Final Essay Project

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history and culture over two different historical periods.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Purpose:</b>  To practice essay format and Regents-style essays, to review important concepts from the course, to summarize the years' learning, and to enjoy and explore an aspect of U.S. history and culture of interest to individual students.  Papers should especially be able to <U>show the nature or spirit of particular historical ages</U> and <U>to account for change over time</U> (why did these movements start/stop when they did?).  After all, history can be defined as “fashioning a meaningful narrative out of the past,” which includes a study of change over time.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Format:</b>  The essay/paper should follow the format for a typical Regents essay - an introductory (ABCD) paragraph, two body paragraphs (one for each historical period) and a conclusion (with a generalization about your theme).  While it is like a thematic essay in its exploration of theme, it is also like a DBQ essay in that you must use, and attach, at least 5 documents in your essay.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Documents:</b>  You must use at least 5 documents in your essay.  Documents may be drawn from the textbook, the Internet, handouts or other source.  Review books are generally not a good source for documents, although you might want to use some of the documents from the practice DBQs (or at least see what kinds of things they use as documents).  Documents should be relatively short and able to support the thesis of your essay.  They can include:  quotes, charts, graphs, pictures, treaties, speeches, personal reflections, laws, amendments, court case decisions, reproductions of art work or even a scene from a movie.  Documents should show a <U>variety</U> of sources.  You might have to select important paragraphs from a larger body (in other words, a document should not be a magazine issue devoted to a performer, but instead a paragraph from an article within that magazine).  Finally, the emphasis here is NOT on doing research - it's just a way to use some outside info to help you make your point.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Use of Documents:</b>  You must use the documents in the essay as if it were a DBQ essay.  That means doing a “Take SIDES” on every one you use in the essay.  Make sure to identify the document and show an understanding of point of view.  Also, make sure to explain the significance of the selection for your central thesis.  Use proper citation format:  Ralph Kramden, a bus driver, said, “Please take a seat” (Doc. 3).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Inclusion of Documents:</b>  You must include the documents with your essay.  Thus, using the Internet is a good option, since you can easily cut and paste found documents into your own list of documents.  Make sure to include source information (author, title, context, date) as well as bibliographic references (the URL of the web site, the book it is in, etc.).</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Point Value:  20 pts. total</b></I></div> <div> Five Documents     5 pts.</div> <div> Rough Draft          5 pts.</div> <div> Final Paper          10 pts.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Possible Topic Options:</U></b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hollywood and History</b></div> <div> Many Hollywood movies depict specific historical events.  The intent of these films varies - some movies try to re-create the past, some simply use the past as a setting, and some movies end up saying more about the time period of their creators than that of their subject.  </div> <div> <U>Task:</U>  Write an essay in which you discuss <I>two</I> different films from or about  <I>two</I> different historical periods.  Assess the extent to which those films accurately represent the historical eras in which they are set.  Consider the film's balance of historical accuracy and the need to tell a good story.  Finally, make a generalization about Hollywood and history.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Choices (note - you are restricted to this list):</b></div> <div> American Beginnings / French and Indian War - <I>Last of the Mohicans</I></div> <div> American Revolution - <I>The Patriot</I></div> <div> Civil War - <I>Glory</I></div> <div> Western Expansion - <I>Dances With Wolves</I></div> <div> World War I - <I>Sergeant York</I></div> <div> The “Roaring” Twenties - <I>The Untouchables</I></div> <div> The Great Depression - <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I></div> <div> World War II - <I>Patton, Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day</I></div> <div> The 1950s - <I>Rebel Without a Cause</I></div> <div> The Cold War - <I>Dr. Strangelove, Fail-Safe, Thirteen Days</I></div> <div> Vietnam Conflict - <I>Platoon, Apocalypse Now</I></div> <div> Counterculture of the 1960s - <I>Woodstock</I></div> <div> Native American Civil Rights - <I>Thunderheart, Smoke Signals</I></div> <div> Politics and Race in the 1990s - <I>Bulworth, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X</I></div> <div> The Gulf War - <I>Three Kings</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Music</b></div> <div> Duke Ellington once said that his music expressed the joys and sorrows of his people.  At the same time that music reflects society it can also influence society.</div> <div> <U>Task</U>:  Write an essay in which you discuss two musical forms from different historical periods.  In your essay be sure to consider the ways in which the music mirrors and/or influences the larger developments in culture and society.</div> <div> <I>Note</I>:  no “British invasion” bands (Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin), but you can consider their influence.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Choices </b>(you are limited to these categories, but the musicians are simply examples):</div> <div> Jazz and Swing - 1920s and 1930s (Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Count Basie)</div> <div> Early Rock and Roll - 1950s (Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard)</div> <div> Counterculture Rock and Folk - 1960s (Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Jefferson </div> <div> Airplane, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, CSNY)</div> <div> Disco, Funk and/or Punk - 1970s (Diana Ross; Parliament; Ramones, Talking Heads)</div> <div> Rap and/or Heavy Metal - 1980s-90s (Run-D.M.C., Ice T, Public Enemy; Megadeth) </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Technology and Inventions</b></div> <div> Americans often pride themselves on their advances in technology and their inventions.  Inventions often emerge from individuals operating in a specific context; at the same time, technology influences the development of society.</div> <div> <U>Task:</U>  Discuss the ways in which advances in technology and inventions have shaped American life.  In your essay, include a discussion of both the influence of the culture on those inventions (why did those developments occur <I>then</I>?) and the impact of the technology on society.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Recommendations </b>(you are limited to these categories, but the inventions are just examples)<B>:</b></div> <div> Early America, 1600s-1800 (Cotton Gin)</div> <div> Market Revolution, 1800-1840 (Steamships, Erie Canal)</div> <div> Western Expansion, 1840s-1900 (Railroads, Telegraph, Six-shooter)</div> <div> Indust/Prog Ea, 1870s-1910 (Telephone, phonograph, electric street lamp)</div> <div> WWI, 1914-1918 (Military Technology - machine guns, poison gas, submarines, tanks)</div> <div> The “Roaring” Twenties, 1920s (mass-produced automobiles)</div> <div> Cold War, 1950s-60s (electronics/transistors, space race)</div> <div> 1980s-today (personal computers, the Internet)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Visual Art</b></div> <bR> <div> Visual art often represents in visible form the values of a particular historical era.</div> <div> Task:  Write an essay in which you discuss <I>two</I> artistic forms from <I>two</I> different historical periods.  Make sure to demonstrate the connection between the art and the developments of the time period.  Consider the variety of art and artists, but don't get hung up on the “intent” of the artist; instead, use your knowledge and skills to interpret the meaning of the art.  Pay attention to style, technique, symbols, allegories, or other ways in which art can convey meanings.  Use specific references to art works in your essay.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Recommendations: </b>(Choose from these eras, but artists are simply suggestions)</div> <div> American Beginnings (Federalist architecture, Peale)</div> <div> Hudson River School and American Nationalism, 1800s-1850s (Cole, Durand; Bingham)</div> <div> Civil War (Matthew Brady, photography)</div> <div> Western Expansion, 1840s-1900 (Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran)</div> <div> Progressive Era (Jacob Riis, photography)</div> <div> Harlem Renaissance (Douglas)</div> <div> New Deal (Dorothea Lange, Thomas Hart Benton, WPA posters, murals)</div> <div> WWII propaganda posters</div> <div> Abstract Expressionism (Pollock)</div> <div> Pop Art (Warhol)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Literature</b></div> <bR> <div> Literature often represents the values of a particular historical era.</div> <div> Task:  Write an essay in which you discuss <I>two</I> literary works from <I>two</I> different historical periods.  Make sure to demonstrate the connection between the literature and the developments of the time period.  Use your knowledge and skills to interpret the meaning of the story, characters, setting, etc.  Pay attention to style, technique, symbols, allegories, or other ways in which literature can convey meanings.  Use quotes from the works.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Recommendations: </b>(Choose from these eras, but the authors are only suggestions)<B> </b></div> <div> American Nationalism - Mark Twain</div> <div> Slavery - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass</div> <div> Civil War - Stephen Crane</div> <div> Progressive Era - Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens</div> <div> Roaring Twenties - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway</div> <div> Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes</div> <div> Great Depression - John Steinbeck</div> <div> Beatnik culture - Jack Kerouac</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>6.  Famous Images</b></div> <bR> <div>      “A picture is worth a thousand words,” according to the famous phrase.  Many images in U.S. history have expressed the events and mood of an era.  Write an essay in which you discuss <I>two</I> images from <I>two</I> different eras.  Be sure to note the origin of the images and describe them in detail, as well as connecting them to their historical context.  You may choose to include documents and references not directly related to the images themselves, but which help to explain the history of the era.  Include a reproduction of the images with your paper (the two images can count as “sources” for the bibliography component). Note:  the idea is to find one representative image, but in some cases (like Matthew Brady's civil war photographs) it might be series of images.  Hint:  often, the pictures are merely starting points for discussing larger issues.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Recommendations</b> (photographers/artists, exact titles, dates, and circumstances of publication are not included here, but you should find out that information and include it in your discussion):</div> <bR> <div> Matthew Brady, Civil War photographs</div> <div> Abraham Lincoln after delivering the Gettysburg Address</div> <div> Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother.</div> <div> James Montgomery Flagg, “I Want You,” WWI recruitment poster with Uncle Sam</div> <div> Rosie the Riveter, either the Norman Rockwell painting, or the poster “We Can Do It”</div> <div> Flag-raising on Iwo Jima, WWII</div> <div> Times Square Kiss, end of WWII</div> <div> JFK, Jr., saluting at his father's funeral</div> <div> Eddie Adams, “Murder of a Viet Cong by Saigon police chief,” 1968</div> <div> Victims at Kent State, May 4, 1970</div> <div> Elian Gonzalez being taken from his home by force.</div> <div> Sept. 11, 2001 photo of firemen raising flag.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Other Topics:</U></b>  Follow a similar format as those topics above.</div> <div> <B>Gender - </b>what roles have men and women played at various times throughout U.S. history?</div> <div> <B>Recreation and Leisure</b> - how have Americans sought recreation and leisure at different periods?</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>