Your packet contains a facsimile collection of letters written by freed slaves and people controlling Reconstruction. Study the letters, make notes on them, and design a museum exhibition centered about those letters. The aim is to provide visitors an opportunity to understand the complexity of the post-Civil War south.
1. Turn in working notes and commentaries on the letters, showing what you noticed.
2. Write a paragraph on the chief idea to be put across in your exhibit.
3. Create cards with titles and explanations for each item in the exhibition.
4. Suggest other artifacts for the exhibit (with photocopies if exam is a take-home).
5. Provide a set of annotated URLs for visitors to explore, with directions for their incorporation into the exhibit. (Assume availability of 3 Internet access sites.)
Criteria for grading:
- Ability to work from original documents
- embedded accuracy: comments on the facts cited or implied
- development of a historical idea
- ability to break out of stereotypes
- selection of apt, associative materials
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