101 Assignments

101 FDAMF - American Foundations

Current Assignments Page

(Assignments are found below the Announcements section.)

R. E. Clark: "Students often report enjoying instructional methods from which they end up learning the least." (Educational Psychologist, 17, 92-101.)

Boyd K. Packer: "A desire to learn is one thing. An expressed willingness to be taught and to be corrected is quite another.... Many will say they want to learn but feel threatened if there is the slightest element of correction in what they are given." (BYU, 4 March 1990; BYU Today, March 1991, 24.)

Click here for President Kim B. Clark's counsel for a Zion university: be prepared and on time.

Announcements/Reminders:

1. Can I go home early? BYU-I Policy statement about leaving for home before the semester is over.

2. GROUP ASSIGNMENTS:

Section 1

Section 9

Section 12

Section 13

Assignments:

Click here for past assignments.

Final Essay: (1) Bring paper and pen or pencil to the classroom. (2) Instructions will be given to you in class. (3) Carefully follow the instructions. (4) Date to write the Final Essay: Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

You may start working on the following assignments immediately; do not wait until the day they are due to start looking at them.

Due Fri, Nov 20:

1. Distribute (and collect) Answers #10 "Political Parties" to (from) 2 members of your group. Click here for Answers-Critiques instructions. Take the Answers home, read them, mark them up, and write your Critiques about them.

2. Print out (or on your computer) Topic #11 "Technology, Communications, and Socialization" and bring it to class on Monday, Nov. 30.

3. Click here for the 2008 Democratic Party Platform.

4. Click here for the 2008 Republican Party Platform.

5. Work on political party platform group assignment:

Section number

Group number

Names of those in the group who participated and contributed

Political party which was selected (Democratic or Republican)

List of disagreements with planks in the platform. Why disagree?

List of agreements with planks in the platform.

List of "indifferent" planks in the platform.

Hand in one "hard copy" (paper) for the group on Monday, November 30, 2009.

Mon, Nov 23; Wed, Nov 25; Fri, Nov 27: NO CLASS -- "EXAMINATION DAYS" & THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.

Due Mon, Nov 30:

1. Submit 4-part, graded, stapled Answers #10 "Political Parties". Click here for Answers-Critiques instructions.

2. Topic #11 "Technology, Communications, and Socialization" pp. 1-7 studied before class.

3. Quiz #11A "Technology, Communications, and Socialization" pp. 1-7. Study Guide: (1) Do you have Topic #11 with you? (2) Who is the General Authority most quoted in the first 7 pages of Topic 11? (3) Are modern discoveries evidence of God's work? (4) What did the following do? -- Maddison, Berners-Lee, Moore.

4. Submit political party platform group assignment:

Section number

Group number

Names of those in the group who participated and contributed

Political party which was selected (Democratic or Republican)

List of disagreements with planks in the platform. Why disagree?

List of agreements with planks in the platform.

List of "indifferent" planks in the platform.

Hand in one hard copy of the assignment for the group.

Due Wed, Dec 2:

1. Topic #11 "Technology, Communications, and Socialization"" pp. 8-14 studied before class.

2. Quiz #11B "Technology, Communications, and Socialization " pp. 8-14. Study Guide: (1) Our consumer age is often referred to as the "information age" in contrast to previous ages: agricultural, exploratory, mechanized or industrial, etc. (2) What analogy does Paul Johnson use to illustrate the rapid progress of the information age? (3) Which General Authority is most quoted in pages7-13 of Topic #11? (4) What does he call our culture? (5) Why did Henry Ford double the wages of his workers?

Due Fri, Dec 4:

1. Distribute (and collect) Answers #10 "Technology, Communications, and Socialization" to (from) 2 members of your group. Click here for Answers-Critiques instructions. Take the Answers home, read them, mark them up, and write your Critiques about them.

2. Print out (or on your computer) Topic #12 "America in the World" and bring it to class on Monday, Nov. 30.

Due Mon, Dec 7:

1. Submit 4-part, graded, stapled Answers #11 "Technology, Communications, and Socialization ". Click here for Answers-Critiques instructions.

2. Topic #12 "America in the World " pp. 1-5 studied before class.

3. Quiz #12A "America in the World " pp. 1-5. Study Guide: (1)

Due Wed, Dec 9:

1. Topic #12 "America in the World " pp. 6-8 studied before class.

2. Quiz #12B "America in the World" pp. 6-8. Study Guide: (1)

Due Fri, Dec 11:

1. Study the Humanist Manifesto (especially the first one) before class.

2. Study "Deism & the USA" (James R. Birrell, BYU).

3. Study "The First Vision & Religious Tolerance" (Joseph Fielding McConkie)

4. Study "Tolerance" by Elder Russell M. Nelson

Due Mon, Dec 14:

1. Quiz #25 on the "Humanist Manifesto". Study Guide: (1)

2. Study "Items on Prayer"

3. Study "Testimony vs Thankamony"

Due Wed, Dec 16:

1. Bring a sheet or two of 8-1/2 x 11 inch paper to class (or A4 size).

2. Bring a pen or pencil to class.

3. Write the 4-part Final Essay, based on instructions given in class.

4. So long, farewell, adieu, good-bye, best wishes, all the best, cheerio, & bon voyage.