Internet/Library Assignments
(approx. 3 pp., 3% each)

Everybody does one from the first five, then one from the second four.
They have to be turned in on the date specified.
They have to be turned in to turnitin.com before turning in a paper copy.

1.  Should have a correct cover page with paper title, student name rather than number, class, and date.

2.  Must be typed and double-spaced, using indented paragraphs (use Tab key) with no extra space between paragraphs.

3.  Papers must have a Bibliography page and correct historical notation (See Writing Guidelines on class website.)  Rule of thumb on sources is to have as many sources as there are pages in the paper--so for a three page paper, three sources.

4.  Sources used must be handed in with the paper.  If a source is long or a book, just xerox the pages used.

5.  Quotes over four lines must be single spaced and indented on both sides.  No need to use quotation marks with this type of quote, but it needs a footnote number at the end.

6.  Keep a copy of your finished paper on a disk, so that you can easily fix writing or information errors on returned papers.  Any student who turns in a paper with more than three errors will have to turn in both a clean copy and the original paper for the full grade.  Any student with three errors or fewer will therefore save him or herself some extra work.

7.  These papers will not be accepted after their due dates except in this case:  if a student has completed two papers and wants to do another one for Extra Credit (3%), she or he can go back and do any topic on the list.


POSSIBLE ASSIGNMENTS:

1.   Jan. 30     Who was Ida B. Wells and how did she fight for justice during her
                            lifetime?  Use the Internet or the Library to find out.

2.   Feb.  6      Use the Internet or the Library to discuss what life was like for a
                            child laborer in textile mills, the coal mines, or other industries
                            in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

3.   Feb. 13     Use the Internet or the Library to find out how football got its start, and
                         how it grew and changed in the 20th century.

4.   Feb. 18 (Weds.)     Using the Internet or the Library, explain the history of the
                                      Philippine War in terms of its causes, what happened,
                                      and its results.

5.   Feb. 27       Settlement houses were institutions of the Progressive Era.  The most
                        famous of these was Hull House begun by Jane Addams.  Explain the
                        history of Hull House. Why was it so famous?

6.   Mar.  6       Using the Internet or the Library, write about someone from the
                         Harlem Renaissance--someone in art, music, literature, dance,
                         or theater.

7.   Mar. 20      Go, for example, to
                               http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html
                        Find three sources altogether and answer the question, What was
                        life like for Dust Bowl families in the Great Depression?

8.   Mar. 25 (Weds.)      Using the Internet or the Library, choose one of these topics: 
                                    write about U.S. relocation camps for Japanese-Americans
                                    OR  P.O.W. camps in the U.S. during World War II.  
                                    [Not both]

9.   Apr.  3     Using the Internet or Library, pick an event from 1950 to the present
                       that you have wanted to know more about and write on that topic.