History of Science OnlineCourse Info: HSCI 3013 - section 995 - Fall 2008 |
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Reading 1 + Quiz (Background)
| # | Due Date | Pts | Activity | Time |
| 2 | Wednesday
11:59 p.m. |
15 | Reading
1 + Quiz |
2 hrs. |
Each week you will have two assignments that substitute for classroom lectures: "Reading 1" and "Reading 2." Both assignments have quizzes worth a total of 25 points. Usually the Reading 1 quiz is worth 15 points and the Reading 2 quiz is worth 10 points, but some weeks the points will go the other way around. Some weeks, but not always, the Reading 1 assignment consists of background readings from your textbooks, and the Reading 2 assignment consists of readings from primary sources.
Definitions:
Learning Objective: The Reading 1 assignment provides historical background and context related to the topics for the week.
The Reading 1 assignment is one of the first and longest activities you will do every week (see Weekly Assignments and time management tips). Don't be in a hurry; immerse yourself in the topic for the week so that you will be able to think about it and talk about it in the later assignments. The two reading assignments substitute for ordinary course lectures. Unlike listening to a few bars of background Muzak (see quote at the bottom of the page), the Reading 1 assignment is usually the most time-demanding assignment each week, so it would be wise to factor this into your schedule...
Begin the Reading 1 assignment on the same day as the Starting Assumptions!
Tip: Why not plan to complete it at least one day before it is actually due?
To provide a common basis for discussion, everyone in the class completes the same reading assignments.
How will I know what Readings are assigned each week? The Reading 1 assignments page for each week lists each Reading 1 assignment for that week and indicates where to find it. They are generally found in the required textbooks, or as exhibits in the Exhibits Online website (see the Exhibits Online orientation). Oftentimes, supplemental notes are provided for textbook readings, to point out interesting aspects or clarify certain ideas.
History is not just memorizing names and dates! Rather than emphasizing rote memorization, the Reading 1 assignments will clue you in to important aspects of the times and places involved in each week's unit, so that you will be prepared to recognize the significance of what you encounter in the primary source readings and subsequent discussions. In your Interpretation essay you will be required to cite evidence to support your point of view from both secondary and primary source readings.
Tip: After completing the Starting Assumptions, but before starting the Reading 1 assignment, take a quick glance at the Interpretation questions for the week, so that as you go through the readings you will be able to make a special note of points you want to make in your Interpretation essay.
Reading 1 Quiz:
After you finish the Reading 1 assignments, there's a Reading 1 Quiz for you
to take at Desire2Learn.
In the yellow box below are the instructions you will see each week for the
Reading 1 Quiz. There is also a separate page About
Quizzes which may answer other questions that you have.
Print the Reading 1 assignment page for a given week before you do the readings, because it contains the questions you will see when you take the quiz. As you read, write in the answers to the questions. In this way the quizzes are "open-book"!
This page is a general description of the Reading 1 assignment. For the specific questions you will be quizzed over on any given week, go to the unit page for that week by clicking the link for that week on the course home page.
| READING 1 QUIZ: The statements are either True or False. When you take the quiz at Desire2Learn, you will see 15 of these statements, chosen at random. You can take the quiz a total of two times, up until the due date, when the quiz will no longer be available. If you take the quiz a second time, your first attempt will be erased and your second attempt will be recorded. You will find the quiz in the Quizzes section of Desire2Learn. |
"I object to background music no matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their music is on. I'd like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights." Aaron Copland, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
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HSCI 3013. History
of Science to 17th century
Many thanks to Mythology
and Folklore and other online courses developed by Laura Gibbs.
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