Hello all,

This is an important email, filled with information that will have a significant impact on your grade in this class. Please be sure to carefully read it all. 


MIDTERM EXAM STUDY LIST

As promised, you will find three versions of the same midterm study list under the Class Handouts link in Moodle. (html, pdf, and Word .doc) The list is based on the four chapters we've covered so far, and is alphabetized and unsorted. I would highly recommend that as you study for your exam, that you attempt to sort/organize the list in a rough chronology, according to the 4 textbook chapters/topics we covered:

Ch 1 - When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe
Ch 2 - The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America 
Ch 3 - England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion 
Ch 4 - Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

That would be a good "self check" on how well you remember and understand what we've been doing these past 4 weeks.

You will be responsible for printing this page out. Any student attempting to take the midterm exam without this guide would be unwise.  It is never too early to start using the Student Forum or Moodle Messaging to organize your own midterm exam study groups with your peers.  We will not use any class time to review considering we'll be covering the material in Chapter 5 - Reform, Resistance, Revolution, which is also on the midterm exam.


COLONIAL HISTORY WIKI

This, your first major online assignment is due this coming MONDAY by 9pm.  Your job is to come up with the most complete, well-written responses to the posed questions.  

IMPORTANT - My last instruction to you concerning the wiki is about the final format.  It should look like this.

Group # <---(put your group number here)

1. The question text here
Your group's answer following the question.

2. Second question text here
The answer here.

and so on.

REMOVE THE TEXT OF ALL other group planning and discussions, member names, who is doing which question, etc.  The text fonts should be uniform in size and BLACK in color.  You may use other colors, bold, or italics sparingly, if you wish to add emphasis or to make important points.


WIKI FEEDBACK MECHANISM

All students will complete a brief, private survey, beginning Monday at 9pm and concluding by the Midterm Exam deadline.  It will be your chance vote on the best group responses and to let me know how this assignment worked for you.


MIDTERM EXAM 

You midterm exam will NOT be taken in class.  It will NOT be taken at home.  It WILL be in Moodle and accessible ONLY from the computers in the Social Science Testing Lab, CEN456 (4th floor of the Center Building).  This testing lab serves MANY instructors and students at Lane, and it is the 5th week of the term, which is midterm exam time for many classes.  I urge you not to procrastinate until the last moment.  You will need to bring photo ID with you in order to take the test.

Your midterm exam can be taken on the followings days and times:

Friday, October 30, from 9am to 5pm. 
(The lab closes at 5pm and they don't allow students to begin long exams less than an hour before closing time.  This applies to all testing days.)

Saturday, October 31, from 9am to 1pm. 
(Campus Security 463-5555 opens only 2 doors on the cafeteria level and one on the 4th floor, main stairway.)

Monday, November 2, from 9am to 7pm. 
(Most of you will probably take the exam this day. Don't wait until 6pm.)  



That's all for now.  See you Tuesday.