{"id":1333,"date":"2017-08-08T03:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/?post_type=chapter&p=1333"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:10:27","slug":"discussions-and-assignments","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/chapter\/discussions-and-assignments\/","title":{"raw":"Discussions and Assignments","rendered":"Discussions and Assignments"},"content":{"raw":"\"icon<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe assignments in this course are openly licensed, and are available as-is, or can be modified to suit your students' needs.\r\n\r\nIf you import this course into your learning management system (Blackboard, Canvas, etc.), the assignments will automatically be loaded into the assignment tool. The assignment pages within each module link to the live assignment page. You can view them below or throughout the course.\u00a0There is at least one discussion and one assignment ready to be used in every module of the course. We do not recommend assigning them all, however, and recommend selecting those that work best for you<\/strong>. If you choose to assign the capstone project (explained below), we suggest excluding some of the other assignments so that students have sufficient time to prepare for their capstone work.\r\n\r\nTo make edits or customized versions of the assignments, we recommend copying and pasting the discussion or assignment text directly into your LMS discussion or assignment page in order to make changes.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Module 1: Westward Expansion (1840-1900)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 2: Industrialization and Urbanization (1870-1900)<\/span><\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Module 3: The Gilded Age (1870-1900)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 4: Age of Empire\u2014American Foreign Policy (1890-1914)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 5: The Progressive Era (1890-1920)<\/span><\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Module 6: America in World War I (1914-1919)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 7: The Jazz Age\u00a0 (1919-1929)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

\r\n\r\nIntroduce Capstone Part 1<\/strong>: Research<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Module 8: The Great Depression (1929-1932)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 9: The New Deal (1932-1941)<\/span><\/div><\/td>\r\n
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Module 10: World War II (1941-1945)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 11: Post-War Prosperity and the Cold War (1945-1960)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 12: America in the 1960s (1960-1970)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 13: Political Storms at Home and Abroad (1968-1980)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

\r\n\r\nIntroduce Capstone Part 3<\/strong>: Final Project<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Module 14: From Cold War to Culture Wars (1980-2000)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Module 15: The Twenty-First Century (2000-2020)<\/h3>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Capstone Project<\/h2>\r\nThe capstone project is an optional comprehensive assignment that could be assigned to students to complete progressively through the course. The assignment is divided into 3 to 4 pieces and culminates in students creating a PechaKucha presentation.\r\n\r\nFor this capstone project, students will pick a reformer or activist involved with a progressive or social movement between 1877 and 2000. They will evaluate and analyze the ideas, agenda, strategies, and effectiveness of the work done by their chosen reformer or activist in order to make a claim and present on their findings in the form of a PechaKucha presentation (or another pre-approved format). PechaKucha presentations follow a 20x20 presentation format, meaning that a presenter chooses 20 images and speaks about each image for 20 seconds (totaling 6 minutes at 40 seconds).\r\n\r\nThe capstone project components are shared as assignments that link to Google Documents. You can make a copy of those documents to customize them. To do so, open the Google Doc and choose \u201cFile -> Make a copy\u201d to create your own version.\r\n