Read:
- The Life and Death of Four Bears (handout)
- The Battle of the Greasy Grass (handut)
View:
Episode 3 (Part 4)
Episode 3 (Part 5)
Write:
Using the sample paragraph and rubric distributed in class today, select an image, identify a cultural tension you see in that image, and compose a paragraph that analyzes that image (by interpreting specific details of the image and putting those images into their cultural/historical context). Consider using outside sources. If you do so, document your sources (in text and in a works cited) and correctly quote (any and all exact words) and/or paraphrase (entirely your own words) those sources.
Some sources that might prove useful
Donna Campbell's Timelines
Provides key historical events by decade. If you refer to some of these events in your paragraph, you need not cite Campbell but if you paraphrase and/or quote from here desricptions of those events, you will need to cite her as a source.
Railton's Roughing It Site
Provides some interesting context for art about the West in the 1860's and 1870's.
ArtStor
If you click on the information icon attached to each work of art, you can often find useful information about the art and artist.
Oxford Art Online
Information (biographies, interpretative articles) on artists and art.
The Library of Congress
All sorts of goodies from images to articles and timelines
Please note: While you may, of course, check Wikipedia for background if you wish, you may not use Wikipedia as a source in college writing. So anything interesting you discover in Wikipedia, you will need to validate in an academically acceptable source and then use that source in your writing.
As you consider other websites, remember to look for the most carefully documented sites you can find--government sites, college and university sites, and sites where the author identifies her/himself and provides a biblliography or works cited list of sources.
