Covers:
Textbook pgs. 96-254
From the beginning of the American Period up through the 1920s
Directions
Respond to oneof the following prompts using the guidelines below.
Review the Guidelines below.
Review the Grading Rubric.
Please put the number of the prompt you choose with your name and “Essay #2” at the top left corner of the document.
When you have completed your essay click “Submit Assignment” button in the top righthand corner of the assignment page.
Choose the “File Upload” method of turning in the essay.
Click “Submit Assignment”.
Guidelines
(Read Carefully- The grading rubric is based on these guidelines)
The essay must have a clear thesis statement.
The thesis statement must be supported by 3 main points.
The main points must be supported by very specific verifiable facts, data, and/or evidence.
Provide historical context with dates, events, time period, and time frame.
The essay must be double spaced, 12 point font, and margins set at “Normal”.
The essay must be a minimum of 2 pages and no more than 4 pages, not including the list of sources.
The essay must be a minimum of 5 paragraphs in length.
The class textbook must be cited at least once in the essay.
You must cite at least two outside sources in the essay.
Please do not directly quoteeither the instructor or a member of the class.
All direct quotes, ideas, and facts pulled directly from a source, as well as all statistics, must be properly cited using MLA citation.
Avoid absolute statements and hyperbole- both are difficult to support with facts, data, and/or evidence.
Avoid using more than two single sentence quotes in the entire essay. I want to read what you have to say, not another author.
Tips and Suggestions
Focus your thesis by creating an argument that is based upon your perspective on relevant facts and ideas.
Write with the idea that your reader knows much less than you do. Don’t rely on the instructor probably understanding what you are saying.
Avoid absolute statements and hyperbole. They are hard to support with specific facts and often easy to challenge.
Please do notdirectly reference yourself in the essay.
Essay Prompts: Respond to one of the following prompts.
Analyze the impact of views on people of color held by most White people during the Gilded Age (1870s to 1890s) on one specific ethnic or racial group in California during that time period.
Be sure to create clear historical context.
Support your ideas and statements with very specific facts, details and examples.
Analyze the success or failure of one Progressive Era (1890s to 1920) reform related law or government action in California.
Support your answer with very specific facts, details and examples.
Be sure to place your ideas in clear historical context.
Analyze the modern day impact of 1920s urban planning decisions and laws in California that were based around the automobile.
Support your answer with very specific facts, details and examples.
Be sure to place your ideas in clear historical context.
Textbook source
https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=book-gallery
Important facts:
1.The class textbook must be cited at least once in the essay.
You must cite at least two outside sources in the essay.
2. Please write this essay about: Analyze the modern day impact of 1920s urban planning decisions and laws in California that were based around the automobile.
Support your answer with very specific facts, details and examples.
Be sure to place your ideas in clear historical context.