{"id":131,"date":"2011-09-07T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=131"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:41:32","slug":"skill-builder-assignment-1-due-friday-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2011\/09\/skill-builder-assignment-1-due-friday-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill Builder Assignment #1, due Friday 9\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions for Skill Builder 1, due Friday Sept 9<\/p>\n<p>The remaining skill builders in this semester will be based on historical evidence from your textbook, but this first one asks you to look at, evaluate, and draw conclusions from a website.<\/p>\n<p>Navigate to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagohistory.org\/wetwithblood\/\">http:\/\/www.chicagohistory.org\/wetwithblood\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigate the different parts of this website.<br \/>\nConsider the evidence presented.<\/p>\n<p>Write a 2-page (no more, no less) double spaced paper that addresses at least some of these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is a historical question this website asks? What kind of question is it (a question of fact, of interpretation, or of something else?)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> What kind(s) of evidence does this website discuss?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In your view, what is a reasonable answer to the historical question?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> What are the methods of historical investigation in this case?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Examine the references for this website. How well researched is it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Discuss the chosen display design (a Flash Player \u00e2\u20ac\u0153e-book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how well did it fit this topic?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> What did you find most intriguing, interesting, or useful in exploring this website?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Give your paper a title (not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Skill Builder #1)<\/p>\n<p>Cite the website using a footnote with the proper citation format (Chicago Style), as follows:<br \/>\nAuthor\/creator, <em>Title in italics<\/em>, year, URL, date of access.<\/p>\n<p>e.g.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University, <em>Wet With Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cloak<\/em>, 2000, http:\/\/www.chicagohistory.org\/wetwithblood\/ (accessed September 6, 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions for Skill Builder 1, due Friday Sept 9 The remaining skill builders in this semester will be based on historical evidence from your textbook, but this first one asks you to look at, evaluate, and draw conclusions from a website. Navigate to: http:\/\/www.chicagohistory.org\/wetwithblood\/ Investigate the different parts of this website. Consider the evidence presented. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fall11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}