"5. A bibliography and footnotes in Chicago format."
Rough Draft is due tomorrow! Final draft is due Thursday morning (before class)!
1. Select your "current issue" and review sources:
"Current Issue" Sources
- Sources for "General Racism in American Society"
- Sources for "Voting Rights & Disenfranchisement"
- Sources for "Law Enforcement & the Criminal Justice System"
Historical Sources
Primary Sources:
Primary Sources:
- President Obama's Selma Speech (you can read the transcript HERE)
- Speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
- Description of Birmingham, Alabama from The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (Audio)
Eyes on the Prize Episodes:
- Eyes on the Prize, Episode 1: Awakenings, 1954-56 (Murder of Emmett Till, Montgomery Bus Boycotts)
- Eyes on the Prize, Episode 2: Fighting Back, 1957-1962 (Fighting School Segregation)
- Eyes on the Prize, Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961 (Sit-Ins & Freedom Rides)
- Eyes on the Prize, Episode 5: Mississippi, 1962-64 (Freedom Summer, SNCC, Voter Registration)
- Eyes on the Prize, Episode 6: Bridge to Freedom, 1965 (Voter Registration in Selma, Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Chapters from "Voices of Freedom":
- Chapter 2: Montgomery Bus Boycotts
- Chapter 3: Little Rock Crisis
- Chapter 4: Student Sit-ins in Nashville
- Chapter 5: Freedom Rides
3. Identify your three supporting points and make sure they connect directly to your thesis statement.
4. Find at least one piece of evidence to support each of your three points.
5. Write!
6. If you have already completed a rough draft of your essay, please pair up for a peer critique using the following materials:
- Revising, Editing, and Proofreading Guide
- Thesis Statement Guide
- Editing and Proofreading Abbreviations
- Writing rubric
- The "paragraph pyramid":
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