Bring your Vocabulary Book and creativity!
We'll review vocabulary and work on the Being American Essay Contest.
Key Details:
Contest Home Page
Student Resources
Founding Principles
Constitution
Turnitin.com
OWL Website - MLA Format
What to keep in mind as you write:
Paragraph 1 A CATCHY introduction and your thesis
Paragraph 2 Discussion and Analysis of Founding Principle in the Constitution, Explication and analysis of the ongoing importance of the principle
Paragraph 3 Discussion of how at least one Founder believed the principle would safeguard liberty as expressed in a primary source document from the Founding Era
Paragraph 4 Personal response explaining what the author has done and/or will do in order to preserve a culture of liberty in the U.S. that protects the inalienable rights of all
Paragraph 5 Conclusion
Works Cited Page - an Alphabetical list of works cited w/in paper.
BEFORE you turn in your draft...now write a catchy title...try for 3-5 words that draw the reader's interest and relate to your paper
REMEMBER ... your paper should be 1000 words or less
JUDGES SCORING RUBRIC can be found here
The Rough Draft needs to be uploaded by Block Day November 9/10, 2011
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