Why
Concepts and Why Collaboration?
Concepts
for the Requerimiento of 1510 and Why We Are Doing an Abbreviated List
Reading
the Primary Multiple Times
The
Requirement for Your Using Only Two Sources for Definitions
The
Requirement for Signaling What You Wrote and What Merriam-Webster or Dr. Bibus Wrote
Requirements
You Can Tell Best by Looking at the Rubric
Why
Can’t You See Your Post Until After I Read It
Understanding concepts is frequently essential to understand accurately what you are reading, but students have different backgrounds. With on-campus classes, it is comparatively easy to cover key terms or concepts with a group. With distance learning classes, it has been difficult. I have permission from my Department to try this method to help students with concepts and to do in a way that means:
· That every student does not have to look up every concept but instead could collaborate or share the labor by posting definitions that all can use
· That students can ask or answer questions about those concepts
The Requerimiento of 1510:
· Is the primary you will use for your first writing assignment
· Is a powerful way to help you avoid fantasies about this period of the past
· Is also one of the hardest things most students will read because they have trouble taking in that this is the way the world was (and still is in some places)
To help you, this is an abbreviated list of the Concepts for this Unit. A concept in gray is part of a set of concepts but it has not happened yet or it has not happened for the people covered in this primary.
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Economic terms: · Feudalism ·
Mercantilism ·
Capitalism ·
Communism ·
Fascism |
Governmental terms: · Tribe · Kingdom or monarchy (ruler: king and/or queen) · Nation state · Constitutional monarchy ·
Oligarchy ·
Republic or representative democracy |
Terms for developments in this era: · Empire (ruler: emperor) and the words imperial and imperialism · Colony · Colonization · Exploration |
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Terms about people who are not free by law: · Servitude · Master · Slave · Serf · Bondage or bound · Indentured servant Tip: As I currently understand the history, the Spanish turn the Native Americans into the legal equivalent of serfs. |
Terms about people who are free but have a feudal relationship of land and protection: · Feudalism · Lord ·
Subject or vassal |
Terms for religions involved in events: · Roman Catholicism · Pope (related terms of papacy or St. Peter) ·
Protestant Reformation ·
Lutheranism ·
Calvinism · Anglicanism |
Read the Requerimiento of 1510 first just to notice the time period. Use Discussion Topic 1-1 to increase your concept-vocabulary and then read it again.
Tip: Read this primary aloud as though you were the Spanish leader facing the Native Americans. Then think about how it would feel to hear this document read to you.
A fellow student should not have to click on every discussion posting to find what he or she needs. Make it clear in the Subject line. Treat a Discussion posting like work where you get paid: no one pays you (if the boss) or no one likes you (if fellow workers) if you waste time.
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If you are posting a definition of one of the
concepts above, you would place in the Subject line the word Concept and then
the exact term from the lists.
If you were going to post a definition for the word slave in the list in the row above, you would type
Subject line for this example: Concept: Slave
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for this kind of
post.
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If you found a word in the primary the Requerimiento of 1510 that you had to look up in order to
understand the primary, you place in the Subject line the words Term in Primary
and then the exact word. If you had
to look up the word terra firma in the primary, you would type
Subject line for this example: Term in Primary: terra firma
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for this kind of
post.
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If you are posting a question, you would place
in the Subject line the word Question
followed by the simplest way you can ask your question.
If you were confused about the difference between slaves and serfs, you would
type
Example of the Subject line: Question: What’s the difference between a
slave and serf?
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for asking or
answering a question.
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You may use Merriam-Webster’s
Online Dictionary available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/
If you used that source for your definition, you would type at the end
From Merriam-Webster’s
Online Dictionary at http://www.merriam-webster.com/
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You may use definitions I provide with this primary.
If you copied a definition from my file, you would type at the end
Copied from the definitions provided by Dr. Bibus.
You may use either of the two methods shown in the example postings in the Topic 1-1:
· A pair of quotation marks (“”) at the beginning and end of the words you are quoting. For an example, see the posting for Concept: slave.
· A box containing the definition. For an example, see the posting for Concept: vassal
If you insert words into another’s words, you must use square brackets ( [ ] ). If you remove words from another’s words, you must use ellipses (…). A better method is avoid all of these rules by using the Brain Trick in this link from the Good Habits for Evidence tutorial.
This rubric means that students can earn a B- by reading posts.
The rubric also shows how grading works. Click here for the rubric.
You will not be able to see your post until after I read it to be sure it is accurate. The reason is that once a false definition is in your head it will stay there.
I will normally read them each afternoon.
