Daily Agendas

Week 15 - December 8-12, 1997

Monday - No School - Teacher Inservice

Tuesday -

Welcome

Roll call

Announcements

Lecture and Notes -

Intermountain West and the Great Plains

Settlement and Development

Reading -

Read the Cronon essay from Merchant's book pp. 323-336.

Quiz -

Reading quiz over Introduction and Chapter 1 of Cadillac Desert; worth 10 points.

Next quiz on Friday - Chapter Two

Wednesday -

Welcome

Roll call

Announcements

Video -

The Battle for the Great Plains

Reading -

Finish reading the Cronon essay from Merchant. Be prepared to interact and work with the ideas of the essay tomorrow.

Homework -

Keep reading in Reisner. Next quiz on Friday over Chapter 2.

Thursday -

Welcome

Roll call

Announcements

Assignment -

Create two parallel storyboards to tell the ascending and descending story of the Great Plains. Let Cronon's history of the Great Plains which includes the last two paragraphs on page 324 be a middle section dividing the two storyboards. Your storyboards should reflect an understanding of Cronon's ideas of starting and ending scenes and framing the story. Try to focus on events that can clearly be told as a part of a story of progress and part of a story of declension, depending upon how it is told.

Example:

Story line of Progress - White settlerts cleared the plains of the menace of the Indians, making the plains safe for settlement.

Cronon history - "Native people moved to reservations."

Story line of Tragedy - Euro-Americans wiped out native cultures of the plains people through programs of genocide and destroyed the ecosystem in which those cultures had developed and lived in harmony.

Your storyboards should be 8-12 frames in length for each of the two story lines. Make sure to include the middle "history" which is the pivot point for the stries. Due Friday, December 19. Worth 40 points.

Friday -

Welcome

Roll call

Announcements

Class Meeting

Work on storyboards

Quiz over Reisner Chapter 2