I thought you might enjoy seeing the website version of the Bartolome de Las Casas presentation that Brent M. did last week in class. Here’s the link!

Independence project rubrics — I’ll also upload the file to WebCT so you can download the Word version.

Garrigus, HIST4366: Latin America to Independence

December 4, 2009

Media-specific Grading rubrics for Independence Projects

For all the projects, there is extra credit for references to the 4 books we have read this semester.

This assignment is worth 400 points [out of 2000 in the class]

Grading rubric for 15 page paper

Grading rubric for 12 minute screencast/narrated slideshow

Grading rubric for Google Earth project with 18 placemarks

For an appraisal of different screencast tools, and links to free downloads, see this link.

These are the GoogleEarth tutorials I did for another class. They tell you how to do a lot more than I’m requiring for this Independence project. But after watching them all you should have the information you need to do a series of placemarks.
This is Tutorial #1

Tutorial 2

Tutorial 3

I extended the deadlines of the quizzes from 10-19-09 to the present. They’re now due Monday November 16 before 5pm.

I don’t want to encourage you to procrastinate! But I know there’s a lot to get done and I want you to do as many quizzes as you can. Take them twice!

In class today we chose the question for the test. It’s the first of the two listed below. The PowerPoint from today on Brazilian slavery and the cities of Minas Gerais [could be useful for the test!] is available on the PowerPoints page of our WebCT site.

For those of you who wanted access to the entire text of the 1809 testament of Capitain Felix de Santana of Salvador, it’s in WebCT under Course Materials and “Texts to download”

Test questions for Furtado, Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave in the Eighteenth Century

Due 11-16-09 via WebCT

Question  1

• Brazil imported roughly 4 million captive Africans from the early 1500s to the 1850s.
• For many working on the sugar plantations of the NE coast, life expectancy was less than 10 years.
• Yet Chica da Silva, born a slave in the 1730s, died a wealthy and free woman in 1796. What factors made this possible?  [be specific!]
• What does her admittedly exceptional story reveal about colonial Brazil?

OR

Question 2

• Since 1868 and especially since 1973 (p11-12) the name Chica [Xica] da Silva represented at least two appealing myths in Brazilian history. What were those myths?
• What aspects were false, according to Furtado?
• Are there any aspects of those myths that might be considered true, based on what we know of Chica from the Furtado biography? [be specific]

• Mexico — Claudia

• Peru — Neil
• Paraguay — Josh
• Cuba — Trimeka
• Venezuela — Katia
• Brazil — Katy
• Nicaragua — Brent
• Argentina — Mati
• Colombia — Priscylla
• Ecuador — Alex
• Bolivia — Reid
• Costa Rica — Casey
• Chile — Julie
• Undecided? Richard, Louis, Chance,
• Still left: Uruguay, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador

As I get ready to leave for this conference, I’m not able to churn out the on-line lectures as the rate I had hoped. I have two up on WebCT now [and no quizzes yet] when I had hoped to have 4. There will be another up early tomorrow and I hope to have the quizzes up for those up by Wednesday night, if I can find an internet connection. Those three will be all for this week; then I’ll try to have another batch of 3 or 4 up next weekend. See you next week — and enjoy The Mission!

Speaking of missions, this image is of a colonial-era statue of St Philip of Jesus. He was born in Mexico, became a Franciscan priest, and was martyred in the Japanese city of Nagasaki while on a mission in that country in 1597.