1) Identify who (a person or a specific group of people) or what (an event) is being commemorated: identify the monument, ritual, work of art, etc., that commemorates a specific event, a person, or people.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a history question and need guidance to help me learn.

Instructions for the Writing Assignment 4

For the last several lectures I’ve been covering what I mean by a memorial culture and the way that the past, especially the past we commemorate in monuments and rituals, shape our identity. If it helps, you may want to review the lectures from Chapter 8, 9, and 11.

For your fourth writing assignment, identify two examples of memorial culture from the civilizations we have studied from Chapter 8 to Chapter 12.

1) Identify who (a person or a specific group of people) or what (an event) is being commemorated: identify the monument, ritual, work of art, etc., that commemorates a specific event, a person, or people.

2) Explain how they are being commemorated. What is the importance of those people, that person, or that event to the people who built the monument, practiced the rituals or otherwise keep the memory of the past alive. Explain what the value or importance is in remembering- why were those people or that event important for this group of people?

3) Finally, identify how this form of commemoration shapes the identify of the living, the people we see performing the ritual rallying around the monument, etc.. You can pick any example from Chapter 8 to Chapter 12. If you need help, as always, let me know.

Write an essay that has the following essential components:

1) Your essay clearly and directly address all parts of the prompt.

2) Your essay uses information from the assigned materials to support your argument

3) Your essay quotes a primary source, an eye-witness account from the period of time you are studying. You can find primary sources at the Internet History Sourcebook Project, but be aware that not every link on this site is a primary source. If you need help, let me know.

4) Your essay should be 500 words at the minimum, not counting footnotes or bibliography. You must supple footnotes to show where you found specific information (as in a page number) and you must supply a bibliography.

Style Guide:

Your paper should have an introductory paragraph that explain in clear details what you are going to argue: such a statement is a thesis statement. A good example of a thesis statement (from a former undergraduate student) is “Although gender roles changed from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, the state’s military culture ensured that women remained a lower valued group. “A thesis statement that offers only generalities like “although there were both changes and continuities, there more more continuities than changes” is very weak. A thesis that simply states a subject “e.g.: I am going to discuss changes and continuities in Islamic societies” is also weak. You must give an argument about change and continuity in a specific society. Your thesis must be testable in the sense that it will require evidence to prove. If you are still unclear about what makes a good thesis statement, look here or or ask me!

Footnotes!

Footnotes can be very tricky. Take a look at this brief Youtube video here or you can ask me if you have questions. Footnote are important because they show the reader where you got your information and that you are basing your argument on solid ideas. You should use one footnote for every fact that is not common knowledge. If you have a series of facts from the same page, you may use one footnote to cover several sentences. Your first footnote should contain a full citation like this:

Judge, Edward H. and John W. Langdon, Connections: A World History, 3rd ed. vol. 1. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc, 2016: page 32.

After this first reference, please abbreviate the citation:

Judge and Langdon, Connections, page 35.

Bibliography

Your bibliography should be placed at the end of the essay and include all of the sources you used. Entries in the bibliography are the same as the full reference from the footnote but without the page number or parentheses around the publication information.

Judge, Edward H. and John W. Langdon, Connections: A World History, 3rd ed. vol. 1. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc, 2016.

All bibliographies are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name.

When you have completed this essay, please submit it to the correct dropbox. All submissions will be check for originality by Turnitin.com. You have access to your Turnitin score. If you are not sure how to check Turnitin, please look at the video in the “Course Information Module.” If you essay is found to have unoriginal that is not properly cited material, it will be returned to you ungraded. Please check the dropbox for feedback and notes. If you have any questions, please let me know.

To see the grading rubric for this assignment, go on to the next page.

The Grading Rubric

For credit on this assignment, your participation will be graded according to the following rubric.

The assignment has five criteria

1) The essay directly address all parts of the prompt (10 points)

2) The essay uses information from the assigned materials (10 points)

3) The essay quotes a primary source in context (10 points)

4) The essay meets a minimum of 500 words, not including footnotes and bibliography, includes footnotes and a bibliography (10 points)

5) The essay has addressed any issues raised on the previous feedback (10 points)

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