Topic:Humanities / Time Line and Essay
Subject:Other
Volume: 3 pages
Format: MLA
Type: other
Description
WHAT TO PUT ON YOUR TIME LINE: You will choose 12 – 20 items per chapter to place on your Time Line. You must also clearly indicate the following eras: Baroque Enlightenment Romanticism Industrial Age Modern Age Postmodern/Digital Age FORMATTING: You can create the time lines in a Word document or flow chart, Excel spreadsheet (google “How to create a time line in Excel”), Powerpoint slide show, or any other format you choose as long as it creates an actual horizontal time line (Word and Powerpoint will require that it continue through several pages or slides). Don’t worry about specific dates of these eras, which are often disputed; no one’s project will be downgraded for saying that the Early Middle Ages started in 500 instead of 600 AD. But it would be a problem to leave out the Early Middle Ages or to show them occurring in the Classical Age, or after the Renaissance. Those are the major designations that must be shown either by a banner running above the time line, or by color-coding the individual items on the time line, or the time line itself. You must also place individual items on the time line itself. Your author Dr. Fiero has a time line at the end of every chapter. You can choose items from her time line, or other items from the chapter that you find interesting and consider important. You should select a variety of types of items — artworks, architecture, literature, sculpture, music, historical events, people — and include at least 12 items per chapter, and no more than 20. You do not need a lot of information about the items you place on the time line. Name and place for buildings, name and artist/writer for artworks and literature, name and very brief significance for historical events, are all you need. For example, at 800 AD you can put “Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor” but you don’t have to add what this signified. And don’t put birth or death dates as time line items; if a person is significant enough to be on your time line, then put what s/he is famous for (like Charlemagne above). ****Essay Info*** 500 Words Minimum And accompanied by an essay that shows thoughtful engagement with the material. THE ESSAY: You must turn in a 500-word essay with both the midterm and final time lines, in which you discuss what you learned from working on the project about the time period covered. Do not recap the text; this essay should not read like a condensed history lesson. It should be a personal reaction to the course material and the creation of the time line. I must be able to tell that you have worked with the course material and given it some thought. Feel free to discuss what surprised you, any insights you gained as a result, what questions it raised for you, eras/artworks that you found especially interesting or moving. You can compare what you’ve learned about the Western time line to another culture, or discuss how you would use your Time Line to explain the evolution of Western art to someone unfamiliar with it. This is a very open and informal assignment. Since this is not a Gordon Rule class, the essay will not be graded on grammar, form, spelling, etc. but rather on how well it shows your engagement with the information.
