Required Labor: ~270 minutes (about 4.5 hours)
1. (30 minutes) Find 4 sources that are pertinent to your project. List them in Chicago Manual of Style bibliographic format, and write three sentences for each source, discussing why you think each of these sources will be useful, and what you are hoping to learn from them. This may mean skimming the first page or so of the article or book. Three out of four of the sources must be books or research articles.
2. (90 minutes) Find, check out (or download), and read one article or a chapter of a book that’s pertinent to your project. Answer each of the following questions/prompts:
3. (30 minutes) Write a 300 word free write on the book chapter or article, thinking about some or all of the following questions:
4. (120 minutes) Repeat steps two and three for a second source (book chapter or article).
2. (90 minutes) Find, check out (or download), and read one article or a chapter of a book that’s pertinent to your project. Answer each of the following questions/prompts:
- Summarize the document.
- How does the author convey his/her overall message or prove his/her point? In other words, what is his/her methodology? Does he/she use specific examples, historical documents, archival work, maps, close reading, lived experiences? Does he/she draw on your experiences or ethos as a reader?
3. (30 minutes) Write a 300 word free write on the book chapter or article, thinking about some or all of the following questions:
- How has the piece inspired you to see new perspectives or think about different ideas or come up with new questions?
- Does the scholar use terminology that you think may be useful for you as you do your thinking or writing? What are those words/phrases/ideas? How will you use them differently?
- Does the scholar’s work complicate your analysis in any way? Those make for interesting moments to unpack.
- What have you learned about this place from this work? How does this change the way you view or think about the place? What new concepts or ideas does this work introduce you to? In other words, has contextualizing this place historically, socially, culturally, etc. given you new ideas or topics to write about?
4. (120 minutes) Repeat steps two and three for a second source (book chapter or article).
On Tuesday November 7, you must hand in the following:
- A document with your four sources listed and the sentences that discuss why you’ve chosen each one.
- Two documents that summarize each article and explain methodology.
- Two 300-word free writes.