Instructions
For this Primary Source Analysis assignment, you will analyze Emma Tenayuca Reminisces About Labor Organizing in San Antonio, Texas, 1936-1938 and complete a Primary Source Analysis for that reading.
Emma Tenayuca Reminisces About Labor Organizing In San Antonio, Texas 1936-1938
Guidelines
The purpose of this assignment is to build your analytical skills. These questions are designed to help you better understand the document and its historical significance. Your job here is to fully answer these questions: simple one-word answers will not suffice. In order to get full credit on this assignment you must fully explain your answers and give examples from the source. The point is for you to come out of this with a very good understanding of these documents. Fully answering these questions will help you do so.
Since you will quote from the source assigned in order to illustrate your analysis, it is required that you include Chicago-style citations and give credit for use of the source.
Expected minimum length of the Primary Source Analysis assignment is 500 words. This length does not include the Chicago-style footnote citation or any heading and title details. The following questions direct you in completing an analysis of the source assigned, and you should compile your analysis in essay form with your answers as part of paragraphs.
Identification: Who wrote or created the document and what makes that person significant to the time period of the document/source?
Audience: Who is the intended audience and why is that group significant to the time period of the document/source?
Main idea: Give a short summary of the document.
Analysis: What is the purpose of this document? What details lead you to this conclusion? What questions does this source raise?
Evidence: Give specific examples from the document that support your answer for question 4 (make sure to use footnotes as your citations for the source).
Keep focused on developing ideas about the significance of the document based on these questions, and include your position (as an argument, thesis, or description of that significance), in the section of your submitted assignment that answers question 4.
Submission
Please review the Primary Source Analysis Guidelines and Primary Source Analysis Examples as well as formatting and citation expectations in the Orientation Module. When you complete these questions in a Word document, upload and submit it to Canvas through Turn It In.
Assessment
Your submission will be assessed through the rubric attached, and each question links to a criteria in the rubric.
Rubric
Primary Source Analysis
Primary Source Analysis
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIdentification
Who wrote or created the document?
5 pts
The author of the source is identified and relevant details about them are provided that indicate how they and the source are significant.
3 pts
The author of the source is identified, but no relevant details about them are provided to indicate significance of the source.
0 pts
The author of the source is not identified.
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAudience
Who is the intended audience?
5 pts
The intended audience is provided, and consideration about their relevance to the source and historical significance is clear in the answer.
3 pts
The intended audience is provided, but no consideration of their relevance to the source or historical significance is provided.
0 pts
The intended audience of the source is not provided.
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeMain idea
Summarize in a few sentences the main idea of the document.
10 pts
The main idea is identified and summarized in the submission.
5 pts
The main idea is identified but not summarized.
0 pts
The main idea of the source is not provided.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEvidence
Give specific examples from the document that support your answer for question 3.
20 pts
Three quoted examples from the source are provided to back up the Main Idea summary.
15 pts
Two quoted examples from the source are provided to back up the Main Idea summary.
10 pts
One quoted example or evidence is only referred to from the source to back up the Main Idea summary.
0 pts
No evidence from the source is provided.
20 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAnalysis
What is the purpose of this document? What details lead you to this conclusion?
25 pts
The purpose of the source is analyzed clearly and the evidence is considered to build a conclusion about the source and its historical significance.
20 pts
The purpose of the source is clear, and an analysis of the evidence is included, but conclusions are not defined or lack clarity related to the source or its historical significance.
10 pts
The purpose of the source is clear, but no analysis of the evidence provided generates conclusions about the source.
5 pts
The purpose of the source is unclear and defined conclusions about the evidence provided are included.
0 pts
No analysis of the source is provided, or the analysis is too brief to determine purpose or a conclusion about the source.
25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCitation
10 pts
Sources cited correctly as Chicago-style footnotes.
5 pts
Sources are cited as footnotes in Chicago-style with minor flaws.
3 pts
Sources are cited as footnotes in Chicago-style with noticeable flaws.
2 pts
Sources are cited incorrectly, not as footnotes, or in a different citation style.
0 pts
Sources are not cited in the submission.
10 pts
Total Points: 75
