Main Page-History Through FIlm


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