Assignment Prompt: Upload a brief reading response paper between 250 and 300 words (consisting of 3 roughly equal paragraphs), reflecting on the topics, themes, and theses in Asch and Musgrove’s Chocolate City by answering the following question:
What were the foundations of black empowerment during the Civil War and Reconstruction? DC became the testing ground for what experiments toward racial equality?
Criteria for Success
Responses will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
Providing thorough summary of chapter (paragraph 1)
Introducing your own analysis of the authors’ points (paragraph 2)
Making connections with other chapters (paragraph 3)
Submission Instructions: Click the link above (the title of this assignment) to submit the assignment. Responses should:
Be typed into the text box; do not link or upload a separate document.
Be 250 – 300 words, single-spaced.
Utilize abbreviated parenthetical citations to cite sources, e.g. (Chocolate City, p. 36), but do not reproduce long verbatim quotations from our readings.
Assignment Prompt: Please select a surviving DC structure that was built in the period of this week’s reading, covering 1912-1945, and provide 100 words of identification (explaining what and where it is) as well as how you would connect it to the week’s themes.
Steps for Completion:
To get started, even before selecting a DC site for your virtual postcard, check the spreadsheet of sites already submitted to make sure yours is unique
[Tech tip: I strongly recommend pasting the URL below into a different browser from the one your GW email is logged into, because apparently GW’s account blocks GoogleMaps, which may result in an error message saying “you do not have access” ]:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1guxat-r4e7rgy2ItgRqxQvLXCFQjAwycaQzVpNLfVjo/edit?usp=sharing
Be sure you do NOT select a site that has already been claimed this week by another student, nor one that is highlighted either in Dr. Klemek’s introductory lecturesor in the opening section of Drs. Asch and Musgrove’s chapter assigned for the week.
Then, once you’ve done some research (see Blackboard for useful resources under full assignment descriiption) and identified a still *surviving* structure in modern day DC that was *constructed* during the period covered by this week’s readings, submit the all the required information below to this GoogleForm:
https://forms.gle/2T2t6qiD47XmN9jXA
YOUR name:
SITE name:
YEAR built (use a single year ONLY–not date range–within time period covered this week):
GEOCODE (right-click or control-click on pin in GoogleMaps to copy your site’s longitude, latitude):
Streetview image URL (navigate to your site in GoogleStreetview then click “share” on the side panel to copy link to picture):
100 WORDS in a brief paragraph connecting your site to this week’s course themes:
LINKS to sources (where you found information about your site):
Criteria for Success
Responses will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
Per the instructions above, the postcard information is submitted on time and in the correct FORMAT.
The dates for your site correspond to the same PERIOD covered by the the two chapters read this week. The period restriction corresponds to the date when the current structure was BUILT, which is not necessarily when the institution in question was founded.
Make clear how you CONNECT the site with key themes from our reading.
Submission Instructions: Submit the all the required information to this GoogleForm:
https://forms.gle/2T2t6qiD47XmN9jXA
