History 2 scaffolding

Common Graded Assignment Second Scaffolding Post

For this assignment, start by going back and reviewing your first scaffolding

posts and the feedback I gave you. If for any reason you didn’t do that

assignment, I strongly suggest you do it now for zero points (that also keeps

it from counting as a cap on your grade!).

Reread your two primary sources and the textbook information on your

topic. You may have a different perspective now that you have more

context for the time period!

As you re-read your sources, identify their similarities and differences.

Where do they show the same things? Where are their biases similar?

Where do they have different perspectives? Why? What does that mean

about their reliability and the story they tell about the past?

What to post:

Answer each of these questions in 3-5 sentences each (3 points each):

1. How do the authors’ biases that you identified in the first scaffolding post shape their perspective on events?

2. Do you believe these biases make either source unreliable? 3. Do the sources complement or contradict one another?

4. Taken together, how do these sources help us to better understand the topic?

5. What, if anything, is left out or ignored by these sources? Can you think of the type of source that might give you this missing

perspective?

15 points total

At this point, between the two scaffolding assignments, you’ve answered a

lot of the questions you need to discuss in the final paper. So the two

scaffolding assignments together make a rough outline. In Unit 3, you’ll

take this rough outline and expand it to form a cohesive paper and ensure

you’ve answered all the questions!