Overview
Essay Question
In a well-organized five-paragraph essay discuss and evaluate the period from 1825 to 1848 which we have covered in the last two units. This period from the Jackson Administration to Seneca Falls encompasses several categories of change: Start your essay evaluating the issues of the Jackson Administration, (Unit 7) continuing with the important categories of changes in technology, religion and the cultural arts, (Unit 7 and 8) and finally address lack of social justice for women, Native Americans, and African Americans throughout the period. (Unit 7 and 8)
For this assignment you must:
1. Use three categories for thesis elements from the above essay question. Write a simple, one sentence thesis statement including the three categories you will discuss in your body paragraphs.
(Ex. There were three important categories from 1825 to 1848: I will be discussing theJackson Administration, the changes in technology, religion and cultural arts, and finally, the issues in securing social justice for women, Native Americans, and African Americans.)
2. Write a practice topic sentence for each of your thesis topic s.
3. Choose and then list the four terms you would like to discuss as examples in each of your body paragraphs. (Terms that can be found in textbook and lecture presentation, and term list)
4. Rewrite, restate your original thesis.
The following is an example/template for what this outline assignment should look like. Replace the content below with the real essay question, and topic sentences of your own making etc.
For Example-
Your exam preparation assignment should look something like this: (except using real essay question found above)
Thesis
The period from 1914 to 1989 is marked by several important phases: WWI and Aftermath 1914-1929, Depression through the WWII 1929-1945, and lastly, The Cold War to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, which completes the transition to our own Post-Modern age.
Topic Sentence # 1
The period from WWI to 1929 serves as an important step towards post-modernity.
WORLD WAR I
TOTAL WAR
ALLIES
CENTRAL POWERS
Topic Sentence # 2
The period from the Depression to the end of WWII continue to add to the societal loss of innocence leading to post-modernism
Joseph Stalin
Five Year Plans
Stalin's Purges
Gulag
Topic Sentence # 3
The period from the Cold War ending with the fall of the Berlin wall completes the transition to post-modernity.
LIMITED TEST BAN TREATY
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
THE BERLIN WALL
DECOLONIZATION