Final Project Rubric

Not sure why this wasn't showing up earlier- trying again!

1920s Documents

Are... here.

The Last Syllabi

Is here.

Here's another article, this time about the impact of poverty

Read it if you have a spare moment...

Interesting article on class mobility

Read it here- it's interesting.

Class Matters Graphics

Are here.

Two Acre Plot

Read this for tomorrow.

New syllabus

Here it is. It is here.

Handout on 1920s consumption and Horatio Algier for Friday's class

Kindly read the attached for class on Friday. Bring your copy to class. It's here.

Feminism's Second Wave

In case you didn't get the reading on Feminism's Second Wave...

Here is the Class Matters article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/national/class/OVERVIEW-FINAL.html

And here are the questions.  Answer the reading questions only.

Syllabus for May 6 through May 10

The syllabus for this week is here.

The Problem that has no name....

See here for our writing assignment, due Monday, May 13. It says May 9 on the assignment but the actual date is 5/13,  I'll fix the assignment itself on Monday.

Can women have it all?

For Thursday:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/?single_page=true

Also- this is a BRIEF overview of the women's movement which might be helpful for our upcoming essay:

http://www.nwhp.org/Legacy/move-hist.html

The 1950s instructional film from class on Wednesday

You can watch the film here: http://archive.org/details/WhyStudy1955

Documents from late last week...

...including the directions on the gender spheres diagram, the cult of domesticity, and the cult of true womenhood.

-Easton

NOW Statement, 1966

Read this for homework, we'll discuss it tomorrow.

Images of Women

Look here!

Syllabus for last week in April

You can find the syllabus here.

Women get the Vote

Hey- Read this for Monday!

Women Authors and Wikipedia

How interesting that this was in the NY Times today.

Weekly Overview, 4/22 - 2-26

Here it is.

Colonial Ladies

Read this for Friday.  Think about the ways women had and did not have power in this society.  Annotate for those ideas.   Please have this available in class on Friday.

The documentary on Tuesday's speaker.

 http://vimeo.com/30915646 

Miss class Friday?

Complete the worksheet at this link.

Civil Rights Portfolio

Here are some documents to start with...

Civil Rights Portfolio

Here's our project.  I'll post helpful documents as we go.  We're in the library Thursday.

Short story for Monday night reading, 4/8

Please print this out and bring your copy with you to class, for our continuing discussion on Bigger Thomas and "How Bigger Was Born"

Story here.

Syllabus for April 8-12

You can find this week's syllabus here.

Make sure to read this for next week.

Message to the Grassroots

Missing an assignment for Third Quarter?

It's probably here.

Read for Tomorrow

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Weekly Overview, April 1-5

Here it is!

The Souls of Black Folk

Here it is!

Reflection

You need to fill this out. We'll do it in class on Thursday.  If you won't be here, you need to get it to us.

Paper Schedule and Format

So... papers due next week.  Also, here's the syllabus:

You should turn in:

Clean copy of final paper- name and title, page numbers (except page one)
Works-cited page
Annotated bibliography with at least 10-14 annotated sources
Draft with either Easton or Christensen comments

WE WILL NOT ACCEPT PAPERS WITHOUT ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Due Dates:

Monday (3/18)
Lizzie
Sara
Jackie
Claudia
Josh
Hailey
Marielle
Anderson
Shane
Lauren
Peyton

Tuesday (3/19)
Abby M.
Tiereny
Aaron
Alex B.
Hannah
Andy
Greer
Grace G.
Becky
Julie
Zach
Charlotte
Sammie

Wednesday (3/20)
Curt
Abby B.
Allie
Laura K
Todd
Natalie L
Steve
Paula
Ben
Spencer
Anna
 Kyle
Tong

Thursday (3/21)
Kelly
Jordan
Young
Fan
Emily
Natalie G.
Samantha
Sally
Andrea
Joel
Caroline
Taylor
Grace F.

Conferences

Hi American Studies! We're trying a new platform for our course website. Let's see how this works. Here's the list of ASP conferences: ASP Conferences