Use the following to help study for the mid-course test:
Study over the quizzes. I've indicated the correct responses on the quizzes that I handed back. For the mid-course test, I will use some questions - or similar questions - from the quizzes. Other questions will come from the lectures and readings (below).
Study the lectures notes. Here are links to lecture notes in the first half of the class. I will have questions from each of these:
After you have reviewed the lecture notes above, check the following and make sure you can answer questions about the following:
- Do you know the names of each of the generations up to and including the Missionary Generation? You don't need to know exact birth dates, but have a general idea of when they were born. That's found here.
- Do you know the generational type for each generation up to and including the Missionary Generation? That's found here.
- Do you know the differences between the generational types: Idealistic, Reactive, Civic, and Adaptive. That's found here.
- Do you know the social movements and their differences: Secular Crisis and Spiritual Awakening. That's found here.
- Know names of the landscape artists (and the two photographers). Many of these artists painted in the Hudson School of painting. Review their paintings. Also, know the difference between the landscape painting terms: beauty, picturesque, and sublime. (That's covered here)
- Know the difference between these religious terms: regenerate, unregenerate, theism, deism, pantheism, Calvinism. That's found here.
- Know the following romantics (those who embraced ideas from the Romantic Movement): William Bryd, William Bartram, Alexis de Tocqueville. That's found here.
- Know these important western explorers from the post Civil War period: Clarence King, Ferdinand Hayden and John Wesley Powell. That's found here.
- Know the difference between a metaphor and a literary allusion. That's found here.
- Review the three stages of a transcendentalist's life. That's found here.
- Know the names of the three canyons that we read about in John Wesley Powell's journal of his trip down the Colorado River. That's found here.
- Know the approximate time period of the Golden Age of Mountaineering. That's found here.
Know the names of the authors and the titles of their works.
- Walden By Henry David Thoreau
- Journal of a Trapper By Osborne Russell
- Roughing It By Mark Twain
- Scrambles Amongst the Alps By Edward Whymper
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian By Wallace Stegner
- The Exploration of the Colorado River By John Wesley Powell
- A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains By Isabella Bird
- Steep Trails By John Muir
Review the readings. Have a good idea of what happens in each reading. The best way to study the readings is to write brief notes in margins. Writing it down helps you remember and makes it much easier to review.
As you look over the readings, get a feel for how the author writes. For example, who is the author of the following quote:
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
And the answer would be?
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