Internal Assessment Guidelines

PLEASE BE GUIDED BY THE FOLLOWING

 

 

PAGE 1: COVER PAGE

Picture (optional) Antigua State College, Name, Candidate Number,

Course, Topic, Date, Tutor’s Name (Miss Jrucilla Samuel)

Sample

   Antigua State College
   Name: John Doe
   Candidate Number: 010201…
  Course: CAPE History Unit 1 Internal Assessment
   Topic: Major Factors that Contributed to the Abolition of Slavery
   Date of Submission: 25th February 2011
   Lecturer: Miss Jrucilla Samuel
                              

PAGE 2: TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE 3: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 

PAGE 4: RATIONALE  (Reason for choosing topic and its importance)
 

Sample
In order to meet the requirements for the CXC Cape examinations, this research must be conducted. However, despite this obligation, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) was a landmark in our Caribbean history that has sometimes been overlooked. As a Jamaican, this topic touches the very core of my native land and it is also for this reason that it has received my ultimate attention. This research will examine the multiple causes of the 1865 revolution. I hypothesize that the economic problems of the 19^thcentury aggravated existing deplorable conditions which fueled the Morant Bay Rebellion.

PAGE 5: CONTEXT (Setting or era eg. Age of Exploration, Pre-Columbus era)
 

Sample

In order to fully understand the factors that contributed to the abolition of slavery’ one must first examine the era in which the tides started to turn against this institution. Therefore, the influence of the Enlightenment period cannot be ignored. It was this era of ‘prolific intellectual movement’ that paved the way for full emancipation. During the 18^th century many philosophers and scholars began to question the very institution that made Great Britain rich. Although some of the scholastic writings sometimes leaned on the idealistic side, their words had an uneasing effect not only in the Europe but also in its colonies. However, its effect was not a swift as the French Revolution. But nevertheless the enlightenment impact was visible. Historian David Brion Davis captured the essence of the beginning of change. He noted, ‘what was unprecedented by the 1760s and 1770s was the emergence of a widespread conviction that New World slavery symbolized all the forces that threatened the true destiny of man.’ [1]

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          [1] Franklin Knight, General History of the Caribbean Volume III:  The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. (London: UNESCO Publishing, 1997) 325.

 

 

PAGE 6: INTRODUCTION  (A paragraph that should include a thesis statement. Avoid repetition!)

 

OTHER PAGES: BODY OF RESEARCH  (A number of paragraphs to support thesis, topic sentences etc)

CONCLUSION: Sum up points and reinforce that your hypothesis has been validated.
 

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY (MLA FORMAT)

N= End Notes (eferences in the research; footnotes preferably)
     -Indent
     -First, last name like Kerisia Samuel, then comma
     -Title of Book underlined
     -(Place of Publication: (colon), Publishers, (comma), Year Published in brackets)
     -Page where the quote was taken from. (full stop).
   
B=Bibliography
     -Last name, then first name.
     -Title of Book underlined
     -Place of Publication: (colon),
     -Publishers, (comma), 
     -Year book was published (full stop).

 

*Each of the above section must be on a separate page.

*Quotations mandatory.
  Use both Primary and Secondary sources.
  Primary--first hand (what the slave said during 1834 or the Emancipation Act)
  Secondary--second hand (what historian Eric Williams said)

*Feel free to use pictures, diagrams, PowerPoints etc
  The research must be typed.

  2200 words ( quotes excluded)