Possible Questions and Making Sure You Understand How This Works

Information that was previously covered with Unit 1 is identified with the phrase Common Information with All Exams.

Common Information with All Exams: Notice with Care the Word OR. 1

Common Information with All Exams: Notice the Words in Each Question. 1

5 Possible Questions. 1

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Following the 5 Good Habits for Evidence. 1

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Length and Language in Your Written Answer  1

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Citation for Your Written Answer to the Question   1

Common Information with All Exams: Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation. 1

 

 

Common Information with All Exams: Notice with Care the Word OR

I am trying to give each of you a very fair chance to be able to prepare ahead and to prepare for only 5 possible questions.

1.      You are to answer the question that Blackboard displays when you click on the Unit 1 Written Exam. It will be 1 of those listed below.

Tip: This means you need to prepare to answer each of the questions, but you only have to prepare to answer 1 of the OR possibilities.

2.      You are to look at the items connected by OR and you are to answer only 1 of those listed.
Caution: if you answer more than 1 of the OR items, I will grade only the first 1.

 

3.      Notice the words in the question. Example: Some of the questions use the phrase “as it reveals the Gilded Age.” You are not just summarizing some stuff from the book, but trying to show what this time period is like.

 

Common Information with All Exams: Notice the Words in Each Question

Notice words in the question such as:

·         in the Gilded Age

Caution: That means you are to talk about the whole period from about 1877 to about 1900.

5 Possible Questions

Blackboard will display 1 of these questions. You must answer the question Blackboard displayed. You must answer only 1 of the 2 or 3 or 4 OR possibilities with each question.

1.      Examine 1 (ONE) of these examples of how major events changed America: what happened to America in World War I that helped the Allies win the war OR what happened to America that led to the Great Depression OR what happened to America in World War II that helped the Allies win the war.

 

2.      Examine 1 (ONE) of these governmental topics as it reveals the period in which it occurs: the Pure Food and Drug Act OR the Federal Reserve OR the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation OR the Securities and Exchange Commission

3.      Discuss major issues that reveal what happens to African Americans in 1 (ONE) of these time periods: the Great Migration OR the Harlem Renaissance OR the New Deal

4.      Discuss major issues that reveal what happens to farmers in 1 (ONE) of these periods: farmers from 1900 through the 1920s OR farmers in the Great Depression OR farmers in the New Deal

5.      Discuss major issues that reveal what happens to workers in factories in 1 (ONE) of these periods: workers from 1900 through the 1920s OR workers in the Great Depression OR workers in the New Deal

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Following the 5 Good Habits for Evidence

You must follow all of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence in Evidence Matters. One half of your grade is for that. See the Rubric in Evidence Requirements.

 

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Length and Language in Your Written Answer

Length

330 words maximum – Much less is much better.

This is not like buying meat at the store: I don’t grade by the pound but for your reading and planning.

Format

Please if you write something in Word to copy and paste in, do not use italic or fancy fonts or anything but plain text. You radically increase my work and I have yet to see any of that fancy stuff make a better grade.

Punctuation if you quote

I don’t recommend quoting, but, if you do, make sure it is accurate. If you quote, keep it simple by using this Brain Trick (goes to the bottom of this webpage).

General clarity –what you do before you click on the test

Before the test, read and plan carefully, being sure to record the exact page numbers as you work.

Click here for a cheap method to read and plan carefully so you can write usefully.

 

Don’t write your answers ahead. Instead use your time to get good plans for the question Blackboard display for you.

General clarity –what you do before you click Submit

Check you page numbers against your 5Ws chart (the method in the link above).

Read aloud the words in your submission so you can correct

 

Common Information with All Exams: Requirements for Citation for Your Written Answer to the Question

Given the questions you will probably only be using the textbook.

What You Want to Cite

Example of How You Would Cite

If the fact is from the textbook, the Essentials edition

If your fact is from page 30 of the textbook, then immediately after your fact you’d write: (Essentials, p. 30)

 

If you want to know why we use a shortened citation form, see Discussion Topic 1-2.

 

Common Information with All Exams: Brain Trick for Quoting and Avoiding Quotation Humiliation

Click here for additional tips.

The rules for showing what you have taken out (…) of the author’s words or put in ([ ]) are complex and for most of us they are not worth learning.

 

This brain trick lets you be accurate but avoid learning those rules:

  1. Choose 3 to 6 words to quote and change nothing (not an ing or an ed, not a comma, nothing) between the first and the last word.

  2. Put a before the first word and a after the last word.

  3. Place those words with the “ ”within your sentence.

 

  1. If something sounds awkward about your sentences, then change your own words—the only words you have a right to change.

 

  1. Look at all of the words in the source. Be sure the meaning of the source remains in your quotation.