Each written assignment will familiarize students on how historians work on primary and secondary sources.  Specific instructions for each assignment will be post here in sub-tabs under this main tab “Assignments”. Students will work with Voyages: the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Additionally, they analyze the 3D visualization of a slave ship, the autobiography of Venture Smith in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa. Finally, they will analyze the documentary They are We, a story of a two towns and their peoples, one in Cuba and another in Sierra Leone, connected by the culture of those who survived the slave trade.

Rubric

A: All requirements for the assignment were completed; all appropriate sources cited correctly including in-text citations and Works Cited/Bibliography section; minor grammatical errors.

B: Some of the work was incomplete, including but not limited to: missing one of the analyses; missing one of the quotations; student quoted a part of the introduction rather than the primary source; minor problems to follow the guidelines. Grammatical errors are common but without becoming an obstacle to understanding. Citations problems e.g. not enough in-text citations, no page numbers included, not all sources cited, Works Cited/Bibliography section missing or incorrectly formatted. Some misunderstandings in the analysis of sources and the exposition of context. 

C: Equal share of missing and performed work, e.g. 1) student just put quotations but little analysis. 2) Student missed the summary with data from Voyages Database. 3) Student did not consistently follow guidelines. 4) Paper is too short 5). Meaning is sometimes obscure. 6) Sources were not utilized, incorrectly cited, or not cited at all.

D: Most of the work is missing, very little done to meet the requirements.