Use the Technical Instructions document to help navigate these instructions
1. Choose a source:
All sources are available on your section’s Omeka site under Items. Poke around through them to find a source that captures your imagination.
2. For your short essay assignment
and contribution to States of Belonging, first look for your source on Neatline…
If no other student already charted your source…
then do so. You may mark the location as you believe is most appropriate. Neatline allows you to add lines and shapes which may be of help if your source represents movement or more than one locale. The date should be the year(s) the primary source is about.
Then write an approx. 300-400 word entry that begins the work of interpreting the source. Use the Introductory Essay and Interpreting Your Source documents to consider which research questions your source best addresses. Your essay MUST advance a thesis and provide evidence and interpretation for the thesis. You can and should use information from the source’s introduction to help understand your source, but your evidence must come from the primary source. See Essay Format for more details.
Your essay must include a general description of the source (author and title; where, when, why it was created; genre) and incorporate your ideas about how the context ought to shape our interpretation.
Your essay must be submitted to the Professor on Canvas AND uploaded to Neatline.
At the end of your essay, write your complete name.
If another student has already located the source on the map…
then double check they got it correct.
Read your peer’s essay on the Neatline exhibit and add your own 300-400 word essay that adds to, differs from, and/or disagrees with your peer’s analysis. I suggest, in particular, to differ with your peer on how the context ought to shape they way we read the source. After all entries that are already there, type <hr/> and then paste your essay.
Your essay MUST advance a thesis and provide evidence and interpretation for the thesis. You can and should use information from the source’s introduction to help understand your source, but your evidence must come from the primary source. See Essay Format for more details.
If you find that many students have worked on the source and you really have nothing to add, then you will have to choose another source.
Your essay must be submitted to the Professor on Canvas AND uploaded to Neatline.
