This is the link to the Aron Ralston video - there are 6 parts. This is only the first of them. The rest will follow each video on the right hand sidebar.
If you've seen 127 Hours, this is not the same thing. You should not substitute the movie for the Brokaw interview if you want to get the points that you need to get whatever grade you need. After Thursday's class, I will post the questions in a way that you can access them. Even if you don't intend to stay for the video on Thursday, you must show up to class. I will explain what you need from the Materials page of Angel to do this.
Ask questions before you start. This should be 45/50 points for doing this peer review essay assignment.
So that means that we finish up MLA tomorrow so that you can do the quiz for 6am on Monday morning. This means that we will go over grammar test stuff for next Tuesday tomorrow and Monday. This means that we will assign the final exam topic to you for next Wednesday.
There are 5 days to go.
Keep your chin up, your attitude positive, your energy level full, and your belief in yourself overflowing.
You can do it.
I believe in you.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
US HISTORY SCAVENGER HUNT
M,W,F paper 2 is now due on Friday.
Tu, Th paper 2 is still due Thursday.
Scavenger hunt for next Thursday or Friday depending on your class days of the week.
Scavenger Hunt for general US information.
What is the major river that flows through Washington D.C.?
What is the major river that flows through New Orleans?
What is the major river that flows through the Grand Canyon?
What is the major river that flows through the border of the US and Mexico?
What is the major river that flows through Boston?
What is the largest great lake in the United States?
What is the name of the great lake that touches Pennsylvania?
There are 5 great lakes, but occasionally, one lake is recommended as the 6th great lake; name it.
Niagara Falls is a series of 3 waterfalls; what are their actual names?
There are a series of lakes in New York State that run north to south. What are their names?
What “lake” is formed by the dam at Glen Canyon?
What “lake” is formed by the Hoover Dam?
Which mountain range runs north and south from Denver?
Which famous “thoroughfare” runs through the mountains at Port Clinton, Pennsylvania?
What is the name of the “state” that would have been made up of northern California and southern Oregon if not for WW2?
What is the name of the part of Cuba that the United States owns?
What is the name of the town that exists about a mile from where the US Navy drops bombs on Puerto Rico?
What is the official status of Puerto Rico with regards to its place in the United States?
Who was Yankee Stadium built for?
Ted Williams might have been the greatest hitter ever if he hadn’t selflessly dedicated several years of his life to being in what branch of the military?
Where did Jackie Robinson play his only season of minor league ball?
What is the name of the archaeological site that JM Adovasio excavated near Erie, Pennsylvania?
Who did the angel Moroni give the gold tablets that would speak the holy words of a distinctly American religion to?
What hill in New York did this event take place?
When Columbus came to America, the Spanish conquistadors killed all of the native Haitians (the Arawak Indians). A priest stopped this because he felt that the Indians might actually be a lost tribe of Israel. Name the priest.
What is the first place(s) that the sun rises in America to greet the new year?
What is the name of the town near where Flight 93 crashed?
From this site where the mound builders (Native Americans) lived and built up their sites, you can see the Gateway Arch .
Who was the last country to lay claim to lands that became the state of Alaska before the Americans made it a state in 1959?
If the last 2 states were Alaska and Hawaii, what was the 48th state to enter the union?
What was the first state to enter into the union?
What was the first state out of the union prior to the Civil War?
What was the last state back in the union after the Civil War?
In what war was the US Capitol burned to the ground?
Which US President lived at Monticello?
After the Treaty of Ghent, which US President kicked butt at New Orleans to vanquish the enemies of America?
This 1820 compromise divided up the parts of the country that could be slave-holding states from those that could not.
What is the former standard name given to the earliest man in America, which is named after the creation of an arrowhead that was found at Blackwater Draw?
What animal’s presence caused early man to cross the Bering Strait?
This Mexican bandit who was later memorialized in a song by Townes Van Zandt led an invasion on the US on March 9, 1916.
Despite an open frustration from US Gulf War commander Norman Schwartzkopf, this future 4-star general from West Lawn, Pennsylvania, led the Army’s 7th Corps through the short ground war to liberate Kuwait.
After removing the right to habeas corpus, Abraham Lincoln threw the mayor of what northern city in jail for his talk of secession?
How many Senators does Washington D.C. have?
John Hanson, the leader of this group of officials, is sometimes referred to as the first President of the United States, but since this was a group in charge, there is no first leader prior to Washington. What was the name of the group that Hanson fronted?
This author used his upbringing in Lewiston, Illinois, to construct a series of epitaphs for the “fictionalized” citizens of his town.
This poet from Amherst, Massachusetts, published almost nothing in her lifetime, but became somebody (instead of “nobody”) after her death.
This poet whose final home is down the street from the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey, was also famous for having lived on Long Island and writing about Lincoln and the potential for many great American visions to be realized.
Name the literary movement that Langston Hughes was a part of.
Mr. Glass found this act created by Millard Filmore to be the stupidest example of compromise in American history since it stopped the slave trade and thus pleased the northern abolitionists (a good thing), but wouldn’t do what it had to do to end slavery altogether and even had provisions for hunting down runaway slaves with government resources.
The last time the US Cavalry charged on American soil was at this suburb of Washington D.C. during an uprising of disgruntled WW1 vets in July of 1932.
This famous magician died during one of his tricks during a Halloween performance in 1926.
This famous aviator had his son kidnapped, an event that added to his public love, but lost all of it when he became an apologist for the Nazis.
Marine who orchestrated the Iran / Contra dealings, which went around Congressional approval to give the Iranians weapons to fight Saddam Hussein and took the money to finance the Contras in a war against communism in Nicaragua.
This naval vessel docked in Yemen was suicide bombed on October 12, 2000, by Al Qaeda operatives.
In 1964, this US naval vessel was fired upon by North Vietnamese troops. While its role was downplayed, it brought about the Vietnam War. Name the boat.
JFK was supposed to back Cuban resistance fighters up, but failed to provide air cover, thus, this place is remembered for the disaster that the attempt to overthrow Castro became.
This name became associated with the generations of “separate but equal” treatment that African American received after the Civil War.
On March 2, 1955, this woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. She would proceed Rosa Parks by 9 months, but her case never went to court since she was an unwed mother. Name her.
Ran for president in early 1900’s on 5 different occasions, the last one was in 1920 while in prison in Atlanta. Received nearly 1million votes, but lost the election.
During the Salem Witch Trials, this preacher was hauled back to Massachusetts from Maine because of his alleged bewitching of the girls of Salem.
Tu, Th paper 2 is still due Thursday.
Scavenger hunt for next Thursday or Friday depending on your class days of the week.
Scavenger Hunt for general US information.
What is the major river that flows through Washington D.C.?
What is the major river that flows through New Orleans?
What is the major river that flows through the Grand Canyon?
What is the major river that flows through the border of the US and Mexico?
What is the major river that flows through Boston?
What is the largest great lake in the United States?
What is the name of the great lake that touches Pennsylvania?
There are 5 great lakes, but occasionally, one lake is recommended as the 6th great lake; name it.
Niagara Falls is a series of 3 waterfalls; what are their actual names?
There are a series of lakes in New York State that run north to south. What are their names?
What “lake” is formed by the dam at Glen Canyon?
What “lake” is formed by the Hoover Dam?
Which mountain range runs north and south from Denver?
Which famous “thoroughfare” runs through the mountains at Port Clinton, Pennsylvania?
What is the name of the “state” that would have been made up of northern California and southern Oregon if not for WW2?
What is the name of the part of Cuba that the United States owns?
What is the name of the town that exists about a mile from where the US Navy drops bombs on Puerto Rico?
What is the official status of Puerto Rico with regards to its place in the United States?
Who was Yankee Stadium built for?
Ted Williams might have been the greatest hitter ever if he hadn’t selflessly dedicated several years of his life to being in what branch of the military?
Where did Jackie Robinson play his only season of minor league ball?
What is the name of the archaeological site that JM Adovasio excavated near Erie, Pennsylvania?
Who did the angel Moroni give the gold tablets that would speak the holy words of a distinctly American religion to?
What hill in New York did this event take place?
When Columbus came to America, the Spanish conquistadors killed all of the native Haitians (the Arawak Indians). A priest stopped this because he felt that the Indians might actually be a lost tribe of Israel. Name the priest.
What is the first place(s) that the sun rises in America to greet the new year?
What is the name of the town near where Flight 93 crashed?
From this site where the mound builders (Native Americans) lived and built up their sites, you can see the Gateway Arch .
Who was the last country to lay claim to lands that became the state of Alaska before the Americans made it a state in 1959?
If the last 2 states were Alaska and Hawaii, what was the 48th state to enter the union?
What was the first state to enter into the union?
What was the first state out of the union prior to the Civil War?
What was the last state back in the union after the Civil War?
In what war was the US Capitol burned to the ground?
Which US President lived at Monticello?
After the Treaty of Ghent, which US President kicked butt at New Orleans to vanquish the enemies of America?
This 1820 compromise divided up the parts of the country that could be slave-holding states from those that could not.
What is the former standard name given to the earliest man in America, which is named after the creation of an arrowhead that was found at Blackwater Draw?
What animal’s presence caused early man to cross the Bering Strait?
This Mexican bandit who was later memorialized in a song by Townes Van Zandt led an invasion on the US on March 9, 1916.
Despite an open frustration from US Gulf War commander Norman Schwartzkopf, this future 4-star general from West Lawn, Pennsylvania, led the Army’s 7th Corps through the short ground war to liberate Kuwait.
After removing the right to habeas corpus, Abraham Lincoln threw the mayor of what northern city in jail for his talk of secession?
How many Senators does Washington D.C. have?
John Hanson, the leader of this group of officials, is sometimes referred to as the first President of the United States, but since this was a group in charge, there is no first leader prior to Washington. What was the name of the group that Hanson fronted?
This author used his upbringing in Lewiston, Illinois, to construct a series of epitaphs for the “fictionalized” citizens of his town.
This poet from Amherst, Massachusetts, published almost nothing in her lifetime, but became somebody (instead of “nobody”) after her death.
This poet whose final home is down the street from the Tweeter Center in Camden, New Jersey, was also famous for having lived on Long Island and writing about Lincoln and the potential for many great American visions to be realized.
Name the literary movement that Langston Hughes was a part of.
Mr. Glass found this act created by Millard Filmore to be the stupidest example of compromise in American history since it stopped the slave trade and thus pleased the northern abolitionists (a good thing), but wouldn’t do what it had to do to end slavery altogether and even had provisions for hunting down runaway slaves with government resources.
The last time the US Cavalry charged on American soil was at this suburb of Washington D.C. during an uprising of disgruntled WW1 vets in July of 1932.
This famous magician died during one of his tricks during a Halloween performance in 1926.
This famous aviator had his son kidnapped, an event that added to his public love, but lost all of it when he became an apologist for the Nazis.
Marine who orchestrated the Iran / Contra dealings, which went around Congressional approval to give the Iranians weapons to fight Saddam Hussein and took the money to finance the Contras in a war against communism in Nicaragua.
This naval vessel docked in Yemen was suicide bombed on October 12, 2000, by Al Qaeda operatives.
In 1964, this US naval vessel was fired upon by North Vietnamese troops. While its role was downplayed, it brought about the Vietnam War. Name the boat.
JFK was supposed to back Cuban resistance fighters up, but failed to provide air cover, thus, this place is remembered for the disaster that the attempt to overthrow Castro became.
This name became associated with the generations of “separate but equal” treatment that African American received after the Civil War.
On March 2, 1955, this woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. She would proceed Rosa Parks by 9 months, but her case never went to court since she was an unwed mother. Name her.
Ran for president in early 1900’s on 5 different occasions, the last one was in 1920 while in prison in Atlanta. Received nearly 1million votes, but lost the election.
During the Salem Witch Trials, this preacher was hauled back to Massachusetts from Maine because of his alleged bewitching of the girls of Salem.
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