Introduction
Attention Agents:
It has come to the attention of the Linear Time Enforcement Agency that someone has been altering time, starting in the 1920's. The effects have not rippled into your timestream yet but, they will soon. Having finished reading "The Great Gatsby" you are currently our agents with the closest link to the disturbance and so the most qualified to help. Attached you will find a dossier detailing the key figures for this time period. Research them, and report back to us so that we may correct the timeline.
Key Figures:
Henry Ford - Automobile Tycoon
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Novelist
Nicola Sacco and Bartalameo Vanzetti - Convicted Anarchists
Alice Paul - Women's Rights Activist
Task
Agents. Each of the figures noted in your dossier has been affected in some way by the temporal disturbance.
We need for each of you to take responsibility for finding the truth about the individuals listed, so that we may correct their timelines. Currently, your timeline has not been affected by the disturbances. As such, information gained by yourselves can be considered true history.
In the next section of your task, you will find the standard process by which agents report on historical figures. Good luck agents. And safe investigating.
Process
Standard Procedure for Data Collection:
Step 1: Determine your Subject
It is imperative that agents determine who they will be researching individually, as well as coordinating with their squad.
For the current task, your options for individual research subjects are Henry Ford, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, or Alice Paul.
Each of these figures has been altered. Their timelines have been twisted by some malignant force coming from their future.
In the current timestream, Heny Ford has been noted as never working in the automobile industry, Francis Scott Fitzgerald has been killed in World War 1, Sacco and Vanzetti were killed before their trial and Alice Paul has chosen to life of a domestic housewife.
Soon, this will be the canonical timeline, unless you step in.
Step 2: Gather your Information
As your timeline has yet to be affected by the disturbance, information that you gather can be relied upon to fix the timestream.
For each of your subjects, we need a detailed report, as well as a detailed report on how they have impacted history. Submit your evidence in proper format to your squadron coordinator, Mr. Nix, in time to save history as we know it.
Below, you will find several links to websites known to hold information on these subjects. Use these as a starting point but feel free to draw in other sources at your discretion. Remember that while you are each assigned an individual subject, work together to determine the impact on history and to help each other find additional sources.
Henry Ford:
https://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/ford.htm
Francis Scott Fitzgerald:
http://www.biography.com/people/f-scott-fitzgerald-9296261#the-great-ga…
http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/fitzgerald/
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1927/03/the-case-of-sacco-a…
Alice Paul:
http://www.sewallbelmont.org/learn/who-is-alice-paul/
http://archive.armstrong.edu/Initiatives/history_journal/history_journa…
Evaluation
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Excellent - 4 |
Good - 3 |
Fair - 2 |
Unacceptable - 1 |
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Content |
The content is substantial, intriguing, and original. It relates directly to the topic. |
The content is clear and directly related to the topic. |
The content is ordinary and somewhat related to the topic. |
The content is absent or not related to the topic. |
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Details |
Uses details such as explanations and examples that are accurate, appropriate, and fully support the topic. |
Uses details such as explanations and examples that are accurate and support the topic. |
Uses some details that are accurate; some details such as examples and explanations are not appropriate for the topic; details do not always support the topic. |
Uses little or no detail to support and explain the topic. |
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Grammar |
Uses completely appropriate grammar that helps readers understand meaning. |
Uses appropriate grammar that does not interfere with meaning. |
Grammar choices sometimes confuse readers. |
Grammar choices keep readers from understanding the piece. |
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Organization |
Logical presentation of ideas; all parts contribute to a strong central idea |
Most ideas are connected; some parts don't contribute to the central idea. |
Some ideas connected to each other; many parts don't contribute to the central idea. |
ideas have little connection to each other; there is no strong central idea. |
Conclusion
Congratulations, agents. With your work, we were able to determine that Adolph Hitler had acquired a time machine and gone back to disturb the 1920s to give himself an advantage in World War Two. He has been stripped of his technology and mind-erased so that the timestream can proceed as usual.
Return to class, and know that the Linear Time Enforcement Agency is forever in your debt.