No matter the format, the project must:
1. Present an Argument
(10 points): The ESSAY will be about what coastal technologies and practices the Europeans got from the indigenous people- primarily in New England but not strictly- from the 1600s-1900s
Your
project should have an overarching idea or takeaway. In this case, your
argument will probably be an answer to a question you have about the past (no
need to stick with the same question you started with—think about what question
your sources allow you to answer.)
2. Share Basic Information
(20 points):
Explain
in depth details of the topic you’ve studied: who/what/when/why/where/how? What
context surrounded this topic?
3. Engage with Primary Sources
(20 points):
Your
project should draw on at least 4 primary sources created at the time the
history was happening or by someone who was there. In previous weeks, you’ll
have found these sources using our Research Guide and analyzed them for Project
Dues. Your project should reflect this work you’ve done—present and explain
sources or pieces of them to your audience, or use information you learned from
the sources.
4. Engage with a
Secondary Source (5 points):
Your
project should draw on at least one secondary source created by a scholar who
used primary sources to make an argument about the past. A previous Project Due
uses our Research Guide to lead you through the process of finding and reading
a reputable secondary source (History.com and most sites you’d find with a
simple google search do not count.)
5. Cite Your Information
(10 points):
Every
quotation, idea, or piece of information that came from somewhere other than
your own brain should be credited (this goes for primary and secondary sources,
as well as any additional google research that shaped your project.)
*If
you write an essay, blog post, historical fiction, or any other chunk of
writing, please use footnotes (InsertàFootnotes)
to show where you got each piece of information. Timelines can include
citations at the end of each caption. If your project format makes these kinds
of citations awkward, please talk to me, or submit a bibliography listing the
places you found information that you used, along with 1-2 sentences about what
you learned from each.
Please
use Chicago style citations to explain where you learned things included in
your project. (On the right-hand side of the page, find the description that
most closely matches your source, click on it and follow the directions for
either “Note” or “Bibliographic Entry,” depending on what kind of project you
are working on.
6. Show Depth of Thought
(15 points):
This
project asks you to learn and think about something that happened that you
weren’t there for, using scraps of evidence as clues to the past. Forget
anything you learned about History being a process of memorization and reciting
“facts.” No matter what kind of project you create, there’s creativity in this
process. Let yourself wonder and follow your curiosity. Try to practice
historical empathy, imagining how it felt to live through this moment. If you
open yourself up to what you’re learning and let it touch you, your final
project will come across as interesting and complex, rather than feeling stale
or simple.
7. Catch Typos and
Errors (10 points):
Editing is a crucial step that you should be
sure to always make time for. I don’t expect perfection, but you should make an
effort to catch mistakes.
Find any other primary and secondary sources that can help support the essay but the ones below also need to be in it. Need to have at least 4 primary and 1 secondary source
Must use primary:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006869104&seq=1
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travels_Through_North_and_South_Ca
rolina/WrJgAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
Secondary:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Science_and_Technology_in_Colonial_Ameri/fp
LDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
