Written Assignment #1 – Time Travel to Where?
Value: 10%
Due: Friday, Feb. 23rd (midnight)
Format: As per course outline: Word document (not pdf) – upload to Moodle in
‘Assignment’ folder – double spaced
Requirements: 750 to 1000 words approx..(more is OK, less means it might not be as
developed as it should be…..)
3 sources (academic) minimum: Only 1 encyclopedic/Research starter
source permitted) – no more than 1 website (educational/academic) –
sources of an academic nature – 1 audio visual (podcast/documentary)
acceptable if of an academic quality. NB: More than one website is
acceptable for ‘news’ of your contemporary aspect, if necessary. Make
sure they are reputable news sources.
Works Cited in MLA9 format (use style guide)
Objectives:
This first assignment has multiple objectives: (Research – Think – Argue)
1. Allow students to explore a topic and historical time period that interests them.
2. Intended to get students practicing the goal of ‘making an argument’ (your ‘Thesis’) on a
historical topic
3. Using specific and detailed historical facts to support their argument (the ‘Evidence’)
4. Researching and using academic historical sources
5. Referencing their sources using both in-text citations as well as a Works Cited page (MLA9
required)
6. Asking students to think of the connections between our present day and past historical
moments/events around the world, and across time….
Question:
Todays’ global world is full of news of events and things happening all around the planet, from
Montreal to Russia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America…. Etc. Economies are changing and
evolving; people are immigrating and moving from one region to another; wars are erupting all
over the world every decade; different groups of people are persecuted for various reasons; and
in some places governments and nations are becoming more progressive or authoritarian …..at
times it’s discouraging to see our global world in such disarray…..
But if we look at our historical past, these kinds of things have been happening for centuries, so
has our world really changed? Would you argue that our present-day world has changed
significantly from the past, or do our contemporary global challenges and events bear a
resemblance to the past? If we could time travel back in time and place to explore this
connection, where would you go and in what way does it connect to or inform our
present?
Value: 10%
Due: Friday, Feb. 23rd (midnight)
Format: As per course outline: Word document (not pdf) – upload to Moodle in
‘Assignment’ folder – double spaced
Requirements: 750 to 1000 words approx..(more is OK, less means it might not be as
developed as it should be…..)
3 sources (academic) minimum: Only 1 encyclopedic/Research starter
source permitted) – no more than 1 website (educational/academic) –
sources of an academic nature – 1 audio visual (podcast/documentary)
acceptable if of an academic quality. NB: More than one website is
acceptable for ‘news’ of your contemporary aspect, if necessary. Make
sure they are reputable news sources.
Works Cited in MLA9 format (use style guide)
Objectives:
This first assignment has multiple objectives: (Research – Think – Argue)
1. Allow students to explore a topic and historical time period that interests them.
2. Intended to get students practicing the goal of ‘making an argument’ (your ‘Thesis’) on a
historical topic
3. Using specific and detailed historical facts to support their argument (the ‘Evidence’)
4. Researching and using academic historical sources
5. Referencing their sources using both in-text citations as well as a Works Cited page (MLA9
required)
6. Asking students to think of the connections between our present day and past historical
moments/events around the world, and across time….
Question:
Todays’ global world is full of news of events and things happening all around the planet, from
Montreal to Russia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America…. Etc. Economies are changing and
evolving; people are immigrating and moving from one region to another; wars are erupting all
over the world every decade; different groups of people are persecuted for various reasons; and
in some places governments and nations are becoming more progressive or authoritarian …..at
times it’s discouraging to see our global world in such disarray…..
But if we look at our historical past, these kinds of things have been happening for centuries, so
has our world really changed? Would you argue that our present-day world has changed
significantly from the past, or do our contemporary global challenges and events bear a
resemblance to the past? If we could time travel back in time and place to explore this
connection, where would you go and in what way does it connect to or inform our
present?
