For MONDAY, April 23

READ: in Reich,
Chapter 20, Education in Colonial America, pp. 224-235

You'll notice that I've varied the sequence a little here... I gave you primary sources in class on Wednesday the 18^th, and I'm sending you to the secondary sources afterwards. I wanted to try having you encounter materials without the bias of an interpreter.

I have yet to mount the website for last week.  Until I get that accomplished, here are links to the documents I passed out.
for New England's First Fruits (Founding of Harvard)
for Thomas Shephard's letter to his Son at Harvard
for Massachusetts Bay School Law of 1642
for Harvard Regulations, 1642 and 1700
for The Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
for Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School 1712

WEB RESEARCH

Here is a list of American Universities which trace their beginnings to the Colonial Era. Chose one or two of them and see what you can find about them during their formative years. The web version of this list will link to starting points.

Harvard
William and Mary
Yale College
College of Philadelphia
College of New Jersey (Princeton)
King's (Columbia)
College of Rhode Island (Brown)
Queen's (Rutgers)
Dartmouth

For WEDNESDAY, April 25

We'll meet here and then go across the hall for another web tutorial. There is some software which I will want to introduce to you which is not loaded on the machines there, and because we're guests I'm not going to be able to load it. What I want you to do is download it to your own computers prior to Wednesday, play with it at home in order to familiarize yourself with the general concepts, and then I'll try to use it with a ZIP drive on one of the university machines. If this doesn't work, it doesn't work. An experiment for us all.

For recording sounds and converting them to files which can be uploaded: download the "jukebox" at http://www.musicmatch.com/home/ For editing and converting visual files to different formats, download Irfan view at http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/english.htm

Neither of these is the best available. Both are the best available FREE. (Irfan view may be the best viewer available, though it's editing tools are pretty elementary.

For FRIDAY, April 27

READ: in REICH:

Chapter 17, The Colonial Town: pp. 187-198

I've been emphasizing size (or rather, lack of it) so far. I'll be talking about the planning and a bunch of other things. The web version of this handout will link to some accounts of life in colonial cities and to some early maps. I hope to have it up and running over the weekend.