Instructions
Choose only 3 of the following terms. Create a “narrative arc” in which you identify a “theme” or “narrative” that connects your chosen terms together. Your narrative is similar to a historical thesis or argument–basically, you are making a claim about how three terms connect together.
Then, fully contextualize each of your chosen terms, describe the historic significance of each chosen term, and connect each chosen term to the others or to your identified theme in a way that shows you understand the “cause-and-effect” relationship between them.
Your narrative arc is due by Saturday at 11:59 P.M.
Please include your “theme” at the top of the narrative arc.
Include the context for each term you choose to include.
Who, what, when, where
Include the significance for each term you choose to include.
Why (Why is this important? Why is it connected to the theme?)
The significance should connect to your theme in some way, or show the connection to the other terms.
There is no required minimum or maximum word count, but the terms should be developed enough that their context, significance, and connection to the theme is clear!
Please submit a Word document, as other file types may not show up in SpeedGrader correctly.
An example of a narrative arc is located at the bottom of this page.
Potential Terms
Choose 3
Trench warfare
League of Nations
Russian Civil War
Great Depression
Kuomintang
Chinese Civil War
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Operation Barbarossa
Appeasement
Autarky
Operation Overlord
Atomic bomb
Genocide
Assessment
This assignment is aligned with “Course Outcome A” and “Module Outcome 2”
You can view the rubric for this assignment below.
Writing Sample
This sample narrative arc Download sample narrative arcdescribes content covered in HIST 1301 (U.S. History before the Civil War), but serves as an example of how to make a historical “theme” and how to create a narrative that ties three different historical terms together. Please feel free to use this as a model when writing your own narrative arc.
