Main Page-History Through FIlm


UNIT	DATE	ASSIGNMENT
Introduction	W - 2/3 Day 2 60 mins.	Introduction to the course. Course syllabus handed out. Reading --> "Film as Social and Cultural History."
Independence *(1776)*	F - 2/5 Day 4 60 mins.	Reading --> "Letters Between John and Abigail Adams Concerning Women's Rights." Begin viewing 1776.
	T - 2/9 Day 6 80 mins.	Reading --> "Is 1776 Historically Accurate?" Continue viewing 1776. Research and Essay Project --> Due 2/25
	F - 2/12 Day 2 60 mins.	Finish viewing 1776.
Antebellum Period (Gangs of New York)	T - 2/23 Day 4 60 mins.	Reading --> "Homicide, Nativism, and Working-Class Culture in Antebellum New York." [Don't print this out--it wil be give to you in class.] PowerPoint --> "The Five Points & the Gangs of NY."
	Th - 2/25 Day 6 80 mins.	Begin viewing Gangs of New York. Hand in your essay on your favorite signer of the Declaration of Independence. [100 pts]
	W - 3/3 Day 2 60 mins.	Continue viewing Gangs of New York.
	F - 3/5 Day 4 60 mins.	Continue viewing Gangs of New York.
	W - 3/10 Day 6 80 mins.	Finish viewing Gangs of New York and discuss the movie.
The Civil War & Reconstruction ( Glory)	F - 3/12 Day 2 60 mins.	View Glory.
	T - 3/16 Day 4 60 mins.	Essay Test on Gangs of New York -- 50 points
	Th - 3/18 Day 6 80 mins.	Continue viewing Glory.
	M - 3/22 Day 2 60 mins.	Finish viewing the last scenes of Glory.
The Western (Shane)	W - 3/24 Day 4 60 mins.	View several segments of Birth of a Nation. Reading --> "Birth of a Nation Viewed Today."
	F - 3/26 Day 6 80 mins.	Begin viewing Shane. Reading --> Excerpts from Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
	T - 4/6 Day 2 60 mins.	Continue viewing Shane. Research and Essay Project. --> due Tuesday, April 20.
	Th - 4/8 Day 4 60 mins.	Finish viewing Shane. Begin viewing Godfather II.
The Immigrant Experience (*The Godfather, I & II*)	M - 4/12 Day 6 80 mins.	Extra Credit Essay on Glory. Continue viewing Godfather II.
	W - 4/14 Day 2 40 mins.	Reading --> Excerpts from Machiavelli's The Prince. Continue viewing Godfather I
	F - 4/16 Day 4 60 mins.	Continue viewing Godfather I
	T - 4/20 Day 6 80 mins.	Finish viewing Godfather I and look at a clip from the 1930s film, Public Enemy, starring James Cagney [if time permits].
	Th - 4/22 Day 2 60 mins.	H-O-H Instruction Sheet. H-O-H ["Hands-On-History" -- 40 points] discussion of The Prince.
Hollywood Goes to War	M - 4/26 Day 4 60 mins.	See clips from WW II propaganda films, cartoons, film trailers, and a clip from the 1944 Hollywood Canteen broadcast to Armed Forces Radio.
Wartime Propaganda (Tora! Tora! Tora!)	W - 4/28 Day 6 80 mins.	Begin viewingTora! Tora! Tora!.
	F - 4/30 Day 2 60 mins.	Continue viewingTora! Tora! Tora!.
	T - 5/4 Day 4 60 mins.	Continue viewingTora! Tora! Tora!.
	Th - 5/6 Day 6 80 mins.	Finish viewingTora! Tora! Tora!.
Wartime Leadership (Truman)	T - 5/11 Day 2 60 mins.	Begin viewing Truman.
	Th - 5/13 Day 4 60 mins.	Continue viewing Truman.
	M - 5/17 Day 6 80 mins.	Finish viewing Truman. Extra Credit essays sheet.
The Cold War & the Nuclear Age (Thirteen Days)	F - 5/21 Day 4 60 mins.	Begin viewing Thirteen Days. Reading --> "The Cuban Missile Crisis--Reading the Lessons Correctly." Document Packet --> "Khrushchev-Kennedy Letters During the Cuban Missile Crisis."
	W - 5/26 Day 6 80 mins.	Continue viewing Thirteen Days.
	F - 5/28 Day 2 60 mins.	Finish viewingThirteen Days.
(Dr. Strangelove)	W - 6/2 Day 4 60 mins.	View Dr. Strangelove. Reading --> "A Commentary on Dr. Strangelove" by Brian Siano EXTRA CREDIT ESSAY(S) DUE!!!
	T - 6/8 Day 6 80 mins.	Finish viewing Dr. Strangelove.
	Th - 6/10 Day 2 60 mins.	Work on your paper.
	M - 6/14 Day 6 60 mins.	FINAL PAPER DUE!!