Rubrics & Scoring Guides

Checklist of Items to be Included in Your HI 132 Portfolio

Essays

History for Beginners

  Do the Right Thing assignment: What happened at Sal’s Pizzeria?
  What is the Story of American History?

Workshops

  1. World War II diagnostic essay
  2. Historical Thinking Exercise #1: Origins of the Cold War
  3. Historical Thinking Exercise #2: Society & Culture in the 1950s
  4. Historical Thinking Exercise #3: The Civil Rights Movement
  5. WWII rewrite or new paper on Cold War, the 1950s, or CRM
Please circle one of the following for me to read and grade as your best work this term.
  6. The Vietnam War
  7. 1960s Culture Wars 
  8. 1980s Culture Wars

Note:  For each missing Workshop essay, a penalty of one grade level will be assessed on your notebook (i.e., B- becomes a C+, etc.)

Film Screening Guides

  War Comes to America (from Why We Fight)
  1945: Brave New World (from The People’s Century)
  Happy Daze (from The Century)
  Freedom on My Mind
  LBJ Goes to War (from Vietnam: A Television History)
  In a Dark Time (from Making Sense of the Sixties)
  A New World (from The Century)