Extra Credit: Riot Docs

Students can receive extra credit for the class by making an appointment with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, requesting to see the Harlem riot documents, and selecting up to three (or more, if they want) documents to use with the final exam questions. Students that incorporate one document will receive one point, two documents two points, and three documents three points, on their final grade in the course. This might raise a student grade from an 85 to an 88, for example.

The key here is that students must select documents that we have not read as a class or been assigned to read as a class. The documents can be about the 1935, 1943, and/or the 1964 Harlem riots. 

To successfully use a document, they must: 1) introduce it to the reader by stating its title and basic information; 2) summarize it briefly for the reader, and 3) use it to support a claim they're making to answer one of the final exam questions.

Students that plan to incorporate extra credit documents can write at the top of their final exam something like, 'extra credit docs included,' or something like that, just to let me know to be aware of it.

Please ask any questions this coming week.