Step1. Read “The Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)”
Step 2: Conduct some additional background research on the person, organization, event, or document that you read for the banner session. Your background research should draw from the sources present in the Class Reference Guide from the UWB Library. Your research should try to answer the 5Ws: who, what, where, when, and why.
1) Who created this document? Not just their name, but their place in society. Who was the audience for this document?
2) What does the document say? What is its purpose or argument? What issues or events was it responding to?
3) Where was the document created? How might that location, or events therein, have influenced the writing/ creation of the document?
4) When was the document created? What was happening around that time that might have influenced its creation?
5) Why was the document created? What was the author(s) trying to accomplish?
Step 3:Prepare a one-page response paper that
1) provides a brief summary of the reading, highlighting its main idea, argument, or audience;
2) describes the particular historical and geographical context surrounding the reading (e.g., a policy, uprising, court case, etc.),
3) identifies why this document is relevant to our understanding of Black Studies as a field of inquiry;
4) includes a relevant picture, poem, or other primary source related to the document
5) discusses what you think people should know from or about this reading (this could include short quotes from the reading); and
6) is properly cited, including not only the assigned reading and but the additional source(s) you used to complete your response paper. You will need to do some additional research beyond the required reading for this assignment.
