Course Requirements and Due Dates

READINGS (see Readings for more information)

Each week you will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and to read:

• a literary selection (novel, short story, poetry, play, biography or essay)
• a historical selection from your textbooks ( "HA", "Epic")
• visual, written and/or musical primary sources
• The City section of the Sunday New York Times

PROJECTS (see Public History Tours, Journals, and Final Projects for more information)

The students will construct six public history tours, requiring extensive archival research and on-site presentations. There will be short quizzes based on the tours and readings. After each tour you will post your tour materials on the Gotham tour map. You will be required to write bi-weekly journals on the readings on literary and/or historical topics. You will create a final project on a topic of your choosing. The project may be a web page (1 to 2 megabytes), historical fiction (10-12 pages, one-and-a half spaced) or research essay (8-10 pages, one-and-a half spaced). The due dates are below.

ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY

Academic honesty is essential for learning and for maintaining a sense of mutual trust and respect within the Fieldston community. Teachers must know that all of the work students present orally or in writing is their own. To present the work of others as one’s own is dishonest.

Copying from another student’s test, using hidden notes, giving or receiving information on tests, and receiving help on take-home tests without the specific permission of the teacher are clearly dishonest and constitute cheating. An equally serious violation of academic honesty is plagiarism. This involves taking words, ideas, images, text, or data created by others, wherever one might find them, and presenting them as one’s own, without giving proper credit to the source. It includes the Internet and the copying and pasting of words, images, and data from a web site into a report or essay. The methods for using and citing these sources will be discussed in classes.

Students are expected to take responsibility for their own academic work within the guidelines established by teachers. Students should assume that all work, including homework, is to be done individually unless the teacher states that collaboration on a particular assignment is permitted. Any assistance a student receives from another person, including a parent, peer, or tutor, should be limited to help in understanding concepts and methods. Any help beyond this must be acknowledged. (see essay tutorial for how and when to cite sources)

The work on any assignment should be one’s own and not that of another person. When in doubt, students should either cite the source or consult their teacher. An open exchange of ideas and knowledge can be achieved only in an atmosphere of mutual trust and understanding.

SEMESTER GRADES

• Class participation - 30%;
• Tours and quizzes (5)- 40%;
• Final project - 20%;
• Journals (5 or more)- 10%

Late work will not be accepted unless due to illness or family emergencies, or accompanied by the signed approval of the teacher.

TOUR DATES AND LOCATIONS(see Calendar for all deadlines)

Tour Dates
Date	Tour Name	Topics/ Periods	Starting Point	Start Time And Duration
Wednesday, 2/14	I- Lower Manhattan VIEW MAP PRINT MAP	Origins: Native Americans, Knickerbockers and the New Republic, 1609-1825	Bowling Green, in front of the Customs House (end of Broadway)	9:30 am to 3:30pm (or meet at the Rock at 8:30)
Friday, 3/16	II- The Lower East Side VIEW MAP PRINT MAP	City of Immigrants: From the ãFive Pointsä to the Present	City Hall Park, NE (Horace Greeley statue near Chambers and Park Row)	9:30 am to 3:30pm (or meet at the Rock at 8:30)
Monday, 4/23	III- Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights VIEW MAP PRINT MAP	The New Metropolis in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1825-1914	City Hall Park, NE (Horace Greeley statue near Chambers and Park Row)	9:30 am to 3:30pm (or meet at the Rock at 8:30)
Sunday, 5/13 (all groups)	IV- Central Park and Harlem VIEW CP MAP PRINT CP MAP VIEW HAR MAP PRINT HAR MAP	Whose Parks are They Anyway? Black Metropolis: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present	Tavern on the Green (across the turn around area from the entrance)	9:30 am to 3:30pm (or meet at the Rock at 8:30)
Sunday, 6/3 (Junior lunch )	V- Skyscrapers and the Lower Mahattan Plan VIEW MAP PRINT MAP	From t he "Soaring Twenties" to the 'Glass Box'	Lobby of the AIG Tower, 70 Pine Street	9:30 am to 3:30pm (or meet at the Rock at 8:30)

NYC Subway Map

Final Project Due Dates
Topic/idea and 5 annotated sources due	Friday, 2/23
Thesis/premise, outline/diagram, and annotated bibliography due	Thursday, 3/13
Rough draft due	Monday, 4/16
Final draft due	Wednesday, 5/16