📝Read: Homework Guidelines and Sample

Directions and Sample for Homework Assignments:

See the Canvas Guides for help on submitting an assignment (link). Links to an external site.

Here is an example of a typical Homework Assignment:

Homework # 0:

Due dates will usually be Sundays at 11:59 pm. Chapter 0:  Answer Critical Thinking Questions. This is a writing assignment worth 6 points.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to analyze important historical events.

Directions:

There is no time limit but you must complete the assignment by the due date and you only have 1 attempt. Make sure you follow the homework guidelines and that you use "Control V"to paste your work onto Canvas. Remember that if you turn this homework in late you lose a point for each day it is late, up to 3 pts.

Your total assignment should be between 300-1000 words long and follow these requirements:

  • Single Space. 
  • 1 inch margins on top, bottom, and sides. 
  • 12 pt Times New Roman or similar font. 
  • Include the number of the question for each answer and skip a line between answers.    
  • You do not need to include the questions, just the answers
  • Examine the Homework Rubric for further reference as to how points are allocated

The easiest way is to complete the assignment on another document program and then copy and paste into the Canvas site using Control+V or upload a file. This will enable you to save your work in case there is an issue with the Canvas site.

Homework Sample:

Your Name

History 00, Fall/Spring/Summer 20__

Hw # 0, Chapter # 0

 

Example Question: What was the source of the major disagreement between the Pope and European Monarchs during the "Lay Investiture Controversy"? How was the conflict resolved?

Incorrect:

  1. The pope and the king of Europe did not like each other because each wanted power and did not like each other. So they argued and then the Pope was killed because the king got mad and stuff.

Correct:

  1. The source of conflict during the Lay Investiture Controversy was the question of who should have the power to invest (appoint) high-ranking Church officials, secular rulers or Church officials. This was due to the fact that the secular rulers donated most of the land and wealth owned by the Church, and since they gave the land and money, they wanted to select who should control that land and money. Local aristocrats appointed priests and abbots, and kings often appointed bishops and even popes. Pope Nicholas II wanted to stop secular rulers from promoting church officials to higher offices and came up with the method of election we still use today to choose the pope. Tensions mounted in the late 11th century when Pope Gregory VII decided popes, not royals, should guide Christian Europe. The Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV disagreed with Gregory about who should appoint bishops in Germany. Henry IV sent armies into Italy while a powerful patron of Gregory’s, the Countess of Tuscany, countered with her own. Eventually Gregory excommunicated Emperor Henry IV and the emperor responded by using military force to drive Pope Gregory out of Rome. The next emperor, Henry V, solved the problem with the Concordant of Worms. This set forth the understanding that the pope could present new bishops with their symbols of office while the emperor could approve of the elected of bishops. This dispute demonstrated that the pope could use excommunication as a weapon while rulers had the advantage of having armies at their disposal, which the Popes lacked without patrons. Another was emperors had a hand in appointing officials in the church because politics and religion could overlap.