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Week of 3/15 - 3/18

 

Week 1:  March 15 - 18, 2003

Definitions and Frameworks

What ideas of citizenship do you bring to this course?

What do we mean by citizenship?

What key values, ideas, and beliefs informed the founding of our nation?

What is a watershed? 

How does citizenship relate to watersheds?

How have this week's readings and discussion influenced our ideas about citizenship?

 

Monday 3/15

Tuesday 3/16

Wednesday 3/17

Thursday 3/18

Seminar

10:00 a.m. to

12:00 p.m.

**MEET IN Johnson Center

3rd floor Atrium

 between C and D**

•  Seminar Introductions

•  Review Unit Syllabus

•  Intro to Group Projects

·  Community Guidelines for Learning

U.S. Citizenship Pre-Test

 

•  Review writing assignments

•  Free Write on Citizenship

•  Introduction to poetry

 

Readings

• Barber, "Discourse of Civility" (R)

• Laviera, "AmeRican" (R)

• Sellers, "A Citizen on Paper" (SP)

Readings

•  Reading and Writing about Literature (R)

•  Holmes:  “God Save the Flag” (R)

•  Emerson:  “Concord Hymn (R)

•  Snyder:  “For All” (R)

•  Snyder:  "Coming Into the Watershed" (R)

Readings

• Declaration of Independence: 2nd to last draft (R) & Final version (AR, p. 483) 

• Constitution (R)

• Jefferson: “An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom”  (R)

• Federalist Papers: Intro., #10, #51 (R)

• Anti-Federalist Papers: Centinel, #1 (R)

Major

Assignments Due

     

•  Discovery Worksheet     

•  Group Project Preferences

Assigned/

Handout

 

•  Discovery Worksheet

•  Citizenship Essay

 

•  Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Smith Table

Notes

     

Heavy Reading Ahead

Afternoon

1-3 P.M.

Rotations:

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #1

·  Working in Large Groups: Challenges & Considerations

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #

 

Rotations:

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #1

·  Working in Large Groups: Challenges & Considerations

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #2

Rotations:

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #1

·  Working in Large Groups: Challenges & Considerations

·  Group Project Options & Experiential Activity #2

Afternoon Faculty Meeting

 

NCC LAB Reserved

Office Hours: PJ Whiteway

1:00-3:00 p.m.