This paper must be 3-4 pg of content, double-spaced, all citations in MLA format of parenthetical citation, with a reference page at the end (detailing the book you read and any supplemental sources you may have used – no Wikipedia allowed) on a separate page. No Wikipedia material may be used to help you with this assignment (or any other in this course), but students are encouraged to look for additional help from outside source material if needed. Failure to follow the rules will result in heavy deductions from your score!
On the top of the first page, upper left: Your name, your class, date turned in, which book review (#1) you are completing, including the italicized title of your chosen book; the designation of fiction or nonfiction [please make sure you know the difference between fiction and nonfiction!]. Novels are fiction. Any designation stating a novel is nonfiction will not receive credit for this area of the paper.
Your summary of the book: in other words, the basic plot and characters. In the case of a nonfiction work, an outline of the major events or points covered in the narrative. This should be no more than one page.
What is the author’s POV (point of view) on women? Provide specific examples from the book to support your view.
Choose one woman in your chosen book, and outline the importance of this individual to the narrative or historical period. Provide specific examples from your book to support your points.
How did your book relate to the course content? Briefly explain. (You may need to reference your text book or course materials [such as lecture notes or SLOs] in your in your explanation.)
Current Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs); ACCJC Standard II.A.3
Upon completion of the course the student can:
1. Develop analytical skill in relation to historical time period, cause and effect, focusing on women in United States’ History, using primary and secondary source material.
2. Identify and discuss transformational women, institutions and events that have been the basis for the political, economic, social and intellectual development of the United States from Pre-colonization to the present.
3. Analyze how issues of race, gender and domesticity, have impacted the status of women in the political, social and economic development of the United States.
List of books to choose from listed below:
Malinche, Pocahontas and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols (Jager)*
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World*
Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat (Allen)*
Poems, Protest and a Dream: Selected Writings (Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz)*
American Jezebel: the Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson*
The Scarlet Letter*
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Condé)*
Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World (Mays)*
Women’s Roles in Seventeenth-Century America (Smith)*
Liberty’s Daughters: the Revolutionary Experience of American Women*
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson*
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle For America’s Independence (Berkin)*
What Clothes Reveal: the Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America (Baumgarten)*
Phillis Wheately: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Carretta)*
A Frontier Lady*
The Poker Bride: the First Chinese in the Wild West (Corbett)*
Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico (Magoffin)*
Frontier Grit: the Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women (Monson)*
Narrative of Sojourner Truth*
Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in 19th Century America (Faulkner)*
And the Spirit Moved Them: the Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists (Hunt)*
A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women’s Rights (Penney)*
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life* (Hedrick)*
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero*
Fashion! Or, Life in New York * (contained in US drama anthologies)
A Long Fatal Love Chase*
Seneca Falls Inheritance*
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs)*
Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War*
Memories of the Old Plantation Home*
When Will this Cruel War be Over*
A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War (Oates)*
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South (Hilde)*
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (Abbott)*
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: the Life of Emily Dickinson*
I also attached pictures of the rubric for extra clarification.
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