ASSIGNMENT ONE: Sept. 11
Go to the following links and read the materials found on each topic page. The Response questions for these topics are below. These materials will be on the first exam Sept. 29-Oct. 5
Encyclopedia of Arkansas good, brief articles on persons and places.
Guidelines for reading/note taking:
1. Organize your notes by dates ( in order to understand the
timing/order of appearance of people/events)
2. Note the important persons and events --how did the people affect the
event, how did the event affect the people.
3. Where there is an outline on the topic page,
it will
tell you what I consider to be the important persons/events of the topic. On
other topic pages you must decide what is important.
4. Use the Response
questions to guide your reading and note taking. Read through all the questions
and then take each question to guide your reading and note taking.
5. Avoid
selecting just two question and limiting reading to those two.
6. You will
need to know information found in all of the readings for the exams, but the
exams with be limited to the materials that you will read for the questions.
After reading the materials on the topic pages answer the Response Questions.
FORMAT OF THE RESPONSE QUESTION :
1.The response
will be a minimum of 200 words.
2. Please write the question as the heading for
your response and write your name on each page.
3. Your response should be double-spaced, using
font size 10 or 12 ,using arial or other simple font.
4. After using spell-check be
sure to proof read your response before sending it.
5. Be sure to save your
work.
6. Remember your work should be
done in Microsoft Word or sent as a
7. Send your work as a single document in the WebCT Assignment link.
8. There is five (5) point penalty for late work. Work will not be accepted two (2) days after the date due.
EVALUATION OF THE RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
1. It will be graded upon the
content ( your understanding of the question, your analysis and synthesis of the
materials and discussion )
2. It will be graded on the correct usage of the language (spelling,
punctuation, grammar, mechanics).
3. Each question is worth 20 points/40 points for
the two.
4. The grading standard for the correct usage of the language will be
Edited American English (found below).
Select two of the following Response Questions: Due Sept. 11 (Thurs. 12:00 noon)
1. Describe the major geographic regions of Arkansas: (be sure to include their geological development times/dates; discuss what these geographic differences meant in the development of the region { for example, mountains =difficulty of farming/heavily forested=timber}
2. Describe the Woodland Culture--religion, political organization, social organization, foods, tools and weapons. What happened to these people.
3. Describe the Mississippian Culture--religion, political organization, social organization, foods, tools and weapons. What happened to these people.
4. The Cahokia Mounds are a remarkable construction. Who were the people who constructed the mounds, what was their political organization, why were the mounds constructed, what happened to these people?
5. Describe the life of the Quapaw--political and social organization, religion, tools and weapons, foods.
6. Describe the life of the Caddo--political and social organization, religion, tools and weapons, foods.
7. Describe the influences of the Mississippian culture on the Quapaw and Caddo.
8. Describe the sites, types, builders, purposes of the various mounds found in Arkansas.
Grading Scale
Type I: Gross Errors (-10 pts. each)
A. fragment (ex. Because I had a flat tire.)
B. lack of subject/verb agreement (ex. The man were having a nervous breakdown.)
C. fused/run-on sentence (ex. I had no choice I had to take the test.)
D. incorrect tense or verb form (ex. The boy gone to the store for his father.)
Type II: Major Errors (-5 pts. each)
A. comma between subject and verb(comma fault) (ex. The mother,gave her son the apple.)
B. comma splice (ex. We went to the store,we got some bread and milk.)
C. failure to show possession (ex. My husband pants are dirty.)
D. no indentation at beginning of paragraph and incorrect paragraph form.
Type III: Minor Errors ( -2 pts. each)
A. misspelled words or incorrect capitalization
B. misused homonyms or words used incorrectly
C. commas added unnecessarily or commas lacking
D. punctuation missing or incorrect
E. incorrect pronoun agreement
F. misleading pronoun reference
G. unnecessary shift of tense or person
H. words left out/dangling or misplaced modifiers.