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1) Until when did Virginia stretch from Maine to Georgia? To the North, the territory Raleigh called "Virginia" ceased to be named so when the "New England" colonies were established. Maine was founded in 1623 (see PPP). To the South, Virgina was remapped  when the Carolinas were settled in the 1660s. What we need to understand here is that we're looking into the settlements with a map of present-day US in our minds/before our eyes. Thus, we designate the territories with the names of present-day states (to simplify the presentation and aid comprehension). At the time, greographical knowledge was not advanced, which means the territories so called Virginia, Maine, etc... had imprecise boundaries. The chronological organization of the settlement and the mapping of those movements are rationalizations that history and geography have imposed on the past so as to be able to narrate/explain it.
2) Brogan's ch. 3, pp. 23-24 reads "...after the glorious dispatch of the first voyages, investors grew wary. The Company(...)collapse(d) (...). Virginia became a colony under the direct government of the King." a) Did that make it a royal/proprietor colony? A crown colony, in theory (only in theory) the property of the crown. A proprietor colony would be the property of an individual (who had secured  ownership from the monarch)
b) Then we continue reading that by 1635 the General Assembly had become the central institution of the colony... Does this mean that they were still independent from the King? Or that though the colony was under direct royal control the colonists had the right to govern themselves? The colonies, by virtue of the very name that designates their status, did not become independent until the Declaration of Independence and then they had to win their freedom by fighting the War of Independence. During the colonial period, the colonies (we're being very redundant here) enjoyed  a relatively high degree of self-government/rule. They were under royal/company/proprietor control but they were so far away from the mother country/metropolis that it was impossible to rule them directly from London. They were able to organize their own domestic/home affairs while defence and trade were regulated from Westminster.
3) What was the consequence of Connecticut not having charter? None as far as I know...
4) Regarding the assignments, what period should we begin with? 17th, 18th c...? If you read the schedule for  assignment 1 (and the rest of the assignments) you will see it reads "Revolution (American/French)". However, if you're dealing with Enlightement thinkers, some mention has to be made concerning the Scientific/Philosophical Revolution of the 17th c.
 5) We are dealing with the origins of Critical Pedagogy. Do we have to explain what critical pedagogy is? Yes, for the time being a very very brief definition of critical pedagogy and a short chronology of its development (Basically, for the moment, Freire & McLaren)  and compare it with the thinkers of the time whose ideas approach the most to the ones we are aiming at? No, no comparisons, they're impossible. History explain,s, hypothesizes, relates but it does not usually compare and contrast  Do we start by those thinkers straight away and wait to explain all about critical pedagogy until we get to neo-marxists/critial theorists? Not quite. You should start by briefly defining what CP is (Freire & McLaren--pls talk to Marcela), summarily tracing its birth in the second half of the 20th c and then stating that you will search for its origins/roots beginning with the Age of Revolution in the 18th c...
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