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Example 1:
Teaching in a Common Sense Way What Anyone Would Need to Know about the
Question – 1302 Student (an A)
No example is perfect (but neither is your instructor). What the examples show is the varied ways that students succeeded in trying to understand history:
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This is a lovely example of some really working to understand the content. This person did not just copy stuff, but understood it.
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Source to look at on the question blacks in the South from 1865-1867 |
Look at Chapters 15 & 16 and for these headings:
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This example was from a prior year and I used it as an example in a class. It has:
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Source to look at on the
question blacks in the South from 1872-1877 |
Look at Chapter 16.and for the heading “The Failure of Reconstruction” which includes
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This person used quotations, and that’s fine in this course. (Caution: Typing another’s words without quotation marks is not fine.) The person did two things that make the use of quotation earn high points:
Had one error in using a quotation (CL 3) and that’s very unsafe if you use quotations. Had two minor meaning errors.
Additional Caution: What fails is just writing a bunch of quotations one after another with no way for a reader to guess why you chose them.
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Source to look at on the question of Slavery in the English Colonies – LATE 1660s |
Look at Chapter 3: “Systems of Slavery in North America.” |
This student did promising work and already knew the basic standards. Some errors are marked but the student still had a B.
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Source to look at on the question of Indenture Pre-1676 in the South |
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