The purpose of the project is to demonstrate your understanding of course content and your ability to communicate that understanding clearly. The project also provides you space to reflect on and think about your own learning strengths and weaknesses in this class.

A. What Mastery You Have to Demonstrate:

This project asks you to demonstrate that you understand our course content. You will need to demonstrate that you understand each of the below eras/concepts:

1. Influences and major characteristics of 14th century art in Italy, identifying key examples.

2. Influences and major characteristics of 15th century art in Northern Europe, identifying key examples.

3. Influences and major characteristics of 15th century art in Italy, identifying key examples.

4. Influences and major characteristics of 16th century art in Northern Europe, identifying key examples.

5. Influences and major characteristics of 16th century art in Italy, identifying key examples.

B. How to Demonstrate This Knowledge:

You are tasked with writing an essay for each of the 5 bullet points you see above. Each essay will be two pages-double spaced (The font must be Times New Roman and 12 point size). Make sure your essays reach the bottom of the second page. If your essay is a page and half you will lose points. Two pages means to pages, not one and a half.

As you will notice above, the guidelines ask that you identify influence and major characteristics for each century and region (each bullet points), and that you discuss examples. What ill be grading for is that you’ve identified 3 characteristics for each century and region. Characteristics include ways in which we can separate 15th Century Italian art as different from 16th century Northern art. An example of a characteristic for 15th North would include symbolism.

After you identify a characteristic, you need to talk about how and where you see that characteristic occurring inside of a work of art. So if you use symbolism as an influence, discuss a painting with symbolism and where the symbolism is happening. So to reiterate, you are not finding one work of art that fits all three characteristics, you are picking a work of art for each characteristic you identify in each essay. So three examples in each essay.

The last thing you have to talk about in each essay is at least one influence . Influences are outside factors that affected the artists and their art, such as historical events or important people. For instance, for 16th North, Martin Luther would be an influence. In your essay you would talk about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation and how exactly it affected art. ARTISTS DO NOT COUNT AS INFLUENCES, as they were just as effected by the influence as their art.

C. How to Succeed on This Project:

1. There is NO reason to do ANY extra research. Use our readings and in-class activities as the basis for your project! Don’t re-invent the wheel.

2. DO NOT PUT IMAGES IN YOUR ESSAYS.

Rubric for Grading of your Project:

WEEK SEVEN SHORT RESPONSES

First, we’d like you to do some reading to gain a fuller picture of the relationship between Natives and settlers:

· And the Strife Never Ends: Indian-White Hostility As Seen By European Travelers in America, 1800 – 1860: A brief article about the way contemporary Europeans viewed the ongoing conflict between Natives and the American government. You can read it at this link. This reading is required.

(Link To Article: https://www.academia.edu/44623382/_And_the_Strife_Never_Ends_Indian_White_Hostility_as_Seen_by_European_Travelers_in_America_1800_1860_)

· Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation: An article about the long history of “cultural appropriation” of Native land, artifacts, property, and other cultural resources by white society. Section II, “Indian Appropriation” (pages 869 – 891) details the legal history of conflicts between Natives and non-Natives over land and other property. You can read it at this link. Pages 869 – 891 of this reading are required.

· (Link To Article: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/4/)

Question 1: Name three historical lenses that you could apply to gain a fuller picture of the relationship between Natives and white settlers.

Question 2: Revise the thesis statement at the top of this page to reflect a more complex view of the relationship between Natives and white settlers.

Your revised thesis statement should be longer than one sentence.

The video transcript is attached to the question.

The history surrounding the perhaps real, perhaps apocryphal “harvest feast” between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag is a complex story in several different ways. The following questions will help you develop your understanding of the concept of historical complexity. Be sure to respond to these questions in one to two sentences, using proper grammar.

Question 3: Name three historical lenses that you could use to look at the events described in the video you just saw.

Question 4: Massasoit’s decision to approach the Pilgrims about an alliance was contingent on what previous event or events? (Name one or two.)

Question 5: Name one short-term consequence and one long-term consequence of the alliance between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims.

Because historical events are complex, they are often misunderstood. Only with research and analysis can we move past those misunderstandings and get at the historical truth.

Take some time to think about the historical event you’ve chosen to analyze in this course and how your understanding of it may have changed over the last seven weeks. As you answer the question below, please be sure to include a brief description of your historical event. Be sure to respond to the question in two to three sentences, using proper grammar.

Question 6: How has your understanding of the historical event in your essay changed as a result of your research? Describe one instance of a misconception or a wrong idea you had about your topic that has been corrected after researching and writing about it.

The Cherokee Removal, and the tragic westward journey along the Trail of Tears, is one of the most sorrowful events in American history. But it is also one of the most complex. The following questions ask you to think about the Cherokee Removal in the way a historian would. Be sure to respond to each question in two to three sentences, using proper grammar.

Question 7: Name four historical lenses through which you could analyze the events of the Cherokee Removal. Specify one aspect of this event for each lens that you cite.

Question 8: Agree or disagree with the following thesis statement: “The Treaty of New Echota was invalid, and the National Party was correct to oppose