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GRADING
This is a generalized grading rubric that I will use to determine your points on your Wikis:
All Wikis (25 points )
1. (10 points) = discussion on 3 historical themes from provided list (no repeats).
2. (10 points) = 6 required quotes (3 secondary sources - 2 from textbook & 3/primary documents, 2 from Mindtap) all properly vetted, identified, & contextualized in the essay and all properly cited.
3. (5 points) = minimum 750 word count requirement; each theme paragraph minimum 250 words each.
So if a student offers a discussion of three themes from the list in context with the subjects of the reading materials for the grading period AND they have not used the themes before AND they have supplied all the required quoted and cited materials in the essay, formatted correctly and listed in Works Cited properly, AND each theme discussion is a minimum of 250 words making the essay at least 750 words in length, then you get a perfect score of 25 points.
If required components are missing = you will get marked down and I will tell you what you are missing. ALSO you must make sure that you are referring to the historical subjects of that grading period's reading assignments when you write up your theme selections. For example, if you were studying about Christian and Muslim Expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries and you chose to write on the theme of Personalities in History as one of your two themes and you wrote on Osama Bin Laden from the 20th century that would be WRONG, but if you chose to write about Suleiman the Magnificent and his role in the history you studied, then you would be correct. Just be aware that it has happened more times than you might think.
Refer to the sample essay I included to see HOW I want you to cite your sources in these essays. ALSO - when I say "contextualize" the quoted material, it means the quotes you use need to support what you are saying and are not just quotes thrown in at the end of the essay so you can say you did it. I will mark down for that.
Index for Primary Documents Chaps 1-5
A People and a Nation, Vol. 1
INDEX to PRIMARY DOCUMENTS in MINDTAP EBOOK
Primary Documents with their links found in the Mindtap Ebook A People and a Nation, Norton & Kamensky, et. al.
Chapter 1: Three Worlds Create a New
Section 6b = Journal of Christopher Columbus http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/columbus_all.html
Section 6b = Columbus Letter to the King and Queen of Spain http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/before-1600/columbus-letter-to-the-king-and-queen-of-spain-1494.php
Section 9d = Harriot’s “The Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast, 1588” http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/harriot_algonquian.html
An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.asp
Chapter 2: Europeans Colonize North America
Section 3a = John Smith Describes Starving Time in Jamestown http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/john_smith_starving_time.htm
Section 5d = Mayflower Compact = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/mayflower.html
The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649 = http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/the-maryland-toleration-act-1649.php
Chapter 3: North America in the Atlantic World
Section 2a = Letter from Father Marquette to Father Dablon (1672) = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/marquette.htm = discusses challenges with encounters with Indians while missionizing
Section 2d = Nathaniel Bacon “Declaration in the Name of the People (30 July 1676)” = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/bacon.html = declaring war against native peoples
Section 4a = “Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia 1629-1672” = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/laws_slaves_servants.htm = Colonial Virginia Laws pertaining to Slaves and Servants
Section 5c = English Bill of Rights, 1689 = http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp
William Penn, Account of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1681 = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/pennsome.html
Chapter 4: Becoming America?
Section 1c = Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788) = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/falconbridge_africanslavetrade.html
Section 5 = Jonathan Edwards, “A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God . . . (1817)”= http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/great_awakening_nh.htm talking about conversion of souls in Great Awakening
John Locke: Chapter II from Two Treatises of Government, 1690 = http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.asp
Jonathan Edwards: On the Great Awakening, December 12, 1743 =
http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/awaken.htm
Chapter 5: The Ends of Empire
Section 3b = Patrick Henry, “Resolutions Against the Stamp Act, 1765” = http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrvar.cfm
Section 3d = Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay = http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/hutchinsonstampact.html = Reaction to the Stamp Act, Boston, 1765
Coercive Acts, 1774 = http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/portact.html
How to Cite your Sources from Mindtap
CITING YOUR SOURCES
Please use standard MLA formatting when citing secondary sources and primary documents from outside sources. Purdue University website has an excellent website with examples: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/
HOW TO CITE YOUR PRIMARY DOCUMENTS SOURCES IN WIKIS:
Your in-text citations of quoted material from Primary Documents from Mindtap links in the Norton, et.al. text book should look like this:
(Christopher Columbus, "Letter to King and Queen of Spain, 1494" in Mindtap 1:6b
Bibliographic entry in Work Cited for primary documents in Norton, et. al. should look like this:
Columbus, Christopher. "Letter to King and Queen of Spain, 1494." At University of Gronigen, American History - from Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond, "Columbus Letter to the King and Queen Of Spain. In Mary Beth Norton, et. al. A People and a Nation,Vol.1 to 1877. Cengage Learning, 2015. Mindtap 1:6b
HOW TO CITE YOUR SECONDARY SOURCES FROM YOUR TEXTBOOK IN WIKIS AND MOVIE REVIEW:
Your in-text citations of quoted material from your textbook authors should look like this:
(Norton, et. al., Mindtap 1:2a)
Bibliographic entry in Work Cited for textbook should look like this:
Norton, Mary Beth, et. al. A People and a Nation, Vol.1 to 1877. Cengage Learning 2015. Mindtap 1:2b.
Primary vs Secondary Sources
Hi Everyone
All of your writing assignments that you do in this course require using both primary sources and secondary sources.
There are three types of resources used in research and composition: primary sources, secondary sources, and tertiary sources.
What is a primary source?
A primary source is a document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created or otherwise produced during the time under study. Primary sources offer an inside view of a particular event. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event. Some types of primary sources include:
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (excerpts or translations acceptable): Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records
CREATIVE WORKS: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art
RELICS OR ARTIFACTS: Pottery, furniture, clothing, buildings
Examples of primary sources include:
Diary of Anne Frank - Experiences of a Jewish family during WWII
The Declaration of Independence – U.S. History
African-American Poetry (1750-1900) – U.S. History and Literature
Weavings and pottery - Native American history
Film footage of the assassination Pres. John F. Kennedy
Plato's Republic - Women in Ancient Greece
What is a secondary source?
A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them. Some types of secondary sources include:
PUBLICATIONS: Textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias
Examples of secondary sources include:
A journal/magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings
A history textbook
A book about the effects of WWI
What is a tertiary source?
Tertiary sources consist of information which is a distillation and collection of primary and secondary sources.
Almanacs;
Bibliographies (also considered secondary);
Chronologies;
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);
Directories;
Fact books;
Guidebooks;
Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies used to locate primary and secondary sources;
Manuals;
Textbooks (also be secondary).
