Day one of Mr. Galloway's dual credit college history, templates.

1. History 1301-1
Welcome to college!!
8/25/2014
Please find a seat. Be happy with
your choice because I need you to
return to it tomorrow. Get ready!

2. Why are we here?
• It is required, by the government, by the
state, by the college to graduate.
• To become aware of who you are as an
individual and who we are as a people.
• To realize that you can learn something
from the past-both mistakes and
successes. (and maybe not repeat the
misteaks.)

3. This is a bridge class
• Yeah, it’s a college class
• Yes, I know that you are still in high
school. Straddle the great gulf between
the two and don’t fall into the water.
• From now until January we will cover a
semester, we will move quickly and you
will earn 3 college credits. In 1302, from
then until school is out, you can earn 3
more. 16x2x4=128 and you graduate!

4. College/High School
• Read your syllabus. You will get a syllabus
at the beginning of every college class.
Here’s a copy, it’s also on line.
• It tells what is expected and what material
you will cover and how your grade is
computed along with contact information.
• Hints for college: make an appointment
with your professor, they are real people.
• My email information.

5. The Textbook
• Listed on the Syllabus.
• Let’s talk money.

6. What is expected here?
• Do your very best, always. Don’t settle for just get by.
This class and college costs money. I will treat you like
mature, graduate level, college students and I expect
you to act like college students.
• Be on time. Be prepared. ALWAYS Bring something to
write on and something to write with. This may be new,
try it. Cornell Notes will help you get started. Me, too.
• Participate. Ask questions. Ask why if you do not
understand. You are safe here. I will not make fun of
your questions. Stay awake. Do not surf the internet. Be
respectful of my time, I am aware of yours.
• It’s time to change from “pass” to “see how much I can
learn.”
• When I am speaking, yyoouu aarree ssiilleenntt..

7. More…
• If a paper or report is due, it’s your job to
make sure I get it. Proof read it. Not just
spell check it. Have someone else read it.
• If you email me a paper or information, do
not attach it. Paste it onto the body of the
letter. I’ll email you back and tell you I got
it.
• Chicago Style, you’ll learn about that.

8. Plagiarism
(or cut and paste is not enough)
• Plagiarism is using ideas and words
that originated with someone else and
passing it off as one’s own. This is
offensive, unethical, and unacceptable.
It is quite literally theft and will
guarantee an automatic failing grade. *
• *Internet source: HIS 101: World History
to 1500 C.E. Syllabus (Not Wikipedia)

9. Tatum Rules!
• No food or drink in the class room. That is
a rule at Kilgore College as well.
• Hall passes and all that high school stuff?
yeah, you probably need to do that.
• I care about you. I care more about the
knowledge you learn than the grade you
make. I want to prepare you to be
successful. You are of value now!

10. A dose of reality…
• High Schools are concerned with STAAR
test scores, College teachers get paid
whether you pass or not.
• In some colleges you are a number.
• Most college teachers really do care about
you as a person and want you to succeed.
• Literally, what you put in will be what you
get back. The teacher will often mirror
your interest.

11. This is a survey course
• Because it is a survey course, I will use
generalities.
• You must avoid the tendency to over
simplify what I have told you. There is
always more information. Things are
deeper than they seem and not as simple.

12. What does this mean?
• History is biography. History is people. It is
linear and it is also thematic. It is story.

13. • A historian who would convey the truth
must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth
by diameters, otherwise his reader would
not be able to see it.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
• “History doesn't repeat itself - at best it
sometimes rhymes”

14. Life Lessons:
• Begin with the end in mind. Here’s a good
final exam question. “Trace this History of
this country from its beginnings to the
present, cite examples.”
• Learn to express yourself on paper and
expand on your ideas. Ask who, what,
when, where, why and how.

15. Develop an awareness:
• Of human behavior. Why do people do
what they do?
• What is their POV? What is a POV?
• What are their needs?
• How do they make decisions?
• What are their motivations?

16. Point of View/P.O.V.
• A term used in cinema for where the
camera is placed. What the actor sees is
his POV. When two are speaking the
camera will change positions.
• History is perspective. (so is life)

17. Developing Historical
Mindedness
• In addition to your awareness of human behavior, you
must develop what has been termed historical
mindedness. Basically, the nature of historical
mindedness is a certain maturity of perspective
stimulated by curiosity.
• Read between the lines
• See social forces in action
• Recognize the complexity of causation in an episode
• Recognize strands of continuity
• Understand the relevance of the past to the present.

18. How, Mr. Galloway?
• How, you may ask, will these lofty ideals help sort out
the dizzying array of data inherent in a history course?
Here are some hints:
• Build a Cornell outline or maybe a timeline. Start now.
• Ask yourself questions.
• Learn by making associations.
• Distinguish and separate important statements from the
general.
• Extrapolate underlying causes of events from important
statements.
• Understand the profound importance of social forces.

19. Cause/Effect
• You will get tired of this.
• Dates are important, you need to know
them. You need to know the facts.
• More importantly than the fact is the result
of the fact.

20. Abraham Maslow
Developed the theory of
human motivation now
known as Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs.
A psychologist, Maslow
noted that some human
needs were more
powerful than others.

21. Needs? Motivations?
• Name some? Start with the very basic.

23. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Italian historian,
statesman, and
political philosopher,
whose influential
writings on statecraft
have turned his name
into a synonym for
cunning and duplicity.
Lie, cheat, steal,
Whatever it takes!
Would you?

24. The Prince
• Machiavelli sought to establish a state capable of resisting foreign
attack.
• His writings are concerned with the principles on which such a state
is founded, and with the means by which they can be implemented
and maintained.
• In his most famous work, The Prince (1532; trans. 1640), he
describes the method by which a prince can acquire and maintain
political power.
• This study, which has often been regarded as a defense of the
despotism and tyranny of such rulers as Cesare Borgia, is based on
Machiavelli's belief that a ruler is not bound by traditional ethical
norms.
• In his view, a prince should be concerned only with power and be
bound only by rules that would lead to success in political actions.
Machiavelli believed that these rules could be discovered by
deduction from the political practices of the time, as well as from
those of earlier periods. …(see Watergate)

25. Machiavelli
• Whoever desires to found a state and give
it laws, must start with assuming that all
men are bad and ever ready to display
their vicious nature, whenever they may
find occasion for it.
• www.gutenberg.org

26. Sun Tzu (soon zoo-500 B.C.E.)

27. Sun Tzu
• The art of war is of
vital importance to the
State. It is a matter of
life and death, a road
either to safety or to
ruin. Hence it is a
subject of inquiry
which can on no
account be neglected
- Sun Tzu, the Art of
War

28. Guerilla Warfare
• The best battle, Sun Tzu
says, is the battle that is
won without being fought.

29. Parsimony
• par·si·mo·ny [ paarssə monee ]
noun Definition: 1. frugality: great frugality or
unwillingness to spend money
2. principle of economy: economy in the use of
means to achieve something, especially the
principle of endorsing the simplest explanation
that covers a case
[15th century. < Latin parsimonia< pars-, past
participle of parcere "spare"]

30. Occam’s Razor
Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle
attributed to the 14th century logician and
Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Ockham
was the village in the English county of Surrey
where he was born.
The principle states that "Entities should not
be multiplied unnecessarily."
The most useful statement of the principle for
scientists is
"when you have two competing theories
that make exactly the same predictions,
the simpler one is the better.“
© 1992--2006 by Scott Chase, Michael Weiss,
Philip Gibbs, Chris Hillman, and Nathan
Urban. The individual articles are © 1992--
2006

31. FTM-Follow the Money
• A quote from a movie about Watergate.
• A Project investigating where the money
appropriated for the Iraq and Afghanistan
wars is going -- especially money that
should be going to the Troops.
• A method to determine motive and control
and provide ultimate answers.

32. Use Discernment/Be Aware!
• This is why you need a great vocabulary!
• Be alert for hidden agendas. What is
someone trying to sell you? I will point
these out for you to give you a heads up. It
is often effectively done with nuance, or
very slyly and by small degrees.
• “Illegal aliens” was changed politically to
“undocumented citizens”

33. Try not to Judge
• Do not immediately rush to judge past
history events and peoples actions by
today’s standards.
• “Do not judge an Indian until you have
walked a mile in his moccasins.”

34. The enemy of my enemy…
• The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Not
automatically and not always, but
sometimes. This often is the real motive
behind a country’s actions.
• Sometimes it is better to say, the enemy of
my enemy is simply my enemies enemy.

35. Victor Frankl
• …everything can be
taken from a man but
one thing: the last of
the human freedoms--
to choose one's
attitude in any given
set of circumstances,
to choose one's own
way.

36. Victor Frankl
• We who lived in concentration camps can
remember the men who walked through
the huts comforting others, giving away
their last piece of bread. They may have
been few in number, but they offer
sufficient proof that everything can be
taken from a man but one thing: the last of
the human freedoms--to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.

37. And there were always choices to
make…

38. The Butterfly Effect
• In 1963, Edward Lorenz made a presentation to the New
York Academy of Sciences and was literally laughed out
of the room.
• His theory called the butterfly effect, stated that a
butterfly could flap its wings and set air molecules in
motion that in turn would move other air molecules -
which would then move additional air molecules -
eventually becoming able to influence weather patterns
on the other side of the planet.
• For years this theory remained an interesting myth. In
the mid 1990s, however, the butterfly effect was proved
to be accurate, viable and worked every time.

39. Or, a twig in a stream???
• Or it could be that your contributions are
like throwing a stick into the Mississippi
River…they are of little consequence.

40. Learn to Express yourself well
• Of all the arts in which the wise
excel, nature’s chief masterpiece
is writing well. …
Andre Breton, French Writer

41. FINALLY…
• CULTIVATE YOUR CURIOSITY…
• IF YOU ARE A SENIOR, WHAT IS YOUR
PLAN FOR THE DAY AFTER YOU
GRADUATE? I KNOW YOU ARE EAGER
TO LEAVE, BUT WHERE ARE YOU
GOING? AND WHY?
• “If you don’t know where you are going,
you’ll probably get there.”

42. Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com – Fri Jan 15, 9:40 am ET
• Scientists have
discovered the earliest
known Hebrew writing -
an inscription dating from
the B.C., during the
period of King David's
reign.
• The breakthrough could
mean that portions of the
Bible were written
centuries earlier than
previously thought. (The
Bible's is thought to have
been first written down in
an ancient form of
Hebrew.)

43. History changes
• "It indicates that the already existed in the
10th century BCE and that at least some
of them were written hundreds of years
before the dates presented in current
research," said a professor of Biblical
Studies who deciphered the ancient text.

44. Abram-Abraham, Sarai-Sarah
• Gen. 12
• Many offsprings
• But, Sarah had
no children
• Offers her hand
maiden Hagar
(an Egyptian) to
Abe for children.

45. Ishmael and Hagar
• God says in Gen.
18 that he will
make Ishamel a
great nation.
• Ishmael has many
sons and they had
sons, etc.

46. Abraham and Isaac
• Gen.22 the
sacrifice.
• Isaac had sons
and they had
sons, etc. and
they become
Hebrews or
Jews.

47. From the JEWS sprang…

48. Christianity

49. Emperor Constantine 313 C.E.

50. Meanwhile…
• Tradition from several
sources states that in
the generations of
Ishmael there was a
son born who was
named…

51. MOHAMMAD-Islam

52. RELIGIOUS MIGRATION

53. Early on…From Peter
• Christianity
meant Roman
Catholic
• Today Roman Catholics
believe that THE HOLY
FATHER The Roman
Pontiff, as the
successor of Peter, is
the perpetual and
visible principle and
foundation of unity of
both the bishops and of
the faithful.
LUMEN GENTIUM, 23

54. Spread of Christianity

55. Spread of Islam

56. Middle East-trade routes

57. Supply chains…Prices?

58. Jerusalem-city under seige

59. CRUSADES 1099-1192

60. Spain-Strong Catholics
• The marriage in
1469 of royal
cousins, Ferdinand
of Aragon (1452-
1516) and Isabella
of Castile (1451-
1504), eventually
brought stability to
both kingdoms.

61. 1492
• Reconquest-Driving out both the Moors
(the Muslims) and the Jews
• War is expensive. With War over the
Queen can now follow other pursuit …
LIKE EXPLORATION

62. Christopher Columbus
• Christopher
Columbus
(Cristóbal Colón in
Spanish, Cristoforo
Colombo in Italian)
was born in 1451 in
Genoa, Italy; he
died in 1506 in
Valladolid, Spain.