SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 4

Monday, February 28

Lecture:  Gilded Age Politics

Bring book tomorrow.  Reading guide for Ch 21 due on Wednesday.

Tuesday, March 1

Work day.  You can work on anything you want:  Finish reading guide for Ch 21.  Start Chapter 22 reading guide.  Read, "The Wizard of Oz:  A Parable on Populism."  Questions for reading due on Friday.

Reading Guide Ch 21:  due Wednesday
"Wizard of Oz":  Reading and Questions Due Friday
Reading Guide Ch 22:  Due Tuesday

Wednesday, March 2

Meet in Blackbox.  Watch The Presidents: Hayes through McKinley

Thursday, March 3

Lecture:  Populism and the Election of 1896 (part 1)

Friday, March 4

Lecture:  Populism and the Election of 1896 (part 2)

Reading guide Chapter 22, due Tuesday.  Test over this unit next Friday.

SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 22-25

Tuesday, February 22

Video:  The Homestead Strike

RG for Chapter 19 due tomorrow.

Wednesday, February 23

Lecture:  Immigration and the City, p. 1

Read Chapter 21.  Complete Reading Guide for Tuesday

Thursday, February 24

Lecture:  Immigration and the City, p. 2

Friday, February 25

Lecture:  Gilded Age Politics

Complete Reading Guide for Tuesday

End of Online Discussion

That's all, folks.  Nice job on the discussion.  The discussions are now closed.  We will talk about the comments on Wednesday after we finish the film.  See you tomorrow.  Hope you had a good day off.

Schedule Changes

You will now have until Monday night (9 pm) to respond to the online discussion questions.

Also, your reading guide will be due on Wednesday.

Optional Discussion Question

If you have not yet had an opportunity to respond to one of the previous questions, you can respond to this one as well.  Remember:  you need to make 4 comments total.  You need to respond to two questions and then make two further comments, either to the question again or to someone's response.  Your responses don't need to be long, but must have a specific example to back up your point.

Zinn recognizes a strange dichotomy of the Gilded Age:  America's non-regulation of business enabled corporations to exploit workers and make people either very wealthy or very poor.  At the same time, however, the free-market system enabled individuals from very humble origins (ie Carnegie) to become self made millionaires.    Evaluate Zinn’s notion that “the government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx described a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain order, but serving the interests of the rich.”

Discussion responses will be cut off Friday night at 9 pm, so make sure you respond.

Also, check to make sure your response was saved and recorded.  If it's not here, you're not getting credit.