No less than five pages, 250 words per page, double spaceFont: Times New Roman, size 12Cite your sources via the Chicago Manual of Style Include at least three primary sources.Include at least three secondary sourcesPlease submit your paper via “Turnitin” on canvasChild welfare reformers of the Progressive Era (1890-1920) brought in a new wave of reforms supported in 1912 by the newly created branch of the federal government, the Children’s Bureau. The bureau sought to protect children, prevent illness and child abuse, abolish child labor, provide aid for families and expand juvenile courts.1 Jabob Riis’s photographs offer evidence to capture the some of the factors that caught the child reformers attention. Research into the “Orphan Train” movement exposes other matters that affected children and caused them to be transported west. The goal to protect children , however, that began before the Progressive Era and continued throughout it, had mixed results. This was especially true for both the orphan train riders as well as Native American children who were separated from their families on reservations and sent to boarding schools. Choose to write your paper either about the orphan train riders, or the Native American children. Suggestions to help you with your writing: 1. Write an introductory paragraph explaining the historical context. Make sure it has a good topic sentence. Add the “meat and potatoes” ( content) to lead up to your thesis statement. This statement is the last sentence of the first paragraph. Make it a strong one. This is your point for writing the whole essay. 2. Take a seed from your thesis and sow it into the next topic sentence of your next paragraph. Add the meat and potatoes and make a concluding sentence to wrap up the paragraph 3. Repeat paragraphs sowing seeds between sentences and paragraphs until the last one. The last one is the concluding paragraph. Explain how you have proved the point you made in the thesis statement. 4. Throughout the paper support your points with evidence. Find primary sources. Look for people’s voices. 5. Make sure you cite the sources. with the Chicago Manual of Style. 6. It is important to plan your essay before you start writing. 1 Steven Mintz, Huck’s Raft: The History of American Childhood, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 180.
27. See below for links for your referenceThis is what I look for when I grade your paper: Check if you can answer “yes” to each of the following:Title Do I have a title? ( A good one engages the reader’s interest)Introduction: 1. Do I have a thesis statement? 2. Is this thesis statement a single sentence that clearly articulates my argument at the end of the introductory paragraph? 3. Do I ground my thesis in historical context? Body of the Paper: 4. Do I use my thesis to drive the material in the body of my paper ?5. Do I write topic sentences? 6. Do I present and analyze evidence? 7. Do I show an understanding of the material?8. Do I utilize specific references rather than generalizations? 9. Does my conclusion encapsulate my argument? 10. Is my paper free from grammatical errors and typos?
311. Have I cited my material according to the Chicago Manual of Style? ——-Make sure you use the Chicago Manual of Style. It is essential to cite your sources: 1. To tell the reader where you obtained your information. 2. To avoid plagiarism For AMH 3560 use footnotes and a bibliography. Learn how by visiting the FIU library website. Look for Lib Guides / Citations & Plagiarism Check the videos for Chicago Style 17th ed. 1. Books and ebooks 2. Journal and web citationsYou can also check this video for a short tutorial to be sure you have the correct information Suggestions to help you with research:Indian Boarding Schools American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa [aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938). Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921.edu/women/zitkala-sa/stories/stories.html”>http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/zitkala-sa/…Carlisle Indian School Resource centerhttp://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/teaching-type/…
4 “Orphan Trains”http://orphantraindepot.org/orphan-train-links/Iowa:http://iagenweb.org/history/orphans/ OKMinnesota:http://www.orphantrainridersofminnesota.com check Oregon http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/topics/orphan.ht… Children’s Aid Society http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/about/history/o…http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/novemberdecembe…Riders on the Orphan Trains http://www.ridersontheorphantrain.org/ noIowa http://iagenweb.org/history/orphans/Nebraska http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/trains/Orphan…http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/trains/sedlac… From other riders : http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/trains/storie…
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