale) | Gottlieb Mittelberger: On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754) | Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | A Midwife's Tale (PBS) | Martha Ballard's Diary Online |