THESIS and CONCLUSION- 5 points each (10 points) your conclusion is going to be that last part of your paper and NOT part of the “What you’ve learned section.”
– CONTENT 20 points for each of the 3 schools researched (60 points). Each school should include 1) name and location, 2) names of tribes who attended, 3) how many students attended the school, 4) years of operation, 5) other significant information.
– WHAT I’VE LEARNED: What you’ve learned about boarding schools (10 points). This is different from your conclusion and should contain different than what you put in your conclusion
– STRUCTURE (10 points) all parts of the assignment are included in your paper.
– CITATION (10 points) at least 2 website addresses are included for each school.
WHAT NOT TO DO
– DO NOT USE THE ARTICLE- Flashback Friday: The Tragedies and Successes of the Genoa Indian School Flashback Friday: The Tragedies and Successes of the Genoa Indian School | History Nebraska if you’re going to write about the Genoa Indian School here in Nebraska as it doesn’t contain the correct attendance number information.
– DO NOT USE a school that is open today. They do not include historical information about the school.
– Some schools you may come across might not have a lot of information. In that case, you want to move on to a different school. DO NOT write something such as, “this school didn’t have a lot of information” OR “this school didn’t list how many students and/or what tribes they were from,” and have that be all you write for a paragraph. You will not receive points for this.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
– As you conduct your research, make sure to include Native American in your word search, you don’t want to write about Indian boarding schools in India.
– If you use the Carlisle Industrial School, you should know that it is the school with the most information available of boarding schools so all the information you need for this paper is available.
– If you look up the Genoa Indian School here in Nebraska, particularly the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project, don’t be surprised when find my name there as I am one of its co-directors.
FORMAT FOR PAPER
– Size 12 Times New Roman or Calibri font.
– Black ink
– Your heading should be Single-spaced so it won’t take up 1/3 or 1/2 of your 3-page paper. The rest of your paper will be double-spaced.
– Each paragraph needs to be at least 5 sentences.
ASSIGNMENT: 3 full pages.
Research 3 different boarding schools- You will write 1 solid paragraph of at least 5 sentences for each school that includes
– the name and location of the school, Include the source (website) next to or underneath the schools you choose.
– what tribes attended the school (for instance at the Genoa school mostly Omaha, Sioux, Blackfeet, Winnebago, and Ponca students attended there),
– what years did the school operate and how many students attended there
– any other information of significance of the school such as number of students attended
These 3 paragraphs should comprise at least 1 1/2-pages to 2 pages of the assignment. the last 1 to 1 1/2 pages will be what you’ve learned about boarding schools based off of your research, power-point, videos, articles, etc. Please be specific about what materials you’re discussing. Include the sources you use in footnotes at the bottom of your paper.
ULTIMATELY, This should be 3 pages minimum, if you go over 3 pages that is fine, but the minimum is 3 FULL pages.
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Boarding schools must be Native American.
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