Early+Foreign+Policy+Assignment

 did in class before we began the project. Click to make bigger .|| You and a partner will create a page on the class website (mrbruceshistory.wikispaces.com) that presents one of the four major dilemmas that challenged the young United States.
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The Process
Your efforts must reflect the historical process: > As you complete your pre-reading on the dilemma you selected, consider a few questions that can drive further understandings. Talk about this with your partner. Determine one or two questions to use as a guide to drive your research.
 * **Questions**

> __Gather__ Starting with the textbook and using that as an entry source (it is a secondary source), determine what other sources you would like to consider searching for: correspondence (letters), official government documents, newspapers, etc. Use the Internet to seek out these sources by searching for topical keywords (Jefferson, embargo, impressment) and then patiently scan the pages for relevant material.
 * **Gather and Evaluate Evidence**

> __Evaluate__ This is where you analyze the documents by
 * Sourcing: consider the author, purpose, and audience
 * Contextualizing: consider the time and place of the document's creation
 * Close reading: carefully reading and considering the language and meaning of tone and word selection
 * Corroborating: considering how each document agrees and disagrees with other documents, and determine why

Checkpoint #1 Stop and discuss the questions on this guide before moving on.

Checkpoint #2

Early Foreign Policy Exercise

> Working closely with your partner, determine the best possible answer to the question(s) you pursued at the beginning. If the questions changed, explain why as well. Your interpretations are the conclusions you have come to using the documents, so be sure to use those to explain yourselves.
 * **Interpretation.**

Early Foreign Policy Pages Links to student pages.

Creating The Page
Follow the following instructions carefully when you create your page. Pages have to be named specifically. So when you create your page, name the page something specific to your question. For instance, if my question was, "How was the War of 1812 a fight to remain independent and free?", I could title my page "Independence Again" or "Remaining Free".
 * Page Names and Tag**

It might be a good idea to structure your page to reflect the process. That way, as you present your findings to the class, you can do that by starting with an explanation of your questions, then how you gathered and evaluated evidence, and then how that led to your conclusion.
 * Page Template**

I have created a template for you to start with. It establishes a layout where you can delete my stuff and add your own. From the dropdown list, choose "Foreign Policy Dilemma" as your templage.

It is also necessary to tag your pages for easy access. In the tag box, type the tag "foreign policy dilemmas". It should autofill that for you.
 * Tags**