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History 106 Student Name: _________________________

Logic #1: “The Black Atlantic” [as part of Many Rivers to Cross] by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Carefully watch Gates’ “Black Atlantic” and create a Logic assignment for the film. Refer to your Logic Packet for how to complete this assignment, see the template of how it should look, and know your minimums for each part of the assignment

Some Pointers:

· Make sure that you read and take notes during the film, so that you can identify as many APOVs as you can. It works to take notes of names and ideas during the film, example: keeping lists or organizing your notes (underlining potential APOVs, circling key points, etc).

· ONLY Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. IS THE MPOV. Other historians can be listed as APOVs, since they are not the principle narrators.

· For the best score, do more than the minimum! If you only have to have 4 Key Questions, and you only put 4, do not expect a high score. Always do more than the minimum! The reading is full of information

· If you do only the bare minimum, do not expect to get higher than a “C”

· Feel free to use Google as a way to find out more about the following (for example):

· Cities that had more Africans than Europeans, such as the following mentioned in the film: Mexico City, Lima, Havana, etc.

· Names of the supporting historians (ex: Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, Dr. James Sweet, etc.) and where they got their degrees from, books they have written, what they teach, etc. can go in your APOV profile for them

· You do not have to cite outside sources that come from Google for background information on this assignment.

· You can list information that Gates and the supporting historians say during the film as Key Points. Also, for example, the people who are also in the film such as the descendants of “Priscilla” and the Ball Family, or the tour guides Gates meets at the slave ports and cities.

· This assignment is meant to help you break down an academic film, to make sense of how it is constructed, and who is asked to be a part of it as a commentator or field expert. Critical thinking exercises like this are important for any scholar, and will help you critically analyze other things that you watch throughout your life; not just documentaries, but even news segments or talk panels.

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