Recap of Peer Led Review and Possible Final Exam Questions

Hi all,

Here is a recap of our Peer Led review. Many thanks to Fotoon for her excellent assistance (especially for capturing all the questions and typing them out), and to everyone who attended for your contributions:

Highlights of our discussion:

1) Talked about our papers, and editorial feedback received/things to fix

2) Talked about presentations and came up with guidelines. Please let me know if these are not in-line with your expectations: 3-4 minutes, talk about your interviewee's story, your interviewee's push/pull/means, which method you used to interview your subject, why you selected your interviewee, visuals optional (post to blog).

3) Discussion of possible questions for final exam. We took the chapters in reverse order, and used questions from the chapter summaries in many cases. Other questions came from our class discussion notes:

Ch 30: What core beliefs guided Ronald Regan's presidency? (p. 741)

Ch 29: In what was was the 1960s an era of upheavals, and/or an echo of enlightenment ideals? (class discussion)

Ch 28: What are some of the major successes and failures of the civil rights movement, 1961-65?

Ch 27: In what sense were there two Americas? (p. 675)

Ch 26/Class Discussion of Cold War: What is the difference of hot war vs cold war? How can this be expressed in relation to the World Wars and the cold war of the 1950s and 1960s?

Ch 25: What were the major effects of WWII on American society, including minorities and women? (p. 624)

Ch 24: None

Ch 23: What developments underlay 1920s mass culture and how did they effect American life and leisure?

Ch 22: None

Ch 21: What strategies did African Americans, women, and industrial workers use to improve their lot in the early 20th Century?

Ch 19: How did Victorian morality shape middle class society and culture?

Ch 18: None

Ch 17: How was the national parks movement related to the western legend? (p. 419)

Ch 14-15-16: How did the newly freed slaves reshape their lives after emancipation? (p. 382), How did slavery help bring about the Civil War?