EYE-OPENER FOR THE BIWEEKLY: Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
KEY DATES:
1. On Friday, Dec. 7, your research paper is due.
2. On Monday, Dec. 17, your take-home TEST is due. There will be two questions: 1. What is Early Modernity that is made up of the Renaissance, Reformation, The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment? 2.Why was Early Modernity not enough for humans?
LONG PERIOD: work on Late Modernity Project
The week of Nov. 26
CLASS ONE: we will discuss sections 27 and 28 from the chapter on the Scientific Revolution. HOMEWORK: please read the packet that is made up of Galileo's Letter to Archduchess Christina and excerpts from Frances Bacon's New Organon and Descartes' Discourse on Method.
CLASS TWO: we will discuss the readings. HOMEWORK: finish the chapter on the Scientific Revolution.
CLASS THREE: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: read the Perry handout on the Enlightenment through Political Thought.
CLASS FOUR: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: finish the handout on the Enlightenment.
The week of Dec. 3
LONG PERIOD: work on research papers.
CLASS ONE: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: please read to the bottom of page 16 in the handout on Rousseau from Paul Johnson's Intellectuals.
CLASS TWO: we will discuss the homework. HOMEWORK: finish the Johnson article on Rousseau.
CLASS THREE: we will discuss the reading. HOMEWORK: finish up your research papers.
CLASS FOUR: hand in research papers. We will read a few of them in class. HOMEWORK: we will outline the first essay question for the take-home TEST on the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
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