Week	Due by 8 a.m. Monday	Lesson #	Lesson A To access lessons, use the syllabus in Blackboarad	Lesson B To access lessons, use the syllabus in Blackboarad
1	1-21	1	Natural Hist of OK16-19	Geological Time Scale   Continental Drift Animation
		2	Natural Hist of OK 19-25	Oklahoma Geology and Paleontology
		3	Natural Hist of OK 25-30	Oklahoma Prehistory I
2	1-28	4	Natural Hist of OK 30-32	Oklahoma Prehistory II
		5	Geography of Oklahoma 951-58, 961-66	Oil in Oklahoma
		6	Textbook , 280-88	Oklahoma in Brief
3	2-4	7	Textbook , 3-15	Domebo site  Spiro site
		8	Textbook, 16-27	DeVaca  Quivira  Padilla  Do Campo
		9	French in Oklahoma Article	Du Tisne  Ferdinandina  La Harpe Mallet brothers
4	2-11	10	Textbook, 28-40	Chouteau Family  Major Long Adams-Onis Treaty  Nathaniel Pryor
		11	Wilkinson Article	Great Salt Plains  Osages  Pike Expedition  William Lovely
		12	Nuttall Article	Explorers
5	2-18	13	Textbook, 41-47, 64-68	Sequoyah
		14	Textbook, 80-91	Samuel Worcester   Stand Watie   Union Mission   Elias Boudinot
		15	Removal Finance Article	John Ross  Trail of Tears
6	2-25	16	Textbook, 48-51, 58-61, 71-79	Choctaw Removal    Creek Removal
		17	Jackson Indian Policy Article	Indian Removal    Worcester v Georgia
		18	Textbook 53-58, 61-64, 75-76, 68-70, 78-80	Matthew Arbuckle   Nathan Boone   Elias Boudinot (Galagina)   George Catlin   Jesse Chisholm   Auguste P. Chouteau   General Henry Leavenworth    Stephen H. Long    Gen. Randolph B. Marcy    Isaac McCoy   John Ross   Richards Sparks    Montfort Stokes    Earl Van Dorn   Stand Watie
7	3-3	19	Textbook, 84-101	Cherokee Seminary Article
		20	Textbook, 101-116	Santa Fe Trail Battle of the Wichita Village Ethan Allen Hitchcock
	3-4	21	1st Practice Exam due 5 p.m. March 4	none
8	3-4		Midterm exam in NET 614 (Tahlequah campus) at 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 4
9	3-24	22	Civil War Article	Pike Mission  First Conflict
		23	Textbook, 117-29	Honey Springs Blunt's Report, Cooper's Report
		24	Textbook, 130-41	Outlaws in I.T.
10	3-31	25	Textbook, 143-56	Battle of the Washita
		26	Textbook, 157-72	Cattle Industry Railroads
		27	Textbook, 173-85	Ferguson Article
11	4-7	28	Textbook, 186-202	Rough Riders
		29	Textbook, 203-11	Kate Barnard
		30	Textbook, 211-18	Tulsa Race Riot  Alice Robertson
12	4-14	31	Textbook, 218-25, 265-70	Dust Bowl Article
		32	Textbook, 225-29, 270-75	Ernest W. Marland  Leon C. Phillips
		33	Textbook, 230-41	Sipuel Case
13	4-21	34	Textbook, 242-58	J. Howard Edmondson Henry Bellmon
		35	Textbook, 258-64, 275-79	Carl Albert
		36	Oklahoma Government	45 Places Every Oklahoman Should Visit
14	4-28	37	50 Most Influential Oklahomans	Century in Review, 35-59
		38	50 Top Events in Oklahoma History	, 60-84
	3-29	39	2nd Practice exam   due 5 p.m., April 29
15	4-29		Final Exam in NET 614 (Tahlequah campus) at 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 29

 The purpose of this class is to give you a better understanding of Oklahoma's past and the operation of state government.  This class consists of 39 lessons, each of which (with a few exceptions) includes two parts. Part A is essentially the reading assignment you would have had in a face-to-face class. Part B takes the place of a lecture. After completing each lesson, you should immediately take the quiz over it on the Blackboard (an online, interactive learning system) site. Quizzes and other assignments are on the "Assignment" page. You may retake the quizzes as many times as you like before the deadline to obtain a perfect score or a score acceptable to you.

 Before you begin on the regular lessons, read the syllabus carefully and complete the "Statement of Understanding" and the Email communications check you will find on the "Assignments" page of Blackboard.  Although the "Statement of Understanding" is worth only two points, no other work will receive credit until you have made a perfect score on the "Statement of Understanding." If you do not understand the policies and procedures mentioned there, reread the syllabus or contact me at agnew@nsuok.edu. You will also need to complete an Email communication check to ensure that I have your correct Email address.

 Communications checks--To encourage students to read their Email and the Blackboard Announcement page daily, I will use these facilities occasionally during the semester to request a reply within twenty-four hours with specific information I will supply.  Students responding before the deadline will receive 10 points each time.  These communication exercises contribute to the total number of points that can be earned in this class.  Not responding in time could affect your course grade.

 Blackboard--For instructions for logging onto Blackboard, go to the Blackboard link on my web site http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~agnew/ or to the link on the NSU Homepage. Both links will take you to a site with instructions for accessing my or any other class you are taking with Blackboard assignments. If you have trouble accessing this class's Blackboard site, contact me at once. If the name you are using is different than the one in the university computer and on my Blackboard site, please send me an E-mail confirming your identity.

 Members of the class will receive ID numbers that will enable the instructor to keep all students informed of their grades. These numbers will be posted in the gradebook before the first major exam and may be viewed by each student by clicking on the "User Tools"tab on Blackboard and double clicking on the "Check Grade" link.

 Lessons--Many of the lessons are drawn from your textbook, some come from internet sites, and others are articles or documents I copied and placed on my website.  Except for the textbook assignments, you can access all the lessons by clicking on the underlined links in the class syllabus, which is posted on Blackboard site and on my website. Few reading assignments exceed fifteen pages. I strongly advise you to read each assignment at least twice. Initially scan the assignment; read it more carefully a second time, take notes either in the margin of your textbook or in a notebook. Unlike face-to-face classes, where lecture provides a major component in the instructional process, online classes rely heavily on the reading skills of students. It is essential that you read and understand the material discussed in all the lessons. Do not wait until the last minute to do the week's assignment.  You will retain more information if you do one or two lessons a day.  I advise you to review the lessons before the end of each week.  The lessons will remain online throughout the semester, but the quizzes will disappear at the end of the week.  They will not be reposted after the deadline. We will be using A.M. Gibson's Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, which you will need to obtain.  For students who enroll in this class late, I will leave the initial assignments up until 8 a.m., Monday of the third week of class, but I expect students who are already enrolled to complete work within twelve days from the time it is posted.

 Most of the quizzes are worth ten points and will be posted on Wednesday, twelve days before they are due. Take the quizzes in the order in which they are assigned. I highly recommend that you complete all quizzes twenty-four hours before the deadline and check your grades to ensure that they were recorded properly. Re-entering a quiz will wipe out your previous score. If you encounter a problem completing an online assignment, which you cannot overcome, notify me immediately. If I am informed, by E-mail, at least twenty-four hours before the deadline, I will correct the problem or extend the deadline. If you contact me less than twenty-four hours before the deadline with a problem in completing an online quiz, I will try to correct the problem, but will not extend the deadline even if I am unable to correct it.

 All quizzes are drawn directly from the lessons. Textbook questions and a few others begin with bracketed page numbers that will lead you to within a page or two of where the answer may be found.  It is possible that some of the questions on Blackboard contain errors that affect the answers. In such cases, I will give an additional point to the first student who describes the problem in an E-mail message. To get the point, you must:

1. indicate the number and letter of the quiz in question [eg: Lesson 5b],

2. give the page number from which the question was drawn if that number is given,

3. tell me the first five or six words of the question (better, copy and paste in into your message,

4. indicate the nature of the problem, and

5. type "Quiz problem" in the subject line of your Email

  Quiz Make up--Except in compelling circumstances, all online quizzes and exams must be taken before the deadline for submission. Students who feel they have "compelling circumstances" for not completing a quiz on time may request in writing that they be allowed to make up the missed work. If their request is granted, they must submit a 500-word summary of each lesson for the quizzes they missed. Make-up work must be completed within five days of my notification that a student may make up missed work or before the next major exam, which ever is sooner. I am much more apt to grant an exception for students who advise me of problems immediately. Grades for the exercise will be determined by the instructor based on student performance on other quizzes and the quality of the make-up work.

 Class autobiographies--Members of the class are expected to introduce themselves in an autobiographical sketch and then interact in an Autobiography Forum with other students who may ask questions based on the biographies. (see the biographical sketch I posted as an example) Maximum grade for Autobiography Forum is 20 points. For deadlines see the instructions on the Autobiography Forum).

Major Exam--On Tuesday, March 4, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., in Room 614 of the NET Building on the Tahlequah campus, an online examination will be given over Lessons1-21. On Tuesday, April 29, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., in Room 614 of the NET Building on the Tahlequah campus  an online examination will be given over Lessons 22-39. Students should arrange their schedules to be available on those dates or withdraw from this class. Half the questions on these examinations will be drawn from questions used in the Blackboard quizzes and the other half will come from questions that closely parallel those used on the practice exams. The in-class exams will be objective. All students must bring two photo IDs (a driver's license and an NSU ID; foreign students may use a passport in lieu of a driver's license) with them to both major exams. Unless arrangements are made earlier, students who do not furnish the two IDs will not be allowed to take the exam. On both major exams you may use one page of notes (written on both sides of paper no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches).  All notes must be handwritten; they may not be typed, computer generated, xeroxed, or printed. Within twenty-four hours after the completion of the major exams, I will post scores and class standings on the Blackboard site (Check both your gradebook and the "Announcement").  Your raw scores will be displayed in the portion of the gradebook that you can access on Blackboard, and your percentage and class standing will be displayed on the "Announcement" page.

 Make-ups for Major Exams--If you miss a major exam, notify me beforehand if possible or within 24 hours after you miss the exam. You must schedule a make-up exam within a week. Make-up exams will be all essay. Students who do not take the final examination and fail to contact me within twenty-four hours after the exam will receive a grade of 0 on the final examination.

 Grading System--The course grade is determined by averaging the percentage earned on all out-of-class assignments and the percentage earned on the mid-term and final examinations (the percentages are determined by averaging the points you earned by the total number of points possible).  The "A" range begins at 90%, "B" at 80%, "C" at 70%, and "D" at 60%. "F" begins below 60%. Grades will be rounded off to the nearest whole number. Depending on class grade-spread, additional points may be added to the grades of students who have submitted all work by the deadlines. Half of the grade in this class is over quizzes which you can retake until you make a perfect score and participation in the online biography forum in which you can devote as much time as you like to framing your autobiography. Most of the questions on the major exams are drawn from questions on the quizzes you took in the out-of-class lessons. The only reason for failure in this course is failure to read and complete the assignments conscientiously.

 Exceptions and Clarifications--Under compelling circumstances, exceptions can be made to most policies. If you have problems, inform me as soon as possible. If I am alerted early, it is usually possible to work out mutually satisfactory solutions to most situations. If you do not understand a class policy or procedure, ask me for clarification.  Do not wait until the end of the semester to inform me of a problem.