Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Dec. 1st, 2010 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyHappy First Night of Hanukkah!
Today was lighting our electric candles and listening to my Hanukkah play list on iTunes. Last year I discovered “Ocho Kandelikas” song and it is just perfect for the next eight days. And on to YouTube to listen to Adam Sandler’ Hanukkah songs. And most importantly making potato pancakes with Mama. I grated (my arm muscles got a workout) the potatoes and she mixed in flour, salt and eggs and fried them in lots of oil. With sour cream it was very delicious. One of my favorite foods ever! I’m linking my post from last year’s Hanukkah where I talk about my history with this holiday, just for fun.
Went to Local College today to meet with Professor S. She is teaching one section of the “Global Encounters to 1600” class, and I’m teaching two sections. So we decided to collaborate on this class and we talked about what we wanted to do and agreed to coordinate on the books. We also decided to have one five-page paper that will use El Cid and maybe Marco Polo. And five or so, small open-book response papers about the primary sources in class. And a movie/book small two page response paper on Marco Polo book and documentary. And a final exam. Here are the books we will request from the publisher to see if we want them:
1. Sanders ed., Encounters in World History: Sources and Themes from the Global Past, Volume One: To 1500
2. World Map book (either Rand McNally’s Historical Atlas of the World” or “Atlas of World History”, ed by Patrick O’Brian.)
3. El Cid
4. Travels of Marco Polo (Everyman edition)
5.. Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
We will also assign some articles in the online class website. I have a chapter from “The Columbian Exchange” that I want them to read – probably on syphilis. It was a really good meeting, I do like this part – figuring out my themes and the narrative of the class and picking books. Plus I got a copy of “El Cid” so that is what I will read now, in addition to my book of Highlander short stories that I want to finish.
Coldplay has a new single out called “Christmas Lights” so, of course, I had to buy it. I love them.
As I’m watching the first season of Six Feet Under, I realize that I probably won’t check out later season. I don’t like most of the characters, especially Billy and Brenda, and I don’t care about many storylines. I like David but it is not worth it to watch just for him. It is an ok show and I like some parts of it, like the opening of every episode but I’m just not feeling it. “True Blood” it isn’t.
Today was lighting our electric candles and listening to my Hanukkah play list on iTunes. Last year I discovered “Ocho Kandelikas” song and it is just perfect for the next eight days. And on to YouTube to listen to Adam Sandler’ Hanukkah songs. And most importantly making potato pancakes with Mama. I grated (my arm muscles got a workout) the potatoes and she mixed in flour, salt and eggs and fried them in lots of oil. With sour cream it was very delicious. One of my favorite foods ever! I’m linking my post from last year’s Hanukkah where I talk about my history with this holiday, just for fun.
Went to Local College today to meet with Professor S. She is teaching one section of the “Global Encounters to 1600” class, and I’m teaching two sections. So we decided to collaborate on this class and we talked about what we wanted to do and agreed to coordinate on the books. We also decided to have one five-page paper that will use El Cid and maybe Marco Polo. And five or so, small open-book response papers about the primary sources in class. And a movie/book small two page response paper on Marco Polo book and documentary. And a final exam. Here are the books we will request from the publisher to see if we want them:
1. Sanders ed., Encounters in World History: Sources and Themes from the Global Past, Volume One: To 1500
2. World Map book (either Rand McNally’s Historical Atlas of the World” or “Atlas of World History”, ed by Patrick O’Brian.)
3. El Cid
4. Travels of Marco Polo (Everyman edition)
5.. Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
We will also assign some articles in the online class website. I have a chapter from “The Columbian Exchange” that I want them to read – probably on syphilis. It was a really good meeting, I do like this part – figuring out my themes and the narrative of the class and picking books. Plus I got a copy of “El Cid” so that is what I will read now, in addition to my book of Highlander short stories that I want to finish.
Coldplay has a new single out called “Christmas Lights” so, of course, I had to buy it. I love them.
As I’m watching the first season of Six Feet Under, I realize that I probably won’t check out later season. I don’t like most of the characters, especially Billy and Brenda, and I don’t care about many storylines. I like David but it is not worth it to watch just for him. It is an ok show and I like some parts of it, like the opening of every episode but I’m just not feeling it. “True Blood” it isn’t.
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Date: 2010-12-02 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-02 03:13 pm (UTC)Potato pancakes sounds mouthwatering, yum! Sounds like it was an excellent First Night!
Sounds like an excellent course load for the class you two are preparing. I really wish I could take it, it sounds fascinating! HUGE thanks for sharing this booklist, I mean it! This totally rocks :) *bookmarks them all on amazon*
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Date: 2010-12-04 01:01 am (UTC)Stearns, Peter et al "World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1750. (5th edition)
It is affordable used and I love this textbook. It provides good time lines and maps. While I'm not assigning this to my students this semester, I will use it to figure out my class and for some of my lectures.