Write a strong paragraph that provides background information about the primary source you’re writing about. We will do it in two steps that build upon the bullet-point answers to the context questions from week 1:
1. Write bullet-point answers to the context questions: up to 10 points.
â—� Who to whom? Who is the author and who did he/she/they write to?
â—� What type of work did the source create?
â—� When did he/she experience or write the work?
â—� Where did he/she experience or write?
â—� What is the historical significance?
2. Write a paragraph incorporating bullet-point answers to c: up to 40 points.
3. Write it as a pdf, a Microsoft Word, or a text answer.
â—� If you want to use Google docs, convert your file to pdf before uploading.
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Part 1
Use bullet points to answer the context questions for one source:
â—� “Shipwrecks,”
â—� “Commentaries,”
â—� “A Paleolithic Woman” â—� Source 1.1
â—� Source 1.2
Grading: 10 points for answering all of the questions; 8 points for answering 4 of the 5 questions; 6 points for answering at least 2 of the bullet point questions.
Part 2
Please do the bullet points in part 1, using your answers to create a context paragraph that includes the information from #1 through #5. Please focus on writing a good paragraph, which means that you might have to switch the information around. Grading:
â—� A level (40 – 36): The student included all of the information and wrote a specific and analytical topic sentence, supporting sentences that are relevant and connected to the topic sentence, and presented the historical significance of the source being examined.
â—� B level (35.5 – 32): The student included all of the information and wrote a topic sentence that is more descriptive than analytic, supporting sentences that are sort of connected to the topic sentence, and/or was not too clear on the historical significance.
â—� C level (31.5 – 28): The student included all of the information and wrote a topic sentence that is descriptive, supporting sentences that are not well connected to the topic sentence, and the historical significance is not very relevant.
â—� D level (27.5 – 24): The student included fewer than three of the bullet point responses.
â—� F: (0) The assignment was not done.