Assignment Question
Identify your subject, focusing on the main reason for his/her importance. Think of this as providing a meaningful introduction to your paper. Do not include information in this introduction that is more appropriate to include in the later, biographical section of the paper.
2. Tell me why you selected this individual. This should be a personal and thoughtful response.
3. Tell me exactly when this person lived and name the period/topic/concept or event that we studied in class with which he/she is associated.
4. Explain what this individual accomplished to make him/her noteworthy in history. • This should be the heart of your paper and the longest part of it. Write this section as you would write a typical essay, with appropriate paragraph construction, logical, coherent organization, and in-text citations documenting the sources of your information. • End this section with a thoughtful conclusion, where you relate your subject in some way to the general information you learned in class. What events, issues, problems, or themes that we stressed in class was your subject involved in? Why is it important to know about this individual? Why is your subject important and relevant to contemporary world history? brief paragraph, explain how information we learned in class helped you to understand the words/concepts/terms referenced in the source materials you read. For example, if your subject was Golda Meir, explain how our class discussion of the creation of Israel equipped you to understand the information being presented. Were there words, concepts, or ideas that you came across in your research that reminded you of topics we had previously discussed in class?
6. In a brief paragraph, explain how this project helped you to develop your information literacy skills. What did you learn how to do in this assignment that you did not know how to do before? Did you learn anything about different types of research materials from the choices and selections you made? Be specific.
7. Finally, in a reflective conclusion, explain how doing this research helped you to achieve one or more of the specific historical skills and/or content specific goals of this course. Do not discuss information literacy here, because you have already discussed this in #6 above. Review your course syllabus to remind you of all of these course goals. You will be graded on the care and attention with which you approach this conclusion, so please spend time thinking about this question.
Osama bin Laden
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