GUIDELINES for writing PROMPTS and SAMPLES

You and another student will write a prompt together and post it on the blog by Friday at 5 pm.

Guidelines:
1) The prompt should be open-ended so that different people can respond in different ways (there is more than one answer and it can't be answered in one word).
2) The prompt should ask something specific about the book. (Ie. not "did you like it" but instead something that requires the other students to grapple with an important argument or aspect of the book).
3) You can (but do not have to) ask students to put books in conversation with each other.

Sample prompts for the blog:

Townsend made a distinction between the discipline and profession of history and he also used the term "enterprise" to describe the subject of his book. Which term is best? Why?

or

Do you think that Townsend's distinction between profession and discipline was important? Did it add to his argument? Why/how or why/how not?

or

According to Trouillot, who has power in the production of history and how do those with power gain power?

or

How does Townsend help us understand Trouillot better? How does Trouillot help us understand Townsend better? Would they have been better books if the authors had read each others' books?