Course Assignments:
There are three required writing assignments for this course. The first two are student response essays, which ask you to read and analyze primary source materials and to write ten (10), one-page essays over the course of the semester that summarize the points made in the selected piece. The first five essays will be drawn from the assigned Frederick Binder text, The Way We Lived, volume 1. These first five (5) one-page essays are due on October 22. Each essay is worth 10 points. The second set of essays require you to write five (5) one-page essays based on primary sources that you find on your own. This might include newspaper articles, interviews you conduct yourself, or primary documents you find in area libraries. We will discuss in class what constitutes a primary source, but, if you are unsure if your essay is based on a primary source, consult with your instructor beforehand. The goal here is to learn how historians and journalists analyze documents, and then form evidence-based arguments based on the sources. The second group of one-page essays is due on November 19.
The third writing assignment is a 5-8 page book review of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, an acclaimed book that touches on immigration, the Cold War, the welfare state, and many other topics. Your task is not simply to review and summarize the book, but to argue what this book has to say about some of the issues we will have discussed in class. The book review is due December 3.
Detailed instructions on the ten student response essays and the book review will be provided in class, but if you have question about these assignments, do not hesitate to contact me.
Class Lectures
Introduction
The First Americans
Colonial Settlement
Colonial Society Matures
Colonial Society in Flux
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