Lots of links for this week:

• SSAC (the GMU counseling center)
• Student Emergency Assistance Funding
• Website about the alternative grading system

Monday

• Check in on Blackboard.
• Listen to our podcast episode (or read the transcript). Answer the questions in your Slack group.

• How would you answer the question “What did you do yesterday?”
• Using the same number of events, how would you answer the question “What did you do in the last month?”
• Using the same number of events, how would you answer the question “What did you do in the last year?”

Small Project #5

• Using TimelineJS, build a timeline of your war. You can focus on any part of the war; you just need to be able to justify your choices.
• You need no fewer than 5 and no more than 15 events.
• Publish your timeline to your blog along with a paragraph explaining why you made the choices you did.
• Watch this screencast to find out how to build a timeline.

Wednesday–Professionalization and Exploration

For today we’re trying something different: you don’t have to listen to me at all! Hooray!

• Check in on Blackboard.

• I want you to watch these videos about our topics for today:

Professionalization:

• Bill Leeman, talking about the development of West Point and the Naval Academy

Exploration:

and

• In your group, discuss how professionalization and exploration connect to each other. Elect a spokesperson to report out to the #week10 channel.
• Finally, check in on #online-learning. Report about how your semester is going. Have you been able to establish a routine? How are your professors doing? How are you doing?

Bonus Activity: Look at these pieces of art from Alfred Agate, a member of the U.S. Ex.Ex. Can you use one of these pieces of art as a jumping-off point for a piece of your own artwork? Or can you make a piece of art about something in your house that mimics the style of this art (an ethnographic study of your surroundings)?

If you do it, post it in the #week10 channel so we can all see it!