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Essay Questions for Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 General
Explanation of Required Preparation Instructions for THIS
Version of the Essays for Unit 2 Possible Choices You Will
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When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook.
You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:
§ Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question
§ Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook
§ If those two things are not enough, I will provide Required Preparation to resources or to specific locations in the textbook
Instructions
for THIS Version of the Essays for Unit 2
1. All of the Good Habits for Evidence requirements remain. 2. Your goal remains to understand the history well enough to teach it to someone (like your smart cousin). 3. You must use only the textbook or my links as a source. (NOTE WELL: Don’t assume or trust what you remember: verify everything with the textbook or my links in the course. Be sure anything you say is verifiably true, or don’t say it.) 4.
You write on ONLY 1 question from the 2 remaining (also marked in pink). You
only need to read for and prepare for 1 essay. When you click on the Unit 2 Essay Exam, Blackboard
displays this single question 5.
You must
cite a specific page number for each
fact you state from the textbook, but do that by writing (p. the number). NOTE WELL: you do: 6. You must write no more than 1 page maximum. How can you guess what is 1 page when you paste it into Blackboard essay tool? Write in 12 point font, 1.25’ margin left and right, 1” margin top and bottom 7. You must write at the top a) whether your Ayers textbook is paperback or hardback and b) whether the edition is the 2nd or 3rd or 4th.If you do not see an edition on the textbook or if you see the word Volume on its cover, ask me what to do. |
You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one. Notice that some of the questions let you use the same information (such as on consumerism or the Great Depression) for two questions.
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Required Preparation: Read with care how workers’ pay was essential to make
consumerism work. See Chapter 21 under the heading “Social and Cultural
Change in the Wilson Years.” Notice the chart on the “Model T Ford” and the subheading
”Automobiles for a Mass Market.” Also, look in the index for
consumerism. For the period covered by
this question: 1900+ Beginnings of Consumerism P517 (Also
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Required Preparation: Use the Snapshot in the Resources for Reading Quiz
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Required Preparation: Use the
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Required Preparation: Use the Resources for Reading Quiz F as a quick way
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Preparation: For German War Guilt
clause, look in Chapter 22, heading “The Terms of the Peace” and “Wilson and
the Treaty of Versailles.” It also is on p. 665: look for the words "to avenge the 'humiliation of Versailles." Required Preparation: For Fascism, look in Chapter 25, heading The Fascist Challenge. Required Preparation: for the rest, use the index. 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP665.pdf 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP666.pdf 1920s-1930s_FascistChallengeP667.pdf Required Preparation: This shows placing #s (1, 2,
3…) or letters (A, B, C…) beside lists where the author is revealing a set of things leading to something.
You are not doing that to memorize but to make yourself observe and to make
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