Caution: The
Comparison Topics for Unit 2 Comparison each have their own pages and
background materials
Sometimes it is clearest start with what a comparison
is not. A comparison in this class
is:
·
Not a paraphrase
of each sentence of a page of the required readings and not even a summary of
that page
·
Not a formal
English paper with specific requirements for number of quotations and your
personal interpretation of those quotations
·
Not a comparison
of the sets of pages of the required readings
This is a history class and the goal to help you learn
history. One of the hardest things for students to understand about history is
that it what was true at the beginning of a time period can be amazingly
different at the end of it—sometimes for the better and sometimes for the
worse. History changes! If it didn’t, humans could never have a consequence on
the present and future. What makes history change is something worth noticing
if you want to survive your present
and, perhaps what is more important, if you want to try to maintain what is
good in your present.
What is a comparison in this class? It is:
1.
Focusing on one
of the listed possible Comparison Topics so you can observe how history changed
over the time period for a specific group of people
2.
Using the exact pages
of the required readings—and only
those pages—because those pages have facts about that specific group of people
3.
Reading those
exact pages FOR evidence (As the Good Habits for Evidence link show, that means
such things as no assumptions, no misreading, no
embellishing, no cherry-picking of atypical facts.)
4.
Examining the
evidence so you figure out how history changed
5.
Deciding from
that evidence what two or three things you would teach others if you were trying to help them understand how
history changed for this group in this time
6. Writing WITH evidence one (1) page and using endnotes and citing following the simple version of the Chicago Manual of Style, the standard
used for the discipline of history
That means you cite using an endnote for a specific
page and only from the required
readings if you use in your paper:
·
A quotation
·
A fact - You may
not make statements of fact without a citation to a specific page from the
required pages. (Don’t assume your
version of common knowledge matches the textbook.)
The Good Habits for Evidence link tells you how you
reduce the number of those endnotes (Habit 3) while still clearly showing your
evidence. In the resource What’s a Comparison and What Citation Is Required?
below this link, you can also see:
·
Information if
you want to learn a bit more about Chicago
Manual of Style or if you want tips on how to use endnotes in Microsoft
Word
·
Examples of
Comparisons earning a C, B, and an A (student papers used in the Good Habits
for Evidence link)
·
A small-print
version of the A-level Comparison with explanations pointing to the parts of a
Comparison and to its citations
·
A large-print
version of the A-level Comparison so you can read it easily and see its use of
the simple version of the Chicago Manual of Style
You must
use the file provided in this folder as a template for what must be in your file from the heading area to the font.
You do not
include the 5 Ws
chart in this file. I do recommend, however, that you do the 5 Ws (Who, What,
When, Where, Why, and sometimes
How) chart comparing in short phrases (with the page numbers) the two things in
the topic that you have chosen. Where
can you see an example? In Good Habits for Evidence or in this direct link
to the method provided there and to its 5Ws chart. From these
charts you can determine what would be several possible comparisons. You choose
the issues you want to examine. If you need help, ask.
You use the file provided in this folder. You prepare
a 1 page comparison of the two things in the topic that you have
chosen. You follow all of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence in your paper,
including citation.
Reminder: The required
citation method is the Chicago Manual of
Style, the standard used for disciplines such as history. For how to cite
using the Chicago Manual of Style,
use:
·
A brief version
of the Chicago Manual of Style
provided in this folder
·
A simpler version
to write citations provided in this course (It also shows an example from the A
paper provided with the Good Habits for Evidence.)
For both of the
above, see the Tips about Chicago Manual of Style, about How to Use Endnotes in
Word, and About the Simple Method You May Use in THIS Course
If your endnotes (and nothing else) extend to a 2nd
page, that is OK.
You can find the rubric and how it is used for grading
in the Good Habits for Evidence or in this direct
link to the explanation of the rubric.
Requirements for each of the things—all provided in
this module--that you may compare:
·
You must use the exact pages in the textbook that are
listed at the top of the Contents webpage.
·
You must
understand the terms consumerism and fascism as the textbook explains them.
·
You must examine
on those pages the things in the topics,
not anything on the page.
In each of these 2 choices, make sure you meet the
listed requirements above:
1.
Compare consumerism
in the first years of the 1900s with consumerism just before the Great
Depression.
Also explain how was a consumer economy vulnerable to
the Great Depression?
2.
Compare the
German War Guilt clause at the end of World War I with the other forces that
lead to the rise of fascism in 1920s and 1930s.
Also explain how the German War Guilt clause and the rise of fascism are
connected with the Munich Agreement.
You will find these things immediately below this
link:
·
The first thing
to use—the next link in this folder
·
If you want help
in noticing what your instructor found on the pages about consumerism and
fascism, see the items with labeled pages.
You will find these things in this folder: