Written essay Assignments for week 6
Please polish these essays. Make a beginning, middle, and end for each one. Pay attention to spelling, grammar, and style. please print or type. no handwritten papers.
1. practice self eval/academic statement (1-2 pages), Due Monday at noon.
Explain briefly where Evergreen fits into your life story. Discuss what you’ve learned so far at Evergreen generally – and in Difference and desire specifically – and how your learning has changed/is changing your thinking.
2. discussion of primary sources (2-4 pages), Due Thursday at noon.
Pick a primary source that Lefkowitz uses to explain something about the past. Choose an interesting source. describe the source and explain its use as you would to someone outside the program.
In your description, pay attention to:
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– author(s) name and social position (mother, father, doctor, minister, lawyer)
– genre (letter, diary, pamphlet)
– time and place of origin (north, south, rural, urban, before, during or after the Civil War, etc)
– content of the source
In your explanation, discuss how Lefkowitz uses her source to reach an historical conclusion. What specific information does she draw from the source? What is her specific conclusion? What supporting evidence does she pair with the source? For what larger argument does she use the source? What are the limitations of her use of the source and/or her larger argument as a whole?
class schedule
monday Oct 29
12:00 – history class
1:30 – panel presentations: American Sexualities 147-160
team 3 – Reis ch7 “White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South”
team 7 – Peiss ch7 “Sexuality, Race, and Violence in Slavery and Freedom”
3:00 – skills practicum
thursday Nov 1
12:00 – book seminar: rereading sex, pt 1 by h l horowitz; writing practice
2:00 – photo lab
friday Nov 2
12:00 – photo discussion and critique
2:00 – film
