Essay Assignment
For Reflect & Retrieve #2, you’re responsible for offering an answering the question:
How do we “carry” early African American history “within us”?
In order to craft your answer to this question, you are responsible for reading ONE of the following articles:
2040: When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead
2040: The Hidden and Eternal Spirit of the Great Dismal Swamp
Then, you are responsible for writing an at least 300-word response essay that explains and analyzes how the story told in your article of choice is an example of how we carry early African American history within us.
To compose a successful essay, you should connect your article of choice to historical information learned throughout this class, making strong, specific connections between the story in the article to historical information from multiple Snapshots or Scrapbooks.
Also incorporate multiple themes from our 2040 Theme Encyclopedia to smartly, sharply, and clearly analyze how your article of choice is an example of how we carry early African American history within us.
In short, think about contextualizing your article of choice with specific, historical evidence and examples from our Snapshots and Scrapbooks.
While there is not a requirement for the number of different Snapshots, Scrapbooks, or themes you must engage with, you strongly are encouraged to include information and analysis from a diverse spectrum or sampling of our Snapshots and Scrapbooks.
