Name:_________________________________________
An American Tail:
Historical Fiction or Disney Creation?
An American Tail is a story of immigration that has been tailored towards kids
(obviously, since it’s a cartoon). The movie is designed to provide the story
of an immigrant family’s voyage to the
Your task will be to
write an essay evaluating the accuracy of An
American Tail. In order to prepare for the writing of the paper, as you
watch the movie, you should be looking for examples of the following. As you
identify ideas, people, or events in the movie that we have covered in class,
you should take notes of how that idea is being covered. At the end of the
movie, you should decide whether enough of the main issues have been covered
and decide how accurate the move is. If you have decided that the movie is NOT
accurate, you need to explain how and where other ideas from class could have
been addressed. Below are a list of ideas and events that we have covered in
class:
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Push Pull
Factors |
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Tammany
Hall |
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Boss
William Tweed |
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Tenement
Living |
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Unions
(Knights of Labor) |
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Sweat Shops
(Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, The Jungle) |
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Anarchy ( |
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Industrialization |
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Social
Darwinism |
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Laissez
Faire government |
As was mentioned before,
in order to answer this question accurately, you need to make the following decisions:
Does the movie cover the ideas that we have discussed in class (which are also
listed above). If you think that they
have been discussed in the movie, you then need to decide whether the movie
portrayed them accurately.
Once you have determined
what ideas you are going to be discussing in the paper, you will need to go
back over the sources and
The paper will be written
primarily in school, but you need to work diligently to make sure that you have
little to no work to do outside of school. The schedule of work will be as
follows:
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Tuesday/Wednesday, April
22nd/23rd |
Watch Movie HW – Due Thursday, April 24th – A
rough draft of your thesis is due. Remember
to bring a thumb drive to save! |
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Thursday, April 24th |
Work on thesis in class.
Review sources and find relevant quotations to include in the paper. HW: Thesis and Sources ready for use in
class. |
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Friday, April 25th |
Work on writing paper
in class. HW: Continue to work on rough draft at home. |
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Monday, April 28th |
Continue to work on
rough draft of paper. Conferences with Mr.
Buckley. Continue to work on polishing up rough draft. HW: Continue to work on Rough Draft. |
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Tuesday, April 29th |
Last day of class time
for paper. Conferences with Mr. Buckley. Spend time polishing the rough draft
and preparing to hand it in. Work on Work Cited Sheet. HW: Prepare Final Draft to be handed in. |
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Wednesday, April 30th
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Final Draft ready to be
handed in. |
American
Tail Process Sheet
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Wednesday, April 23rd |
Completed notes from
movie |
10 points
______/10 earned |
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Thursday, April 24th |
Draft of Thesis ready
in class |
10 points ______/10 earned |
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Thumb drive brought to
class |
5 points
______/5 earned |
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Collected at least one
(1) quote from each source to be used in class. |
10 points ______/10 earned |
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Worked hard for entire
class |
5 points ______/5 earned |
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Friday, April 25th |
Worked hard for entire
class |
5 points ______/5 earned |
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Tuesday, April 29th |
Teacher conference |
5 points ______/ 5 earned |
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|
Worked hard for entire
class |
5 points ______/ 5 earned |
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Completed rough draft |
15 points ______/ 15 earned |
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Wednesday, April 30th |
Worked hard for entire
class |
5 points ______/5 earned |
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Thursday, May 1st |
Final Draft ready to be
handed in. |
10 points ______/10 earned |
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Total points earned |
__________/85 |
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