The following is the lecture outline and reading list for the second quarter. This applies to all SS2 classes.
You can view last year’s PowerPoints here. Note that there will be significant changes in this year’s presentations.
My sections will have an additional activity in line with their regular class work – the Timeline Building Project powered by Google Docs. Here are the two most important slides from my short orientation this week.
Here are some general guidelines for the project:
- Keep your entries brief. Shorter is better. The maximum length for each entry is ten words.
- No need to indicate the month and date unless you are citing multiple key events in one year.
- For events spanning multiple years, cite only the beginning unless the ending is even more important.
- For every encoding date (August 16, 23, September 6), I expect a one-page list of key events, achievements, and inventions for the corresponding dates spanned (for instance, for phase 1, I will only look for entries for 5000BCE to 200BCE).
- Feel free to add rows. The various points in the timeline (the ones I marked) don’t have to be equidistant. However, they have to be chronological.
And one last yet very important note:
I will hold you absolutely responsible for all the entries made in your account. Any act of vandalism, bullying, or defamation will be met with the corresponding penalties. Do not give out your passwords at all cost, and log out every time you access the document from a shared machine. A change log is available for me to view, and I can track every single change you make. Please act accordingly and responsibly. Thank you.
Sir, is it bad that I have only two dates for Islamic-Economic? :/