Roaring Camp Handout: The Basics
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Roaring Camp Handout
The Basics
During Week 14 (4/13‒4/19) there will be a special discussion forum on Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, by Susan Lee Johnson. Participation in this discussion forum is mandatory. Your term paper on Roaring Camp is due by 10 PM on Monday 5/6 and is worth 100 points. Under no circumstances will I accept a late term paper. There is also an extra credit assignment based on Roaring Camp .
Reading the Book & Focus Questions for the Week 14 Discussion Forum
Below are a number of focus questions, arranged by chapter. I wrote these questions with the goal of helping you to identify key arguments in the book as you read. These questions will also serve as the focus questions for the Week 14 discussion forum. Remember that your answers on the Week 14 forum should demonstrate that you have done the reading so discuss specific events, people, and ideas from the book in detail. In addition, make sure to give page references for your quotes and for your specific references to the book. Prologue, “Joaquín Murrieta and the Bandits” 1. Who was Joaquín Murrieta? (Hint: That is not a simple question! We can try to reconstruct the “historical” Joaquín Murrieta, but there is also the Joaquín Murrieta of the San Joaquin Republican, the Joaquín Murrieta that emerges from the pages of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Joaquín Murrieta whose memory was preserved by the Murrieta family of Sonora, Mexico, the Murrieta of Chicano writers during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, even the Murrieta of the Hollywood movies starring Antonio Banderas!) Chapter 1, “On the Eve of Emigration” 2. What types of people flooded into California generally, and the Southern Mines in particular, during the Gold Rush? (Think about their economic and social, as well as their ethnic/national, backgrounds.) What conditions in their native lands made these people willing to make the move the California? 3.
Roaring Camp Handout
The Basics
During Week 14 (4/13‒4/19) there will be a special discussion forum on Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, by Susan Lee Johnson. Participation in this discussion forum is mandatory. Your term paper on Roaring Camp is due by 10 PM on Monday 5/6 and is worth 100 points. Under no circumstances will I accept a late term paper. There is also an extra credit assignment based on Roaring Camp .
Reading the Book & Focus Questions for the Week 14 Discussion Forum
Below are a number of focus questions, arranged by chapter. I wrote these questions with the goal of helping you to identify key arguments in the book as you read. These questions will also serve as the focus questions for the Week 14 discussion forum. Remember that your answers on the Week 14 forum should demonstrate that you have done the reading so discuss specific events, people, and ideas from the book in detail. In addition, make sure to give page references for your quotes and for your specific references to the book. Prologue, “Joaquín Murrieta and the Bandits” 1. Who was Joaquín Murrieta? (Hint: That is not a simple question! We can try to reconstruct the “historical” Joaquín Murrieta, but there is also the Joaquín Murrieta of the San Joaquin Republican, the Joaquín Murrieta that emerges from the pages of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Joaquín Murrieta whose memory was preserved by the Murrieta family of Sonora, Mexico, the Murrieta of Chicano writers during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, even the Murrieta of the Hollywood movies starring Antonio Banderas!) Chapter 1, “On the Eve of Emigration” 2. What types of people flooded into California generally, and the Southern Mines in particular, during the Gold Rush? (Think about their economic and social, as well as their ethnic/national, backgrounds.) What conditions in their native lands made these people willing to make the move the California? 3.