If You Decided You Wanted to Do the Extra Credit for the Practice Essay – and Understand How Profs and Bosses Will Interpret Your Work
What
Everyone Must Have to Begin
Figuring
Out What You Need to Do
What
(and How) You Will Submit to Me When You Are Done (Sooner the Better)
If you want to read and hear why the
instructor grades as she does (and why it is in your interests), click here.
If you want to read and hear how this grading applies to
this class, click here.
What
Everyone Must Have to Begin
- You need Blackboard
open to this link for the instructions so you can see them as you work.
- You need either to
be able to see the rubric I sent you or a print of it (recommended).
- Your required
textbook - The American Passages
by Ayers. (Details on the ISBN etc. are in the syllabus.)
- To create a
print copy and to do the fileyou will email to
me, you need a digital copy of:
a. The question/topic Blackboard asked you
b. The answer you entered in Blackboard
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If you don’t know how to do this,
here are the basic steps: click on Quizzes & Exams, click on your
submitted Practice Essay, and follow the prompts to choose to see what you
submitted (usually clicking on OK in the right corner). Then copy and paste
the question and your answer into a file. Ideally you need a word processor
that will let you: ·
Strike through (Strike through looks like ·
Underline (Underline looks like this.)
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- Based on prior
experience with students, you need to make a print copy to work on so you
are accurate.
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Strike through (Strike through looks
like this.)
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Underline (Underline looks like this.)
- Based on prior
experience with students, you need to lay your work out the way I lay your
work out when I grade.
Put your book and what you wrote side
by side so you can compare them easily. I have found touching the words on each
one very helpful in making myself observe carefully.
If you are left handed, you may want to reverse the pattern;
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With the textbook on the left –
Depending on what is marked on your rubric, some of you will have to compare
your paper with two sections of the book—one you should have used if you wanted to be accurate and the one you actually used.
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What you wrote on the right.
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The source turned to the exact page
you were using or should have been using for the content |
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The topic
displayed in Blackboard What you wrote
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If
Your Rubric Says You Used an Incorrect or Incomplete Part of the Required Source
or You Used an Unreliable Source or If You Claimed Segregation Existed in the
Time Periods Covered by the 3 Possible Time Periods from 1865 to 1877, Examine
This Section 1st
I
have copied below the page numbers specified for each of the possible time
periods from 1865 to 1877. Information on when segregation (a specific kind of
treatment, not just general nastiness) started is also highlighted. To see the link
that showed what was happening with blacks in the South from 1865 to 1877,
click here.
It also provides the chart to help you see change over time.
If You Are Using the 4th Edition
Paperback - What You Have to Read for Each Column
The columns below are the same columns you see above. This time they contain the Chapter #
and the name of the heading of the section you read within that chapter.
Notice that the word Segregation
for the first time appears in a heading about 1883—with those times with
segregation being identified with a purple column. Notice the Caution (in an orange-yellow)
in the table and in the Caution
in What You Have to Read for Each Column.
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Trait |
1865-1867 |
1867-1872 |
1872-1877 |
1877-1887 |
1887-1893 |
1893-1901 |
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What
You Must Read > |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 397-399, 403-407 in Chapters 15
& 16. Look for these headings: ·
“Emancipation
in the South” ·
“Black
Mobilization” ·
“Andrew
Johnson” ·
“Johnson
and the Radicals” ·
“The
Reconstruction Act of 1867” ·
“Reconstruction
Begins” (stops at “Despite these…”) |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 409, 411-413, 420-421, 424 in
Chapter 16. Look for these headings: ·
“The
Fifteenth Amendment” ·
“The
Rise of the Klan” ·
“Breaking
the Power of the Klan” ·
“Grant
and the 1872 Election” ·
“The
1872 Election” PLUS some elections from 1868 are in
Chapter 16 in “The Stigma of Corruption.” |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 423-429 in Chapter 16. Look for
the “The Failure of Reconstruction” which includes ·
“The
Stigma of Corruption” ·
“The
Resurgence of the Democrats” ·
“Why
Reconstruction Failed.” Caution: the use of the word segregation
in text is about the future, not the period of 1872-1877. ·
“The
Race for the White House” |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 429-430 in Chapter 16 and
453-454 in Chapter 17. Look for these headings: ·
“CONCLUSION”
(stops at “As with”) – These pages include some things that WILL happen AFTER
the current time of 1877. ·
“Segregation”
– Caution:
These pages are the
first to use the word Segregation in a heading and are about the end of the
period—such as the Supreme Court cases AFTER 1883. |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 468-469 in Chapter 18. Look for
this heading: “The Spread of Segregation.” |
For
the content for this column, you read: Pages 495-496, 504-505 Look for these
headings: ·
“African
Americans and Segregation.” Paragraph on 504 beginning “The main
combat” through paragraph on 505 ending “brought harmony at the expense of
black Americans.” |
Figuring
Out What You Need to Do
This shows a page I showed by students in
face-to-face classes so they knew what to do with the copies of their Practice
Essays. Now your essay may have color highlights in green for an “A” or “B” or
“C” Paper and also have some things marked the “D” Paper and “F” Paper columns.
Underlining (by hand here but digitally in your rubric) tells you the specifics
for your paper. For the definitions of terms used (such as cherry-pick), click on Essay Topics and to the 2nd item—the
definitions.
Notice the 2 colored areas circled in the
rubric and then point to a box with instructions
1.
The
blue
line
marks what you compare side by side in your essay with what the instructions
said you should have read for this
time period.
Follow the blue line to box with instructions You
strike through (like this) listed in that box.
o be accurate and what you submitted
and then you strike through (
If I underlined any of the words
circled:
2.
In
a blue
line
around words for a “D” Paper Criteria or an “F” Paper Criteria on your rubric,
and then you compare side by side what you should
have read (see the table above) and what you submitted
and then you strike through (
What
(and How) You Will Submit to Me When You Are Done (Sooner the Better)
1. Now that you have figured out what you
did, you can do your strike through and your underlining
in a word processing program that you know how to use.
2. When you are done, you click on my email
when I sent you the rubric, click Reply, and copy and paste what was in your
file into the Blackboard message.
3. I will then get back to you and tell you
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EITHER
that we must talk more because I fear you misunderstand something that will
make you unnecessarily unsafe (and lets talk ASAP)
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OR that
I think you are safe as is and I will enter the 10 points
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