Inform the instructor of absence due to illness as soon as possible. Exams or quizzes given on days of unexcused absences cannot be made up, nor can discussion participation for days of unexcused absences. Extensions on assignment due dates are granted only in very unusual circumstances. If you miss class due to an illness or other medical reason, please let me know as soon as possible. The grade for any late written work , other than for medical reasons or otherwise cleared with the instructor in advance, will be reduced ten percent per day for each day that it is late.
Readings are to be completed on the days for which they are listed.
The map quiz will be given at the beginning of class, Wednesday January 26. For the quiz, you will be given another blank outline map and asked to accurately mark twenty of the features or locations that I will choose from the longer list. The first paper will focus on Native American experience in the later nineteenth-century West, and the second paper will compare and contrast the lives of immigrants from the 1880s to the 1980s. You will receive more information about the specifics of these papers later. Learning takes place not only through reading and listening, but also through talking about the material at hand and asking questions.