Form: Understanding the Primary Source[i]

Student Name:

Document Name:

Homework: Prior to class, complete the following for the assigned document

1. Understanding the content of the assignment document.
   
   

• read the assignment primary source
• List the words that you do not understand or find difficult.
• Use a dictionary to define words that you do not know.
• List of words and definitions:

2. Briefly describe the document. (Note: this is not the same as the author’s thesis or point of view)

3. State in your own words what you believe to be the author’s thesis.

4. Provide the sentence (s) written by the author that you believe reflects his thesis.

5. List one or two examples used by the author to support his / her point of view (thesis).

Group Discussion: October 28 & October 30

• Meet with working group.
• Discuss the contents of the document. Share your ideas.
• Group Assessment: After discussing the contents of the document with your group write, as a group, the central idea of the assignment document.
• Class Discussion: on the right Track?
• Appoint someone to post this group assessment in CourseCompass.

Personal Reflections in CourseCompass

Post the following information in the Groups/CourseCompass. The topics for this discussion have been created. Respond to the comments made by others.

1. Did your understanding of the document change and/or become clearer within the class group discussion? In what ways did this change and why?
   
   
2. Look again at your notes in this form about the document itself. Do you believe that the writer supported his/her point of view with examples and/or evidence? Keep in mind that you need not agree with that person’s point of view.
   
   
3. What are your thoughts about the way that writer of the document considers the issue of removing the Cherokee from their ancestral homelands?

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[i] 10/28/2003