Women in History
Vivian Bruce Conger, Department of History, Ithaca College (vconger@twcny.rr.com)
This is a handout I use for an assignment in my United States Women's History course.
PRESENTATION AND RESEARCH PAPER
Various Tuesdays and Thursdays will be set aside for student presentations. In groups of two (or three), you will be expected to make a presentation to the class on a particular event, person, or theme (I have chosen the specific topics and dates and you can choose the one you are most interested in). This presentation will entail primary and secondary source research and will add to our body of knowledge for the week about a general topic or time period.
You will have 45 minutes to present your information to the class and the remaining time the entire class will discuss the information you presented and how it fits into, calls into question, or adds to our understanding of the topic to that point. PRESENTERS PLEASE PREPARE TWO DISCUSSION QUESTIONS THAT REFLECT THAT GOAL.
As a group, you will also turn in a 20-page term paper on the day you give your presentation (properly cited and with bibliography included). I will then read and comment on it and return it you. Then you will rewrite this paper based on my comments and on the class discussion—pay careful attention to the questions your fellow classmates ask you. You will have two weeks week to turn in the paper after I have returned it to you. You will be given a group grade on this final version and I will ask each of you to grade your fellow group members.
- Presentation Topic: Pocahontas
- Presentation Topic: Deborah Sampson Gannett
- Presentation topic: Mary Lyon, Mt. Holyoke and women's education
- Presentation topic: Frances Willard and Nashoba
- Presentation topic: Annie Oakley
- Presentation topic: Aimee Semple McPherson
- Presentation topic: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Presentation topic: Dorothea Lange
- Presentation topic: Alice "Lefty" and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Presentation topic: Marilyn Monroe
