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SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE
(5% penalty if you do not).
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followed by the first two letters of your first name, followed
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were to submit assignment number 17, the file name would
be:
hussein_sa_17.doc
THIS
IS ASSIGNMENT 17
In this
assignment, you will identify the specific evidence from both
the film and the readings that you will use to write your upcoming paper. You will place the evidence you
identify in an evidence chart, Again, you are doing ONLY the
evidence chart this week; the essay itself
you will be doing NEXT week.
To get started, you will want to read carefully now the essay
assignment for next week.
Then,
you will place the direct quotations from the readings, the commodities
chart, and the film into this chart (ms-word file delivered to your desktop; type your quotations
directly into the chart and then rename the file for submission
through blackboard)
Some of your evidence from the film, such as action, won't be
able to take the form of a direct
quotation; In such cases when summarizing action or other
material that's not a direct quotation, be sure to place a time
stamp (e.g. "4:32-5:00" would refer to action that
occurred in the film between 4 minutes and 32 seconds into the
film and 5 minutes into the film). Evidence without a timestamp
will lose 5 pts.
Quick
reminders about the sort of evidence you are looking for in
the film for the essay:
1) Remember,
the role of African elites and leaders (such as king Adanggaman
in the film) in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade is well known;
accordingly, you will have to assess other (but still significant) aspects of the film's portrayal of the
trade.
2) Historical
inaccuracies, in the context of your review, may include not
only aspects of the film that are outright false but also (and
more interestingly) aspects that -- although plausible -- misrepresent
what was typical or common for the slave trade at the time.
3) Do
not ignore the commodities
chart
4)
By internal slave trade, we mean the capture and sale of enslaved Africans within Africa for use as slaves within that
continent. Be sure that when discussing the film's
portrayal of the internal slave trade that you chose
a scene that is explicitly and exclusively about this internal
trade. The
readings do not directly address the internal African slave
trade at any real length, so to answer that part of the question
based of the textbook, you will have to extrapolate. (ex·trap·o·late,
v.: to use known facts as the starting point from which to draw
inferences or draw conclusions about something unknown). Keep
in mind your responses to the short answer questions on the slave trade.
5) You
must have three points of comparison between
the film and the readings. For each point comparing the film
to the reading, you must have at least on piece of evidence
from the film and one from the reading or from the commodities
chart.
6) Remember, your
paper is on the film -- not the brief "Historical Viewpoint"
that accompanies it on the DVD.
