Assignment Task: Letter to ER
In this week's module, there is a link entitled A Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt Primary Source. After reading that document, please complete the following writing assignment.
Post your response to the following questions about the letter sent to Eleanor Roosevelt.
1. Analyze the letter for its relationship to the economic crisis that was going on in the United States at that time. In other words, how does a letter and request such as this fit within the historical time-frame being studied?
2. What might you be able to infer about the woman just from reading her letter? Economic status? Educational status? Pride? Provide examples from the letter to validate your answer. Also, in your response, tell me what infer means and why your response is an inference.
3. Evaluate the impact that this letter has obviously had on historians trying to relay the hardships families faced in the Great Depression. What strikes you as the most compelling point in the letter that would illustrate that?
4. Why is this considered a primary source? To answer this, define and explain what a primary source is and then relate this source as an example of it.
5. Using the institution databases, provide another primary source from this historical era that is similar to this. Provide the link to that source in your response and then explain why you chose that example.
The guidelines for this assignment are:
1. Your response must be three well-developed paragraphs of a minimum of five sentences each.
2. Your complete word count on this assignment must be at least 250 words.
3. You must use at least three credible sources. (Please see all 4 references attached)
4. You must cite all direct quotes and paraphrased material with proper APA in-text citations in the paragraphs.
5. At the bottom of your submission (right below the paragraphs), you must include an APA-style bibliography of all the sources you used.
6. Your submission should be free of grammar, content, and style errors.