World Events and Walter's Trip

Your HW for this week involves researching and studying the event given to you in class to look inyo this week - You are to study these events and find two names per day, Monday through Fri, that are connected with your event. Write a BRIEF description of the people you found, noting their importance to the event you are studying. Please do two names per day - do not wait to do 10 names on Friday!...



In class today, we also discussed your second half project...You are to visit the Walter's Art Gallery in Baltimore between now and April 25 with family and/or friends...Go through all areas of the museum and write down 10 artifacts/items that you found to be most interesting. Of the 10 you pick, they must be from at least 5 different civilizations/nations...Upon returning home or in talking with Walter's staff, research the items (you must have at least 5 sources for your final paper) and write a BRIEF description of each and e-mail them to me...Then, determine which 5 items you think are MOST interesting and write a 5 page paper (roughly one page per item) on them, describing them in detail, their history, the civilization they are from, their significance as an artifact, and why you found them to be so interesting. Include a thesis statement, good transition sentences between artifacts, and a good concluding paragraph - I have posted websites which may help you with formatting your paper. Final paper is due Monday May 12...

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLACitation_Info.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLAWorksCited_Format.html



Students who paticipate in the May 19 class party performance of Steve Martin's "King Tut" will receive 10 bonus points applied to the project grade....!! :)

REMINDER _ QUIZ NEXT WEEK - MON. MARCH 3 - ROME (Those not in class today - PLEASE get notes from a classmate - you will need to study these for the quiz!!)

Saw this today - thought you all might find this interesting...History is found in the strangest places.. :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23321701/?GT1=10856