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The Simulation—What You Have To
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| 1. Due on ______________ is a 500
or more word essay in which using the material from Harper’s Weekly
you explain your character’s position on the various questions the Convention
will have to address. You must quote directly from your readings (and provide citations)
in addition to providing your own analysis and using some of the personal history of the
character you are playing. The textbook will be of little or no use at this point in the
simulation. Do not rely on it for this paper. (If you are the Chairperson of the
convention, your 500-word paper should describe what would be the ideal outcome for you.) |
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| 2. A day or two after your
instructor returns the papers described in 1 above, the Convention will begin. (If there
are problems with your paper, try to solve them before the Convention begins.) The
Convention should take anywhere between two and four days. The instructor or a student
designated by the instructor will chair the Convention. The issues to be resolved each
day are the ones provided on the first page of this assignment. |
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| 3. During the Convention, in
addition to the papers you will write, you will be evaluated on the quantity and quality
of your presentations, contributions and arguments in class. All students are expected to
participate. |
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| 4. At the end of each day (or
half-day) you will be asked to vote on the specific proposals which have been advanced
during the Convention. Each evening you must write a one-page essay explaining why you
voted the way you did. |
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| 5. The day after the Convention
ends, the instructor or the Chair of the Convention will provide all students with a draft
of the recommendations agreed upon by the Convention. |
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| 6. Finally, a week after the
simulation ends, you should write a three page paper from the perspective of a scholar of
Reconstruction, not the part you played during the Convention that contrasts the
solutions reached by the Convention with the "real history" as it played out
between 1865 and 1867. Here you must explain which approach made the most sense and why.
To write this paper effectively, all you need to do is to read your textbook closely and,
of course, understand the recommendations of the Convention. |
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