Weekly Syllabus: Week 6

Week 6

 Three Worlds of Inquiry: The Western World, The Communist World, The Third World

Monday, February 28

Class

-       Initial inquiry: Kevin Rudd Apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TZOGpG6cM&feature=fvsr

o   Questions

o   Discussions

o   Notes

-       Things Fall Apart, ch 16

o   Questions

o   Notes

-       Homework review

-       “Lab” time with grade interviews and term 3 goals setting

Assignment

-       Start collecting notes for answers to your questions

o   Your notes must be collected in a place where I can review

-       Blog post (WR process: clarity and use of language)

Tuesday, March 1

Class

-       Initial Inquiry:

o   Strayer 976, “Fight for Liberty”

§  Analysis and commentary

§  Critical questions

§  Notes

o   Strayer 1028 “Lenin Lives”

§  Analysis and commentary

§  Critical Questions

§  Notes

-       Writing Assignment: Compare the two images.  Write the beginnings of an essay wherein you compare and contrast the purposes and effects of the two images. 

-       Lab time with grade interviews and term 3 goals setting

Assignment

-       Continue collecting notes for your questions

o   There will be a note review on Wednesday

-       Blog post (WR process: clarity and use of language)

Wednesday, March 2

            Class

-       Notes review: Turn in your notes and show your progress (this will provide evidence of AH and CT process: organization of material, relevancy of material, depth of inquiry)

-       Harkness/Socratic Discussion: What obstacles impede the goal of universal human rights?

Please provide suggestions for reflection by Tuesday evening. (SP and CT Process: tone, volume, clarity, textual references, questions, depth of conversation)

           

Assignment

-       Take home peer paper for review; edit carefully

-       Blog post (WR process: clarity and use of language)

Thursday, March 3

            Class

-       Writing Workshop: return peer review essays.  Discussion: TBD

-       Things Fall Apart, ch. 21

o   Questions

o   Notes

-       Commentary: The Proud Tower: The conditions for World War I

Assignment

-       Edit, revise and/or rewrite the essay comparing Lenin and Liberty. Due Friday

-       Continue collecting notes for your questions

Friday, March 4

            Class

-       Journal: What makes war worth the cost?

o   Reflection and discussion

-       World War I video: TBD

-       Journal: Are the costs ever worth not going to war

            Assignment

-       Collect your work from the “lab” project; TBD

Term 3: Week 2: Syllabus

Week 2

The Relationship between Nationalism and Capitalism, Loyalty, Patriotism

Monday, January 31

Class

-          Take thirty minutes and carefully discuss Nationalism and Capitalism

-          Examine focus questions #10 and #11

-          Review requirements of the Africa and Igbo presentations

Assignment

-          Work on Africa and Igbo presentations

Tuesday, February 1

Class

-          Take twenty minutes and discuss the concepts of loyalty and patriotism

-          Harkness on the difference between patriotism and nationalism

-          Continue work on research for focus questions #10 and #11.

Assignment

-    Work on research for focus questions #10 and #11

Wednesday, February 2

            Class

-          Group work on presentations on Africa and the Igbo

Assignment

-          Work on research for focus questions #10 and #11

Thursday, February 3

            Class

-          Watch clips on patriotism and loyalty

-          Take forty minutes to carefully consider the relationship between of Nationalism and Liberty

-          Take forty minutes to read and harnkess on Mazzini and Constant excerpts on Nationalism and Liberty with a look at focus question # 10  

Assignment

-          Read through chapter 6 of Things Fall Apart

Friday, February 4

            Class

-          Take twenty minutes to examine Gale Stokes review article on Nationalism and Capitalsim: http://www.jstor.org/stable/178866

-          Take twenty minutes to explore Procrustean Logic with a view toward understanding mistakes and mistaken understanding (think Okonkwo)

-          Take forty minutes to read and discuss chapters 5 and 6 of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

o   Discuss

-          Take twenty minutes to write on focus question #12

Assignment

-          Catch up on all unfinished reading; work on research for focus questions #10 and #11; Work on presentations on Africa and Igbo; Read Strayer: 

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Focus Questions

1.      What is a nation, and how is it distinct from a state?

2.      When did the idea of a “nation” develop?

3.      Why is the nation a “novel form of political community”?

4.      Why is Nationalism an “infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea”?

5.      What is the value of instilling nationalist identities into citizens?

6.      Who belongs to a nation? Who can speak for a nation?

7.      Is Nationalism a Western idea?

8.      What was the cause of the Thirty Years Way, and how did it end?

9.      How might have the flexibility of Nationalism affected the Religious Wars of the 17^th Century?

10  How are Nationalism and Capitalism related?

11  Did Nationalism give rise to Capitalism or did Capitalism give rise to Nationalism?

12  What are examples of Procrustean Logic?

Term 3: Week 1: Syllabus

 

Week 1

Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, Constitutionalism, Free Market Economies, Hobbes, Locke, Public vs. Private Distinction

Monday, January 24

Class

-          Take twenty five minutes to carefully consider the concept of “Nationalism”

-          Read Ways of the World, 796-800

o   Write in your notebook an answer to focus question #1

§  Discuss

o   Write in your notebook an answer to focus question #2

§  Discuss

o   Write in your notebook an answer to focus question #3

§  Discuss

Assignment

-    Write a well crafted, one-to-two page essay, answering focus question #4

Tuesday, January 25

Class

-          Take twenty minutes and discuss answers to focus question #4

-          Read Ways of the World, 723-727

-          Write in your notebook an answer to focus question #8

o   Discuss

Assignment

-    Write a well crafted, one-to-two page essay, answering focus question #9

Wednesday, January 26

            Class

-          Group Discussion on focus questions #5, 6 and 7

Assignment

-          Read selections from handout on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Thursday, January 27

            Class

-          Take forty minutes to carefully consider the concepts of Liberal Democracy and Constitutionalism

-          Take forty minutes to write a well-crafted essay that answers focus question #6

Assignment

-          Read Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on “Nationalism” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nationalism/

Friday, January 28

            Class

-          Take forty minutes to review the Stanford Encyclopedia article on “Nationalism”

-          Take forty minutes and begin reading Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (first two chapters)

o   Discuss

Assingment

-          Catch up on all unfinished reading

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Focus Questions

1.      What is a nation, and how is it distinct from a state?

2.      When did the idea of a “nation” develop?

3.      Why is the nation a “novel form of political community”?

4.      Why is Nationalism an “infinitely flexible and enormously powerful idea”?

5.      What is the value of instilling nationalist identities into citizens?

6.      Who belongs to a nation? Who can speak for a nation?

7.      Is Nationalism a Western idea?

8.      What was the cause of the Thirty Years Way, and how did it end?

9.      How might have the flexibility of Nationalism affected the Religious Wars of the 17^th Century?

10.  How are Nationalism and Capitalism related?

11.  Did Nationalism give rise to Capitalism or did Capitalism give rise to Nationalism?