You should be ready for your recitation on November 1st. (The original due date was the 25th of October, but since we now have fewer students I can allow some extra time for this assignment.)
#1 Your piece should be pre-approved by me to make sure it fits the requirements
#2 Your must memorize your piece (no helps or notes)
#3 Your piece should be no shorter than 1 minute to recite
#4 Your piece must be related to this class in some fashion - either written by an author who lived during the time period of our book, or a speech given or a document written during this time period, or have some other connection.
#5 You must introduce your piece (tell about it and where it came from and what the connection to US History is if it has one).
#6 It is ok to recite only a portion of a long piece - just be mindful and thoughtful in your editing and make sure you inform us that it is edited.
#7 It is ok to perform a piece of music if anyone is so inclined!
For example, in your text when Bennett tells of Nathaniel Hale's execution he refers to Hale's speech and his reference to a quote from Cicero (a Roman), "Give me liberty, or give me death." You could take this event and do a couple of things. One, you could look up the rest of Hale's speech and recite it, or you could look up the rest of Cicero's speech fore recitation since it's obvious that Hale knew Cicero. It is ok to memorize Cicero even though he's Roman, because of the Hale connection - you just have to tell us what that connection is. Make sense?
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