| Welcome to Week 8 of Pacific Northwest
History
Emerging Society
Klondike Gold
Rush
Colleges and Universities
"cultural hinterland"
Irrigation
This week
your Movie/Novel paper is due to me. Click here to email me your paper. Remember to
copy and paste your paper in your email. That makes my life much easier!
bhaulman@greenriver.edu
To
complete this eighth week of the class you need to do the following Seven
(7) things:
| 1. Read Chapter 12 "A Time
of Testing," Chapter 13 "Removing the Rough Edges," and Chapter 14
"Envisioning a New Northwest" in Schwantes. Visit the Study Guide for help in identifying important concepts |
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3. Colleges and Universities
Search
the web for the web site of a College or University in the Pacific Northwest that you are
interested in attending or have a general interest in. Find out about the history of
that institution and relate its history to what Schwantes writes about on pages
274-278. Email me a short paragraph relating the institution you studied to
Schwantes.
Click on this link to email me your paragraph
bhaulman@greenriver.edu
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© University of Puget Sound
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4. Novel or Film
How well does
the novel or film you viewed fit into Schwantes view of the Pacific Northwest as a
"cultural hinterland?" (p. 286)
No need to
respond to this question - I just ask it to give you something to think about since you
are turning in your Movie/Novel Paper this week.
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© Universal Studios
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| 5. Irrigation
- Click on
this link to go to the Bureau of Reclamation web site. Surf through the site to find
out about the Bureau's role in transforming the desert Northwest.
http://www.usbr.gov/pn/
or
http://www.usbr.gov/
Summarize how the Bureau's
role and function changed over the past 98 years (it was formed in 1902) in a short 250
word statement.
Click on this link to email
me your statement:
bhaulman@greenriver.edu
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Grand Coulee Dam ©Seattle Times
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6.
Complete Quiz # 5 - click on the link in the Lessons Tab to take
Quiz # 5.
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7. Post a comment or observation to the Message Board in
the Lessons Tab about
how the PNW adjusted to the Post-Frontier World.
Go to
the Message Board in the Lessons Tab.
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These
Seven (7)
assignments conclude the eighth week of this class.
© Bruce E. Haulman 2008 |
