Reading Guide Questions for Module 1.Instructions Reading Guide Questions are meant to show that you have carefully read the assigned readings and understand what you have read. These questions are more “content” orientated and objective, asking you to sum up what the author has written about the given topic. A good response is one that correctly answers the question, and then explains and elaborates on it to some extent. After giving the answer, you should expand on it, explain the context, the repercussions of what happened, the influences which led to this event, etc. Brief and unsubstantial responses will not receive a good grade.
NOTE WELL: Some students may be tempted to try to find shortcuts to these questions without bothering to read the text. Please know that these responses are based on our text and assigned readings. You are not to copy and paste material from history websites. You may certainly do private research to supplement what you are reading in our text, but it must be supplemental, not a substitution for our reading. I will be looking for your ability to understand the point of view of the authors of our text and elaborate on it. If you want to go beyond that, that is good. But you need to work with our text first.
Always write in complete and grammatically correct sentences. Please spell check and proof read before submitting your responses. For those who need help with writing, recourse to the SU’s tutorial aids is highly encouraged. This work should be submitted by Thursday evening, 11:45 PM.
(THESE ARE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS. IT IS JUST TO SEE HOW WELL YOU UNDERSTOOD THE READING. DO NOT SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH LONG DRAWN OUT ANSWERS, UNLESS YOU WANT TO)
1.What were the hopes and fears of the nation at the dawn of the 60s? .
2.What were Kennedy’s main concerns regarding the Cold War as he took office? .
3.Describe the interests, political vision, and the makeup (who/what kind of person was the typical member of each party) of the Democratic and Republican parties at the beginning of the decade of the 60s. .
4.What did W.E.B. DuBois mean by the "two-ness" of the African American experience in America? .
5.Describe the kinds of discrimination blacks experienced as the decade of the 60s began? .
6.Why and how was the Church such a strong force in shaping the civil rights movement? .
7.How did Martin Luther King Jr. want black people to be remembered in history? .
8.What were the important achievements of SCLC and SNCC? .
9.What was Elijah Muhammad’s understanding of the black race and his vision for blacks, and how did Malcolm X interpret this vision politically in the 60s? .
10.Choose one figure from Hand in Hand Together (Morrison and Morrison) and comment on his or her recollections of the civil rights movement: what do you find inspiring, enlightening, interesting about their testimony? .
To send your Word document to the instructor, click on one of the links (above or below), and scroll down to the "Browse" button to attach your file. Please make sure you have saved your file as moduleonelastname (i.e. moduleonepietropaoli). You must also make a comment in the "Comments" section, but this could simply be "Here is my assignment for module one." Then click on "Submit" and then "OK." You can tell if your file has been sent properly by going to the "My Grades" section of the course web site. If you see an exclamation mark under the assignment, then the file has been upload into the BlackBoard system.
.Due Date .Points Possible 100 .2. Assignment Materials
Text book: • Isserman, Maurice and Kazin, Michael. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, 3rd ed., Oxford 2008.
• Morrison, Joan and Morrison, Robert. From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It, Oxford edition, 2001
In these first two chapters of our text, the authors help us to transition from the decade of the 1950s to that of the 60s – the focus of our study. What was the state of the union in the final years of the 50s? What were the nation’s concerns and fears? What were Americans feeling good and hopeful about? What was happening domestically and internationally?
As the authors transition into the 60s, many of the decade’s pressing issues and challenges are revealed, things we will need to discuss in depth as the course unfolds. We begin with the Cold War and civil rights.
PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT 🙂