HI Questions

I want to invite you to leave any question whether it is general or if it is specific as we can learn from each other. I will check it daily and give feedback. Feel free to give feedback as well espcially if you are doing the same or similar topics.

Summary of Evidence: Hints

• Make sure you run it through the filter of "Does this explicitly answer the question?"
• Organize it on topic rather than source.
• You can put it in bullet form but the final will need to be in paragraph form
• You can summarize people's view rather than put in lengthy quotes
• Leave the historiography for the analysis
• Make sure it is properly refernced. (Cannot accept it without proper refernces)

Analysis: Hints

• Outline different points that need to be analyzed
• Make sure to reference the two sources in analysis
• "An awareness of the significance to the investigation of the sources evaluated in section C" This is part of the IB rubric. You will need to make this known by talking about how much this informaiton can be trusted and/or the value of the interpretation to answering the question.
• You should analyze the multiple interpretations/apporaches historians have on your exact topic.

Conclusion:

• This is where you briefly state you answer to the question and why you came up with it.
• Be blunt and direct here
• Do not introduce any new evidence but make sure to be clear on why you reached that conclusion.

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Historical Investigation Questions

How is your HI going? I have a couple of ideas to either get you going or to un-stick your research.

#1- Put the paper aside and just research. Pull pieces of evidence from a wide a source base as you can. Spend most of your time dong this as you can now read with a critical eye rather than throwing together stuff that sounds good for the deadline. Once you have a good list well beyond what you need for the summary of evidence. Now pair down and keep only the best.

#2- Once you have a solid or improved summary evidence, go ahead and begin the analysis anew given that trying to revise it might be harder. When I went for my National Boards I revised a paper over and over instead of rewriting it. It received the lowest score of my my four papers.

#3- If you scored a twenty or over do not mess with it. But remember that does not guarantee what your final score so you will want to make some changes. DO A LITTLE AT A TIME.

Please post your questions and ideas here. Also if you have a request for a certain type of post please let me know. Good Luck. I hope you are enjoying your summer.

Bouchard

Hoover and FDR/New Deal Review Post- Seniors

With reference to specific programs, discuss to what extent Hoover and FDR/New Deal successfully addressed one of the following groups.

Banks, Industry, Elderly, Arts, Labor, Farmers/Rural Areas, Women, Youth, African Americans, Women, Native Americans and Mexican Americans.

Review for New Deal Critics- Seniors

Take one of critics of FDR's, give their critic and how it impacted FDR and the New Deal? Which critic do you think had the greatest impact on the New Deal? Why?

Stock Market Crash Post- Juniors have to post and Seniors can post.

"October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday," is remembered as the most devastating day in American stock market history. Stock prices fell in a selling frenzy that began the moment the opening bell sounded. When the trading day was over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped more than thirty points, with some leading stocks plummeting $30-$60 a share. Billions of dollars of fortunes and the life savings of many small investors were wiped out as the decline of the market, which had begun in September, culminated on Black Tuesday. Few people had foreseen the coming of the Great Crash. The country had been riding on the boom of the 1920's."
Source Citation: "The U.S. Stock Market Crashes On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929." DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

The Stock Market Crash was less dramatic than the common lore portrays it, but it was dramatic given the way people in the twenties viewed the time period. So respond to the following IB prompt given what you know from class and reading the two articles.

"To what extent was the Wall Street Cash a cause of the Great Depression of 1929 in the United States? Support your argument with specific examples"

Great Depression

The Great Depression had numerous causes but we discussed a few major ones. The four major explanations are the Keynesian, Internationalist, Monetarist and the mal-distribution of income. So, in this post, I would like you evaluate at least two of the explanations using specific historical detail. Make sure to point out both the value of the explanation as well as its limitations using specific historical detail. Remember to build of the comments before you by adding something new to the thread.

Woodrow Wilson

To what extent was Woodrow Wilson's actions dealing with entry into WWI and negotiating the treaty of Versialles consistent with his actions in the Western Hemisphere? (USe specific details to support your ideas.)

Make sure to build of the ideas prior to your post and reference which idea you are responding to so thread builds on ideas rather than just restating them.