American Studies 335
New England
Roger Williams University
CAS 228
M, W. &  F  11:00-12:00
Fall Semester, 2008
Michael R. H. Swanson, Ph. D.
Office:  CAS 110
Hours: M, F,   9:00-10:00
T, Th 11:--12:30 or by appointment
Phone:  254 3230
E-mail:  amst335@gmail.com
The Week's Work
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Due: Before you leave for Thanksgiving Vacation

Sources:
Joseph Wood, The New England Village
Internet sources as appropriate
(Panoramic maps, websites of Plimoth Plantation, Mystic Seaport, Sturbridge Village, etc, as well as others i've made available at Blackboard as inspiration..


Instructions:

1. Using illustrations like Wood, figures 1.4, 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5, as examples, create a series of three maps which illustrate the development of your own imaginary but typical New England Village. If you're so inclined and feel artistic, draw as well as map it, and then write a brief history of your town which demonstrates your understanding of the forces which created it and gave it shape.  The paper is secondary to the map...use it to clarify things you have trouble sketching.  If you use symbols, don't forget to include a key.



1 Plan your three maps approximately a generation apart.  The first should be pre-revolutionary and represent the community near the time of its founding.  The map should give indication of why that particular spot was chosen by the community’s founding members.  The last of the three should show the village as it might have looked in the mid-nineteenth century.  Choose a middle point which allows you to demonstrate some of the factors which made the town grow.

2.Whatever you have a difficulty presenting in drawn form annotate.  Do this either with notes on the map itself,  in a few paragraphs attached.