Here are the instructions, please let me know what book you`ve picked before writing the essay, I need to know before asap.****
SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR HISTORY II PAPER
Dean Acheson Ku Klux Klan (1920`s)
Jane Addams Robert La Follette
Atomic Bomb League of Nations
James Blaine Huey Long
William Jennings Bryan Douglas MacArthur
Andrew Carnegie George Marshall
Jimmy Carter Joseph McCarthy
Winston Churchill McCarthyism
Civil Rights Movement George McGovern
Grover Cleveland William McKinley
Cold War Robert McNamara
Eugene Debs Moral Diplomacy (Wilson`s)
Democratic Party J.P. Morgan
Thomas Dewey New Deal (FDR`s Program)
Dwight Eisenhower Richard Nixon
Election of 1896 Plains Indians
Election of 1912 Populist Movement
Election of 1932 Ronald Reagan
Election of 1948 Republican Party
Election of 1960 John D. Rockefeller
Election of 1968 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fair Deal (Truman`s Program) Eleanor Roosevelt
Farmers` Alliance Theodore Roosevelt
Gerald Ford Margaret Sanger
James Garfield Segregation
Barry Goldwater Spanish-American War
Samuel Gompers Harry Truman
Great Depression Vietnam War
Railroad Strike of 1877 George Wallace
Great Society (LBJ`s Program) Henry Wallace
Warren G. Harding Booker T. Washington
Benjamin Harrison Watergate Scandal
Rutherford B. Hayes Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover Woman`s Rights Movement
Hubert Humphrey Woman`s Suffrage Movement
Charles Evans Hughes World War I
Hull House World War II (Pacific War)
Harold Ickes World War II (European War)
Inventions (1860-1900) World War II (Homefront)
Jim Crow Laws
Lyndon B. Johnson Additions: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W.
John F. Kennedy Bush, the Christian Right, Iran-Contra Affair,
Robert Kennedy Persian Gulf War, Election of 2000, War on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Terrorism.
Henry Kissinger
Korean War
CLASS PAPER - HISTORY I & II
1. Select a book on a person or topic that is discussed in the textbook and bring it to me for approval. Choose a book you want to read. Be sure you can meet the requirements of the paper with the book. Do not choose a picture book or a book written for lower level students. Don`t select a book solely because it is skinny. Many thin books are dry reading. Books with 400 or 500 pages may be much more interesting. (Read smart. You don`t have to read every word on every line on every page to get the value from a book.)
2. Read the book. Keep the requirements of the paper in mind as you read the book. Take notes as you read. Develop an outline of your paper from your notes.
3. Write a first draft. Edit the draft by correcting spelling errors, improving sentence structure, clarifying your thoughts, etc. Ask someone to look over your draft. Me, for example. Remember, your paper needs to be error-free.
4. Give a brief overview of your book so I can understand what the book covers. Then write your summary in at least 3 parts as explained on page 2 with one purpose in mind: Convince me that you read and understood the book. Don`t be so general that I wonder if your summary came from your lecture notes or an article in an encyclopedia.
5. In each part of the summary, devote as much space as you can to the comparison. The summary is the easier part to do. Don`t bother to tell me that the book you read goes into more detail than your other sources. I already know that! Discuss what the book and your sources have in agreement. Tell how they disagree. What are the differences in emphasis? Which explains the subject better? If one source has no information on a part of the summary, find an alternative source
6. Close with your insights. You may use the personal pronoun "I" because these are your personal thoughts on the book you read. What did you get out of the book? Did you benefit from it? Did you dislike it? If so, why? Do you recommend it for others to read?
Tips:
> Give the name of the author and title of book in your first sentence of the paper.
> Titles of books need to be underlined or in quotes.
> Cite the page number whenever you quote a passage. Example: (Divine, p. 86)
> Put punctuation at the end of a sentence inside quotation marks. Example: He watched “Jaws.”
> "it`s" means "it is" - "its" is possessive.
> A “novel” is fiction.