ESSAYS

Please make sure you give me a hard copy of your essay by tomorrow at 2:15.

--Cope 

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Some of you owe an insane amount of homework, and you're going to be really disappointed at the end of the semester. The situation w the seniors is much more dire, and I promise you, you will not graduate. I'm not accepting assignments from the beginning of the semester in January, and you will not receive full

credit for half ass/copied work. Moreover, I don't see how you can write quality essays when you haven't done the required reading.

Please don't call my bluff, folks. I'd hate to have to get gangsta and make examples out of a few of you.

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due - Wed, Dec 16

We will watch a Margaret Sanger interview in class tomorrow. You will be expected to take notes and make connections to texts.

If you have not finished reading, annotating, and synthesizing the 4 Margaret Sanger essays, you must do so by tomorrow:

Legislating Women's Morals 
Will Birth Control Help the Cause of Labor? 
The Materials of the New Race 

You will be expected to refer to these documents during the discussion, and this work will be checked.

Politics and Government - Homework - Due - Wed, Dec 16

1 - What is democratic effectiveness?

2 - Use Appendix B - Table 5 to answer the following questions:

a) Are the indicators Dahl provides appropriate? Why/why not? Explain.

b) What impact do you think population, diversity, relative affluence have on the the indicators provided provided, such as rich-poor ratio and social expenditures? Consider all of the indicators in your answer.

c) What does this table suggest about our constitutional system and democratic effectiveness?

d) Summarize and synthesize your answers. What is Dahl's overall argument about the impact of constitutional systems on democratic effectiveness? 

Democratizing Twentieth Century - Homework - Due - Tues, Dec 16

Read Abortion in America packet and take notes. You should have no less than a page and a half of notes with synthesis and analysis. You should identify:

• Important Information
• Central Ideas
• Evidence
• Connection to EQ
• Connection to other texts
• Significance 

Politics and Government / Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due Friday, Dec 11

• Revise body paragraphs for arguments 1 and 2. 

• Draft body paragraphs for argument 3. You should have absolutely no less than 9 paragraphs in total at this point, but certainly may have more. 

• You have received (or not received) credit for body paragraph drafts for arguments 1 and 2. If you are still missing body paragraph drafts for arguments 1 and 2 tomorrow, you will NOT be able to show them for credit on Monday. 

Democratizing 20th Century America - Homework - Due - Wed, Dec 9

Compose body paragraphs for your second argument and revise the body paragraphs for your first argument. 

You should have 3 solid revised paragraphs for your first argument with clear topic sentences, contextual sentences, introductions to quotes, and sophisticated analysis. Your language should be sophisticated and concise. 

You should have 2-3 paragraphs for your second argument and be prepared to share them with a partner to get feedback. 

These assignments are going in as writing grades and failure  to complete them will negatively impact your overall grade. 

Politics and Government Homework - Due - Tuesday, Dec 8

Compose for body paragraphs for the first two arguments for your essay. You should have at least 4-6 paragraphs. After you finish writing, check you paragraphs against the ones we looked at in class. Do you have a topic sentence? Do you provide context for your evidence? Do you introduce direct quotes? Do you analyze your evidence, or do you just paraphrase and restate the quotes? Does your last sentence complete the thought stated in your topic sentence? You should also be able to show me a working thesis that has been broken into its different parts/arguments.

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Due - Tuesday, Dec 8

1 - Read and take notes about the following three articles:

Griswold v Connecticut 
Roe v Wade 
Planned Parenthood v Casey 

2 - Draft the body paragraphs for your first essay argument. You should have 2-3 paragraphs. You should also be able to show me a working thesis that has been broken into its different parts/arguments.  After you finish writing, check you paragraphs against the ones we looked at in class. Do you have a topic sentence? Do you provide context for your evidence? Do you introduce direct quotes? Do you analyze your evidence, or do you just paraphrase and restate the quotes? Does your last sentence complete the thought stated in your topic sentence? 

  

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due - Friday, Dec 4

Read and take notes:

https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/articles/tracing_one_package.php