General Instructions
Please use the form below to prepare, save and submit your lessons and puzzles.
Click on the link and the form will open. Save it to your computer. When you are ready to enter the information, type in the gray boxes. They will expand as you type. Save your work. Then send it to the professor as an attachment to an e-mail. The e-mail subject line must include the class name, your fall name, and the assignment. For example: Famous Trials, George W. Bush, Lessons and puzzles 1. My e-mail address is dtait@rsu.edu.
Please scroll down the page for guidelines for this assignment.
Guidelines for Lesson and Puzzles
Briefly review the material you have covered in this unit and identify three lessons and two puzzles. Lessons are things you found to be important: perhaps an event you knew nothing about, a perspective on history that surprised you, a story or piece of information you want to remember, and so on. Puzzles are things that you don’t understand or would like to know more about. Or things that seem strange to you.
How will lessons and puzzles be graded? Each one needs to show that you have done the reading and thought about it. There is no right or wrong answer. What counts is what you learned (lessons) and what you don’t yet know or fully understand (puzzles). There are some examples below, but your own lessons and puzzles may be different.
Sample Lesson: I was surprised to learn that there were four major presidential candidates in 1860, and that Abraham Lincoln was elected even though he won just 40 per cent of the votes.
Sample Lesson: The US Constitution does not contain any requirement of a “wall of separation between church and state.” The language of the First Amendment is quite different.
Sample Puzzle: After the Civil War the US government did not execute or imprison any Confederate leaders. Why did the government let them go free?