Complete this worksheet thoroughly for both the primary source you selected from the list of those provided, and the related secondary source you selected through your own research.
Submission Instructions:
Primary Source:
Select one of the primary sources located on the list below.
Read the source in its entirety, or for at least 30 minutes.
Analyze and evaluate the selected primary source by answering the questions outlined in the Module 2 Skills Exploration:
Primary and Secondary Source Analysis (the 5 W’s), and complete the primary source column of the Primary and Secondary Source Worksheet (PS Worksheet).
Make sure to thoroughly answer each question and remember that you will need to do additional research to answer some of the questions.
Secondary Source:
Locate a secondary source related in some way to your selected primary source.
For example, if your primary source were Darwin’s Origin of the Species, you would look for a secondary source that comments on Darwin’s work or ideas.
Please note that sources located within your explorations are not acceptable secondary sources.
Read the secondary source in its entirety, or for at least 30 minutes if it is lengthy.
Analyze and evaluate the selected secondary source by answering the questions outlined in the Primary and Secondary Source exploration (the 5 W’s), and complete the secondary source column of the Primary and Secondary Source Worksheet.
Make sure to thoroughly answer each question and remember that you will need to do additional research to answer some of the questions.
Worksheet:
Add a bibliography in one of the approved formats to the PS Worksheet, so your instructor can review your secondary source as well as your selected primary source.
Submit your PS Worksheet by the due date on the Course Schedule as a .docx or .rtf file (No PDFs). (This due date is likely to be earlier than the due date for the Primary and Secondary Source Analysis and Comparison Essay to allow the instructor time to provide you feedback.)
Primary Source List:
Catherine the Great. “Catherine the Great (excerpts).” 1767–1768. At Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/18catherine.asp.
De Gouge, Olympe. “Declaration of the Rights of Women.” 1791. At Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1791degouge1.asp.
Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method. 1637; Project Gutenberg, 2016. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59/59-h/59-h.htm.
National Assembly of France. “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.” August 26, 1789. At Avalon Project at Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp.
Paine, Thomas. “Of the Religion of Deism Compared With the Christian Religion.” c. late 18th century. At Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/paine-deism.asp .
Smith, Adam. “The Wealth of Nations (excerpts).” 1776. At Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/adamsmith-summary.asp.
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Public.” 1729. At The Art Bio ORIGO. http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html.
Voltaire. “On the Royal Society and Other Academies From Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques.” c. 1778. At Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1778voltaire-royalsoc.asp.
Voltaire. Candide. New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1918; Project Gutenberg, 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm.
