The goal of this culminating project is to allow you the opportunity to explore a topic of interest to you and to practice the thinking and writing skills that you have been honing all year in your English and History classes. Focusing on an American artifact of your choosing, you will embark on a journey of research, planning, outlining, sourcing and drafting. Class time and homework for both History and English will be devoted to working on this project - consider this the pièce de resistance of your 10th grade year!
Assignment: You will write an 8-10 page, double spaced research paper on an artifact of your choice - a poem, short story, play, film, speech, song, painting, building or other item that relates to a significant American cultural or historic theme. While you will develop your own research question to guide your work, consider the questions below as you formulate yours:
**Important note: You may not use Chat GPT or any other AI application to help you write this essay. Your teachers will discuss this further in class.
Princeton Day School Libraries subscribe to a number of online databases which can assist you in this project. This LibGuide includes suggested databases for primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. However, many of these databases cover more than one type of source, so explore!
Use this optional RESEARCH PLAN to help you organize and strategize your searches.
