Rob Hines, Instructor of History
Social Sciences Room 116
Phone #: 921-5098
My office hours are TR 1-3, MWF 10-11, and Thursday P.M.
The best way to reach me is by email @ Robert R. Hines.
| Course Outline | Grading Procedures | Required Books | Research Project | Instructor |
Quiz dates will be announced in class. Students may take a quiz early, but missed quizzes (for any reason) will count as a "zero". At the end of the semester, the lowest quiz grade will be dropped. It will not affect your final grade. Students should bring a Scantron Sheet J to class on quiz days. Scantrons can be purchased at the Palo Alto Bookstore. Quizzes will account for approximately 25% of your final grade.
Essay Exams:
Students will complete several papers, based upon classroom activities, reading assignments, outside activities (museums, plays, television, internet, etc.) Papers may be take-home or in-class, per the instructors' requirements. Class attendance is required to get these assignments. Due dates, paper length and other aspects of these assignments will be given in class. All of these assignments must be submitted typed and on time, and be free of all obvious spelling/grammar errors. Papers will account for approximately 37.5% of the students' final gradeStudents should consult my Essay Writing Criteria BEFORE submitting their papers for grading. Papers will account for approximately 40% of your final grade.
Plagiarism: What is Plagiarism?
Basically, plagiarism is turning in written work that is not yours. You copied it off of the internet, or a textbook, or (and I know you wouldn't do this) ANOTHER student! Essays need to be written IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Plagiarized essays will be awarded a "zero". I don't care how humbly you write. I would much rather see your words than someone else's. If you use your own words your grade will be BETTER, not worse. .
Research Project
Due dates for the assignment:
Grading Criteria for this assignment.
The instructor will discuss particulars for this assignment as the semester goes along. This assignment will account for approximately 37.5% of the students' final grade.
Class Participation:
Tentative Course Outline
Theme One: Smokestack America
Web Assignment: Factory Owners, Factory Workers. From this web page, students should familiarize themselves with the following links:
Homestead Strike, Andrew Carnegie (next to it), Matewan (film site), 16 tons (song), The Triangle Fire
Theme Two: Coming to America
Web Assignment: Coming to America. From this web page, students should familiarize themselves with the following links: What factors pulled immigrants to this country, melting pot, Fiddler on the Roof (film), Annette Constandine, Changing Immigration Patterns, Why did People Fear the Cities?, Immigration, a legislative history. Take-Home Exam:
Take-Home (Due Date: T.B.A.)
Theme Three: Jim Crow America
Web Assignment: Jim Crow America Theme Four: The Challenge of the Color Line
Web Assignment: JThe Challenge of the Colorline Take-Home Exam:
Take Home Exam (Due Date: T.B.A.)
Theme Five: American Overseas Expansion
Web Assignment: The Empire and the People Theme Six: World War I
Web Assignment: World War I
Take-Home Exam: Imperialism and World War I Theme Seven: Cultural Currents in the 1920's
Web Assignment: Popular Culture in the 1920's
No Quiz! Theme Eight: Rural America and the Great Depression
Web Assignment: Rural America and the Great Depression
In-Class Students: Take-Home Essay
Theme Nine: World War II
Web Assignment: The Second World War: Man's Inhumanity to Man
Theme Ten: The Woman's Century
Web Assignment: The Woman's Century
Again, No Quiz! If we make it this far, there will be a Final Exam, which will cover Themes 8, 9, & 10. T.B.A.
Take-Home Exam 4
I bring to this task a wide variety of experience in the field
many call education. Behind me lies over twenty years of teaching experience.
In addition to my sixteen years of work at Palo Alto College, I have taught
history at the University of the Incarnate Word and the University of Texas
at San Antonio. I completed my Master of Science Degree at Illinois State University in 1985,
whereupon I journeyed overseas to Papua New Guinea, where I taught
English and History for two years under the auspices of the United States
Peace Corps. I made my way to South Texas in 1989, gaining employment
as an adjunct instructor of history at Palo Alto College, the then new
campus of the Alamo Community College District in San Antonio, Texas.
I am now a tenured Instructor of History at Palo Alto, where I teach
both halves of U.S. History, World Civilization, and Western Civilization.
With my colleagues Peter Myers and Rex Field, I am the co-editor of "Flyover History," a two volume collection of readings and documents
in American History. I am married to the former Kimberly Augustus.
We are the parents of two sons, Adam and Liam.
Zinn Text, Chapter ; Myers Text, Readings 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Myers Text, Readings 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Myers Text, Readings 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following links: Jim Crow, Sharecropping, Plessy v. Ferguson, Gettysburg Address, Billie Holiday, Scottsboro Boys Trials, 1931-1937.
Myers Text, Readings 26, 38, 39, 40, 41
Zinn Text: Chapter 17
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following links: Emmitt Till, Letter From Birmingham Jail, Photo Gallery of Little Rock, Malcolm X, The Kerner Report.
Zinn Text: Chapter , The Empire and the People
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following links: The White Man's Burden, the map and painting, the Pacific Rim Map, Cuba, Yellow Journalism, the War Prayer.
Zinn Text: Chapter , War is the Health of the State
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following: What were the causes of the conflict?, Map of Europe; Poetry of the Great War, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Poster War, Influenza 1918.
Myers Text: Chapters 24, 25, 26, 29
Revolution in Manners and Morals
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following: Margaret Sanger's birth control movement, the Scopes evolution trial, prohibition, Henry Ford's machine, Ellen Welles, Flapper Jane.
But, after Theme Seven, students will get their third essay exam. Details to be announced.
Myers Text: Chapters 3, 4, 11, 22, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33
Zinn Text, pages
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following: Homestead Act, Sears and Roebuck, Elinore Pruit Stewart, Surviving the Dust Bowl, The Grapes of Wrath, farming in our own time..
Myers Text: Chapters 36, 37, 41
Zinn Text, Chapter
Diplomacy Between the Wars
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following: Nremberg Laws, the 16 terms under the Holocaust Museum link, How to tell Japanese from Chinese, "ordered to report to relocation centers", Crystal City, Texas, GI Bill of Rights, Albert Einstein's letter to President Franklin Roosevelt. ...
Myers Text: 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35 & 42
Zinn Text, The Intimately Oppressed
Diplomacy Between the Wars
At this web site, students need to familiarize themselves with the following: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, the Pill, The Cult of True Womanhood, Solitutde of Self, Comstock Act of 1873, Planned Parenthood, Real Women Have Curves, ...Robert R. Hines, Instructor of History Robert R. Hines.
rhines@accd.edu
