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Dates Topics Reading Assignment Activities

First Week
January 9, 2012

email your instructor jebraden@nvcc.edu



Study Guide 1

Introduction
The Earliest Inhabitants
The Neolithic Revolution
Stonehenge
The Celts
 

 

Roberts, Chapter 1

Review the Course Requirements

Complete "Introduction on Blackboard"

Check course Requirements on Blackboard


Library Assignment

Second Week

January 16, 2012

Study Guide 2

 

 

Study Guide 3



 

Roman Britain
(55 BCE-450 CE)
Hadrian's Wall
The Collapse of Roman Rule
Anglo-Saxon England
Conversion to Christianity
English Monarchy
Anglo-Saxon Government
The Structure of Society
Monasticism and Learning
The Survival of the English Monarchy





Roberts, Chapter 2-3

Use Study Guides 2 and 3
 

Take Quiz 1 on Blackboard
You can find the Quiz under Exams.

email your instructor
 

Your library assignment should be used to begin your search for a topic for your research paper or a book for the book review


Library Assignment
(100 points)


 
Third Week

January 13, 2012


Study Guide 4

 

Study Guide 5


Norman England
The Angevins
The 12th Century Renaissance
Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
Richard I and King John
Magna Carta
The Cathedral
Wales, Gascony, and Scotland
The Origins of Parliament
 

 

 

Roberts, Chapters 4-5-6
Use Study Guides 4
and 5

Library Assignment should be copied into Word and sent  to me as an attachment by email by
January 27, 2012
Friday of the Third Week

 

Fourth Week

January 30, 2012


Study Guide 6


Edward II
Edward III
The Evolution of Parliament
The Black Death
The Peasants' Revolt
John Wyclif and Lollards
The War of the Roses
Richard III




Roberts, Chapters
7-8 

 
All assignments for Part I of History 211 must  be completed by the end of the fifth week (February 10, 2012))
Fifth Week


February 6, 2012


Study Guide 7
The Reign of Henry VII 
(1485-1509)

Industry
Henry VIII
(1509-1547)
War and Reformation
The Divorce
 Break with Rome
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Tudor Revolution In Government
Scotland and France
Queen Mary
The Spanish Connection


Roberts, 
Chapters 9-10
 

Inactive Students Dropped
Students who have not submitted Introduction on Discussion Board, Library Assignment and Quiz 1 will be withdrawn without tuition refund.

 

First Examination
Campus Testing Lab
between
February 3 through February 13, 20121
 

The test covers Chapters 1-8

Study Guides 1-6
 

Sixth Week


February 13, 2012


Study Guide 8

Somerset and Reform
Ket's Rebellion
Economic Crisis
Northumberland
Queen Mar
y
Elizabeth I 
Elizabeth and the Church
The Catholic Threat
The Puritan Threat
 



Roberts, 
Chapters 11-12
 
Seventh Week

February 20, 2012





Study Guide 9

The Early Stuarts
The Accession of James I
James and the Law
Charles I and Parliament
The Expansion of England
The English Revolution
Roundheads and Cavaliers
The Commonwealth
The Restoration
The Restoration Settlement
James II
The Glorious Revoluton
Roberts, Chapters
13-14-15
Use Study Guides 9
 
Eighth Week

February 27, 2012

Study Guide 10


The War of the League of Augsburg
The New World Trade
The Social Pyramid
The Augustan Age
The Act of Union with Scotland
The Hanoverian Succession
The Winning of an Empire
Roberts, Chapters
16-17

Use Study Guides 9 and 10


Ninth Week

March 12, 2012


Study Guide 11

The Economic and Social Transformation of England
The Industrial Revolution
The Intellectual Transformation
The Church of England
The Oxford Movement
Romanticism
The Spirit of Rationalism
Roberts, Chapter 
18-19

50% of Course Due
Last Withdrawal Date -

Students who have not
completed all assignments from week 1-8 and Exam 1 will be
withdrawn without
tuition refund
.
 


Last Day for First Museum Project,
March 16, 2012
The Museum Project must be copied into Word and sent to your instructor as an email attachment

 Museum Project
 

Tenth Week

March 19, 2012

 


Study Guide 12
 

 

Reign of George III
The American Revolution
The Ascendancy of Pitt the Younger
Royal Maladies and Royal Decline
Diplomacy and War in the Age of Revolution
 
Roberts, Chapters
20-21 
Second Examination will taken in a Testing Lab between
March 16 through March 26, 2012

 Test covers Chapter 9 through 19; Study Guides 7-12
Quizzes 4-7
 

 
 

Eleventh Week

March 26, 2012
 

 

Study Guide 13

Conservatism, Liberalism and Reform
Conservative Toryism
Liberal Toryism
The Reform Act
Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League
The Beginnings of the Welfare State
The Age of Prosperity
Victorianism
 

 

Roberts, Chapters
22-23

Use Study Guide 13

 
Twelfth Week

April 2, 2012


Study Guide 14

Tories

The British Empire
India and Beyond
The Scramble for Africa
An Age of Crisis (1873-1914
A flagging Colossus
The emergence of Labor
Women, Workers and

 


Roberts,
Chapters 24, 25, 26

Research Paper or Book Report must be sent by email on or before April 9, 2012
Papers will be penalized after
that date
Thirteenth Week

April 9, 2012


Study Guide 15
Britain and World War I
The Home Front
The Western Front
The Irish War of Independence
Britain Between the Wars
The Economy
Unemployment, Poverty, and Inequality
The Rise of Labour
Britain and World War II




Roberts, Chapters 27-28-29
 
 
Fourteenth Week


April 15, 2012
 
 

 

Roberts, Chapters 30-31 Second Museum Project Due by
April 15, 2012
 
Fifteenth Week

April 23, 2012

Study Guide 16

Socialist Britain
Life in Socialist Britain


Roberts, Chapters 30-31
 

Sixteenth Week

April 30, 2012

 

Third Examination

Third  Examination

Roberts, Chapters 22-31
 
 



 

 

Testing Lab
 April 30 thrugh May 7, 2012.  Semester ends on
May 7, 2012
Third Exam
Chapters 20-31

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