Modern History

HONOURS WORLD HISTORY
SYLLABUS
SPRING 2010

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Instructor:    Jerry Alan Sayers

E-mail:        School: sayersd@jcschools.org
               Home:    dusty@sayersnet.com

Course Web Page:    http://www.sayersnet.com/history

Textbook:    World History by Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, Pearson Prentice Hall, Boston: 2009.

Objective: The purpose of this course is to examine the history of the world from the fifteenth century to the present. It will examine Western Civilization in Europe and the Americas, as well as its influence on the entire world and Europe’s loss of Empire through internal warfare and world-wide nationalism, and consider current world issues and their background.

Evaluation:

1.Most classwork, homework, and quizzes count as one grade each.
2.Notebooks checks count as four grades each.
3.Projects and presentations count as five grades each.
4.Tests (objective and essay) count as five grades each.
5.The final exam will count as 15% of the course grade.

Directions for Research Projects
Directions for Research Papers

In recognition of the challenges posed by an honours course, three points will be added to each student’s final grade.

Extra credit will not be assigned to improve a grade.

Work is late if it is not ready to be handed in at the beginning of class (unless otherwise instructed). Late work will receive a penalty of 5 points per day, and must be submitted within five days of the due date. Missed tests must be made up within three days of a student’s return to school. Tests may require an hour and a half, so always be present on test days!

Rules:

1. Be in assigned seat when bell rings.
2. Have class materials ready and personal put away when bell rings.
3. Only speak with permission.
4. Be respectful of others.
5. Turn in work on time.
6. Keep the room tidy.
7. Only leave the room with a hall pass.
8. Quid pro quo

2010 Fall Session

In case of inclement weather, lecture dates may move back one day for each day missed. Presentation dates will NOT change; if a presentation date is missed due to weather or illness, students should be prepared to give the presentation on the first day back in school.

Reading assignments and quizzes will be announced throughout the session. Be sure to be diligent in reading the textbook.

Reading assignments listed should be completed by the begining of class on the date shown.

AUG 4 Welcome

AUG 5 Election Day (NO SCHOOL)

AUG 6 Introduction

AUG 9 The Middle Ages (255-260)

AUG 10 The Beginning of Modern History (269-275; 282-288)

AUG 11 The Renaissance; Slides (406-417)

AUG 12 A Rebirth of Art and Literature

AUG 13 The Old World and the New World (444-451; 470-481)

AUG 16 The Reformation (423-428)

AUG 17 The Reformation Spreads Quiz 1

AUG 18 The Counter-Reformation (431-433)

AUG 19 Tudor England (429-430, 516)