Rosa Park Celebration Day

Topic need to be narrowed down not too general can not be the life of my grandfather or family need to be about a specific topic.

Exploring your American Heritage
For this assignment, you will define your own American heritage by interviewing a family member on their experience with a historical event, series of events, or time frame. Your essay can be on anything from an explanation of how your family became American (assuming that you have a living relative who experienced it), to your grandfather's experience in World War 2, to your aunt's experience of the Hippie movement. All are significant and will serve to put your life and the lives of people you know into a greater historical context. Alternatively, if you are unable to interview a family member for this purpose, you may interview a friend or acquaintance.
In addition to the interview, you will need to use at least two (2) additional sources (other than lecture and your textbook) to "set the scene" for the story you tell. You must cite these written sources and your interview both in the body of your essay (at least three times each) and in a bibliography (see below for details). Please note: Wikipedia is not a valid scholastic source.
This essay will be five (5) pages long and will follow the same format as your unit essays: 12 point font, 1" margins, double-spaced, etc. It will be worth up to ten (10) points on your essay average, which translates to four (4) points on your final average.
Please submit your topic to me by email or in class by Monday, April 28, so that I can give you recommendations and/or direction. The completed essay will be due by or before class on Monday, May 5, either in class or via email. I will not accept essays after the due date!!
Bibliography Help:
♦    To cite a source in the body of your text, put the name of the author/editor and the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. If there is no author or editor, use a word from the title of your source: (Divine, 147) or (Britannica, 498). For quotes or ideas from your interview, simply refer to the interviewee's name in your parentheses: (LaForge). Please note, if you use the author or interviewee's name in your sentence, then you don't need to repeat that name in a citation. Just mention the page number.
♦    Model your bibliography entries after the following examples, which are based on guidelines found in A Pocket Guide to Writing History, 2nd Ed. by Mary Lynn Rampolla (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 1998):
>    For your interview, list the interviewee's name, what type of interview it was, and the date on which you spoke.
-* Hector LaForge, telephone interview by author, 4 April 1993. >■ For a book with an author, you need to include the author's name, the title of the book, the city in which the book was published, the name of the publisher, the year of publication (or most recent publication), and the page numbers used.
-> Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Votes for Women: the Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995), 44-46. j> If your source gives only an editor's name, you will include all the same information as the last example, replacing the author's name with the editor's name and adding "ed." after the name. -» Gyan Prakash, ed., After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 9.
>    For an encyclopedia or dictionary entry, include the name and edition of the work, followed by the abbreviation "s.v." (meaning sub verbo, or "under the word") and the title of the entry in quotation marks. -» Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. "steam power."
For websites, include the author's name, title of the work or essay, date of publication (if unknown, type "n.d." for "no date"), URL address, and the date you accessed the page.
-* Robert Brigham, "The Wars for Vietnam," n.d., <http://www(dot)vassar(dot)edu/vietnam/index.html> (30 October 1997).