End of the Year Review
Extra Credit Assignment
If a student is interested in receiving extra credit for Social Studies they may complete the assignment below with teacher approval. You must seek teacher approval first before any extra credit points will be awarded for your work.
Primary Source Document Analysis
Task: Find and analyze a primary source from a specific time period. Use the attached list for ideas.
After you find an acceptable primary source you must do the following:
A. Cite the source using the Horseheads Middle School Style Sheet for Bibliography Citations. You can pick up this sheet in the library.
B. Explain and describe the source in a short paragraph (5-7 sentences). Focus on who, what, why, when, where and how.
C. Develop three (3) short answer questions for your document (Similar to a CRQ). Be sure to include the answers on another sheet of paper.
D. Make sure everything is typed.
E. You must make a copy of the primary source that you are analyzing and staple it to the back of your analysis sheet.
Other Notes:
· The librarians are very helpful - see them if you need help finding a primary source
· Each different source that you analyze is worth up to 10 points
EACH DOCUMENT THAT YOU ANALYZE MUST BE TYPED! The very last day to turn in extra credit will be on Friday, June 3, 2005.
Primary Source List for Extra credit Assignment
· Founding the League of Iroquois
· Journals of Lewis and Clark
· Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
· Journal of Christopher Columbus
· Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
· The Mayflower Compact
· Account of the Boston Massacre (silver engraving by Paul Revere)
· Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)
· Emancipation Proclamation
· Thomas Paine's The Crisis
· Washington Crossing the Delaware (painting)
· Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs
· "Yankee Doodle" (song)
· Homestead Act
· Writings of John Locke
· Civil War Amendments (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments)
· "Join Or Die" (cartoon)
· Writings of Montesquieu
· Albany Plan of Union
· "The New Colossus" (poem by Emma Lazarus)
· Thomas Paine's Common Sense
· New York State Constitution (1777)
· Headline from The World newspaper reporting the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
· Declaration of Independence (1776)
· The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
· Articles of Confederation
· "The Chinese Question" (Thomas Nast cartoon)
· United States Constitution
· Federalist Papers
· "How the Other Half Lives" (Jacob Riis)
· Bill of Rights
· Monroe Doctrine
· The History of the Standard Oil Company (Ida Tarbell)
· "The Star Spangled Banner" (song)
· Speech by Representative Samuel McMillan to Congress on child labor
· "What, to the American slave, Is your Fourth of July?" (Speech by Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852)
· Chinese Exclusion Act
· The Turner Thesis (Frederick Jackson Turner)
· Louisiana Purchase
· Diary of Crossing Over the Great Plains (Harriet Scott Palmer, 1852)
· World War I propaganda posters
· The Versailles Treaty
· "The Erie Canal" (song)
· "Over There," "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," and "The Marine Hymn" (Songs from World War I)
· Map of the Erie Canal
· "Rosie the Riveter" poster
· "God Bless America," "This Land Is Your Land," and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" (songs)
· Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address (1933)
· Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats
· United Nations Charter
· Selections from The Grapes of Wrath
· Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
· Hard Times (Studs Turkel)
· "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (song)
· "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (song)
· Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial (1963)
· Western Union telegraph to Franklin Roosevelt from Japanese-American citizens
· John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech
· United States military recruitment posters
· "We Shall Overcome" (song)
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