02.10 Module Project Assignment
Assessment
In this lesson, you learned how to analyze primary and secondary source
documents and synthesize the information from those documents in
response to a prompt. For your assessment, you will put what you have
learned into practice.
1. Review the background information and six sources on the previous
pages.
2. Respond to each reflection question on provided template in one to
two paragraphs. Use details from at least two documents as well as
information from the lessons for support.
3. Be sure to include which documents you used for support on
the template.
Tip: In each response, be sure to reference the specific documents used
for support. For example, you might say, "In The History of Japan, scholar
Louis G. Perez describes a rich variety of trade goods that ..."

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?